IsTom

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by IsTom 7mo ago
A lot of software doing useful work halts pretty trivialy, consuming inputs and doing bounded computation on each of them. You're not going to recurse much in click handlers or keep making larger requests to handle the current one.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
If you look from far enough, it becomes "Current world ⊨ I am typing right now" which becomes tautological again.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
I wonder what's the EROI on building a tanker with 2% chance of being hit each time. They hold a lot fuel, but making them can't be light on energy.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
Oil going through Hormuz is 20%, not 80% of global supply. It's true that demand is pretty inelastic, but it's not like it can't be cut at all.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
Until courts start ruling that copyright applies to LLM scrubbing I think we're all sadly shit out of luck.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
The most difficult thing about this was controls being unresponsive (at least on firefox).
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by IsTom 7mo ago
He's very efficient with prose and I find it a joy to read (well, given what he's writing about it's not always joy , but still). I'm not sure he's following that rule 100% of the time, but it's close. Dependi
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by IsTom 7mo ago
I've seen some juniors writing risoni code like that. They've heard that you shouldn't write big functions, so obviously they forcefully split things until they can't be split anymore.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
Does Java not have some kind of helper function to join strings? Why'd anyone write loops like that?
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by IsTom 7mo ago
Just look what kind of problems the easy task set is (hello world, echo line, count vowels, etc.). With best being ~10% of total in brainfuck this is 10 out of 20. You can google more solutions to these problems than that.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
They are different, but on some fundamental level when you're writing code you're expressing an idea and it is still the same. The same way photograph and drawing of a cat are obviously different and they're made in vastly di
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by IsTom 7mo ago
> empirically demonstrate the code's behavior That is completely insufficient for code of any real complexity. All this does is replacing known bugs with unknown bugs.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
> Forget to set a timeout on a gen_server:call? Default timeout is 5 seconds. You need to set explicit infinity timeout to not have one.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
I get the other things, but believing Altmans's words is not high on the list of things to be considered evidence.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
If you take AI image (that cannot be copyrighted) and adjust it in photo edition software of your choice then the changes are potentially copyrightable and the resulting image can be copyrighted (you need to ensure that your changes pass th
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by IsTom 7mo ago
Or just make time for more Very Important Meetings.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
There's plenty of services that 3D print for you.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
I'm not following the whole LLM space, but > the compute needed to perform matrix multiplications goes up as the cube of their size, are they really not using even Strassen multiplication?
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by IsTom 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannion_v._Coors_Brewing_Co . I remember there being a somewhat similar case in (I think?) Netherlands a few years ago, but currently can't find it.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
It's not copyrightable automatically, you have to argue that you did have an artistic input (e.g. composition). Typically nobody bothers to argue against copyrightability of a photo, but there's been a few cases.
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by IsTom 7mo ago
They're waiting for claude to get up so they can use it to investigate why claude is down.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
Sending message to a process has a cost (for purposes of preemption) relative to the current size of receiver's mailbox, so the sender will get preempted earlier. This isn't perfect, but it is something .
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by IsTom 8mo ago
> actors still deadlock through circular messages I've rarely seen naked sends/receives in Erlang, you mostly go through OTP behaviors. And if you happen to use them and get stuck (without "after" clause), the fact yo
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by IsTom 8mo ago
I don't think killing democratic representatives has as big of an effect as killing authoritarians. You can't have cult of the leader without the leader, but in parliamentary systems you'd have to off quite a few people.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
> The DoW probably disagrees with that interpretation Or perhaps, maybe, just a little maybe, DoW is getting absolutely excited about mass surveillance and kill-bots?
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by IsTom 8mo ago
The only more fitting name currently would be Department of Peace
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by IsTom 8mo ago
There's two issues with that. Sometimes people publishing sheet music alter it and then they can claim copyright. Second is that that old original sheet music can be illegible to modern musicians – it has evolved over time.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
And staring directly at the sun is not recommended.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
> human eye is opaque to Absorbing the laser isn't necessarily any good. Very hypothetically it could lead to cataracts.
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by IsTom 8mo ago
Thump two round rocks together -> sharp noise Thump pointy branch against a tree -> dull noise And chickens aren't using tools.

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