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Comment · 1 month ago
Very soon we all be multi-quadrillionairs.
Comment · 1 month ago
It force-switched me to Opus 4.8, which has run through now.

You gave me good idea to let 4.8 write a hand-off and then let 5.5 try implementing it.

Comment · 1 month ago
Refusal: "Opus 5.5's safeguards flagged this session. You may be seeing this for the first time on an Opus model: Opus 5.5 is more capable and has stronger safeguards as a result, which can sometimes flag non-cybersecurity work. We're improving these safeguards to reduce the amount of incorrectly flagged messages."

My appeal: "This is my own code, my TST and PRD environments and I am concerned about the hardening the hand-rolled BasicAuthHttpModule function.

I asked DeepSeek V41 Flash to review this code already and worked in his recommendations.

Now I want to ask you for a second round of review, a second opinion audit.

This is an ASP.NET 4.8 application facing internet and I want to make sure I handle the edge case, HTTP error codes, and have no logic gaps in my code."

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 5 months ago
There seems to be a typing mistake. The embouchure should have diameter of 2.8-3.2 centimeters, not millimeters. Perhaps that can be done DIY from an PVC pipe with an hot air gun or a gas burner to soften and shape the end.

"Participants received a standardised acrylic plastic didgeridoo that was developed by the instructor in collaboration with Creacryl GmbH (Ebmatingen, Zurich, Switzerland, and costs €80 (£43; $94), fig 1). The didgeridoo is 130 cm long with a diameter of 4 cm and an elliptical embouchure with a diameter of 2.8-3.2 mm. Acrylic didgeridoos are easier for beginners to learn on than conventional wooden didgeridoos."

Comment · 7 months ago
For me the dots appear as white on a grey terrain. Impossible to see.

Win Firefox 148.

Comment · 1 year ago
Do we still need program source code?

One idea would be not to have the code as the result of your prompt, but the result itself.

Why not to let the environment do everything integrated, according to your prompt?

Else you have the disconnect between the prompt and the generated code. The generated code need to run somewhere, need to be integrated and maintained.

That stringdiff function is a part of the bigger environment.

So ultimately you should just be able to request your assistant to make sure all the work assigned to you is done properly, and then the assistant should report to the original requestor of the work done.

Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe the "query optimization works because sql is set-oriented"?

The types of operations in SQL are limited to sets, therefore allowing certain optimizations.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, what you are saying is fair enough.

I can imagine technological "divorces" will happen more often going forward, as the polarization between the G7 and the BRICS++ members grows.

Comment · 2 years ago
And then the next paragraph of the wikipeida: "In Chicago, Frederick Stock was forced to step down as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra until he finalized his naturalization papers. Orchestras replaced music by German composer Wagner with French composer Berlioz. After xenophobic Providence Journal editor John R. Rathom falsely accused Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Karl Muck of refusing to play The Star-Spangled Banner and triggered a trial by media in October 1917, Muck and 29 of the orchestra's musicians were arrested and interned in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, until well after the Armistice. "
Comment · 2 years ago
This reminds of the Anti-German sentiment during WWI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-German_sentiment

"The Justice Department attempted to prepare a list of all German aliens, counting approximately 480,000 of them. The Committee of Internment of Alien Enemies recommended sending them to internment camps, though the idea was opposed by the War Department and the Attorney General. More than 4,000 German aliens were imprisoned in 1917–1918. The allegations included spying for Germany and endorsing the German war effort.

When the United States entered the war in 1917, some German Americans were looked upon with suspicion and attacked regarding their loyalty. Propaganda posters and newspaper commentary fed the growing fear. In Wisconsin, a Lutheran minister faced suspicion for hosting Germans in his home, while a language professor was tarred and feathered for having a German name and teaching the language. The Red Cross barred individuals with German last names from joining in fear of sabotage. One person was killed by a mob; in Collinsville, Illinois, German-born Robert Prager was dragged from jail as a suspected spy and lynched. Some aliens were convicted and imprisoned on charges of sedition for refusing to swear allegiance to the United States war effort. Thousands were forced to buy war bonds to show their loyalty."

Comment · 2 years ago
A quick thought: You could try to peek into the new world. They are not calcified (yet) and thus growing quickly, covering half of the world population. Surely they could appreciate your extended experience.
Comment · 2 years ago
I would be for the employees returning to office, if they could make Windows UI flexible and customizable.

After all, there is at least some minimal efforts to modernize the Win11 UI: it seems not impossible (after many years of trying) to make taskbar icons small, or align the taskbar icons to the left.

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