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by Jach 1y ago
Sure, though I'm curious if you think some voluntary pyscho-analyzing changes anything about the truth. Or are you just looking for paper links? It's one of my minor hobbies over the years to sometimes browse various papers for fu
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by Jach 1y ago
> do you also complain that the 2D illustration of gravity wells is inaccurate? Sometimes: https://xkcd.com/895/ Poor analogies usually cheat the learner. Though at least with gravity well diagrams, it's often
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by Jach 1y ago
And even vote to lower the age even further. Isn't voting fun!
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No, I really don't think it's accurate to say that the line about peer pressure and emotional distraction having more of an impact on teens than adults, which is grounded in research on risk-reward behavior in presence of peers, i
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It's a nice option to have and maybe good in some cases. It reminds me of the nicety that some journalists do when requesting if they can use some video uploaded on social media for their show or piece. I do like the approach and shift
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That's a good followup article, but it doesn't really contradict anything and the myth is still a myth. So no, it is not based on solid science, and the whole framing should be discarded because it will just be used to rescue the
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This is one of the more damaging pop culture beliefs of our times. Probably worse than the pop culture interpretation of Dunning-Kruger. It's mostly wrong. Here's a brief review: https://slate.com/technology/2
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I guess back in 2003 people would expect an email to actually go somewhere, these days I would expect it to either go nowhere or just be part of a campaign to collect server admin emails for marketing/phishing purposes. Angry emails ar
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Yup. Lots of products in the education space. Even doctors are using LLMs, while talking with patients. All sorts of teams are using the adjacent products for image and (increasingly) video generation. Translation freelancers have been hit
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by Jach 1y ago
I don't really buy your point 2. Just the other day Meta announced hundreds of billions of dollars investment into more AI datacenters. Companies are bringing back nuclear power plants to support this stuff. Earlier this year OpenAI an
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by Jach 1y ago
$1000/mo is very high, yeah, but Ozempic isn't the only thing in town. My price info is from looking at https://www.brellohealth.com/ and similar ($133/mo semaglutide, $166/mo tirzapatide) -- i.e. just g
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by Jach 1y ago
I don't think GLP-1s are particularly expensive, so my top preference would be to just see them easily available. While not quite the same, it's a win that Rogaine/Minoxidil were once prescription-only but for a long time now
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by Jach 1y ago
It can be tricky to narrow down definitions but there are at least a million and probably less than 5 million software developers in the US. The last few years have seen ~100k students graduate with CS degrees each year. Thousands of layoff
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by Jach 1y ago
Indeed. And it's not always final... I've not had it ever happen to me at a place that serves food, but I also generally only hear about it happening at bars/night clubs and I don't drink so never had a reason to visit o
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by Jach 1y ago
Neat project, I can only marvel at your ability to deal with such madness. But it would be nice to have better C++ interop in higher level languages, there's some useful C++ code out there. I also appreciate the brief mention of Clas
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by Jach 1y ago
There's a meme that Japan entered the 2000s in the 80s and then just stayed there. My first trip was in 2017, but even between then and the second trip in 2022, I could tell Akiba lost even more of its electronics culture. I was there
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by Jach 1y ago
If you know anything about Japan it's very strange that a place wouldn't take cash. Post-covid (and a lot of that thanks to Olympics preparations) a lot of places in Tokyo have advanced to taking things other than cash.
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Not even just clients, but servers too would block anything not GET/POST/HEAD. And I believe PHP still to this day only has $_GET and $_POST as out of the box superglobals to conveniently get data params. I recall some "REST&
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by Jach 1y ago
I've only ever seen one in that mocking picture of trying to fit a motorcycle in it vs. a Kei truck. I still reserve my full judgment though for if I ever get to have extended personal time with one, though I have been soured on the wh
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by Jach 1y ago
One thing the "graduate level" concept reminds me of is Terence Tao's semi endorsement almost a year ago: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113132502735585408 People quote the "The experience seemed rough
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by Jach 1y ago
Programmers are usually the minority. The introduction mentions that ChatGPT reached 100 million users faster than any other consumer technology in history. There aren't even that many programmers worldwide. In their table 3 of non-use
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by Jach 1y ago
Talking about averages is really misleading. Talk about capabilities instead, framed in tool language if you must. Quoting https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/ai-is-a-gamechang... about https://z
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by Jach 1y ago
It's sometimes expressed and repeated but I think usually by people who don't do much or any Lisp programming. Like they hear Lisp is great for making DSLs and interpret that as every interesting program must have created its own
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by Jach 1y ago
I don't think you're missing much. Yeah, the main point seems to be that if your language has closures, you suddenly can express a lot of things that were out of reach before. Not a new insight. But there's another point I th
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If you click on Linux only and expand the details, SteamOS accounts for 31%. "Other" is the next biggest at 23%, and Arch (which SteamOS is built on) at 10%. Someone probably has made a comprehensive historical spreadsheet but the
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Only 95.45% now ( https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey ) but yeah.
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My current uptime is 448 days on a VLE-4 running Debian. The only way I'd be happier is if they let me easily run Gentoo like my old EC2 server did.
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You also have the ability to easily setup a "Work profile" that's functionally like a second user with its own apps that don't talk to your normal profile apps, and you can shut the whole work profile off when you don&#x
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I would hope it actually is more known among developers. Even big titles like Tekken 7 used it. Insistence on crossplay with consoles causes a stumbling block, but still, that's not most games. https://partner.steamgames.com
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by Jach 1y ago
Yeah. Pretty much agree with everything here. I'd rather encourage starting with the book Thinking Forth , though. It's not written by Moore but has some commentary from him included in it. I'd even suggest learning a little

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