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New comment by jamiethompson in "GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them"

jamiethompson — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 12:04:03 +0000

I suspect you're right there. Yet it forged ahead confidently giving answers anyway!

New comment by jamiethompson in "GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them"

jamiethompson — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 11:45:42 +0000

I just thought it would be interesting, given that it has an understanding of XML to see if it could do a simple diff, "by eye" if you will. Obviously I wasn't intending to trust its output. We of course have long standing trusted tools for diffing files.

New comment by jamiethompson in "GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them"

jamiethompson — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 11:27:02 +0000

I had a brainwave recently. I was tired and looking at two XML documents which looked identical to me and I thought hey, let's see what ChatGPT thinks. So I asked it to describe to me what the differences were between the two documents and it immediately just started talking about elements that it had completely made up. Every time I asked it why it was doing that it apologised but then doubled-down on making even more stuff up. Eventually I asked it to show me what its understanding was of the two documents I was asking it to compare and it showed me two completely unrelated XML documents

New comment by jamiethompson in "Show HN: CSS Speedrun – A small game to test and improve your CSS knowledge"

jamiethompson — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:29:55 +0000

I definitely "cheated" some of these by throwing in something horribly verbose rather than whatever a more correct solution would be

New comment by jamiethompson in "Ask HN: Is no-code a future of web development?"

jamiethompson — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 13:55:29 +0000

Europe has entered the chat

New comment by jamiethompson in "Show HN: Embed your source code in PNG files"

jamiethompson — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 20:11:45 +0000

Draw.io does this. When you export a diagram as a PNG. There is an option to embed the source file in the png. If you subsequently open one of those PNGs in Draw.io you can carry on editing it. I find it really handy.

New comment by jamiethompson in "The Third Web"

jamiethompson — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:23:58 +0000

Does anyone else remember "Web 2.0" being talked about as "The Semantic Web"? Because I sure do.

New comment by jamiethompson in "Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings"

jamiethompson — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:34:43 +0000

Is it 1998 again?

New comment by jamiethompson in "A Handy Little System for Animated Entrances in CSS"

jamiethompson — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:01:28 +0000

Is getting old mostly about watching people rediscover the same mistakes over and over again? I think I am getting old.

New comment by jamiethompson in "Websites should not use dithered images"

jamiethompson — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:05:33 +0000

This is my exact takeaway. I can't decide whether this article and many of the commenters are deliberately missing this point or whether it's actually not understood.

New comment by jamiethompson in "Websites should not use dithered images"

jamiethompson — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:02 +0000

This seems to miss the point. Of course these dithered images don't result in a saving in filesize when offered up as jpegs.

This feels like a bit of a strawman argument.

Some people here weren't web developers in the 90s and it shows :)

New comment by jamiethompson in "Anti-Café"

jamiethompson — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 10:41:36 +0000

One of the things that gets to me while working from home is the lack of ambient noise. Where I live is fairly rural and the silence can be deafening

New comment by jamiethompson in "Anti-Café"

jamiethompson — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 10:25:31 +0000

One benefit I can think of is that you might be willing to pay to sit somewhere but not actually want to purchase food or drinks. I put on weight very easily and whenever I go to a Cafe or even a quiet McDonalds to use the free wifi, I always end up consuming more calories than I should. I have very little will power and that coupled with feeling the obligation to buy something at least once per hour isn't necessarily a healthy combination of factors for me.

New comment by jamiethompson in "The House That Vanished"

jamiethompson — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 13:43:49 +0000

Not in England, no. But it is in Ireland or Scotland.

New comment by jamiethompson in "Rotary Cellphone"

jamiethompson — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:21:36 +0000

Yeah, i looked for something like that to keep next to the phone but couldn't find anything. I was sure they used to be a thing. What you _can_ get however are little kits you wire up inside the pulse dial phone which do an on the fly pulse to DTMF conversion.

New comment by jamiethompson in "Rotary Cellphone"

jamiethompson — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:17:15 +0000

Well, I don't. I rarely use the landline. I'm just saying that you can if you want to.

New comment by jamiethompson in "Rotary Cellphone"

jamiethompson — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:06:02 +0000

It's just a bit of fun. It's more ornamental than anything. It's just nice that it also works as a phone although I rarely ever actually use the landline.

New comment by jamiethompson in "Rotary Cellphone"

jamiethompson — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:43:57 +0000

I use an unmodified rotary phone as my main landline phone. In the UK it would seem that our exchanges still support pulse dialling. The only drawback are menu systems that expect to hear tones, but I get around this with a small app on my mobile phone that just plays DTMF tones. If i want to, i can pick up the receiver and play tones down it to dial a number rather than using the... dial.

New comment by jamiethompson in "I Miss Microsoft Encarta"

jamiethompson — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 08:30:41 +0000

I can remember teaching myself HTML using a WinHelp file I found on a magazine coverdisk.

New comment by jamiethompson in "Watch a Drone Take Over a Nearby Smart TV"

jamiethompson — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:39:57 +0000

The main reason is I have kids.

In the past, I mainly just used a tablet to watch video.