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by Cpoll 7mo ago
You also have wabi-sabi and all the other bits of Zen Buddhism we've imported.
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by Cpoll 8mo ago
> But from my experience useful employees almost never get let go. Maybe if the mythical homo economicus is making the layoff decisions.
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by Cpoll 8mo ago
Their point is that there's a possibility that Swiss customs fines them and confiscates the "counterfeit."
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by Cpoll 8mo ago
The more I look at that... Isn't that basically just a four-way yield, and the markings are mostly superfluous? You're basically doing the same motions in a regular intersection. I guess that's the point, and the markings are
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by Cpoll 8mo ago
The solution to it being clunky can't be to add mass to it. Unless you're proposing transferring the internals to a new case and facing all the ports to the back. Seriously, look at this thing. The best thing you can do is tie-w
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by Cpoll 8mo ago
But that's not what's happening here, right? They're blocked on having their 'Oracle Contributer Agreement' approved; they're not even at the stage where their PRs are eligible for being ignored.
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by Cpoll 8mo ago
Is information density a meaningful metric for movies? I'm reminded of Kubrick's long pauses, or the space scenes in 2001, which are there to set the tone or give the viewer time to consider the situation, not to deliver informati
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by Cpoll 8mo ago
> code coverage You need to be a bit careful here. A test that runs your function and then asserts something useless like 'typeof response == object' will also meet those code coverage numbers. In reality, modern LLMs write tes
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by Cpoll 8mo ago
The paranoid conclusion is that you need to name all your files random strings to avoid a DMCA scattershot.
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by Cpoll 9mo ago
I suppose I should take your username into account and take you at your word, but wouldn't a player that entirely plays mathematically be easily exploited? I assumed table talk was at least 10% of poker. Mind games, conditioning your o
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by Cpoll 9mo ago
The article misses the "Super-spicy curry" item that appeared in Brawl (and maybe Air Ride?). I think that's also a billboard.
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by Cpoll 9mo ago
I agree in principal, but: The people at the frontier aren't alone at the top of a mountain, they still have each other for guidance. The master that transcended limits while in isolation is a literary trope.
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
> You could easily replace them with an LLM if that were the case. We're already seeing this happen.
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
You'd need to increase it a lot, lest the surrounding text be inferred from context.
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
He's considered and written about this very subject: https://www.stallman.org/articles/dr-stallman.html
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
You forgot 0, -1, null, "1".
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
I'm just pointing out that your proposal doesn't match their requirements. > I don't want updates. I just want updates It only sounds dumb if you write it like that. If you say "I don't want feature bloat, I just
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
Isn't this a bad example? There's only one adjective in "prudent hedges." Changing which noun "prudent" acts on isn't a matter of adjective order. (I suppose Wall Street is a proper adjective, like "N
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
Ironically, the article is using hyphens (-) instead of em-dashes (—). An em-dash should be one em (the height of the font) wide.
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
> all I want is bug fixes and security updates.
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
It's possible those arguments are correct. I wouldn't give up Google and SO, but I suspect I was learning faster when my first stop was K&R or a man page. There's a lot of benefit in building your own library of knowledge
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
> If a tool like this is currently only suitable for specific and minor cases under human oversight, how does it prove any better than a human? Not to defend Grok, and I agree with your point about checking, but you can also say this abo
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
> More than 40 million is a lot. For comparison, the US has ~132 million households. Does comparing sales to households make any sense though? You'd need to figure out (40MM - Roombas in landfills) / average Roombas per househo
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
Nah, cranks post inscrutable incorrect proofs (and/or bizarre unified theories) to math forums regularly. They often lack the vocabulary to even format it in a way the community can read and correct. I recall there was a mathematician
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
> The length of our days is generally seventy years, or eighty years if one is strong Which translation is that? Or are you paraphrasing? Most translations don't include "generally," and therefore read more as an upper bou
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
Calling it "German authoritarianism" risks thinking it's a localized phenomenon or special case. But it seems more like a regression to the global mean. Most of these expansions are things that have been on the front page of
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
> QA is the spouses of engineers I'm starting to doubt they use their own product at home.
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
> Reading "Anxious Generation" is a must for all parents in this day and age. Great, another Oprah's book club book that assures parents that there's just one easy trick to saving your children.
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
It's not genericization in this case, people only call X "Twitter," not all text-based short form social media.
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
> The only remaining use is that Twitter.com now forwards to X.com, which by itself is generally not enough to constitute ongoing trademark use. I wonder if X's lawyers can argue that the millions of Twitter-branded share buttons an

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