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March 30, 2025

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ChatGPT prompt for mindful relaxation

Prompt: Please give me an omakase tasting menu of pleasant sense memories. For example, the first course might be “close your eyes and imagine as vividly as you can eating a perfectly ripe strawberry.” The second course might be, imagine the sensation of cool silk on your skin or the sensation of sand between your toes at the beach. You can describe cozy scenes, places, tastes, whatever. Just make them relaxing and varied and the sort of thing an adult with normal life experiences would be familiar with. Please bring them one course at a time until I say I’m

March 30, 2025

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I made a tool that finds the most underrated stocks on reddit, and helps you analyze their performance

I recently made a tool that helps you navigate the reddit, twitter, and financial landscape easier by using only natural language. The platform is built on an LLM/AI model that is given access to reddit / twitter API's and updated financial data backed by yahoo finance and bloomberg. submitted by /u/Outrageous-Hour1105 [comments] Source link

March 30, 2025

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Apple's current enterprise offerings are built for single machines and have complex virtualization rules, saddling high-end users with inefficient remote setups (Ernie Smith/Tedium)

Ernie Smith / Tedium: Apple’s current enterprise offerings are built for single machines and have complex virtualization rules, saddling high-end users with inefficient remote setups  —  Whether it was trying to or not, Apple exposed a huge flaw with its pitch to professional video editors with a new Severance promotional video. Source link

March 30, 2025

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AI art debates are so heated because we were forced to choose

I keep seeing AI art and the subsequent debates. It always leads to this desire to articulate this stance but I've never had a reason to. But I think the new image generation in GPT 4o represents an inflection point. Up until now, the AI art debate has mostly felt like two groups yelling past each other. With ChatGPT in the limelight, it’s not just technologists and artists watching. It’s everyone. Engineers If you're a senior developer and see an AI code-slop project, you'll roll your eyes. But an innovative product quietly mentions using AI in development, and you might

March 30, 2025

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How I Saved a Startup $15k/month on AWS Without Downtime

The Problem [StartupX] was burning $32k/month on AWS due to: Database Overkill: RDS instances running at 15% utilization Zombie Servers: 12 EC2 instances left running for “future needs” Static Scaling: Angular app crashing during traffic spikes The Fix (3 Tactics Anyone Can Use) Database Diet Downsized from db.r5.2xlarge → db.t3.large Enabled auto-scaling based on CPU pressure Savings: $8k/month EC2 Vampire Slayer Automated start/stop schedules using Lambda + CloudWatch Tagged resources for accountability Savings: $4k/month Frontend Tune-Up Lazy-loaded Angular modules Moved static assets to CloudFront Bonus: Load time dropped from 4s → 1.2s Results Total Saved: $15k/month (recurring) Implementation Time: 12

March 30, 2025

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Having a bad experience with Gemini 2.5 Pro and GameMaker Studio 2 (GML) so far

I've been reading all sorts of mindblowing experiences here and there, saying Gemini 2.5 is by far the best model for code. To help me create a game prototype and some display-related features in GameMaker Studio 2, I tried GPT-4o, o1, o3-mini, Claude Sonnet 3.5 and 3.7. It wasn't great. They kept hallucinating and making up nonexistent GML functions. Overall, it was very frustrating. Hearing about Gemini 2.5 capabilities I was hopeful. However, it seems like it doesn't quite get GML either. It made up functions such as: display_get_count(); window_get_current_monitor(); window_set_maximised(); Even pointing to what GameMaker version it was in.

March 30, 2025

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Plugins and libraries with a L/GPL v3 application

Lets say I license my app (native app, not web) under GPL v3. does this allow my app to use proprietary/closed source or non GPL compatible libraries (excluding OS APIs which i know are allowed) does this put any restrictions on (dynamically linked) plugins written for the app? What if i were to license it LGPL 3 instead? does that change the answer for the 2 questions i asked? does change change anything else as well? My understanding is that for GPL v3, it forces the app to use GPL compatible libraries and forces plugins to be GPL compatible too,

March 30, 2025

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Microsoft Attempts To Close Local Account Windows 11 Setup Loophole

Slashdot reader jrnvk writes: The Verge is reporting that Microsoft will soon make it harder to run the well-publicized bypassnro command in Windows 11 setup. This command allows skipping the Microsoft account and online connection requirements on install. While the command will be removed, it can still be enabled by a regedit change — for now. “However, there’s no guarantee Microsoft will allow this additional workaround for long,” writes the Verge. (Though they add “There are other workarounds as well” involving the unattended.xml automation.) In its latest Windows 11 Insider Preview, the company says it will take out a well-known