Hacker News: mgalgs

New comment by mgalgs in "Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?"

mgalgs — Fri, 31 May 2024 17:39:02 +0000

Verbosity control. I typically prefer verbose answers, but when I want a short response I can tack a "V=0" on to the front of my prompt.

  You'll adopt verbosity according to user settings:
  
  V=
  
  Verbosity levels are 0-5, with 0 being least verbose and 5 being most verbose.
  
  If verbosity is omitted, make an assumption based on the prompt's subject matter and verbosity level.
  
  Unless Verbosity is set to 0, please display your settings like so: `(V=1)` as the first line of your response.

New comment by mgalgs in "GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0"

mgalgs — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 23:45:16 +0000

FWIW I just picked up FreeCAD a few weeks ago with zero prior CAD experience and I was able to create a few simple widgets for my 3d printer (a shower soap dish and a bottle for my daughter's toy doll) without too much fuss (took a few hours of learning and few hours of actual CAD work). I did have to ask a few questions on the FreeCAD forum (and got a bunch of friendly, helpful responses), but that's to be expected learning complex software like a CAD program.

In short, the latest version of FreeCAD (I'm using 0.21.x) is absolutely approachable for beginners and apparently works well for advanced users. I'm quite impressed with the project!

New comment by mgalgs in "Pixel 8 Pro"

mgalgs — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:57:51 +0000

Ditto! Help manufacturers see the demand for small Android phones by joining: https://smallandroidphone.com/

New comment by mgalgs in "Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia"

mgalgs — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 23:00:53 +0000

We need a P2P model hosting solution. Napster for ML models. Could just be a thin layer on top of bittorrent.

New comment by mgalgs in "Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing"

mgalgs — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:01:46 +0000

Magic mushrooms are another fantastic option if you're in a legal jurisdiction and medically able!

New comment by mgalgs in "The top-selling game on Steam is a new 254-player FPS made by 4 people"

mgalgs — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:56:52 +0000

I just bought it on Steam under Linux and it won't install due to "unsupported platform", so I guess it's currently not working with Proton :(

EDIT: never mind! I forgot to check the "force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" in Settings -> Compatibility. With that checked (Proton 8.0.2) it installed and launched just fine (after launching the "repair easy anti-cheat" once)!

New comment by mgalgs in "Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI"

mgalgs — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:29:38 +0000

> I don’t want a VPN. I just want to pay for Firefox.

Just pay for Mozilla VPN. You don't have to use it.

New comment by mgalgs in "Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group"

mgalgs — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 23:10:20 +0000

According to my neighbor who is an ER doc, the spike protein stays in your system a lot longer than it does after natural infection. Unfortunately I can't find a reference for this claim, and the worst part is that I don't know if that's because my Google fu is lacking or if this information is being suppressed...

New comment by mgalgs in "A secret Apple Silicon extension to accommodate an Intel 8080 artifact"

mgalgs — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:47:56 +0000

I didn't understand the author's point here... Do they think Qualcomm couldn't make these hardware changes as well? Of course they can, though they may not have considered it until now.

New comment by mgalgs in "Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro"

mgalgs — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 03:44:21 +0000

I believe you're referring to Eric Migicovsky's "I want a small Anroid phone!"

https://smallandroidphone.com/

New comment by mgalgs in "Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years"

mgalgs — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 05:25:20 +0000

A bunch of people are making this point, and it implies that Facebook is highly reliable as an identity verification authority. I’m not saying it’s wrong, it’s interesting whether it’s right or wrong.

That said, my personal experience with Facebook has been the same. It’s trivial to spot bot/spam accounts, and I typically end up with a high degree of confidence that the identity is real.

New comment by mgalgs in "Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?"

mgalgs — Fri, 27 May 2022 20:32:58 +0000

Some kind of RPG where you're a primitive human (70,000 years ago or something).

New comment by mgalgs in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

mgalgs — Fri, 20 May 2022 15:47:58 +0000

> Also, personally, after 6 months of iOS I am itching to get back to Android. Why? The notification system SUCKS on iOS compared to Android. It’s impossible to move files between apps. Hard to get any work done on it. Beautiful hardware though!

I felt this so hard! Switched to iOS a few months ago after 14 years of Android (OG G1 user) due to privacy concerns and the lack of a small phone on Android.

iOS applications are almost universally better than their Android counterparts, but when it comes to the OS itself Android is light years ahead of iOS in terms of usability, convenience, and features. The iOS keyboard is such a steaming pile of bull dung compared to Android, and then there's call screening, notification actions, copy history, inter-application shareability, webview->browser state sharing, etc...

New comment by mgalgs in "DALL-E 2 open source implementation"

mgalgs — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:58:59 +0000

It looks like big-sleep [1] is their CLI? I did:

    pip install big-sleep
    dream "a pyramid made of basketballs"

and after a few hours got this: https://i.imgur.com/FxdfdmV.png

Not nearly as cool as the real DALL-e, but maybe I'm missing something.

[1] https://github.com/lucidrains/big-sleep

New comment by mgalgs in "Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]"

mgalgs — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:47:27 +0000

> how come she isn't taught not to watch shorts?

It's really not that simple, kids are not computers. The age old parental meme of repeating yourself 1000 times before your kids "gets" it is accurate.

New comment by mgalgs in "Using LSP in Emacs and Debian"

mgalgs — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 17:00:32 +0000

I haven’t used eglot but just noticed that it was created by João Távora, who also created yasnippet, which is a delight to use. Definitely going to try it out.

New comment by mgalgs in "The Dubious Art of the Dad Joke"

mgalgs — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:19:25 +0000

Virtue signaling fatigue... Many of us are feeling it.

New comment by mgalgs in "Proposed bill would shorten California workweek to 32 hours"

mgalgs — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:13:02 +0000

Andrew Yang proposed a VAT and redistributing funds from other entitlement programs.

New comment by mgalgs in "US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent"

mgalgs — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:14:59 +0000

> a site needs its store clerks present at opening time to be able to open at opening time.

Surely not every employee has to do school drop-off in the morning though?

New comment by mgalgs in "Jless – a command-line JSON viewer (written in Rust)"

mgalgs — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 17:30:19 +0000

Only if they're building from scratch. Binary packages would have no need for cargo.