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gault8121 commented on San Francisco to pay $212M to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/LordAtlas
gault8121 · a year ago
The headline here is manipulative.

> The $212 million contract includes support services from Hitachi for "20 to 25 years,"

The $212m is a 20-year service contract for the new technology and the costs of installing it, not a one-time cost to remove the old floppy disks.

gault8121 commented on Ask HN: Asperger, How to Get Funding?    · Posted by u/datahellscape
gault8121 · 2 years ago
The video game market doesn’t seem like a good market for raising venture capital - there is a ton of competition, and it seems that the folks who can raise money have a track record of previously successful games. With the 5% interest rate, you’ll very likely need to bootstrap your first game to break into the industry and then you could raise for a future game.
gault8121 commented on The Password Game   neal.fun/password-game/... · Posted by u/kretaceous
qt31415926 · 2 years ago
I'm impressed you were able to not get tangled up by the youtube/captcha/color hex/roman numeral mess! The youtube one is what screwed me over and over out of all my attempts
gault8121 · 2 years ago
The Chrome Inspector Color Picker does not return the right hex code! You have to go into the properties to get the right value.
gault8121 commented on The Password Game   neal.fun/password-game/... · Posted by u/kretaceous
msravi · 2 years ago
So does this sometimes reach an unsolvable state? I have a captcha whose digits sum up to 24, a condition that all digits should sum up to 25, and the best chess move is Ne6+ (accepted), but there's no way to get all digits to sum to 25!

mAy@VpepsiVIIm3588tractSibelgiumNe6+

m3588 is the captcha and Ne6+ is the chess move in the above

I've also tried putting something like -5 in the hope that it recognizes negative numbers, but no luck!

gault8121 · 2 years ago
When you break the captcha rule, you can re-select the captcha. You want to keep re-rolling till you find a low number combo. There are a few rules where you can re-roll to get a better random number. In general, it gets harder and harder to stay under the 25 limit as you progress.
gault8121 commented on The Password Game   neal.fun/password-game/... · Posted by u/kretaceous
YellOh · 2 years ago
Managed to make it almost all the way to the end! Note that "is this your final password?" is not the last challenge, despite it being the last thing on the lists other people have posted. Afterward you're asked to retype your password which is almost impossible to do, given that it's in various sizes (with any zeroes at font size zero) and partially in windings.

I recommend copy/pasting before you get there. It doesn't let you copy once that final resubmit form appears.

This is the last saved copy of mine (from ~5 steps before the end; also, yc doesn't capture the various fonts, text sizes, and emojis):

xngxcaboutjuneshell0000XXXV*I54malaysia0Nd3+Gd d4dbc1170

gault8121 · 2 years ago
How do you solve the time issue - does it lock in the time at the moment you complete that rule, or do you need to keep updating the password with the new time? Also, is the time UTC or time zoned?
gault8121 commented on The Password Game   neal.fun/password-game/... · Posted by u/kretaceous
gault8121 · 2 years ago
Got to rule 33 after like two hours! The cap on adding up to 25 becomes really tough with the later rules.
gault8121 commented on First Republic Bank files 8-K – Tech only 4% of total deposits; no sector >9%   ir.firstrepublic.com/stat... · Posted by u/TMWNN
dannyw · 3 years ago
Tech businesses tend to have more direct access to information (e.g. Twitter, emails), and listen to VCs and investors.

Regular people and businesses don't hear about these things. Today, only 1 other person in my friend group of 6 heard about SVB.

gault8121 · 3 years ago
There are three articles about this on the front page of the New York Times right now. It’s going to be widespread knowledge very soon.
gault8121 commented on DetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection   ericmitchell.ai/detectgpt... · Posted by u/O__________O
gault8121 · 3 years ago
How does this compare to GPT2 output detector?

I created AIwritingcheck.org to provide teachers with a user friendly interface for this model.

u/gault8121

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