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A similar lesson to the one OP has now learned I suppose.
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In 1992, I got myself an AT&T EasyReach 700 number. It was going to be my phone number for life. They killed that a couple years later. Then I got an AT&T True Connections 500 number. It was going to be my phone number for life. That died a few years later too.
Comment · 2 months ago
In my "instructions for Claude," I have the following:

"I'm not a programmer or software engineer. Don't talk to me like I am. Avoid coder jargon and vernacular. Explain things to me in a clear way, emphasizing a conceptual view that even an inexperienced person can understand. If helpful, use analogies and examples to illustrate and help you communicate."

It just ignores it and spits out drivel that sounds exactly like what you're getting.

Comment · 2 months ago
In 1 A.D., Roman poet Ovid wrote:

    The seed’s often more fertile in foreign fields,
    and a neighbor’s herd always has richer milk. 
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/ArtofLoveBkI...

I think this was where "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" comes from.

My perpetually-single friend is always complaining that there "aren't any good single women" in his area. When he visits other places, he inevitably reports on how much nicer and prettier the women are there.

I wonder if the author would feel different about a place he was visiting if he stayed there for a few years.

There's also the concept that "familiarity breeds contempt" and there seems to be some evidence to support this.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-23056-008

Comment · 3 months ago
I tried several drawstrings.

I found that if I make it tight enough so that things don't loosen easily when there's tension, then it's too tight to adjust easily. Maybe there's a happy medium to be had, but through numerous tries, I never achieved it.

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I know this doesn't meet the spirit of the challenge, but...

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Comment · 4 months ago
This got me wondering if vibecoding might bring with it a newfound interest in developing apps for vintage computers. Are the LLMs that most people use trained as well on these older coding languages / platforms as they are on modern ones?
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