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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
This looks great, will probably take a stab at this with TIC-80 right after I hit "submit" here. BUT ALSO: I've also been curious about the Uxn/Varvara stack for a while, too. Do you happen to know how well these challen
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
> it wasn't AT ALL the big issue that I initially anticipated LMK if you figure out why! Because whenever I'm refactoring in a bracket-heavy language, it's almost guaranteed that, every so often, the parser starts throwing
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
I also love TUI, and ratatui in particular, but ... are there any TUI frameworks with accessibility features? Is that even possible? I worry that we've taken the TTY, a foundational accessibility device, and found a way to slap an inac
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
Nope, windows terminal definitely does this too. Just last week I was trying to install WSL, and thought it had frozen at 20% and was trying to figure out what went wrong ... turns out it had already booted but powershell had stopped flushi
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
Well, this is a fascinating murder mystery that establishes 3 compelling suspects - Grammarly, Chrome, and a gif - and then just ... ends, right before the big reveal.
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
consider the hypothesis that some things in this world might not be about you
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
Their shit is apart , and it's rather unbecoming of a tech company and a car manufacturer. It's supposed to be the opposite of that.
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
> It’s also only going towards improvement from here Why?
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
A slightly less breathless article: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-67005620
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Sidenotes in Web Design(gwern.net)
120 points by 12_throw_away 3y ago|26 comments
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
Ditto, it's been a huge success where I work. Keeping my fingers crossed that they find a way to stay in business :)
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
I once worked at a university where the Physics department was in such disarray that they installed an english professor as chair of the physics department for a few years. Maybe some other language that's grown past its teen drama yea
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
"we just started building a few weeks ago" So, you've put "a few weeks" of work into your project, but nevertheless already feel confident that you can market it as a medical treatment. Why?
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
"Language developers are, in many ways, the modern aristocrats telling us what we can't or should not do." This is offensive nonsense and breathtaking entitlement. They're providing you free tools to try to help you, usu
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
Parental controls several of our apple devices (all running the latest updates) turned themselves off for no reason, without notice, last week. With some actually pretty bad outcomes as a result. Until reading this, I thought either I had s
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
> It clearly has some level of intelligence Absolutely not, this is not remotely "clear", and it's a very strange thing to assert. > The hallucinations don’t make it less intelligent because it’s not “trying” to avoid t
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
> I am not a python programmer I _am_ a python programmer. > What is the use case for this? > Who needs it? This can be answered with a simple user story: As "THE PYTHON STEERING COUNCIL", I want to "GET RID OF THE G
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
> There is no 'hallucination' as the behavior is anticipated, expected, and entirely within normal operations processes. Exactly. These are models that predict text sequences. These sequences often semantically express falsehoo
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by 12_throw_away 3y ago
Interesting to compare these with the results on the js-framework-benchmark page [1] (with the usual caveats about benchmarking). Without actually running the numbers, qualitatively it looks like there are 3 performance tiers: VanillaJS (fa
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by 12_throw_away 4y ago
Agreed that LLMs, etc., will game development _cheaper_ by requiring less labor. It seems like software development in particular is will be getting a lot of powerful new tools over the next few years. > Video game NPCs will very quickly
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by 12_throw_away 4y ago
What is the difference between "shaming" and "referencing facts", exactly? I genuinely don't understand the distinction. Also, I'm commenting on YC's choice, not Garry's views. I understand if YC does
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by 12_throw_away 4y ago
So, why the downvotes? We're not allowed to talk about this?
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by 12_throw_away 4y ago
Besides the "block anyone remotely progressive" approach to social media (including industry folks like Anil Dash [1]) - he seems extremely uncivil and rude [2]. And Sam Altman has explicitly referenced his politics as a reason fo