GeneralMayhem

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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
or git stash push <filename>
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
PDFs are the opposite of machine-readable if you want to do anything other than render them as images on paper or a screen. They're only slightly more machine-readable than binary executables. I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate the pract
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
If your problem is humans making arbitrary and nonsensical decisions about how you can do your job, then you have a non-technical problem, and it's unlikely that any technical solution will solve it.
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
I find that the best way to set up test cases, regardless of language, is usually to use string constants in the proto text format ( https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/ ). For arrays, and e
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
The real issue is that the sand isn't orderly sorted. At a micro level, it's billions and trillions of individual interactions between atoms that create the emergent behavior of solid grains of sand packing reasonably tightly bu
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
Democrats have not had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate since before Reagan, and they're constantly up against the asymmetry that breaking things is a lot easier than building them. The side that wants government not to work h
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
> He claims that an uptick in autism incidence is correlated with a lot of environmental things, one of them being that the number of childhood vaccines has increased That is a factual lie. That is not what he said. In 2005, he wrote an
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
Bullshit. Show me one example where he's said something like that and he was citing a real source. And I mean an actual source that he should be respecting. If he just parrots this stuff from other cranks on Twitter, that's not ex
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
I find it very hard to take this kind of comment in good faith. You know as well as I do what RFK says, and why saying that it won't instantly kill you, while obviously true, only benefits misinformation. But ok, fine. Raw milk is not
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
So your answer to multiple specific examples is "nah, the other guys probably do it too, trust me bro"? Yes, Trump went beyond all recent presidents, in pretty much every way. Sabotaging the FBI's background check is absolute
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
Not for the justices, but for the institution of the Supreme Court. He files frivolous lawsuits and appeals designed to give his appointees the opportunity to legislate from the bench (e.g., "official acts"). He appoints blatantly
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
Personalized != contextualized. You could have a search engine that uses geolocation without building any sort of cross-request profile on the individual making the search.
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
Google does not check in protoc-generated code. It's all generated on demand by Blaze/Bazel.
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
> same-sex marriage prop (which I believe is purely symbolic... Same-sex marriage is currently outlawed by the California constitution as a result of Prop 8 from 2008. That clause is void as a result of the Hollingsworth and Obergefel
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
Event correlations are a typical one. Think about ad tech: you want every click event to be hydrated with information about the impression or query that led to it. Both of those are high-volume log streams. You want to end up with the resul
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
That's true in the general case, but there are usually ways to make it not matter. If you have a vector clock with snapshot reads, then you may not know consistently what the system looks like now, but you can know what it looked like
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
Sure, but now you have the string constant as a symbol, which you can either grep for (in which case you're delayed by one search, not the end of the world if you were going to unwind callstacks anyway) or, if you have an LSP, you can
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
> I don't have the resources on my laptop to compile a kernel
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
That level of "argument" from a federal judge should be grounds for instant removal. It's bafflingly stupid, and nakedly partisan and outcome-motivated. Some ideas are just categorically bad, and the regulator needs to be abl
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
No, it's a triple-negative. Judge struck down (1) ban (2) on non-(3) competes. As a result of this ruling, non-competes are now enforceable; workers are not allowed to compete with ex-employers.
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
But the Eiffel Tower is an art project, not something of actual utility...
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
There's a branch for "Does the HRE exist" (in the top left corner), which basically says that "territorial maps" aren't well defined before the mid-modern period.
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
What makes this tough is that LLMs can show logical thinking and self-correction when specifically prompted (e.g. "think step by step", "double-check and then correct your work"). It seems unlikely that they can truthf
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
Yep, this is a big part of it. Intelligence and consciousness are barely understood beyond "I'll know it when I see it", which doesn't work for things you can't see - and in the case of consciousness, most definitio
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
0x9c (156 dec) is still a very small number, all things considered. To me that sounds like attempting to access an offset from null - for instance, using a null pointer to a struct type, and trying to access one of its member fields.
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
The argument would be that that conceptual model is encoded in the intermediate-layer parameters of the model, in a different but analogous way to how it's encoded in the graph and chemical structure of your neurons.
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
I am highly skeptical of LLMs as a mechanism to achieve AGI, but I also find this paper fairly unconvincing, bordering on tautological. I feel similarly about this as to what I've read of Chalmers - I agree with pretty much all of the
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
There's a big problem of information asymmetry, though. "Security" is a very noisy metric, and not a quality that's easily evaluated by 99.9% of your customers. Outside of specialty domains like national defense (and eve
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
Technically, SCOTUS, as the highest court, isn't beholden to anyone's precedent. This year's SCOTUS is just as legitimate as last year's, so they always have the power to overturn past decisions. Lower courts have to fol
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
Accurately placing heavy, aerodynamic objects onto people when you start out directly above them is not very difficult. The hard parts are either placing the object on top of the person from a few hundred or thousand miles away, or - in t

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