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1. 451.▲
   by dmd 1y ago

   I tried it in gpt-4.1, o4-mini, and claude-4-sonnet, and all got the right answer.
2. 452.▲
   by dmd 1y ago

   Well, no, I have many times typed exactly that prompt, because making a hundred billion dollars worth of computer go "brr" to make ascii art is amusing! I just don't understand what the point is of a dedicated site.
3. 453.▲
   by dmd 1y ago

   I'm not sure I understand the appeal of sites that are literally a less-than-a-sentence prompt I could have typed myself.
4. 454.▲
   by dmd 1y ago

   Now there's the HN bubble for you. I would be shocked if more than a tenth of a percent of people who write code for a living work in startups, period.
5. 455.▲
   by dmd 1y ago

   I just wanna note here, for future readers, that this guy cheated in a deliciously naughty way, by registering a custom binfmt handler specifically for puzzle.[345], and deserves to get hit on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.
6. 456.▲
   by dmd 1y ago

   Right, but anyone who wants those features can use a 3rd party front end like LibreChat.
7. 457.▲
   by dmd 1y ago

   I'm confused by what you mean by this, because most LLM interfaces other than the very very basic ones do already have branching and history editing? E.g. pretty much every third party LLM interface? Are you talking about something mor
8. 458.▲
   by dmd 1y ago

   That's certainly the expected output. Emailed you back. You landed in spam, btw.
9. 459.▲
   by dmd 1y ago

   For people who enjoy this sort of thing, vaguely related is this puzzle: https://dmd.3e.org/a-shell-puzzle/
10. 460.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    The entire point of using formal methods is that testing will never, ever catch everything.
11. 461.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    Yeah. It's not even the only wrong answer on the page, which is troubling.
12. 462.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    No matter how many times I do number 20, I end up with 615. Am I wrong, or is the solution sheet wrong?
13. 463.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    And as a dessert topping!
14. 464.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    Textual is new and fancy. Dialog has been on pretty much every linux system for a quarter century.
15. 465.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    Oh wow I (American) didn't even remember until seeing this thread that loo meant that.
16. 466.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    I hope anyone who uses something like this has the grace to fall back to https://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog for non-GUI users. Or https://github.com/Textualize/textual if they want to be faaa
17. 467.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    Search for "flicker fusion rate" to learn a lot more about this.
18. 468.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    And you didn't get married!?
19. 469.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    Counterpoint: If I had to talk on the phone with the company instead of using text, I would choose a different company.
20. 470.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    https://jules.google/ posted here today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034918
21. 471.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    IM, 100%. Otherwise only the loud people ever speak, whether or not they have anything useful to say.
22. 472.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    And <marquee>, of course.
23. 473.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    > the Windows drive is probably formatted in NTFS so the Linux instance will need drivers to support it This hasn't been true for decades now, thankfully! Read-only NTFS support has been built into the kernel for a quarter century
24. 474.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    Not the 10000, but I admin'd a 4500 back in 1999 at Bristol-Myers Squibb at the ripe old age of 21. It was running Sun's mail server, which required constant care and feeding to even remotely reliably serve our 30,000+ users. One
25. 475.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    > Chirashizushi = sour rice with stuff scattered in it And it annoys me to no end how many restaurants serve "chirashi" with completely plain, non-vinegared, non-seasoned-in-any-way rice. Just "throw some sashimi on some w
26. 476.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    > nobody wants to kick off Kessler syndrome Except the Trump administration, you mean. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/space-pollut...
27. 477.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    Well, I suppose that's a philosophy!
28. 478.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    Linux is free and open source software. Should everything built on Linux be free? gcc is free and open source software. Should everything compiled with gcc be free? apache is free and open source software. Should every website be noncommerc
29. 479.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    Can, but won't!
30. 480.▲
    by dmd 1y ago

    http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html