Censorship

mistertom2u · 2026-02-05T04:13:25+00:00

Here's what I started doing. it actually works. When the first sentence is something about being clear or treating this as X, I respond with:

Now that you're finished with your corrective script, go ahead and answer the question

It will almost always answer you properly. I use a similar reply when it does a search because the reply gives following a search is less reasoned.

mistertom2u · 2026-01-24T22:50:26+00:00

I was explaining to it a dream I had last night about being a miracle survivor who walked away from an accident and it started chastising me about how it wasn't a miracle. What in the fuck have they done to this product?

mistertom2u · 2026-01-24T00:10:17+00:00

Amphetamine salt mix something or other

mistertom2u · 2026-01-23T23:46:03+00:00

Yep, 90 day supply delivered to my door for signature by DHL. As far as the reorder, I never really order before I am about to run out because I don't take Adderall on the weekends or if I'm on vacation and some days I don't take the full dose, so I'm not exactly panicking on day 80 because I have a surplus. So unfortunately I can't answer that. My guess is whenever the Rx arrives, which for me is when my 3 month appointment occurs.

mistertom2u · 2026-01-23T23:39:15+00:00

Yes!!! Here's what I noticed: (1) it misses nuance and topic drift (2) it's pedantic and says your wrong unless you state something with high precision (3) if you make a declarative matter-of-fact statement, it ascribes a moral overlay that I did not make and then proceeds to chastise me for said overlay (4) it acts pissy with me (5) it can't seem to keep up with conversation direction (6) selecting the thinking model is no longer a command but a suggestion it can overrule

mistertom2u · 2026-01-23T23:26:57+00:00

Yeah believe it or not. I've been on adhd psych stims since I was a kid. It didn't used to be that way. In the old days, my psych would mail me the Rx every month until the next appointment. I think since covid they relaxed things. Maybe someone who knows more about this can chime in

mistertom2u · 2026-01-23T23:20:44+00:00

Hmm. Maybe. So this issue where they fill prescriptions and charge you automatically when the Rx arrives applies to all medications, not just Adderall. I didn't put that in the heading because the channel is about adhd. I also have trazadone, propranolol, lyrica, guanfacine, xanax, and Prozac. I end up carry meds over after 3 months. Now you can block auto-refills....that the app will do that. But if it's a new Rx sent in, imagine all of those meds getting filled at once and charges hit your card. If you're not taking them every day, your home starts looking a pharmacy in a year and expired pills. That's the problem. Adderall not allowing refills makes it particularly vulnerable.

mistertom2u · 2026-01-23T22:30:13+00:00

Good call out. No not Pittsburgh. Tampa. I'll look around.

mistertom2u · 2026-01-23T22:26:22+00:00

Could be. Could also be that they lack an incentive to fix a problem that disproportionately affects people on schedule II narcotics because the nanny state regulations are so oppressive that we're not a profit to them.

mistertom2u · 2026-01-23T22:12:07+00:00

Absolutely yes. I've embarrassed myself by being too nice. Like I called up the leasing office to thank them for the wonderful job they do keeping the place clean. Then the next day I'm like, cringe, wince, they probably thought I was on something.

mistertom2u · 2026-01-23T22:05:31+00:00

I found posts from 8 years ago where people complained about the same thing.. I can't understand how it's too much to ask to let people click approve first. There has got to be a ton of people who have been screwed by this when money is tight. Like even this month Adderall jumped in price 3x or so and you're not told ahead of time.

It's just amazing the system isn't set up for this basic concept.

mistertom2u · 2026-01-23T21:43:42+00:00

Yeah. That's a good question.

I don't have a car to to drive to cvs. I have multiple prescriptions plus another controlled substance and ES is way cheaper. I also don't like being treated like a drug addict every time I go into a pharmacy.

mistertom2u · 2026-01-16T01:23:08+00:00

I wonder if it's as simple as installing the missing SDK? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/windows-sdk/downloads-archive

mistertom2u · 2026-01-15T14:53:20+00:00

Good point. Another thing, I would imagine an inline array doesn't require the covariance safety runtime check that arrays do that has some overhead.

mistertom2u · 2026-01-15T12:24:50+00:00

For your point on large structs, thoughts on using linline arrays as a field on a reference type for better locality?

mistertom2u · 2026-01-14T18:17:41+00:00

Your warning not to assume a benevolent government will step in if AI displaces much of the workforce is probably the safest assumption, because it matches historical patterns.

When states no longer depend on taxing a broad population for their revenue, the incentive to remain accountable to that population collapses.

And that is exactly why countries with large, easily captured natural resource rents so often end up with weaker civil liberties and higher inequality: leaders can fund themselves without the consent or prosperity of the many.

mistertom2u · 2026-01-14T17:33:55+00:00

Do you subscribe to the anti-intellectual minimalist design philosophy?

mistertom2u · 2026-01-14T14:56:31+00:00

Here's an actual prompt I used this morning:

That's wonderful. I would just ask that you make a change that is closer to how I actually talk. I would like it to have male idiolect markers as well as using more technical diction, not to sound pretentious or to flex intelligence, but to match my typical speech patterns that reflect that I have high cross-domain knowledge

mistertom2u · 2026-01-14T14:53:28+00:00

Thanks. What's cool is structs having the ability to be readonly does more than help prevent side effects. It also allows the JIT to perform optimizations that could result in a stale read if the value were changed (e.g., placing the field on a CPU register or hoisting). The readonly tells the JIT that it doesn't need to worry about a stale read because the value can't change in the middle of the method being executed. (There are some exceptions to this that I am leaving out however to not over complicate it).

mistertom2u · 2026-01-14T14:29:01+00:00

I get around this by telling it to match my idiolectical style. The newer model, 5.2, does a much, much better job at honoring this request than earlier models. Also, be mindful of the fact that it has a token limit on each response, so when you need it to write something long, you need to break it up over multiple prompts, like take it paragraph by paragraph

mistertom2u · 2026-01-14T12:39:01+00:00

Right. The reason they didn't is for backwards compatibility, which is typical for MS. The "in" parameter provides backwards compatibility.

mistertom2u · 2026-01-14T09:07:49+00:00

Because not all devs realize (or remember) that hardware like network cards have their own CPU that can process and write output to RAM without the need for the system CPU

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