rgaino's comments

On: GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt

[rgaino]

I came here to ask about the cost of this based on the number of tokens. Since this prompt is repeated on every single request, isn't there a way to embed it when you load the model? Or they simply use the raw OpenAI API like any of us mortals?

[jonplackett → rgaino]

A thousand tokens in the prompt from OpenAI only costs $0.015

But if you have a million searches, each having a 10 message back and forth, just for the prompt alone that's going to cost you $150,000

Surely MS pays a lot less than the OpenAI cost though.

On: What is your favourite login method?

[rgaino]

Thanks but "Sorry, you need over 200 karma to create a poll."

On: Ask HN: Am I the only one hurt by lack of writing skills?

[rgaino]

This. Read fiction, read good writers, write articles, read what you write, edit before submitting. Don't code an app.

On: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?

[rgaino]

Incredible film, top of my list too.

On: Don't use Kubernetes yet

[rgaino]

I'm with you.

On: The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’

[rgaino]

We really did have everything, didn't we?

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)

[rgaino]

Motorway | London, Kyiv, Krakow

I've worked here for 3 years and I still love it, do you need to know anything else? If so, here it is: https://careers.motorway.co.uk/

On: Why the Wingdings Font Exists (2015)

[rgaino]

In 1996 at my first job as a programmer, the company had a system where the password field in the login screen was obscured by using wingdings as the font. :)

[tricky → rgaino]

nice! I worked at a place in 1999 that had an RTF file on a public share that had the passwords for everything. It was ok because it was encrypted with wingdings...

[netsharc → rgaino]

But... that's not clever. Someone with a good memory can just remember the symbols and test out each letter on the keyboard using the font.

"Person, woman, man camera, TV"...

[recursive → netsharc]

Yes, I do believe that's the reason the story was related.

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)

[rgaino]

Motorway | Senior Developers (backend, frontend, UI), Director of Engineering, IT Support Engineer | London, or Remote (depends on position) | Full-time | https://careers.motorway.co.uk

All details about Motorway in the link above. We use React, NodeJS, Postgres, Redis, NextJS, among others technologies. I can confirm it's a great place to work. Feel free to email me at my username at gmail.com if you have questions.

On: Riot is now Element

[rgaino]

WhatsApp dominates Brazil completely as well, and people called it ZapZap or just zap.