ARandumGuy

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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
They're not "accountable to nobody". Assuming they have the votes, congress can revoke any law, at any time, for any reason. And typically laws specifying the appointment of specific people also have provisions for removing t
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
The puzzle design in Grim Fandango really isn't anything to write home about, and if that's the only reason you play adventure games, you're going to be disappointed. But the characters, writing, art, and sheer style are all
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Totally this. Acoustics in bars and restaurants has gone completely to shit. Even if they don't turn the music up too loud, it can be extremely hard to have a conversation without shouting, even if the place isn't crowded. I under
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
> I get part of the strategy is exhaustion and make sure no-one wants to ever work for federal government again It's difficult to tell what their strategy is. There's so much chaos going on that it's impossible to say for
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
IDK but I think it'd be really funny if Apple switched to using Bing as their default search engine.
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
My work does a lot of stuff with time and scheduling, and let me tell you having timezone-unaware date/time objects distinct from specific points in time will be so damn useful. The old Date class made it really easy to accidentally sc
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
MDN docs tend to be very thorough and well-written. It looks like most of these pages are for various utility functions, each of which has its own page.
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
We also need to consider that AI is being used as a replacement for things that use a lot less energy. Like, someone "asking ChatGPT" for a simple question is using a lot more energy then using a traditional search engine. This ge
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
How does that affect things in real code bases? I'm with Aeolun on this. I work with Typescript enums all the time, and have never encountered any issues. Maybe the other options work slightly better. But I struggle to see how Typescri
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
TBH other then a few neat local multiplayer stuff in NintendoLand, there really wasn't much that actually utilized the dual screen in a way that actually enhanced the game. You couldn't quickly swap between the screens like you co
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Obviously there's a balance to be struck. There are certainly schools and teachers that teach arithmetic poorly, and there's a practical limit to the amount of hours spent doing equations before it becomes tedious busywork. But I
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Why do we teach kids how to do basic arithmetic by hand? After all, calculators are basically ubiquitous at this point. Why waste the time teaching a skill that's not necessary as an adult? The reason is because doing arithmetic by han
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
What I don't understand is, what benefit is there for 99% of companies to get in on the ground floor of LLMs? If you're not developing your own model, you're effectively just beta testing someone else's model. And if the
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
UUIDs aren't technically unique, they're just designed in such a way that the chance of collisions is very small. A big part of this is that the possibility space is very large, so the chance of collisions is low. Many UUID versio
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
My point wasn't that you can't find art made by a human that has the characteristics of AI art. My point was more that it's just bad art.
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
The cat picture really shows the "noisy detail" problem with AI art. There's a lot going on on the area directly above the cat with a crown, as well as on the armrests and the upper areas of the wall background. But it's
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
That's one of my problems with AI art. AI art promises to bring your ideas to life, no need to sweat the small stuff. But it's the small details and decisions that often make art great! Ideas are a dime a dozen in any artistic med
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
I feel like the comment made by the author's friend captures a lot of my feelings on AI art. AI art is often extremely detailed, but that detail is often just random noise. It's art that becomes worse and makes less sense the more
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Satire needs a target to actually be satire. Something can be silly, lighthearted, or humorous without being satire. On the flip side, satire itself doesn't actually need to be funny to be effective satire. So for your example, what is
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Naively, 1/(2^{hash_size_in_bits}). Which is about 1 in 4 billion odds for a 32 bit hash, and gets astronomically low at higher bit counts. Of course, that's assuming a perfect, evenly distributed hash algorithm. And that's j
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Yeah that issue seems weird to me, because I've never found bezels themselves to be that much of a problem. Like sure, less bezel is better. But I have some pretty wide gaps in my work monitors, and I've never found it to be a pro
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
I think it's less "this asteroid belt is unrealistic," and more "I assumed asteroid belts were dense because that's what it's like in movies." For a lot of people, they know that super nimble spaceships ar
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
I can see why that only appeared in 7 games. It's pretty rare to see a rook in between a king and another rook that are otherwise legally able to castle. Even rarer for someone to get into that position and actually try to castle. Also
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Another wild guess: Lichess could be pre-calculating and caching the legal moves for the most common chess positions. While pre-calculating every possible legal move for every position would be impossible, you could pre-calculate the most c
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
The problem with written language is that there's an inherent level of ambiguity. Now, this is fine for stuff read by humans, as we're pretty good at resolving that ambiguity using context and our own personal experience. Computer
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
My company uses zod to validate data for HTML requests, and I'd say it works pretty well for that. It lets us detail our data structure in zod, validate the completely untyped HTML data, and be confident that once we reach our actual c
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
That's possible, but I think it's premature to think this is part of some grand plan. What likely happened is that Google estimated the cost to fund a team to shut down ad blockers was less then the money they were losing from ad
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
It's clearly enough of an impact for Google to spend effort killing uBlock on Chrome, and (attempting) to block it on Youtube. Obviously Google is huge, and even a small percentage of users is still a lot of money on the table.
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Converting string case is almost never something you want to do for text that's displayed to the end user, but there are many situations where you need to do it internally. Generally when the spec is case insensitive, but you still nee
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
From my experience, the more advanced math you learn, the worse you become at arithmetic. I knew a lot of math majors in college, and all of them used calculators all the time.

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