Joker_vD

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by Joker_vD 6d ago
"Brothers, sisters, comrades, and also people who are not my relatives or acquaintances. Today is a sad day..."
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by Joker_vD 6d ago
Again, e.g. Bulgarian uses едни ("ones") as essentially plural indefinite article, and for genuinely plural things too. It's not nearly as pervasive as the English usage (the null article is used in most cases), but it exis
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by Joker_vD 6d ago
TL;DR: you need to do... essentially supervised learning on your prompts? I mean, if I wanted to do ML, I'd already have been doing it ten years ago.
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by Joker_vD 6d ago
There are some nouns that are always plurals e.g. "scissors" or "pants", and those things still arguably need indefinite/definite distinction, right? Actually no, the very use of plain "scissors" instead o
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by Joker_vD 6d ago
And yet e.g. włożył rękę do kieszeni i wyjął portfel is a pretty natural-sounding Polish sentence. Grug trusts others not stupid.
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by Joker_vD 6d ago
Precisely. There is no need to wait for "the position" to be formulated since a) it won't be; b) it's mostly "AI is bad because, full stop" anyhow, not even a strawman.
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by Joker_vD 6d ago
The actual position: "First, prove you're not an AI, and then we can discuss..." Yeah, no, I'll take myself being strangely prescient this morning.
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by Joker_vD 6d ago
> you don't need articles. 'They' is plural. But why not? Plural indefinite article exists in some languages, why not in English?
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by Joker_vD 6d ago
The whole (over)insistence on using the determiners in general seems to be a relatively recent innovation as well, the articles being a large part of it. I am talking about constructions like "he shoved his hand into his pocket and pul
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by Joker_vD 6d ago
Well, now instead of paying the photographers for the stock photos to use as headline pictures, people instead pay the AI firms for the stock pictures to use as headline pictures. Which is "worse" by some metric, I'm sure.
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by Joker_vD 6d ago
Similar etymology to "foundation": both derive ultimately from the same Latin word, "fundo", just from slightly different nominalizations (fundamentum/fundatio). Fittingly enough, that word still means "foundat
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by Joker_vD 8d ago
Yeah, like what Upstart did! Why did we switch away from that, again?
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by Joker_vD 8d ago
Upstart was reasonable. So is OpenRC.
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by Joker_vD 9d ago
You mean "f(x, y)", right? Half of the languages that have reduce/fold use this ordering, another half uses yours. So in effect, as some other commenter said, it's just the loop with worse syntax.
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by Joker_vD 9d ago
IIRC both Dijkstra and Knuth used this approach extensively, instead of "if (some_cond) break;" — partly because the latter was not yet invented, partly because of their reliance on explicitly stated and documented right in the co
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by Joker_vD 11d ago
> I can't tell if this is serious or sarcastic. Well, let's try crank the knob yet another notch then. > Maybe the majority is actually correct What a horrible thing to say. The liberal democracy, may it be known to you, is
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by Joker_vD 11d ago
> I'd say persecuting political enemies for being "un-American" - or as a recent book declared, "unhuman" - is a very un-American thing to do Dude. Dude. You've said yourself: this Congress committee went on
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by Joker_vD 11d ago
Ah, I see, it's the same as "un-American", only without being a word too onerous to use (yet) due to obvious historical implications.
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by Joker_vD 11d ago
You mean the 3rd amendment, right?
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by Joker_vD 11d ago
> You don't need the absolute best GC's when your language doesn't create the same amount of GC-pressure. Conversely, if you language (e.g. LISP) does create a huge amount of GC-pressure, it will lead to the development
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by Joker_vD 11d ago
Well then. The solution is obvious: we need to educate the public so that it attains the correct tastes. It's doable: after all, the architecture students do manage to obtain the taste for the modernist architecture during their time
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by Joker_vD 12d ago
People really, really like to try to save up on the matches, so to speak. Sometimes literally: there was a short period of time during Khrushchev's rule in the USSR when the natural gas was made free for the populace. Well, the match
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by Joker_vD 12d ago
> Half the time I delete the program I was testing out anyway, but then I’m stuck with this extra stuff in my base system. "apt autoremove", no? > I never really even stopped to think that there might be way to separate out
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by Joker_vD 13d ago
> the INT instruction alone is not enough for this, but you need to setup the stack in such a way so that it will contain the information expected by the exception handler, Wait, what? The x86 CPUs construct the stack frame themselves be
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by Joker_vD 14d ago
> Since going through the hassle of learning vim I can't use anything else anymore. That sounds like an amazing investment, really makes me want to learn it too!
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by Joker_vD 15d ago
> Just kind of strange that my entire career I was constantly told I needed to test this on any and all browsers available because they all have their nuances and you never know what might break something. To moving to a time where I&#x2
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by Joker_vD 16d ago
I'm not talking about configuration structs, I'm talking about actual, constructed dependencies being passed around in large sacks, sorry, structs. And you don't have to propagate every parameter up to main because a) not all
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by Joker_vD 16d ago
Trurl pulls up a chair and dictates: “Notice is hereby given that in re hindrance of tenant, as stated under Rev. Stat. c. 117(e) dash 2 dash KKP4 of the CTSP Comm. Code, in clear violation of paragraph 199, thereby constitut
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by Joker_vD 17d ago
Yeah, in my experience it absolutely can happen, and the way it generally looks is that the dependencies get roughly grouped into larger structs which are then being passed down the call stack mostly as-is, until they hit a certain abstract
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by Joker_vD 22d ago
I don't think that's the scenario the other commenter was talking about: > there is no centralized monomorphization. If an application uses two libraries, each of which handles lists of int, each library will have to independen

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