This was said in the context of a person predicting a stock market bust, so of course a stock market index price is the relevant number here.

Yeah, fair. I still can't shake off the nagging feeling most of it being a scam somehow and not the business as usual scam. The gut feeling that things proclaimed and observed don't add up.

It’s obviously not a new model capability. But using this well-known, existing capability to solve this particular issue is only obvious after the fact.

It’s a useful trick to have in one’s toolbox, and I’m grateful to the author for sharing it.

Performing 40 songs in exchange for a property does seem like serious effort...

The top comment categorized scraping as abuse ("abuse such as [...] scraping") - that's precisely why some accuse its author of lack of self awareness.

Perhaps LLMs have mimicked the style because authors have popularized it and clearly it serves some benefit to readers.

It's a cycle.

Shouldn't the code say:

    position = (position + direction + 1) % 12;

Or have I misunderstood something?

The +12 is to keep the number positive. The direction contains the movement so a +1 wouldn't make sense.

The +12 there is so that % works correctly (ie the number never becomes negative)

> Just had the sitename put into the value of the cookie since, and never really needed to think about that.

How would that help? This doesn't seem like a solution to the CSRF problem

As a childless OMSCS graduate, I also can’t imagine doing it while having kids, because it took basically all of my free time. That said, I met quite a few people in the program who were in situations similar to yours. I have no idea how they managed it, but they somehow did.

> In that case the winning strategy would be to switch hedge funds every 3 years.

When you flip a coin, you can easily get all heads for the first 2-4 flips, but over time it will average out to about 50% heads. It doesn’t follow from this that the winning strategy is to change the coin every 3 flips.

I think the point of comparison (whether I agree with it or not) is someone (or something) that is unable to feel remorse saying “I’m sorry” because they recognize that’s what you’re supposed to do in that situation, regardless of their internal feelings. That doesn’t mean everyone who says “sorry” is a psychopath.

there is no "it" that can learn.

Okay? I specifically responded to your comment that the parent comment implied "if you make a mistake and say sorry you are also a psychopath", which clearly wasn’t the case. I don’t get what your response has to do with that.