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by James_K 1y ago
I feel that those incensed by this article would have a strong distaste for fortune tellers. I counter that vague wisdoms and unsubstantiated claims often give us a chance to reflect on our lives.
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by James_K 1y ago
> No, they’re not. Interesting that you are critiquing a woman for making observations without evidence, then you yourself make an observation without evidence. It couldn't be a double standard, could it? > it is unscientific to
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by James_K 1y ago
It seems entirely mean spirited here to expect some rigid scientific insight from a person recounting their observations about the world. Where does science begin if not with a story that wants verifying?
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by James_K 1y ago
Respectfully, no sh*t. I've talked to a few of these things, and they are feckless yes-men. It's honestly creepy, they sound like they want something from you. Which I suppose they do: continual use of their services. I know a few
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by James_K 1y ago
My question for these projects will always be: what do you offer over the Web? I'll grant that most people lack the technical know-how to create their own website from scratch, but it's perfectly possible to buy your own little pl
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by James_K 1y ago
I have long been aware of that particular user of Odin, after all the creators mention it frequently. The fact remains that the US government has warned against the use of languages such as Odin [1]. As such, it is competing in the extremel
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by James_K 1y ago
When I am compiling Rust applications, I must admit I'm always rather bemused at the number of dependencies pulled. Even what I'd have thought to be simple tools reach easily about 200 dependent packages. It's nightmarish. On
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by James_K 1y ago
A C alternative means a language that will last for 50 years, whereas this seems more like "whatever's popular by way of LLVM". I can see some real smart stuff coming out of languages like Zig and Rust, where Odin seems just
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by James_K 1y ago
Do you think "political parties in America never change" is a steel man interpretation of my comment? I would suggest there is material difference between my statement "the parties have little electoral incentive to change&qu
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by James_K 1y ago
The degeneration of American democracy seems an obvious conclusion to the basic premise set out there. Both parties in America are bad, they know they cannot be replaced because of the two party system, and therefore when they lose power, t
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by James_K 1y ago
I would estimate the bigger cause of malaise is the fact that things just seem to get worse. Housing gets more expensive, shops close down, towns die. One can't help but get the feeling there is a continual tightening of the screws. Ev
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by James_K 1y ago
The point of how fast computers are, and why you need to make them smaller to make them faster. Think about the bus between the CPU and GPU, not much shorter than that. Information cannot travel faster than the speed of light, so there is a
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by James_K 1y ago
It just gets stuck on the same question with badly formatted boxes and does nothing if I click either of them.
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by James_K 1y ago
I feel that often getting LLMs to do things like mathematical problems or citation is much harder than simply writing software to achieve that same task.
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by James_K 2y ago
I'm surprised there isn't a readily available water-mark remover at this point. A synthetic training set for such a model could be created trivially.
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by James_K 2y ago
"Use the lowest level possible" has always seemed rather stupid advice to me. What I suggest: use XML. Every programming language under the sun can spit out XML files, so you can generate them programmatically if needed, and it&#x
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by James_K 2y ago
He doesn't have a money vault. He has almost zero cash holdings. If you tax him, then he will have to sell assets to pay for those taxes, which removes money from the economy as that money was being actively spent on his assets. The on
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by James_K 2y ago
It can be done on the scale of a city or region within a country. The idea it would have an inflationary effect is somewhat misguided. There are only so many goods available in the economy, and redistributing money can't decrease that.
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by James_K 2y ago
> the likely feedback effects on the broader economy that a universal rollout would have It's interesting to describe as "likely" something for which there is no evidence. This is an actively anti-science belief. It seems
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by James_K 2y ago
I feel as though this study is only addressing the bottom percentile of questions about UBI, the kind of complaints from people who think "those lazy poors shouldn't be given money". I think most people are able to understand
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by James_K 2y ago
Knot theory is mostly inapplicable to crochet. The nature of how a crochet is made, by curling a single unbroken chain around itself, means almost all crochet is equivalent to the unknot. You can see this in the way crochet unravels all the
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by James_K 2y ago
Most users are not happy with addictive apps. The psychology of something you pay for is fundamentally different to something that's free. If your choices were paying for TikTok, or paying for actually good entertainment, I think a lot
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by James_K 2y ago
Well it wasn't good for us unless you count all the money we made out of it before they started fighting back.
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by James_K 2y ago
He has addressed this numerous times. His statement was that he was Citi Bank's best trader in 2011, which is true. The dispute is an attempt to discredit him by suggesting that him not being the best trader in other years debunks his
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by James_K 2y ago
The purpose of tax is not to raise money to government, but to redistribute wealth. The government prints money to cover the bill of its expenditure. If it issued no taxes, then that burden would fall on all people through inflation, affect
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by James_K 2y ago
It's frankly sickening that some people think the empire was an exercise in us helping the third world develop purely out of the goodness of our hearts.
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by James_K 2y ago
I doubt Britain's problems will ever really be solved. We only seem interested in making them worse. I blame the media, mostly. They're not interested in telling people the truth as much as getting Nigel Farage on every other week
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by James_K 2y ago
It's pretty obvious to me that this LLM business won't be economically feasible until it can actually produce better code than a team of humans could without it. The reason programmers are paid so highly is because their work is i
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by James_K 2y ago
Because then you don't know what the computer's doing. The whole point of this article was that there is value in the process of writing your ideas out formally. If you "let computers help you along the way", you'll
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by James_K 2y ago
Not Gentoo. The system I'm suggesting is one where you replace the linker with one which accepts a platform agnostic assembly code with similar semantics to C, and perhaps some additional tools for stack traversal to allow the implemen

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