Beltiras

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   by Beltiras 4y ago

   None of what you mention strictly demands POW blockchains. Is the nature of money changing? Perhaps. Does it need POW to change? No.
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   by Beltiras 4y ago

   The index cost is flat per search so with higher adoption it should come down (right?).
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   by Beltiras 4y ago

   His counterexamples also have a flaw. He's expecting that mixing two languages have a consistent result given the human language meaning. Those words might have meaning in the DALLE language that totally flips the meaning of the whole
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   by Beltiras 4y ago

   System wide dependencies and settings become completely encapsulated. You can even run shell command lines repeatedly from the same system state with the "input" of the command being changed files in a mounted volume. DLLs don&#x2
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   by Beltiras 4y ago

   Edge cases can keep me awake at night. Reminding oneself that there are no simple things in this enterprise of ours is a good reminder.
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   by Beltiras 4y ago

   Even if copilot could manage the things you fear it can (it can't) then you just move the post one bar further. Now you need people that can describe software in terms copilot (or DALL-E or GPT3 or whichever new software we make next)
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   by Beltiras 4y ago

   How I stopped worrying and learned to love Python.
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   by Beltiras 4y ago

   Thank you for this. Even as a senior Python developer I didn't know many of these.
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   by Beltiras 4y ago

   I don't think that article will show up.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    Tail calls have a collector that accumulates the result, very similar pattern as in the example. It's an optimization in LISP and similar languages.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    Is the implication here that tail call optimizations don't work anymore? They might seem to do the proper thing on the language level but the CPU just can't think that way.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    Yet another dinosaur talking about things he does not understand. How does he propose to do that?
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    I'm going to pay for search. I don't trust the future motivation of products that rely on advertisement or corporate sponsorship.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    Oh gods I can relate to this article. I am moving from Iceland to Tenerife in the next 2-3 years (just made up my mind last month) and I have a 163 sqm house full of "stuff" I need to reduce to 4 large suitcases in less than 24 mo
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    I would like law enforcement to use the tools they have now before they beg for more tools to (ab)use.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    I just changed from DDG to Kagi and will probably pay them once out of Beta. So far I am very happy with the search results and I believe that the next innovation in search is it not being beholden to ads. DDG is not in the place where ads
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    The book that opened my eyes to what Math really was is a biography on Paul Erdös, The man who loved only numbers. Another really invaluable resource for me was How to solve it by Polya.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    The safe future of nuclear energy production is in molten salt reactors. They are walk-away safe.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    There are good solutions to the problems you pose. Most of the problems with fission energy generation is due to PWRs and using fuel pellets instead of liquid fuel. Current technology burns only 3% of the fuel in pellets before having to re
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    Finding parking is hilariously underestimated for any metro area I've been to.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    I have a pair of Samsung earbuds, can't remember the modelname. They cut out all the time and lose connection or drop out of sync regularly. They are unusable.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    I don't remember. Heard it during a podcast during the last year, don't even remember which podcast and what the topic was.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    Here's a thought. Since there are enzymes that break down plastics, isn't it just a matter of time before we get macroscopic organisms that start to make it and use it to feed on the plastics? The reason we have coal is because pl
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    That's a good one! I guess no.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    I just realized that the authors suggestion is basically to implement a custom bang (using !g on ddg will send you to the google search, !a to amazon, etc.) for .edu.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    An alternative is academic institutions. I'd trust a university-backed government-funded search engine.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    No, but one among few.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    How do you propose to bring about such a ban?
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    While I might be a target audience for them and willing to pay a nominal fee monthly for good search I'm quite sure there isn't a market for it.
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    by Beltiras 4y ago

    I agree. What the search space needs is a different business model. I have no idea what it could be. I'm quite sure a subscription model would fail. Micropayments have not taken off. How can we fund meaningful search divorced from an a