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by aonsager 7mo ago
FWIW, if you enable /sandbox then it stops asking for permission for these kinds of commands.
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by aonsager 1y ago
I saw an app a while ago that uses the camera to just track the top of your head, and alerts you if it lowers too much. It's a simple solution that works great for slouching. It may have been this: https://nekoze.app
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by aonsager 1y ago
I think you missed the point. That section is asserting that people wrongly assume em dashes to be a distinguishing trait of LLM output, while in fact they are good tools for human writers (as the author demonstrates).
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by aonsager 4y ago
This is a good point, and I think it also applies when chasing after product/market fit. "Channel" is a concrete redefinition of the vague term "market" that describes an actual group of people plus the means of rea
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Generating Colors from Post Titles(alexonsager.com)
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by aonsager 5y ago
For what it's worth, I was familiar with this technique before seeing this or other non-Japanese articles. It doesn't have much relevance for daily life now which can explain why very few people seem to have heard of it, but I wou
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by aonsager 5y ago
It's a 1/2 chance at the point where you're considering the switch. If you start the game with the intention of switching, you have a 2/3 chance of being successful because the winning strategy is to miss the car on your
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by aonsager 7y ago
I think that "simple" rather than "minimal" is an important distinction that is sometimes overlooked. Sometimes adding something new will let you reduce a lot of friction. For example, a paper journal or a plain text to-
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by aonsager 7y ago
Yes there is a benefit to radical thinking and nonconformity, but "do it without hurting others" is a reasonable line to draw. Stallman was viewed as a toxic individual who caused harm, and this is what our society is trying to we
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by aonsager 7y ago
Not a historian, but working together as a group and not letting the people around you down are values that are emphasized from childhood. Leaving work before the people around you makes it feel like you are the weakest link. Also there is
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by aonsager 7y ago
This felt off to me too. I really dislike articles that cherry-pick anonymous SNS posts to prove a point.
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by aonsager 8y ago
First, my TI-83 graphing calculator. I learned that I could write simple programs to take user input and do things like calculate the Pythagorean theorem. I eventually started writing text-based adventure games, and then simple graphical ga
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by aonsager 9y ago
How to Be Polite, by Paul Ford: https://medium.com/message/how-to-be-polite-9bf1e69e888c
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by aonsager 11y ago
Very nice. I especially like that it's contained within such a tight space but still gives you enough time to react and plan ahead. 15701 points on second try is pretty good right?