D-Coder

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by D-Coder 2y ago
Most programming languages work top-down... literally, down through the lines of code. Prolog works bottom-up. Emacs LISP works inside-out.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Raymond Chen's "Old New Thing" blog just commented on a similar issue: What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241031-00/?p=11..
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Musk is not running SpaceX.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Good news items like this in the medical, social, environmental areas is available via a weekly free email from https://fixthenews.com/ . (A premium version is also available.) _Some_ of the items from last week (each has a
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> There are so many unknowns that we can literally say nothing about it. Nothing. We have no idea. We have a sample size of one and virtually nothing to even calibrate any of the scales for any of the parameters in any model. You can&#x2
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by D-Coder 2y ago
This helped me a bit: "Procrastinate later! There's always tomorrow!"
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by D-Coder 2y ago
And without AGI, there will inevitably (be) a bug in the system that makes him serve only 32,767 years.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Pri kio vi parolas? En Esperanto, unu letero egalas unu sonon. What are you talking about? In Esperanto, one letter equals one sound.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Every game has rules to keep the game approximately fair. Football has rules, chess has rules, Survivor has rules. Capitalism has child-labor laws and OSHA (and others) but needs more rules to prevent people from gaming the situation.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Question from a non-physicist: If both sides measure the particle, both sides now know a fact that the other side knows. Let's say that both sides have previously agreed, at sub-light speeds, that "0" will mean "we both
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by D-Coder 2y ago
I have never based a car purchasing decision on how much noise the car makes.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Looks like a duplicate (except for the source) of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41459865 .
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Unfortunately it's the sox-and-T-shirts drawer...
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by D-Coder 2y ago
The Washington Post's headline for this article is: Scientists use food dye found in Doritos to make see-through mice My first reaction was, what the heck have I been smoking?
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> Question: So what stops them firing the old bloke, simply because they are wearing a red shirt? The possibility of a lawsuit, resulting in fines and penalties. Obviously many people won't bother to sue, and some companies will tak
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> The way this worked in many places is that workers formed political parties. Given the current political system(s) in the US, this is practically impossible at the federal level; difficult at the state level; somewhat more possible at
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by D-Coder 2y ago
With mouse models, you are at least guaranteed to get results within two years. Human models can take 10, 20, 30 years.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> No, it isn’t sad that we die. It’s extremely important that we do — if not just for getting rid of some of humanity’s worst humans. So, kill off all of humanity to make sure you get rid of the worst ones? To me that seems... non-optima
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by D-Coder 2y ago
"You will lose any unsaved information in all applications."
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by D-Coder 2y ago
In addition to the other replies, this is a one-time project. After everything (or almost everything) has been translated, you're done, you won't be running into new edge cases.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> To my programmer mind, biology feels like it must be comprised of layers of emergent behavior. Think of it as a billion years of kludges.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Fifteen to twenty extra years of lifespan is useless? With reduced odds of cancer? (20-25% longer life x 80 year current lifespan.)
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by D-Coder 2y ago
I witnessed a similar one. The big box had an emergency power-off switch in back that stuck out. Our operator was dealing with cabling behind the big box, and when he stood up, his belt caught the switch. Oops.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
_The Diamond Age_, Neal Stephenson, I believe.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> they still haven't reached parity with what a mediocre human driver is capable of When that driver is sober and alert and paying attention. Which I'm sure is at least 90% of the time. If I'm coming back from a party, or
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> In late 2015, a group calling itself Impact Team got angry at the site and hacked into its servers. The group grabbed a bunch of user data and code, then posted it on Reddit with the claim that 95 per cent of the people on the site wer
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Speaking of heritage... 8+3 goes back at least to DECSystem-10 on PDP-10s.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
New _electrons_? Oh wait.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
I'm retired, but I really like coding, so... LiveCode. I have several apps that I wrote for myself that I use daily, and edit almost as often :-). (A HyperCard descendant.)
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Me: Why was Sam Altman fired from OpenAI? ChatGPT 3.5: There isn't any information available indicating that Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI. As of my last update in January 2022, Sam Altman was still involved with OpenAI, serving as

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