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How well would it work to ask the working LLM to rewrite the prompt to get the best results? Do the models understand enough about themselves to do that?

>> (but why would you have off-black text anyway?)

I had read a long time ago that when doing web design you should avoid pure white and pure black, especially when one is on top of the other. I presume it’s to avoid harshness or to keep the “white” from halo’ing into the black (made even worse on a CRT display).

That is probably the worst advice when doing a printed medium, though. Different medium targets sometimes have conflicting “best practices.”

Came here to mention the same thing. Very well be on me, tho. I’m using the Brave browser (is it safari-powered?) and on iOS 18.7.9, which is the newest my old iPhone X supports.

My monthly subscription for Claude is up in a week, is there any compelling reason to switch to Codex (for coding/bug fixing of low/medium difficulty apps)? Or is it pretty much a wash at this point?

Alliance! Get ‘em!!!

For me it was Turbo Pascal, Turbo C/C++, regular Borland C++.

Not an enterprise app, but I worked on a project (kind of like a primitive CMS) for a church using PFS:Write and PFS:Professional File. That was a terrible experience.

I definitely get the appeal. It’s analogous to the single file executable. One file to move around, no install process needed, just grab and run. It was the main reason I used to reach for Delphi back in the day for Windows utilities.

In case anyone sees this, thank you for the comments despite my comment being down-voted, I appreciate the insite!

That's a good point, thank you.

Interesting how different two people can come to two completely polar conclusions. I guess it depends on your social bubble, on either side.

In my experience, the right was very opposed to NAFTA (while the left was pushing it), in favor of free trade but not at the expense of jobs and manufacturing ability in the USA, and thought all these deals with China were going to enrich a possibly future adversary. By experience, I simply mean social interaction with middle class conservatives/Republicans, not experience in politics or "the party". And, I didn't really start paying attention to what was going on until the early 90s. (edited for a paragraph break)

Nah, just replace it with the community_scribe_of_appropriate_self_hatred. It can be aliased to 'scribe' if it helps, though it loses some of it's power.

I offer another option: bad actors that are taking advantage of the disputes to further their own agendas. Only, it's not an option, it's more of a documented reality. And it's even more alarming.

Very nice, that was my first language on a PC-compatible (Epson Equity I if anyone remembers those, later upgraded it with a 20MB Seagate ST225!). Man, those were the days... and get off my lawn! lol

No, on the newer iPhones press and hold simply brings up Siri. Gotta press and hold main button and either volume button simultaneously. If that doesn’t work you should be able to use the trick I describe above.

My iPhone 10 locked up hard a few days and I couldn’t get it to turn off using the standard method.

After some digging, I found a new trick that I guess is implemented at a lower level: press and release volume up, then volume volume down, then press and hold the main button until it powers off.

Pardon my ignorance, but does the test detect the actual virus or fragments that result from the infection?

Age old argument, but it's pronounced like soo-suh. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9bq_alk-sw (on the SUSE youtube channel)

One really big advantage of Send over attachments is that you don't have seemingly immortal copies of the files hanging around in people's mail clients and/or IMAP servers.

Very true. A few years ago I quit drinking sodas and switched to sugar-free flavorings (eg. Crystal Light, Mio, etc). After a year or so I ordered a Mt. Dew, my previous vice, while at a restaurant and it tasted like pure sugar syrup. Mind you, I got used to quickly ;)

I agree, and would also throw in Mac Lethal[1] :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Lethal

I'll second TiddlyWiki. I've used it for several years and became a fan early on.

These days you might run across some hiccups in getting it to work in your browser of choice. Over the years the browser vendors became less and less inclined to allow javascript and extensions attain local file editing permissions. That's pretty reasonable, but annoying.

A pretty decent alternative that I've been using for months, now, is an app called Tiddly Desktop. It's an NW.js-based app so it has no trouble accessing the local filesystems.

Good point, thank you.

That was my first impression, too :) I clicked one headline to see what happens and thought, "cool." Clicked 'back' to return to the title list, and suddenly I'm looking at the HN comments and thinking "what happened?" Took a second for my brain to catch on, like a sort of cognitive shock.

Edit: ya, what hamandcheese said. I guess my tab had been open for a while.

And, from what I've read, Amazon is supporting legislation of a higher minimum wage. Which, seems to me, would be more of a burden on their competitors than themselves, thus giving Amazon a competitive advantage.

It's also worth noting that, in a sense, the shell is actually shrinking. Every moment, more of our observable universe disappears "beyond the veil", so-to-speak, as the universe on our side of the edge transitions from near-light-speed to beyond light-speed outside the shell. (I know that's a sloppy way to use the speed of light, but it works for me.)

I completely agree. I was thinking it highly unlikely that other universes would be operating at full efficiency, so the average would more on the zero side. But, yeah, that's not how infinities work I suppose :) Still, I'm enjoying thinking about it.

I would say "yes" to that. But fortunately, with the load being so widely distributed, the load on our "local" quantum computers would effectively be zero (ie. x/inf). Unless, of course, our universe is the oddball and most others are running at full capacity. That's a depressing possibility.

Yes, and I really like the idea of embedding the text definitions of diagrams in my markdown files, and being able to view it and export to html/pdf. Very nice.

I'm somewhat familiar with PlantUML, BlockDiag, Flowchart.js and a couple others, but am simply wondering if there are any really outstanding ones out there that I simply don't know about. For example, maybe one that's much more aesthetically pleasing, or maybe one that built-in support for the entire AWS ecosystem.

I recently saw a nice AWS diagrammer, but it's drag & drop, I don't think it has a way to build a diagram from a text description.

This looks very interesting, how did I not know about it already? I was searching for what was available in the uml/diagram space (such as PlantUML, nomnoml, Mermaid, etc.) just last week. Obviously, VNote isn't just about diagrams, but the timing of this Show HN was interesting to me.

Any other suggestions for diagram generators that parse a text DSL and generate good looking charts & diagrams?

Simple: you don't accept a license. If you want to reverse engineer it, just do it. You don't need their permission.