@erjiang

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@ActionRetro Are you still accepting new accounts for bitbang.social? have a friend who’s been in the queue for several days
I already had auth working for the non-SignalR parts, so the answer is to copy the request's cookies into a CookieContainer and pass that CookieContainer into the WithUrl call's options.
I had been banging my head on how to get Blazor/SignalR authentication working. Microsoft docs suck. Claude Sonnet 3.5 gave wrong suggestion after wrong suggestion. ChatGPT o1-preview nailed it first try.
Kind of concerned about how many artists are promoting Nightshade with a “trust me bro” attitude. If you want to use it, great, but don’t depend on it being effective.
Wow C# is a strange mish-mash of language features. Not that other languages aren't mish-mashes, but C# is an unfamiliar mish-mash of language features.

Why have a ginormous model that can speak 100 languages and write Python code to solve the Navier-Stokes equation for zero vorticity boundaries when you can have a much smaller model that runs on your phone?

Sure, it doesn't know the history of Ireland, but why does it need to?

I was thinking the other day about how we might hit "peak LLM" where LLMs start getting less capable over time as usage goes towards phone assistants (e.g. Siri) and cost/efficiency become the main drivers.
More AI-generated junk articles are unfortunately starting to rank highly on Google. Google really is in a bad spot huh.
On the flip side, Chinese poetry has the interesting property of (mostly) maintaining rhyme across dialects! It will sound very different from dialect to dialect, but the rhyming will be preserved.
It’s really a transpiler for Japanese isn’t it