IanCal

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by IanCal 1y ago
Binary files are not usually edited by hand, and should not get broken without a broken parser or writer. There can be many more ways of fixing them too because it may not be as ambiguous as broken sv files.
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by IanCal 1y ago
Csv files are bad for many reasons, some of which are listed as positives in the article. I’m not talking about other formats.
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by IanCal 1y ago
What are you trying to ask? I don’t understand. I’m not talking about toml.
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by IanCal 1y ago
Which you might not be able to do after it’s been broken silently.
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by IanCal 1y ago
That came far after csv files started being used and many parsers don’t follow the spec. Even if they do, editing the file manually can easily and silent break it - my criticisms are of entirely valid to the new spec files. The wide range o
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by IanCal 1y ago
> Unlike binary formats or database dumps, these files don't hide their meaning behind layers of abstraction. They're built for clarity, for resilience, and for people who like to know what's going on under the hood. Csv f
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by IanCal 1y ago
Oh that’s fantastic news, thanks!
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by IanCal 1y ago
As a complete aside I’ve always hated that explanation where air moves up and over a bump, the lines get closer together and then the explanation is the pressure lowers at that point. Also the idea that the lines of air look the same befo
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by IanCal 1y ago
You shouldn’t have to do this but it may be worth adding a note at the end of a comment about this here - accusations of someone being or using LLMs are often thrown out and very rudely (even if correct about the llm use, I don’t think that
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by IanCal 1y ago
A dictionary is wildly different from a bank of highlights and notes. Are you thinking of just books like novels? There’s a lot of reading of technical or scientific or reference material.
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by IanCal 1y ago
August 1st can be done with https://gist.github.com/IanCal/f3deffd5961a2cc2860094a4d68ed...
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by IanCal 1y ago
It’s not about chargebacks. If you can’t understand that from the comment and my followups I’m not able to explain it clearly enough for you and we should end it here, have a nice night.
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by IanCal 1y ago
Read the whole comment because that statement is not an excuse, it is simply a nod to how it differs from other payments. The rest of the comment explains why I think the situation arises like this. It really isn’t hard to read so try and i
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by IanCal 1y ago
I didn’t say it was an excuse given here, have you tried reading the whole comment? It’s not very long and shouldn’t be hard to understand. If it is I can help explain it.
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by IanCal 1y ago
What laws are stopping Mastercard taking money for adult games but not onlyfans or pornhub?
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by IanCal 1y ago
I feel like nobody cares really and none of the companies care, but are all worried because of the massive stranglehold 2 players have (and realistically each has almost entire control). Mastercard don't care you want porn, or games, o
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by IanCal 1y ago
My kids have been taught phonics here in the uk along with comprehension and it’s been great. I can clearly see how each has developed - and materials have things like basic comprehension of just picture stories to teach it without relying
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by IanCal 1y ago
There’s nothing saying they didn’t do this deliberately, but it’d still be an unsubstantiated accusation to say that’s why there was a problem with auth.
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by IanCal 1y ago
Nothing here says auth was vibe coded. It’s a platform for vibe coding.
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by IanCal 1y ago
But in that case you have no computer to type the link into even if you wanted to.
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by IanCal 1y ago
I massively agree. Huge amounts of coding isn’t wild new inventions, it’s not unknowable work like so many seem to suggest when asked to estimate time. Frankly it’s not even conceptually hard, it’s just that computers are fast and accurate
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by IanCal 1y ago
That’s an even worse reason to use a temporary redirection service. If you really need to, put in both.
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by IanCal 1y ago
Adding an external service so you don’t have to store a few hundred bytes is wild, particularly within a pdf.
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by IanCal 1y ago
> The idea that you can apply lower-quality engineering practices in some systems is totally wrong, I think. But we obviously do this - practices are significantly different between beta release webapps and software on rivers we send to
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by IanCal 1y ago
> We are suffering from a severe case of calling gradient descent AI at the moment, We’ve been doing that for decades, it’s just more recently that it’s come with so much more funding.
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by IanCal 1y ago
Then that definition is at odds with how the field has used it for many decades. You can have your own definition of words but it makes it harder to communicate.
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by IanCal 1y ago
Huge amounts of ml have nothing to do with ANNs and transformers are ANNs.
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by IanCal 1y ago
> Well, isn't it time we started doing the same with LLMs? I'm not talking about MCP, but rather an open source tool that can plug into either free and open source LLMs or private ones. Almost all providers and models can be us
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by IanCal 1y ago
I feel like the barrier for self hosting could be so much lower. The resources required to host a static site are tiny and even a dynamic one with comments accessed by all the people I actually know could easily run on a cheap router.
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by IanCal 1y ago
Having something else help doesn’t preclude reading with them - it also may have better advice. Very rarely is anyone suggesting an all or nothing approach when talking about adding a tool.

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