BalinKing

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by BalinKing 2y ago
That's true, I do use them a lot on iOS as well—similarly, it's a long-press on '-' to get an en or em dash.
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by BalinKing 2y ago
This test feels biased by the fact that, like others have said, macOS provides keyboard shortcuts. For example, I'm only Gen Z and yet have tried for many years to use the proper dash characters in the right places, which is made much
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by BalinKing 2y ago
> Front passenger is less safe but still often twice as safe as sitting in the backseat Is there a good source for this? I was always under the impression that it was the exact opposite….
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by BalinKing 2y ago
I suppose I should also add that I struggle a lot with picking up on subtext :-P
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by BalinKing 2y ago
FWIW I strongly disliked The Beginner's Guide—I wasn't a huge fan of the Stanley Parable either, but The Beginner's Guide was significantly less enjoyable even so. I know the game gets a lot of positive reviews, but if you&
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by BalinKing 2y ago
I think "space" (i.e. in "run out of space before you can terminate") is most naturally interpreted as referring to memory.
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by BalinKing 2y ago
I think this is responding to the wrong comment.
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by BalinKing 2y ago
Genuine question as an amateur, what would be a better translation for "universe" than 宇宙?
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by BalinKing 2y ago
I don't think this is really true either practically or theoretically. On the practical side, formally verifying program correctness is still very difficult for anything other than very simple programs. And on the theoretical side, s
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by BalinKing 2y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment, perhaps? (If not, and I'm just failing to understand your comment, then my apologies, and I'd appreciate clarification :-) )
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by BalinKing 2y ago
> Doesn't that describe all religion? I mean, you're telling me that the infinite creator of the universe cares about the prayers, the suffering, the aspirations, and the sexual habits of a bunch of finite beings? I'm a Ch
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by BalinKing 2y ago
I'm not Catholic, and I share your distrust of religious institutions. So with that disclaimer, I think my answer would be that God chooses, at times, to teach us things in a "small enough" way that we can understand them. Fo
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by BalinKing 2y ago
(EDIT: Upon rereading this, it feels unintentionally blunt. I'm not trying to argue, and I apologize if my tone is somewhat unfriendly—that's purely a reflection of the fact that I'm a bad writer!) Sorry, maybe I should'
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by BalinKing 2y ago
Of course that's fair advice in itself, but the parent specifically equated them to a "college professor."
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by BalinKing 2y ago
Maybe it's just me, but in an endgame where (for example) it's just kings and a bunch of pawns, even a two pawn advantage is easy for me to lose—I pick the wrong pawn island to support with my king, and I've already lost. Kno
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by BalinKing 2y ago
As a ~900 Elo player, I feel like point #3 is doing the heavy lifting here—kinda reminds me of that "rest of the owl" meme (not that you're wrong, of course!) :-P
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by BalinKing 2y ago
> Claude is like having my own college professor. I don't use Claude, so maybe there's a huge gap in reliability between it and ChatGPT 4o. But with that disclaimer out of the way, I'm always fairly confused when people re
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by BalinKing 2y ago
As it stands, I disagree that LLMs have very broad knowledge. Or at least, that it's anything more than extremely superficial (e.g. what a non-expert human would get from skimming a Wikipedia page). At least in my experience, you don
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by BalinKing 2y ago
Of course, the eventual monarchy didn't solve Israel's problems either: > When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand wrong, so he prayed to the Lord. But the Lord told him, “Listen to the peopl
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by BalinKing 2y ago
> Airline pilots get recorded, why shouldn’t drivers? AFAIK, general aviation pilots are not recorded. Black boxes are only a thing in commercial aviation, so a more appropriate analogy would be the recording of bus or semi-truck drivers
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by BalinKing 2y ago
Oh, and IME it doesn't ask clarifying questions that a human translator would know are necessary (at least without explicit prompting to do so, which I admittedly haven't tried). So when translating from a high-context language li
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by BalinKing 2y ago
FWIW even with machine translations (on GPT-4o) I do get occasional hallucinations. Like, it'll add an additional sentence or relative clause that wasn't in the original. It'll still make sense in context, so the overall mean
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by BalinKing 2y ago
I’m only a C++ amateur, but IMHO C++ vs C#/Java isn’t really a fair comparison here—the latter doesn’t have template shenanigans and so types are much more transparent to the reader (by which I mean that you don’t have to execute a dyn
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by BalinKing 2y ago
Related Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_girdling_Earth#Implicat... . The takeaway is that the extra length of the arc is likely much smaller than one would intuitively expect. The problem is us
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by BalinKing 2y ago
> If a thing is in my pocket, there's an above zero probability of me picking it when I randomly take a thing out of my pocket. This is only true if there are only a finite number of things in your pocket, though… I think an analogy
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by BalinKing 2y ago
s/advanced voice model/advanced voice mode/ (too late for me to edit my original comment)
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by BalinKing 2y ago
(Disclaimer: I know literally nothing about LLMs.) Wouldn't there still be issues of sensitivity, though? Like, wouldn't you still have to ensure that the wording of your commands stays exactly the same every time? And with mode
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by BalinKing 2y ago
For me, the most obvious example of input-buffering in modern tools is in the terminal, where I'll often type in subsequent command(s) while the first is still executing. Sure, it's possible to make a mistake and have to Ctrl+C th
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by BalinKing 2y ago
> For instance, set theory as the foundations of mathematics is a pretty solid model but it is seen as fundamentally unsatisfying for many reasons -- most famously the continuous hypothesis. To confirm, s/continuous hypothesis/
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by BalinKing 2y ago
Should this read “Japan really does have wells that have pure water that is drinkable”? (Not trying to be annoying or anything, just want to understand your comment correctly :-) )

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