CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, maybe not the best examples. There are other "-ite" words, but I can't recall off the top of my head any such that also have "-ism" forms. It is, as always with languages, "just the way it is": I&#x2
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Did you try learning HOW to get good code out of them? Isn't that a bit "You're holding it wrong"? I mean, why isn't that the default; did anyone really think one would mainly want bad results out of them?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> but they did make the fastest growing product of all time. There’s value in being the ones to do that. Aha: So if my future line of Covid Cancer Candy takes off even faster, there's "value" in that, too? What kind of val
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Because "Open" AI keeps the newly invested funds only to themselves (with some scraps for employees), so early joiners don't (directly[1]) get any of the newly invested funds from later ones, you mean? Yeah, true, not exactl
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> the "lazy is bad" crowd is ludditism in another form Capital --> capitalist, capitalism. Commune --> communist, communism. Ned Ludd --> Luddite, Luddism. Not "capitalistism" or "communistism", s
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Naught, aught.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> It’s the old Netflix / HBO trope of which can become the other first: hbo figure out streaming or Netflix figure out original programming. Tangential: So how is that race going, has either taken a commanding lead? (Or, hey, is it
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah no, thank you, that feels even more useless. Why would anyone but you click through and examine your myriad search results? Since you didn't post a single actually relevant link, we'll provisionally conclude that Lucy didn&#
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Not "would be", but "would have been", past tense: Once upon a time it may have been valuable, but since Google deliberately ruined its search engine, it's of no use any more.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> LLMs are infinitely patient, don't think I am dumb for asking certain things We don't know that. They could be laughing their ass off at you without telling you.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Scary. Reads rather like you're well on your way to replace basic life skills with reliance on LLMs.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Interesting read, thanks!
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by CRConrad 2y ago
That's just because SQL clients present their results that way, AFAICS. If you use a sub-query like in, say, select * from orders where custno = (select custno from customers where name = 'John Doe'); you'll get
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> they’re always wrapped up as pseudo-tables. Are they??? Not as I understand it.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I'm so tired of these Web pages that look like iPhone screens.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Is it falsifiable? Rather obviously, I'd think, if someone else looks at similar samples and sees no "Obelisks" at all. Or looks at their samples. > What is H_0 in this study? "The stuff we're seeing here
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by CRConrad 2y ago
sciencealert.com is a pop-sci site, it doesn't use that strict terminology.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> unusual straight rods which reminded him of Cleopatra's Needle (Obelisk ... Also, of course, Obelix[1], purveyor of menhirs[2] -- Breton "standing stones". [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelix
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by CRConrad 2y ago
"Lucy Wins A Racehorse" -- was that the link you meant to post?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I couldn't understand if it was satire or something. The quotes from last year's bit on Ellison in sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42567484 might help you make up your mind.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I'd guess in most countries that follow the Name Day[1] tradition (most countries in Europe and Latin America, it appears), Sylvester's day is on Dec 31st[2]. The Germans just use the name to refer to the day (and spell it with an
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Feels hard to believe "Anglophilia" is the main reason people watch it, when it's all about making over-the-top fun -- way beyond Wodehouse, even -- of all the things those "Anglophiles" could be reasonably supposed
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I’d much rather if queries could return scalar values Since when can't they?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
VPN ab schalten? :-D
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> And the Swiss have their own recording of the same sketch, performed by the same two, but with variations of course Since the Swiss recording is the one that was shown on Swedish television every New Year's Eve when I was young (m
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Preferably used in sentences like "That's just not possible" or "No, we'll just not do that", right? (OK, probably not... But let a man dream.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Upvote for the Affleck quote. Damn, that guy is (providing he came up with it himself) not so stupid after all.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> no other wide open implementation (like Rust has) So (at least according to pjmlp in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42548360 ) Rust also only has a single "wide open" implementation. Which means Rust do
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Wait, there are only 400 social media networks?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Being authentic is the ticket to public office now Yeah, if you can fake that, you've got it made.

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