stelonix
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
By vowel continuum I really only meant all vowels between A and U; basically all the vowels a human is capable of making. Even though you might not feel the shapes, your brain certainly does. There are videos that show the folds as someone speaks and you can see those shapes are deterministic.
I've realized those shapes while learning polyphonic singing. By doing the usual exercise of going from one vowel to another you begin to understand there are specific shapes for vowel sounds: O (in portuguese) is very "bouba" (round) while I is very sharp like a spear; kiki.
As for the comment on consonants, it was not made by me but I do like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094626
There's also another comment mentioning how it works for consonants, which I believe helps explain how it might work for dogs.
When 5.6 dropped I had no weekly limits and I could just drive my work with Sol xhigh and things were great. Once limits were back (and maybe token prices changed iirc) Sol was no longer usable (on Pro or business) unless I was ok with 4 prompts every 5 hours, so I had to switch to Terra medium/high. I've used Luna for some really dumb tasks like moving files, renaming variables and whatever other old-school refactors I've needed.
Then Astra dropped and it just uses so many tokens I've only prompted with it once. Now with GTP-6 Sol/Luna I'm not sure what's being said here but most importantly I'm wondering whether Luna 6 is a good replacement for Terra.
Has any other Terra user tried and knows more or less than answer to this?
Stack Overflow was essential to figure out arcane flags that could solve my issues (when even MSDN, another great site with its examples, couldn't) and Raymond was very present in SO at that time, iirc he replied to one of my questions too. That's when I found his blog, always great reads!
Now I've been a 14-year Linux user and none of the toolkits and libraries give anything close to the winapi experience.
1) use the edit in-place functionality; or
2) ask it to rewrite to remove something
It'll write the prompt as if the agent (codex) knew about the conversation and add "don't do X" etc. At first that bothered but I realized it doesn't really change the output so I stopped caring.
Still, no experience is unique I guess.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8508923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41922295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44177446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36949314
That's (as shown in my sample prompt) one great thing I've been using LLMs for: making GUIs for arcane Linux-based OS/userland settings that I have no interest in doing "sudo gedit yadda yadda" or learning man pages for. It's been 30+ years, we deserve a better desktop experience.
I've used suckless packages in the past, but it feels to me too close the GNOME/Apple way of giving zero settings and having opinionated defaults whose opinions do not ring well for me. I have zero desire to change my shortcuts/hotkeys to something random devs chose based on their past computer experience, mostly unix-based. Muscle memory > *.
I need a python script that
1) reads /etc/hosts
2) find values of specific configured hosts (read from a .conf which) eg server1, localhost, etc
3) it'll assign a name to those configs eg if the .conf has
[Env1]
192.168.0.1 production-read
192.168.0.2 production-write
192.168.0.27 amqp
[Env2]
192.168.0.101 production-read
192.168.0.201 production-write
192.168.1.127 amqp
Basically format:
[CONFIG_NAME]
<ip> <hostname>
Like an usual hosts file
4) And each of those will be stored in memory
5) if in /etc/hosts it matches one of those, it sets the "current env" as the configname
5) It'll create an icon on the top-right of ubuntu 22 default gnome with
6) that icon could be the text of the current config name or if nothing matches, "custom" text would show
7) When the user clicks the "tray"/appindicator(or whatever gnome is calling them) it'll list the config names in a simple gtk/gnome
8) When the user clicks one config, we create a backup of /etc/hosts in ~/.config/backups/ named hosts-%UNIX_TIMESTAMP%
9) we then apply it to hosts file (find only the line with the hostnames to change and modify only those)
And that one-shotted a simple gnome app indicator env switcher. Had to fix a few lines here and there but it mostly just worked. If you give the proper spec to the LLM, it'll do it right. You can even fake a DSL to describe what you want and it'll figure it out.