3cats-in-a-coat

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by 3cats-in-a-coat 10mo ago
Ancient world? The Roman Empire fell apart. You know that, right? So, turns out their worries were warranted. A culture, a civilization can go through a period of stagnation and decay, and it eventually dies. Then there's a lengthy per
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 10mo ago
The way language is eroding is very indicative of our overall social and cultural decay.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 10mo ago
AI currently is a broken, fragmented replica of a human, but any discussion about what is "reserved" to whom and "how AI works" is only you trying to protect your self-worth and the worth of your species by drawing arbit
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 10mo ago
Reproduction in time and reproduction in space are connected. If atoms couldn't reproduce (I can sense most readers knee-jerking reading this), they'd be all unique, wouldn't they. And yet they aren't. You could say &quo
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 11mo ago
Atoms and sub-atomic particles fit this definition. Machines fit this definition. Fire fits this definition. Truth is "life" is not a distinct category. We just think of life as complex life. A complex system that mines energy gra
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
No one forces us to use objects in JSON with repeated keys you know.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
I'll say the obvious. A lot of this you can just do in JSON. Let's take the example: { "users": [ { "id": 1, "name": "Alice", "role": "admin" },
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
On the path they've started with pipelining calls parametric on previous calls, they'll quickly realize that eventually they'll need basic transforms on the output before they pass it as input i.e. necessitating support for a
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
TLDR: It looks like an operating system so it can get viral, like get an article on HN and so on.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
You need some sort of critical majority that cares about deeper aspects of whatever (over superfice) or else everyone focuses on superfice, as that's what all the public debates are about. But lacking that, lisp could improve its synta
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Microsoft just took what they had and directly translated it to XML. It's not intentionally messy, it's just a big corporation with old product acting like it.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
If you wanted a more equitable experience for all you wouldn't just limit the high-end users, but return the money to low-end users. Charging a low flat fee per use and still warning when certain limits hit is possible. But it's m
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
We're zooming into their miiiiiind!
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
That's just how the Babel Fish works. It translates perfectly, but it tacks on a random accent.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Every time someone mentioned "days" or "months" or "years" in Andor I had to mentally zap my brain not to think about how it doesn't make a sense across a galaxy.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
I see the general phenomenon of those people as an outlet for a set of social defects we have. Keep in mind that "immigrants bad" and so on cultural wars repertoire is always the go-to of populists when they want to point to an ea
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
This is wasm-dom for Rust: https://crates.io/crates/wasm-dom There's also web-sys. Those are Rust centric, I'm sure there are others, but basically you only need the whim once, and then you write in your lang
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
You already can do that. You need a tiny shim and you can forget it's JS and use all WASM.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
But... we already have all that. Multithreading could've been a bit more convenient, but if you want it, you can get it. Don't tell me those revolutionaries that want to revolutionize the web give up so easily.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Java didn't fail, it was replaced by the web to a large part, but remains strong not only as the original JVM, but the Android clone and .NET. As for why the clones... IP issues. Otherwise Java would dominate, like the web does.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Give me one thing that your theoretical WASM can "revolutionize". Aside from more efficient covert crypto mining on shady sites.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
DOM is so dynamic, any integration with DOM will look no different than the way we do it now through JS. JS is built to work naturally with DOM. Maybe we should stop overdesigning things and keep it simple. WASM needs more tooling around pr
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Well, we disagree on our asshole classification. To me a true experienced asshole notices when another asshole is about to swindle them. There is some inexplicable tendency for swindlers to get swindled, but that's probably more at the
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Being an asshole is one thing. But thinking you can be an asshole by proxy by becoming an asshole's victim, is something else entirely.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Intelligence is not general. It can be. But rarely is. Most people contextualize their knowledge and skills, they divide to conquer, as generalizing is hard. Especially hard in a fragmented, divided world. Those seemingly smart people are l
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
"Obsolete" suggests Starlink is clearly better and sustainable, and that's a very bold statement to make at this point. I suspect in few decades the stationary satellites will still be around, while Starlink would've eit
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
While it'd be fun to try, I doubt you can produce any page at all that's total 14kb with assets, even back at the dawn of the web in the 90s, aside from the spartan minimal academic pages some have. And where loading faster is com
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
This is about your "plain HTML". If the rest is in cache, then TCP concerns are irrelevant.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
AIs can be trained to rely more on critical thinking rather than just regurgitating what it reads. The problem is just like with people, critical thinking takes more power and time. So we avoid it as much as possible. In fact, optimizing fo
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Indeed, and I find it funny that the debate even exists.

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