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DaveInTucson commented on ChatGPT Pro   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
yosito · 9 months ago
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DaveInTucson · 9 months ago
Remember the whole "how many r's in strawberry" thing?

Yeah, not really fixed: https://imgur.com/a/counting-letters-with-chatgpt-7cQAbu0

DaveInTucson commented on My dad and I replaced a 100MB HDD with a 1GB HDD for $100. When did this happen?    · Posted by u/xnyan
DaveInTucson · a year ago
I remember in the early 90s seeing 8 GB hard drives being advertised for sale, and thinking "who on earth would need 8 gigs of hard drive storage?"

(Me, that's who. I now have 63+ GB just under my Music folder)

DaveInTucson commented on Why I only use plain black wallpapers   tiramisu.bearblog.dev/you... · Posted by u/memorable
DaveInTucson · 3 years ago
I have wallpapers on my desktop and phone, but honestly hardly ever look at them. Even on the desktop, I pretty much always have various programs maximized or nearly so. If I feel the need to take a break, I either just browse the web (awkward-look-monkey.jpg) or get up from the computer.
DaveInTucson commented on 58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere   gist.github.com/JoeyBurzy... · Posted by u/thunderbong
FrontAid · 3 years ago
I think this does not work well for mobile devices. Spacing and the font size is too large. Hence, a lot of screen space is wasted and the user has to scroll more. Larger font sizes on mobile are usually not a good idea as the device tends to be closer to your eyes anyway.

A snippet that could work better in my opinion is the following:

    html {
      max-width: 70ch;
      /* larger spacing on larger screens, very small spacing on tiny screens */
      padding: calc(1vmin + .5rem);
      /* shorthand for margin-left/margin-right */
      margin-inline: auto;
      /* fluid sizing: https://frontaid.io/blog/fluid-typography-2d-css-locks-clamp/ */
      font-size: clamp(1em, 0.909em + 0.45vmin, 1.25em);
      /* use system font stack: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-family */
      font-family: system-ui
    }

    /* increase line-height for everything except headings */
    body :not(:is(h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)) {
      line-height: 1.75;
    }

DaveInTucson · 3 years ago
hopefully not too dumb a question, but why put this on html instead of body?
DaveInTucson commented on Music for Programming   musicforprogramming.net/... · Posted by u/Group_B
tastysandwich · 3 years ago
I just quickly scrolled through my collection and here are some random, but fantastic instrumental albums I've used while "in the zone":

  - Miles Davis: In a Silent Way
  - Brian Eno: Ambient 4: On Land
  - Godspeed You! Black Emperor: F♯ A♯ ∞ (one of my favourite albums. listen with your best headphones. HD650s are good)
  - Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Volume II
  - Mozart: Requiem (my first proper introduction to classical. I was absolutely blown away)
  - Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
  - Sun O))): Black One (extremely experimental doom metal. the musicality of it is questionable at times but it's fantastic to study to)
  - Sleep: Jerusalem (occasional vocals but trust me they're not distracting)
  - Tim Hecker: Harmony in Ultraviolet
  - Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard
The worst part about these sorts of things is that 30 seconds after posting I'll remember all the awesome albums I forgot and kick myself for it.

DaveInTucson · 3 years ago
Brian Eno's got some great ambient stuff (although Ambient 4 is not one of my favorites).

Some I'd recommend:

* Ambient 1: Music for Airports

* Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirror

* The Pearl

* Thursday Afternoon

* Discreet Music

If you like any of those, there's lots more to explore. I don't care for all Eno's ambient works, but I really enjoy some of it.

DaveInTucson commented on Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar   suszter.com/reversingonwi... · Posted by u/ReversingOnWin
gugagore · 4 years ago
Do you still get a dialog asking to save when you close a modified file when the title bar shows no asterisk?
DaveInTucson · 4 years ago
Yeah, I played around with this a little bit. It seems like Notepad knows the document has been changed, the bug is purely that the title bar isn't updated in this one case.

Which actually seems all the more odd because it does get updated when you move the mouse, use the arrow keys (or other non-inserting keys like Alt+F4)

DaveInTucson commented on Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?    · Posted by u/abrax3141
kej · 6 years ago
Just want to add that Connections and some of his other videos are available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22james+burk...
DaveInTucson · 6 years ago
Many of these are on YouTube as well, just search for "James Burke Connections"
DaveInTucson commented on HTTP 402: Payment Required   developer.mozilla.org/en-... · Posted by u/jpomykala
jerf · 6 years ago
"meaning some committee must have thought this would be important for the future (of the internet)."

Have a read down the entire standard [1] with an eye to that. There's a number of codes that are useless (some deprecated), and a number of other codes that I feel uncomfortable calling useless, but compared to how the web evolved, certainly aren't working the way the initial designers intended. 406 "Not Acceptable", for instance, is for when the client sent up Accept-* headers that don't match anything the server offers. That's technically usable, but content negotiation ultimately didn't play as big a part of the web as RFC 7231's text suggests the authors thought it would.

There's a lot of response codes squeezed on both sides by the fact that 1. they're too underspecified to be really useful (yes, it's great that you can return 402 payment required, but where is the browser supposed to go from there?) and 2. had they been specified enough to use at the time they were specified, they would have been utterly wrong. I don't think there's any way to square that circle at a standards level.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.2

DaveInTucson · 6 years ago
I think the problem is that "payment required" is an issue that's better dealt with in a layer higher up the protocol stack.

One can simply respond with the appropriate redirection code to a login/signup page (or whatever) when the client attempts to access a page where "payment is require" (just like any other authentication/authorization issue).

DaveInTucson commented on 88% of Americans use a second screen while watching TV   arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/elsewhen
DaveInTucson · 6 years ago
The only time I ever watch broadcast TV anymore is for (NFL) football. And in that case, I'm usually also , participating in chats and discussion forums, following box scores, and the like.

On the other hand, I've also noticed when watching movies on my computer (which is pretty much how I do it anymore), it can be really easy to get distracted.

On the gripping hand, when I watch shows on Amazon Prime, I generally don't have any difficulty watching through an entire episode without getting distracted. Possibly because I usually watch Prime on my tablet, where it's (a little) harder to switch between apps.

DaveInTucson commented on Show HN: Memorize Terminal Commands   memorize-terminal-command... · Posted by u/maherdeeb
NotMelNoGuitars · 6 years ago
Yeah, a handful of these tripped me up as well. I got:

Question: Write the command that you use to move into your home directory '~'

Your answer: cd

Correct answer: cd ~

The man pages specify that cd moves into the current user's $HOME directory if called without arguments, but I'm sure there's some mystic difference between cd $HOME and cd ~ in certain cases.

DaveInTucson · 6 years ago
Not sure if the site is meant to be strictly Linux/Unix or not, but on Windows, cd without any path just prints the current directory and doesn't do anything else. (Although "cd ~" produces the response "The system cannot find the path specified.")

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