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New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Gemini API File Search is now multimodal"

buggyipadmettoo — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:04:48 +0000

I built a solution for this (in 20 mins with the help of Gemini!).

1. use Google App Scripts to duplicate all the convos saved in your google drive to another folder, and append each ".txt". Mine runs every day.

2. enable API in google cloud console, install google-api-python-client on desktop,then created a workflow in Alfred to search from desktop.

Now I can search my AI Studio convos + content just as fast as any other file on my desktop : )

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

buggyipadmettoo — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:02:20 +0000

https://shottr.cc/

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look"

buggyipadmettoo — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 02:10:34 +0000

I know it seems low effort but I spent a good ten minutes reading through your other comments looking for an explanation for your post. It reads as so obviously written by an LLM.

I have no doubt you're a real person, and that all those things you claim are true. Almost all of your posts are clearly written by a thoughtful human.

But then I see that occasionally, you post something that looks nothing like your other posts, and exactly like it was written by an LLM. I love learning from ChatGPT too, but I'm curious about your mindset if and when you have it speak for you here. Is the goal to use ChatGPT to educate us? If so, why not give it credit?

Everyone here knows how to use google and ChatGPT (and a majority of us could whip up a script to auto-post LLM responses). It seems like most of the internet is already "dead".. don't give it HN too, please, stick to posting thoughtful human stuff!

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look"

buggyipadmettoo — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:49:47 +0000

Just swap out "my take, for what it's worth" For "according to ChatGPT"

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Find Your People"

buggyipadmettoo — Sat, 24 May 2025 01:08:18 +0000

Just gotta compare it to the risks of not having a family to take care of.

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Google is winning on every AI front"

buggyipadmettoo — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:54:46 +0000

I thought genini 2 flash API was free (for personal use at least)? I just created an iOS shortcut to call it, and didn’t pay anything.

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it"

buggyipadmettoo — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 06:06:53 +0000

I assume the “enslave” question is meant to allude to the fact that, since nothing is actually free, when demand outstrips supply, at some point “making it free” can only mean forcing people to provide it (financially or personally).

If “x should be free” was a solution to anything, why stop at education? Let’s make everything free!

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

buggyipadmettoo — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:46:37 +0000

? Limit the money supply? It just deflates (grows in value), right?

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "How to boss without being bossy"

buggyipadmettoo — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 01:48:38 +0000

Agree.

Ive owned several businesses and probably hired about 100 people in my life. Ive never commanded a single one.

These are voluntary relationships. I’m paying for their services. I don’t command the waitress to bring me a drink, and she doesn’t command me to pay her.

Why would I ever issue a command? Either you’re choosing to work with me, in which case you want to provide me with your service, or we’re not working together.

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users"

buggyipadmettoo — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:38:58 +0000

Solution: use a memorable password for one of your cloud services. One that does not require 2FA. Keep a copy of password db there.

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution"

buggyipadmettoo — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:59:28 +0000

If you’re talking about honeybees, they are livestock. And they travel something like 2 or 3 miles from their homes, not more. if i decided to move next year, everyone in my neighborhood would see and alarming 75% drop in bee visits. And im just a hobbyist, keeping about 3 colonies.

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "The Sad Bastard Cookbook"

buggyipadmettoo — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:08:01 +0000

It takes me 1hr 20 mins to debone 6 Costco chickens, portion the meat into 1.5lb bags, throw in the freezer, start the pressure cooker for bones, and clean up (except for the pressure cooker/bone stuff I might do tomorrow)

That’s 66 servings of .25lbs of meat.

Tips: wear gloves, do it while they’re warm, shred by hand. Add salt and lemon juice to taste (and preserve) before freezing.

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Important Coding Habits"

buggyipadmettoo — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 01:11:22 +0000

The stretch picture in the article might be the worst imaginable for someone with a herniated disc. Need to be bending the opposite way!

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "I Am Leaving"

buggyipadmettoo — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 01:10:06 +0000

It’s British humor. They think just being sarcastic is funny.

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Killing Community"

buggyipadmettoo — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:16:50 +0000

And? Imagine, for example, a comedian who pokes fun at all groups exactly equally. There are infinite types of people, he wouldn’t be able to say a word. Different things are different and that’s not inherently wrong.

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Killing Community"

buggyipadmettoo — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:10:19 +0000

No. Even those formerly traumatized can later become resilient to words.

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Octopuses, crabs and lobsters recognised as sentient beings under UK law (2021)"

buggyipadmettoo — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 01:36:34 +0000

I appreciated it.

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Google no longer automatically indexes websites?"

buggyipadmettoo — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:08:20 +0000

Same. Use it everyday for majority of my G searches, never once seen a captcha (except when using VPN). OP, are you logged in to google? I am. Wonder if that’s the difference?

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days"

buggyipadmettoo — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:24:39 +0000

I was wondering the same and asked gpt to explain it to me the other day. Basically it’s all one process, there aren’t 2 modules (understand and generate). The “understanding” is perhaps like the generating in reverse. Rather than generating the next word from a statistical process, it’s defining the statistical process from the next words of the input.

But as I explain here, even reviewing that conversation we had, I think maybe gpt and I were both hallucinating and feigning understanding. Cuz I still don’t get it. It still seems far too magical to fit this explanation.

So my next best guess: we’re a simulation, GPT is magic, and our creators are just having fun introducing more and more magic into the system.

New comment by buggyipadmettoo in "Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment"

buggyipadmettoo — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:50:12 +0000

I made an account just to say me too. (Safari, iPad) never seen that before