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aqfamnzc commented on GPT‑5.3 Instant openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

sunaookami · 10 days ago

The single biggest issue for me with ChatGPT right now is how absolutely awful it sounds in every answer. "Why it matters", "the big picture", "it's not jut you", the awful emphasis, the quotations with rhetorical questions, etc.. I don't know if it's intentional so you can easily spot ChatGPT-generated content on the web? The very first GPT-5 version was good but they ruined it immediately afterwards with "making the personality warmer" and making the same mistakes as 4o. I see now that they even ruined Japanese even though it was one of the best languages supported by ChatGPT (under "Limitations" at the end). I don't use it anymore, immensely disappointed.

aqfamnzc · 10 days ago

I just append something like "Throughout our conversation, keep your responses brief. Avoid emojis, followup suggestions, and other unnecessary commentary." to every starting prompt. Seems to work OK. I'm sure sibling's recommendation of turning down the niceties sliders would work similarly for someone with an account.

aqfamnzc commented on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/andreynering

QuiDortDine · 16 days ago

So custom implementation, then? How very Microsoft.

aqfamnzc · 16 days ago

Even funnier when you remember that they own github, the place where arguably markdown was popularized.

aqfamnzc commented on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/... · Posted by u/mchro

klondike_klive · 2 months ago

I second the Yoto. My son and I have had much fun making our own cards and I got pretty good at extracting audiobooks from YouTube, processing them with audacity and making cards of book series that he was into. You can fit a staggering amount onto a single card (5hrs of audio if memory serves).

Honestly that was the biggest extra feature for us, we quickly exhausted all the Yoto store content that appealed, and weren't into any of the big franchise content (except a pleasantly surprising read of Pixar's "Cars") or joining the Yoto club.

aqfamnzc · 2 months ago

Is the data stored on the card, or on the player? My guess is that each card just holds an id?

aqfamnzc commented on EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance reclaimthenet.org/eu-coun... · Posted by u/fragebogen

latexr · 3 months ago

From the second paragraph in your link:

> While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual, according to modern biologists the premise is false: changing location is a natural thermoregulation strategy for frogs and other ectotherms, and is necessary for survival in the wild. A frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Furthermore, a frog placed into already boiling water will die immediately, not jump out.

aqfamnzc · 3 months ago

It's just a metaphor.

aqfamnzc commented on OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps blog.firedrake.org/archiv... · Posted by u/icheyne

polairscience · 6 months ago

Related but annoying question. What are you all using for public lands access and land ownership? This is a similar problem where the paid/closed apps (OnX et al) have very good data but serious issues for obvious reasons.

aqfamnzc · 6 months ago

Caltopo is great for this. They require a subscription to download (raster) maps but you can cache a bunch of tiles before you leave to get the gist. These days this is one of the very scarce use cases I don't use OSMand for.

aqfamnzc commented on Claude 4 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

otabdeveloper4 · 10 months ago

> it does influence its final output

We don't really know that. So far CoT is only used to sell LLMs to the user. (Both figuratively as a neat trick and literally as a way to increase token count.)

aqfamnzc · 9 months ago

Not even remotely true. It's part of the context window, so it greatly influences the final output. CoT is tokens generated by the LLM just like normal output.

aqfamnzc commented on Claude 4 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

otabdeveloper4 · 10 months ago

I don't either, but chain of thought is obviously bullshit and just more LLM hallucination.

LLMs will routinely "reason" through a solution and then proceed to give out a final answer that is completely unrelated to the preceding "reasoning".

aqfamnzc · 10 months ago

It's more hallucination in the sense that all LLM output is hallucination. CoT is not "what the llm is thinking". I think of it as just creating more context/prompt for itself on the fly, so that when it comes up with a final response it has all that reasoning in its context window.

aqfamnzc commented on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)? · Posted by u/troupo

alnwlsn · 10 months ago

I'm going to go against the crowd and say that I prefer DigiKey and Mouser's sites over McMaster. The filter/apply pattern they use when trying to narrow things down is a lot quicker than waiting for Mcmaster's auto updating window. Usually, when I'm looking for something, it's not for an exact specific item, but to know what options are even there in the first place. Selecting ranges of things in McMaster has always felt a little cumbersome, but Digikey has always had it right.

The other thing McMaster does that's kind of annoying, but also kind of funny, is that they go out of their way to purge the branding of the items they stock. Very understandable why they do that, but sometimes they do it when it doesn't make sense. Want to buy a generic "graphing calculator" for $126 which is definitely not a Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus? Here you go! [1]. Look, you're not fooling anybody here.

[1] https://www.mcmaster.com/8392T11/

aqfamnzc · 10 months ago

The calculator is an extreme example, but I've wondered in the past if the reason they scrub everything is so you can't take the manufacturer part number to buy elsewhere. McMaster is undoubtedly more expensive in many cases, but the service they offer is consolidating a million parts into one catalog with CAD drawings, specs, etc. Hiding branding prevents you from taking advantage of that without making a purchase.

aqfamnzc commented on Tailscale has raised $160M tailscale.com/blog/series... · Posted by u/louis-paul

aborsy · a year ago

This is not correct. Wireguard establishes a tunnel between peer A and B, and its simplicity stops there. Tailscale does tons of complex networking, filtering, nat traversal, DNS, file sharing, etc. Wireguard is a small part of the codebase today, which has grown a lot.

It’s a bit like saying Dropbox is just a GUI on top of TLS.

aqfamnzc · a year ago

> It’s a bit like saying Dropbox is just a GUI on top of TLS.

Well, it is. After all, for a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially...