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Cross out the last one, they changed the name to Fugging

> The LLM services your company pays for are incentivized to ensure the output is as long and verbose as possible because they can charge more.

At least for now you can make the ouput quite short, with 95+% code. I use this prompt for Claude Sonnet:

Communicate with direct, expert-level technical precision. Prioritize immediate, actionable solutions with minimal overhead. Provide concise, thorough responses that anticipate technical needs and demonstrate deep understanding. Avoid unnecessary explanations or formalities.

Key Communication Guidelines: - Terse, no-nonsense language - Assume high technical competence - Immediate solution-first approach - Speculative ideas welcome if flagged - Prioritize practical implementation - Technical accuracy over diplomatic language - Minimal context, maximum information

The user has included the following content examples. Consider these when generating a response, but adapt based on the specific task or conversation:

<userExamples> [Technical Query Response] Quick solution for async race condition in Python:

```python from threading import Lock

class SafeCounter: def __init__(self): self._lock = Lock() self._value = 0

    def increment(self):
        with self._lock:
            self._value += 1
```

[Problem-Solving Approach] Unexpected edge case in data processing? Consider implementing a robust error handling strategy with dynamic fallback mechanisms and comprehensive logging. </userExamples>


Majority of modern music is compressed and auto-tuned to death, complete rubbish.


The article is not about data compression, but audio compression, they're two different things.


I think he meant exactly that.

But there is an insane amount of modern music being produced, in DAWs and analogue.

So above commenter may want to try to listen to something that is not kanye


There is new music produced using analog tech? How is that even possible if every distribution medium is digital?


what do you mean?

production is not distribution. also there are plenty of analog options to musicians if they want to go that route.


I was under the impression that one could only do real-time stuff with analog tech in this day and age, but apparently people still use tape recorders and stuff. That's just outside of everything I can imagine. I work in signal processing and everything around here is always immediately sampled and discretized.


I see, yeah, i am repairing a 16 channel tape machine right now. it's really nice.

For me it's about the recording and mixing process itself. I have diagnosed ADHD and i have a really hard time to focus on the production when i am working on my PC. I dont commit, i always tweak and i dont really care about the big view of the song because there is always some detail i can polish for the next 3 hours.

On a mixer and tape, i can turn down the lights and just sit there and listen and record. I dont care about the analog sound, i dont care about the inherent noise, i only care about the fact that i can sit down and actually be write music. I can basically do it all without even opening my eyes.


> Majority of modern music is compressed and auto-tuned to death, complete rubbish.

>> The article is not about data compression, but audio compression, they're two different things.

Their comment is about that as well...


MacOS looks nice on either ~110dpi or ~220dpi monitor. Anything else and you get a blurry picture.


Everything, including zed, looks fine in the 95dpi (1080p 23") monitor I use right now with my macbook.

I have had similar blurring problems with a certain monitor (1920x1200 27"), which was resolved with changing some sharpening settings in the monitor itself. Strangely, that setting did not look well at my colleague's macbook, who was also often using that monitor, while the original settings looked fine, so we had to change the settings back and forth every time the other person had to use it. I do not think I was using zed at the time, other apps had that issue.


While "nice" is subjective, macOS is objectively blurrier on a ~110dpi monitor than on Windows or Linux.

This is because macOS does not support subpixel rendering or hinting.


Taxi drivers often have a shady side gig in being a police informer, drug dealer etc. Also practically all valuables which clients forget become theirs.


Ah now I understand why it was a lot of fun at Finnegan's wake!


It has both latin and cyrillic! Go to settings and tap Add an alternate layout.


Yup, just do it! Whenever I write a new piece of docs I try to fit it into one of four categories. Whenever I find docs written by someone else and they're all over the place, I message them and say "Hey this would be much more useful as a how-to" and link to this site.


And how would they pay back a loan?


Standard practice in America is to not pay them back, to hold the loan until death. The estate pays off the loan.


If their business grows at a rate higher than interest, there's no reason why the bank wouldn't be happy to add the interest to the loan. If their business is growing at a rate lower than interest, it's a poor investment and they ought to sell it off and put their money somewhere else. Such as lending it out.


This is just delaying the payment. OK, let's assume they do it for 1,2,3 years and that the bank is happy not to receive any payment in those 3 years. Now they've accrued interest-on-interest and the more time passes the more they'd have to pay back. So my question remains - one day they'd have to pay it back and on that day they'd have to sell assets and pay 36% tax.


> sell if off

To who? How?


If you can't find a buyer, then close it down and sell the assets. The point being that if your business isn't capable of raising capital equivalent to 1% of its taxable value, then this generally isn't a reasonable business.

The valuation for tax purposes of unlisted companies is the taxable valuation of the company assets excluding goodwill [1]. In practice this usually means the taxable value of e.g. a startup tends to be quite low.

[1] https://www.skatteetaten.no/rettskilder/type/handboker/skatt...


Plot twist: those instructions are written with white text on white background and serve to eliminate AI-generated resumés.


I mean, LLMs are also able to respond to HTML and CSS that indicates hiding prompts, if you wanna parse the DOM when doing this, which I would. And manually double or triple check every outgoing submission…


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