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New comment by 64738 in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

64738 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:44:53 +0000

Just for reference, Codex using GPT-5.4 and that exact prompt was a 4-shot that took ten minutes. The first result was a horrific caricature. After a slight rebuke ("That looks terrible. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur-de-lis for a better understanding of what it should look like."), it produced a very good result but it then took two more prompts about the right side of the image being clipped off before it got it right.

New comment by 64738 in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

64738 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:09:40 +0000

Yes! I still use my Panasonic 50" plasma as my daily driver. I still love it, it's an amazing TV :D

New comment by 64738 in "Cosmic Updates (Feat. Community)"

64738 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:09:08 +0000

But, does it have wobbly windows?

New comment by 64738 in "A visual guide to SSH tunnels"

64738 — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:54:38 +0000

Very cool, I was unaware of this product. Thanks for the deal! :D

New comment by 64738 in "Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?"

64738 — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 06:55:38 +0000

Unfortunately, yes. Several years ago they started soldering the RAM directly to the motherboard, and don't provide any ram slots. So, whatever amount a unit shipped with is the max it will ever have.

I'm still using a mid-2009 MBP. Upgraded the RAM, replaced the hard drive with an SSD, and just last week installed Catalina on it. It's still my daily driver lol.

New comment by 64738 in "Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?"

64738 — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 06:05:09 +0000

I do the exact same thing. Just a text file that these days I store in a Dropbox folder so that no matter what system I'm on I can just "vi ~/Dropbox/notes.txt".

Similarly, several years ago I added a keybind to my .vimrc that, by typing ",a" I'm moved to the bottom of the file and today's date with a separator line underneath. My leader key is "," and I mnemonically associate "a" with "append".

The earliest date recorded in it goes back to 2006 and is about 300KB in size. I still reference and add to it on a regular basis.

New comment by 64738 in "Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010)"

64738 — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 00:41:13 +0000

Thanks for that! I hadn't seen it before, that's pretty funny.

New comment by 64738 in "The Long, Slow Death of Venice"

64738 — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:58:46 +0000

While ultimately true, the problem is that you can't control how other people think or judge, but you can control what you wear.

New comment by 64738 in "YouTube should give users a way of knowing if a video has been altered"

64738 — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 01:30:31 +0000

The immutability illusion was busted for me when SpaceX edited one of their video live-streams. Their intent was harmless in that they corrected a split-screen that was showing the same camera feed in both windows, IIRC.

However, when you visit that video's youtube page, the video date was listed as something like "Live-streamed on ...", with no note of it being edited. You are given the impression that what you are about to view is what was streamed, when it's not.

The edited version is a better video, but don't tell me I'm watching the same thing as those who saw it live during the stream.

New comment by 64738 in "Files UWP: An enthusiast’s take on what Windows File Explorer explorer should be"

64738 — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 06:13:12 +0000

Thank you for mentioning IrfanView. Back in the day I used to have a cracked copy of LviewPro that was always one of the 1st programs to be installed whenever I started working on a new system. It was small, fast, and I could easily flip through all the image files in a directory.

I stopped using LviewPro probably 8, or 10 years ago, but always wished I knew of a replacement that was so efficient. I see that IrfanView also does quite a bit more. I think I have a new favorite!

Now, if you'll pardon me, I need to drop the author a kind note. :)

New comment by 64738 in "Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal"

64738 — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 02:58:38 +0000

Thank you, I had the same problem. Apt couldn't find it in my Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS install, and when I googled it I'm pretty sure "South Carolina Department of Corrections" wasn't what I was looking for. ;) So, thank you for the link.

New comment by 64738 in "Nebula: A paid alternative to YouTube, curated by the creators"

64738 — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 02:38:36 +0000

Same here. The moment I saw "programmatic ads" I thought, "then what kind of ads do they have?"

New comment by 64738 in "Notre Dame is unstable: a strong wind could make the walls collapse, report says"

64738 — Thu, 23 May 2019 18:23:21 +0000

I recently heard it called as being in a state of equilibrium. Not sure if that's the one you were thinking of, but it was in the context of ancient construction techniques and describes the same thing.

New comment by 64738 in "I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page"

64738 — Wed, 15 May 2019 20:23:28 +0000

In the late 80s or early 90s I was interviewing for a data entry job at General Motors, and was told that they were getting burned frequently by blindly paying incoming invoices for goods or services that were never provided. I was surprised a scam that simple would be so effective.

New comment by 64738 in "Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta"

64738 — Wed, 08 May 2019 05:03:58 +0000

If you want to view their header image at larger size but right-clicking doesn't give you the option to "Open image in new tab", the direct link is below. Not a big deal, but it might save a few clicks for some:

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-cloudblog-publish/origin...

New comment by 64738 in "What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?"

64738 — Sat, 04 May 2019 22:38:32 +0000

Or nut jobs (plural), unknown to or untouchable by the administration, have a pet project ;)

New comment by 64738 in "What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?"

64738 — Sat, 04 May 2019 22:30:15 +0000

Exactly. I believe I saw one or more UFOs when I was kid, maybe 10 or 11 years old, while riding my bike to a local park. Three or four stationary white lights in the sky, equidistant from each other. Of note, this was in an early afternoon mid-summer day without a cloud in the sky. And they weren't drones, this was in the late 70s.

New comment by 64738 in "What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?"

64738 — Sat, 04 May 2019 22:23:34 +0000

That makes no sense to me. If something is doing something, then it's automatically possible, which, if lacking another explanation, automatically means it could be evidence of aliens.

And, defying the known laws of physics isn't impossible, either. We can't even know how much we don't know. That leaves a lot of wiggle room.

New comment by 64738 in "Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide"

64738 — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:33:44 +0000

McDonald's has been testing one they call the McVegan, but it's only available in a few countries outside the US. With Burger King's version being available, I'm guessing that will speed up the availability of the McVegan in the US.

New comment by 64738 in "US10144532B2 – Craft using an inertial mass reduction device"

64738 — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:56:50 +0000

Done! The device in the patent claims to be a gravitational mass reduction device.