ForTheKidz

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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
If this is the reasoning it's preserved quite poorly in the text and clearly was rapidly abandoned as the reason such a practice was reproduced generation after generation. The shibboleth explanation is the most convincing to my eye. S
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
> There are various results that suggest that LLMs do internally have everything they'd need to know that they're hallucinating/wrong We need better definitions of what sort of reasonable expectation people can have for de
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
We really need an idiom for the behavior of being technically correct but absolutely destroying the prospect of interesting conversation. With this framing we might as well go back to arguing over which rock our local river god has blessed
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
> Inventiveness/creativity/imagination are deliberate things. Not really. At least, it's just as much a reflex as any other human behavior to my perception. Anyway, why does intention—although I think this is mostly nonsen
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
Does "open source drivers" imply documentation of the underlying ISA or just the tooling to shepherd it? How much code would I need to go from bootloader to quake 2 assuming I only needed to play that one piece of software on my o
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
ripgrep solves a really annoying part of the unix toolbox: inconsistency in how to correctly search a bunch of files for a string. Are you supposed to `find -name -exec`? Or are you supposed to `find -name | xargs -n 1`? Oh, but files can h
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
> I think of them as similar to human optical illusions. What we call "hallucinations" is far more similar to what we would call "inventiveness", "creativity", or "imagination" in humans than anyth
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
> There is a population of people today though who have internalized the threat of COVID as a core part of their identity I imagine if you have a reason to be that scared of covid (e.g. immunocompromised or -adjacent) to propose that som
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
> the polarization is such that you find people who don’t think we are post COVID. What does the phrase "post-covid" even mean in a population with actively circulating covid? I don't think such a concept is even possible
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
> Since no one want to discuss active limits We're nowhere near active limits. Of course the limits will shrink with mismanagement, but we could feed a good deal more people with the amount of food we produce today. Axolotls were do
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
I guess. Truth be told I've taught hundreds, bordering on thousands of undergraduate intro courses in python, and students mostly figure it out after they configure tabs and spaces.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
Perhaps we should give them capital
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
Why bother freeing before exit?
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
> Note that the bool type is not the same as int at ABI level, Huh. Wonder what the benefits of that are. Bools being ints never struck me as a serious problem. I wonder if this catches people who accidentally assign rather than compare
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
What on earth would we want to spend on that wouldn't align with these goals anyway? Lower taxes? More computers? Bigger cars? Eh.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
Still worth it for situations where you can memoize hashes and reuse them. Basically, any situation where you want to intern strings.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
I was responding to a general claim. In any case, I certainly disagree that C is suitable in 2025 for the vast majority of possible use-cases. For fun? Sure, but not for shipping code you want to rely on. Obviously the code isn't going
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
I can't imagine blindly committing what LLMs spit out will get you very far, much less into a job.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
> That's a false contradistinction: Redis is also disk persisted. This feels wildly disingenuous.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
I think we already have decent evidence of animals having synytax. Presumably Miyagawa means something like recursive syntax.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
> a rewrite for “maintainability” is an engineer saying they want to rewrite in their preferred language Not necessarily—sometimes languages are especially poorly suited for tasks or difficult to hire for.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
ptrdiff_t is also useful in this case if signed semantics are desired.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
Everything you said is correct of course, but the idea of auditing 150 dependencies makes me feel ill. It's essentially impossible for a single person.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
Surely GPL'd code was swept up with ai training like the rest of the internet. Perhaps some of that code incidentally has licensing that works with this, but surely not all of it....
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
Yes, who can think of Los Angeles without considering its massive and all-encompassing walls.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
Still very, very impressive for undergraduate work.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
Yes, clearly we should have spent more time trying to coax our cpus into fucking up pipelining.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
What does resetting this look like? How do you get lithium to re-solidify as a "wall" in the shape and place desired?
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
Of course, none of this will prevent china from producing technology that's clearly as impressive, if not more so.
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by ForTheKidz 2y ago
Wonderful story. I wonder if the play was sacrificed to birth Beloved if they are in fact so similar.

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