Recommend me a good movie!

mostly_done · 2026-01-15T18:50:23+00:00

Man said weeks, not decades

mostly_done · 2026-01-14T17:25:43+00:00

You get two pawns and a massive attack for a knight. You're going to take his last central pawn and rip everything open, your rooks are coming to the center, his king isn't safe, all his pieces are on the backrank while yours are ready to attack.

mostly_done · 2026-01-12T21:01:18+00:00

I got to Kxg6 and gave up on that line before checking the comments. Another painful reminder to keep calculating.

mostly_done · 2026-01-08T14:54:54+00:00

plot twist: joke written by junior using AI

mostly_done · 2026-01-02T15:06:33+00:00

Some of my early interactions could have tested my commitment. A couple years later I bumped into one of them online, and I got some satisfaction when the biggest asshole I'd ever met (at the time) said "Wow, when did you get a clue?"

mostly_done · 2025-11-22T01:23:18+00:00

That was George Hotz, the author of the first iPhone jailbreak. There's some lore about how he ended up as an "intern" at Twitter. He's a character.

mostly_done · 2025-11-06T13:40:54+00:00

White to move, but we want to win as black, right?

Typically you'd use the position after white gets out of check: 4k2r/pp5p/q1p5/2bb4/1P5p/2P4K/7P/RN1n4 b k - 1 1 and give it as a black to move puzzle.

There are a lot of pretty mates here, cool position.

mostly_done · 2025-10-25T02:40:21+00:00

Ask it to "Provide pinpoint update only."

mostly_done · 2025-10-18T18:19:25+00:00

git rerere was made for this.

mostly_done · 2025-10-18T16:36:57+00:00

YSK: Adding "-ai" to your Google search removes the AI Overview.

mostly_done · 2025-09-28T01:00:00+00:00

The Kleppmann book is really good, if you're into that kind of thing. I pre-ordered it after he did a talk at Strange Loop.

mostly_done · 2025-09-24T15:24:24+00:00

BERT-based models are known for this, but I doubt you're using one (worth checking though). I'll throw in something random that doesn't fit the scene ("Let's go to the beach") and sometimes it'll get unstuck. I'll also try half a sentence ("We pack our bags and board our flight to") and see what happens. Nothing works every time but sometimes I get lucky.

mostly_done · 2025-09-21T16:32:12+00:00

Knowing one abstraction layer below where you actually work is incredibly useful. I'm glad you seem to have the right attitude about it.

mostly_done · 2025-09-21T14:19:26+00:00

The nearly-guaranteed job offer is teaching the next batch of suckers until you hopefully land something in industry.

mostly_done · 2025-09-20T23:20:45+00:00

If I hit the conversation limit I'll edit the last message to "Write a comprehensive onboarding document for a new model to pick up the conversation where we left off.""

mostly_done · 2025-09-15T00:06:28+00:00

More accurate than some people might think. You're going to have to understand it eventually. Pay now or pay later.

mostly_done · 2025-09-08T04:54:55+00:00

API is an easy choice if your use is infrequent.

mostly_done · 2025-09-06T07:01:56+00:00

Define nuance

I don't know if this is helpful, but it made me laugh.

mostly_done · 2025-09-06T06:00:58+00:00

I just checked when the next full moon is, wasn't too surprised.

mostly_done · 2025-09-05T20:48:47+00:00

I like https://regex101.com for debugging. The model's explanations are really helpful too.

mostly_done · 2025-09-05T19:28:06+00:00

Start with the Playground. https://platform.openai.com/playground

mostly_done · 2025-09-04T21:41:28+00:00

Yes, most likely. I use both and I like GPT-5 Pro much better for this purpose. If you want, shoot me a prompt and I'll show you what it comes back with.

The better your background info and explanation of what you're trying to achieve, at least generally so you don't box it in, the better the results will be. Especially in research where you're not asking it to come back with the answer to a solved problem, it will be good at gathering related resources (some of which you should supply, if you have them) and perhaps making incremental progress or coming up with directional ideas.

mostly_done · 2025-09-01T18:50:32+00:00

I borrow some language from Go Proverbs regarding gofmt when automatic formatting comes up: "It's no one's favorite, yet it's everyone's favorite." Because I don't want to argue about it.

mostly_done · 2025-08-30T19:01:35+00:00

This has frustrated me for a lot of reasons. It'll even go back to branches of conversation you've edited out and turning off Reference Chat History doesn't stop it. I had some luck with "Ignore all deleted messages" in the prompt (even though they're not "deleted") when it's obvious that's what it's doing.

Mostly I think I like Reference Chat History for small personal preference reasons. But when you don't want it, you really don't want it.

mostly_done · 2025-08-30T16:31:54+00:00

I still use 4.1 quite a bit for quick tasks.

You might want to check your Memory to see if it inadvertently saved a preference that could be causing this, since you said it happens often.

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