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Was this really a post that needed the LinkedIn broetry engagement bait makeover? It could have fit in 1/3rd the characters.

Curious how others here are reading this post.


I still prefer "Scam", "Business as usual" Altman doesnt have the same ring to it...

Not a week goes by without me thinking "what would HST have made of THIS fresh bullshit, if he were alive today"

Addon: I mean Hunter S Thompson of course

The only human to authorize a nuclear attack…

Hunter Thompson?

Not saying he wouldn't have banged on the button, for all he was worth, but no one in their right (or even severely sick) mind would ever let him near it.


Looks like he's referring to Harry S. Truman.

Probably doesn't know who Thompson was.

I'll never forget Thompson speaking at my school as the war in Vietnam was drawing to a close.

He did not mince words.


For the benefit of any others unfamiliar:

Thompson: The man who invented gonzo journalism, writing beginning in the 1950s for numerous publications but most notably Rolling Stone, best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, serialised in RS, published as a book, and the basis of two films, Where the Buffalo Roam (loose adaptation, 1980) and more faithfully in 1998 under the original name, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.


This is of course entirely expected. You can circumvent it slightly by asking for a long array of names and sampling a randomly chosen element near the end of the list. Say ask for 50 names and use the 41-50th element stochastically.

Not perfect, more expensive, but it helps a little. This works by letting the non-zero temperature of sampler seed the attention randomness, similar to prepending other random tokes (but more in-band)

Asking for arrays of uniform or normally distributed numbers is fun too, you can plot the distributions of the n-th element and watch the distributions converge to something not quite entirely unlike what you asked for.

Often there's some bias between element indices too, eg. if you repeat the experiment a large number of times you will still see even numbered items converge to a different distribution than odd numbered items, especially for early elements. Hence the stochastic averaging trick over the last few elements.


The Big Chungus of dashes. Could this be the character that has the widest rendering?!

Unlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?)

Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character.

It depends on the font, of course. Some renditions look like regular Arabic text, others are much narrower: https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&script=Arab

It's rendering visibly narrower than the big dash up thread for me, on FF on Android. (Maybe HN's stripping one or more of the combining chars though, so it's not actually showing what you meant in full?)

I fear for the children who had to memorize this.

It isn't a special letter or symbol in arabic, it's just a regular sentence that was added to unicode since it both holds symbolic meaning in islam and is used often enough to be useful. Some fonts render it like any other arabic, making it look like one big sentence as a single character, but others render it as calligraphy

Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!

Huh. I've noticed CC running build or test steps piped into greps, to cull useless chatter. It did this all by itself, without my explicit instructions.

Also, I just restart when the context window starts filling up. Small focused changes work better anyway IMO than single god-prompts that try do do everything but eventually exceed context and capability...


cc is the C compiler.

Please don't overload that term with trendy LLM products. You can use the full name.


Surely any distinguished connoisseur of terminology gatekeeping such as yourself is able to distinguish between 'cc' and 'CC'. My terminal is able to spot the difference, you should be able to as well.

CC is an environment variable / internal variable used by most build tools to identify the current C compiler. cc is the standardized name of the executable, now usually an alias for gcc.

Both CC and cc refer to the C compiler, in slightly different ways.


I actually have an "oblique strategies" skill that it can call if it figures out it's been spending too many turns on the same problem...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies


Ha! Reminds me of when my buddy in grad school drew a dick with CO molecules. It was, what, 40 angstrom long?

Good times.


Is this reinventing a few redis features with an object storage for persistence?

Assuming you already using object storage in your project, but don't use Redis yet it wouldn't be re-inventing but just avoiding an extra dependency that would only be used by a single feature.

it’s got some more 9s of durability compared to redis (redis did not invent “queue”)

Hmm, I thought it wafnt fo bad, myfelf


oh my god, you're right, they just used an f, no wonder I found it so bad! That is really annoying. Enraging even.


The text doesn't use an `f`. If you copy from e.g. the 1700 passage you get `ſ` not `f`.


Probably people are confused by ligatures. Indeed it is a long S.


This is correct. And if you don't like that font's long-s, you can fix it with

document.body.style.fontFamily = "Baskerville";

Baskerville has a nice long-s. TNR is also not bad. Garamond is passable.


thanks for the Baskerville recommendation.

on edit: liked the Garamond better, since the font is a bit thicker, checked it on "ſpake" and was obviously a long S whereas on the thinner Baskerville still looked like an f to me. Although the original text was perhaps too thick for me.


hmm you're right, I guess my eyesight is worse than I thought


I should have noticed, it has a full cross bar, I guess it's my fading eyesight and also the white text of green is perhaps not the best contrast.


It doesn't have such a bar in the article e.g. "swifter" https://imgur.com/a/XwsoVgB


just noted that in reply to my post but repeat here: yeah I was wrong, I happened to look back at Maiſter and my bad eyesight and the resolution made it look like the long s had a crossbar from the t next to it in the default font.

on edit: this was probably where my problem generally was, in lest and Maister and anything where the long s is next to a t it looks very like an f to me, although if I zoom to 170% then it is clear, however at that size it introduces its own reading problems; unfortunately my reading glasses are broken so I just struggled at a lower resolution.


Heck, I still struggle scanning it properly at high resolution so no worries!


yeah I was wrong, I happened to look back at Maiſter and my bad eyesight and the resolution made it look like the long s had a crossbar from the t next to it in the default font.


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