James_K

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by James_K 2y ago
> as refactoring a function that accepted T to T?, or a function's return type from T? to T I've always found this to be a silly argument. In both cases, the problem can be solved by interface versioning. If you have f : T → Ma
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by James_K 2y ago
> The meaning of `T | null` and the meaning of code you write with such a type does depend on what T is at runtime. Could you give an example of this? The only case I can imagine is a union null <=: T, T | null. This would cause unexp
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by James_K 2y ago
I think this post should have made a greater distinction between terms and types. The type 4 and the term 4 are separate entities with the same name. Otherwise string <=: string would imply that a function f : string => int could be c
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by James_K 2y ago
I am certain that "software" is not plural. There is a good case for "softwares" though, or potentially "soft wares". In general the "programs" should be preferred.
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by James_K 2y ago
Yes I was interested in this myself so, before posting what I just wrote, I looked into it and went through the sources on a few papers. I ended up at this fairly authoritative-sounding book which made the claim, though I don't remembe
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by James_K 2y ago
Which is your perspective, and distinct from the argument just made: that if it was possible to write Chinese tones, the traditional characters would have been replaced. It's obvious that the characters are not replaced due to cultural
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by James_K 2y ago
This is incorrect and shows a basic lack of reading comprehension. Neither I nor anyone else claimed to be a language expert. The post in question said: > If this [writing tones] was so easy, pinyin (a standardized writing) would have re
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by James_K 2y ago
> it exists independent of the language Rates of dyslexia are much higher in countries with less phonetic spelling systems. The general conclusion from this is that, while dyslexia may exist at equal rates in countries with phonetic spel
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by James_K 2y ago
The theory of comparative advantage is that both countries will benefit, and I think these people put a lot of stock in their own theories. As I understand it, what they wanted was a situation where high skill US workers focus on design and
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by James_K 2y ago
Quite frankly, why should they stick to WTO rules? It is an organisation that seems entirely beholden to Western interests, to the degree that the US has decided to simply stop it from doing anything by blocking judge appointments because t
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by James_K 2y ago
Better take manufacturing out of America then, if you want to keep it in democratic countries.
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by James_K 2y ago
But it is that easy. Pinyin has a standard notation for the tones of words. Your position on this matter cannot seriously be "if it were possible to write Chinese phonetically, the Chinese alphabet would no longer exist".
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by James_K 2y ago
I can't help but feel these languages are just silly, or at least very badly designed. Maybe in the future, when AI is good enough to translate everything in real time, we will just find a language that is best and teach children that
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by James_K 2y ago
In the Chinese style of government, people don't necessarily need to be convinced of something for it to be implemented.
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by James_K 2y ago
I feel like the solution to the paperwork issue is to improve the requirements for paperwork rather than getting an LLM to write it. You can only ever lose data from what was input to the LLM, so this is a strictly destructive process. Then
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by James_K 2y ago
Can you quantify this? From what I understand, Chinese speakers can understand Pinyin text even without the tone marks.
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by James_K 2y ago
Why is this if you don't mind me asking? I thought that hiragana could already write all the words. What makes kanji so much better than that?
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by James_K 2y ago
This is not a problem in other languages. The word "set" in English has 7 different meanings, yet you rarely struggle to tell which is intended. If the language can be understood when spoken, it can be understood when written phon
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by James_K 2y ago
You'd be surprised how much staying power these things have. The nation and its language are two concepts inherently intertwined. Take the case of Welsh in Wales. It was an almost dead language that no one spoke, but as soon as the Wel
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by James_K 2y ago
People find value in the tradition of writing. If Japanese were to ditch kanji as Korea did, I think there would be some complaints.
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by James_K 2y ago
It would be rather interesting if technology simply caused people to start writing in the roman alphabet. Phonetic spelling is certainly the superior option, so perhaps that will simply be what people arrive at through inevitable statistica
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by James_K 2y ago
In short, describe the actions you want people to take rather than the results you think those actions should achieve. Or perhaps more fundamentally, you should know what people are doing and you won't know that when you are only looki
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by James_K 2y ago
I would say it's more obviously wrong because I've seen examples of ceramic superconductors cooled by only liquid nitrogen. A quick google confirms that cuperate-perovskite ceramic superconductors have a critical temperature above
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by James_K 2y ago
From the essay: > Instead of good writers, ok writers, and people who can't write, there will just be good writers and people who can't write. > writing is thinking. In fact there's a kind of thinking that can only be d
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by James_K 2y ago
Yet again, Paul Graham states his view that people other than him are incapable of thought. I'm shocked at how frequently he does this. I would be embarrassed to make such an assertion in public even once, let alone repeatedly. While t
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by James_K 2y ago
I feel like some kind of compression is the way to go if you are interested in fast reads/writes. Depending on the algorithm used, you could probably decompress the data faster than it can be read off the disk. In an archive file, you
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by James_K 2y ago
> And then have to keep their machines up all the time and also connected constantly? The idea would be that you plug the stick into a USB port, then it just draws power from the wall and serves files over WiFi. Similar to the Amazon Fir
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by James_K 2y ago
A more accurate way to describe this is that IPv4 prevents anyone who isn't a hobbyist or professional from running their own server.
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by James_K 2y ago
I feel like the hard part there is actually accessing all the IPv4 systems to change how they handle addresses. I don't know the full scope of difference, but I feel like once you can do a software update to all of your devices, the co
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by James_K 2y ago
v6 is just as easy to censor as v4. Given the popularity of Veitnamese pho noodles over there, I don't think internet censorship is as important an objective as you estimate. Have you noticed how many Chinese tourists there are around

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