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by Jach 4mo ago
I enjoyed the game but I think its exploration of the topics was pretty shallow. It might be better received if it's someone's first dive into such topics, though. I still enjoy ice cream the nth+1 time eating it, so I can't
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Response to Cegłowski on Superintelligence (2017)(intelligence.org)
3 points by Jach 4mo ago|0 comments
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by Jach 4mo ago
This was such a terrible piece of work back when it came out, it hasn't aged any better. By the way, it was responded to by MIRI: https://intelligence.org/2017/01/13/response-to-ceglowski-on...
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by Jach 4mo ago
The Dune series doesn't stop with the first novel, I encourage all who liked the first one to continue reading up through at least God Emperor of Dune. Something the usually ironic calls for a Butlerian Jihad against modern LLMs miss i
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by Jach 4mo ago
From the observatory itself: https://rubinobservatory.org/for-scientists/frequently-asked...
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by Jach 4mo ago
I don't know who would be paying, but there are many comments here that are semantically indistinguishable from paid shill comments. I don't have a great explanation for it other than people tend to attribute way too much power to
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by Jach 4mo ago
If quantum computers start breaking crypto within a few years, don't say you weren't sufficiently warned.
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by Jach 4mo ago
Certainly exempt FTEs are crunching and not getting (directly) compensated for it. But the above comment's "overtime pay makes crunches disappear" claim is also simply not the case, just given the still-present abundance of c
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by Jach 4mo ago
EA was famously sued ~20 years ago for not paying overtime. They lost and had to reclassify roles to non-exempt and paid up. It impacted hiring decisions for non-exempt/hourly roles (especially QA), encouraged more outsourcing, but thi
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by Jach 4mo ago
Many game studios have overtime pay and yet still crunch.
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by Jach 4mo ago
I wonder about false-positives too, or just disagreements with what is stated vs. "detected". In what I guess is a reaction to the huge amount of AI music, I notice a lot of other music gets posted with titles or tags saying in ex
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by Jach 4mo ago
I think learning Common Lisp and learning Coalton are best done separately. For CL the usual reference if you already know how to program is PCL: https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ But the cookbook is invaluable as well: h
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by Jach 4mo ago
Have we? JS has its async/await syntax, and you can even handle exceptions with less pain (just uh try not to put multiple awaits in a try block). But there are still a gazillion async libraries in npm indicating things missing from th
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by Jach 5mo ago
2m isn't going to make Japan allow more than 6 months of stay in a year on a tourist visa. It might be enough to hide yourself from deportation, though who knows what happens when you try to leave. It might be enough to convince a loca
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by Jach 5mo ago
Pretty decent, it's given similar book recommendations as Claude when I feed it my list of read books and thoughts on them. You'll have to tell them to never use emojis. I was using 3.5 a while ago to generate some flavor text whi
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by Jach 5mo ago
Krita is not very good for photo manipulation. Even basic stuff like rectangle select and selection manipulation is painful. But on a project I used Krita, Gimp, and Inkscape all at the same time, and it was fine. Different tools for differ
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by Jach 5mo ago
Or with more Python-esque syntax: (let ((files (coerce "ABCDEFGH" 'list)) (ranks (loop for r from 1 to 9 collect r))) [(format nil "~a~a" file rank) (file <- files) (rank <- ranks)]) B
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by Jach 5mo ago
I sort of thought this about qwen3.5 35b, finally a local model that isn't a complete waste of electricity, but "upgrading" to 3.6 35b left me disappointed. It seemed more like a downgrade. But honestly I've barely used
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by Jach 5mo ago
"It depends" is usually a safe (if not always helpful) answer. The older idea was that viruses always evolve to be less virulent/deadly, but that didn't match observations. The newer idea is simply that of a virulence-tr
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by Jach 5mo ago
Framework-less CSS maybe, but we're never going back to the mindset of CSS Zen Garden. There is no pendulum.
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by Jach 5mo ago
When Europe switches to metric time I'll switch to reporting centimeters for my height.
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by Jach 5mo ago
Currently one of the features Valve's SDK offers is free use of network relays for P2P gaming without revealing each others IPs. Big and small games have used it. The main downside is if a game wants to offer cross-platform cross-play.
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by Jach 5mo ago
I think the fuller version of the "'no silver bullet' is wrong" claim is at: https://blog.ploeh.dk/2019/07/01/yes-silver-bullet/ A weaker claim is that maybe there's no single si
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by Jach 5mo ago
The best convenience is that by the time of disclosure, the patch was already merged perhaps months prior and so sysadmins following a routine update schedule would have already updated to a version including the patch and thus have nothing
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by Jach 5mo ago
Speaking just on timelines (rather than actual underlying innovations or improvements), 802.11 was in 1997, next in 1999, G in 2003, then a 6 year gap to N in 2009, 4 year gap to AC in 2013, 8 year gap to wifi 6 in 2021, wifi 7 in 2024 (tho
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by Jach 5mo ago
Is that something people want to get rid of? Back when I did some clojurescript people were pretty proud of being able to have it used automatically. What's the plan to get the same benefits? Or is the argument that the benefits aren&#
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by Jach 5mo ago
And for those of us devs, they never really went anywhere. vim was the most popular editor on HN 15, 10 years ago, still very popular 5 years ago, still popular today.. and that's just an editor, all the other tools like top and its de
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by Jach 5mo ago
And Unreal Engine 5 needs the Agility SDK, creating problems where games wouldn't run if your Windows version wasn't new enough. (Same as the typically encountered glibc problem of the user having an older version than the build n
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by Jach 5mo ago
This project? https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare If Dotcl does have good performance, it would be interesting to try running Coalton on top of it too. Coalton syntax is probably not unusual if you are familiar with OC
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by Jach 5mo ago
I did, I still ended up pattern matching on too broad an interpretation of "it". Thanks for clarifying.

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