Karellen

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by Karellen 2y ago
> If you’re building an abstraction-heavy API, be prepared to think hard before adding new features. If you’re building an abstraction-light API, commit to it and resist the temptation to add abstractions when it comes along. You could a
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by Karellen 2y ago
> Not sure why people are so sentimental about preserving human intelligence specifically You are surprised that "preserve your own life, and that of others like you[0], for future generations - which you should totally go and help
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by Karellen 2y ago
Good point. I was thinking of a lot of cases where RC is being used as a general solution for lifetime management with automatic refcounting; but most objects have a well-known lifetime with their refcount being 1 95% of the time. And anoth
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by Karellen 2y ago
> screwed up their tokenizer in FLAN-T5 so it skipped Polish diacritics. How is that even possible? Shouldn't byte-pair encoding find and encode all the diacritics (along with common digraphs and the like) as one of the first things
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by Karellen 2y ago
One other advantage of RC that I don't think you've brought up yet, is that you know exactly when the work to free M objects will take place.
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by Karellen 2y ago
Is this going to be as good as when AI arrived in the world of materials science? https://www.404media.co/google-says-it-discovered-millions-o... Or is it only just going to be as good at generating headlines?
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by Karellen 2y ago
That reminds me of the time that Folding Ideas' Dan Olsen wrote a book on an arbitrary subject to see how the economics of a passive income audiobook grift worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw&t=2052s
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by Karellen 2y ago
sudo apt install gnat :-)
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by Karellen 2y ago
> Getting alire installed involves downloading the zip, extracting the binary, and moving the binary to a directory in $PATH. If you're on a mac, you also have to run an "xattr" command on the tool to get it running. Is th
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by Karellen 2y ago
The number of vastly unequal societies throughout history who have banned the lower classes from learning how to read, or from any kind of education at all - beyond whatever narrow training will make them better perform their specific dutie
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by Karellen 2y ago
> If an LLM hallucinates a method name you'll find out the moment you try and run the code. What about when it confabulates a module name that's been squatted by a malware distributor?
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by Karellen 2y ago
CellsInterlinked
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by Karellen 2y ago
Especially as, if it were just "In celebration of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Nabokov", you'd have thought that something like Pale Fire would be a better choice of name for a tech product. Partly because
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by Karellen 2y ago
Changing face of marketing? Trailers containing scenes that weren't in the movie has happened for decades. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trailer+scenes+not+in+movie
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by Karellen 2y ago
You've literally just pointed out the difference between the people who used to know what you're up to, and the people who now know what you're up to. Anyone trying to convince you there is no difference between the two state
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by Karellen 2y ago
But the byte '/' can never be part of any filename/dirname under a UNIX filesystem. Which kinda sucks generally for anyone wanting to use a charset like that, but doesn't it also mean that should never be a problem
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by Karellen 2y ago
Why would you search for an ASCII char like '\', in a char array containing non-ASCII-based text, on a system with a non-ASCII-based locale?
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by Karellen 2y ago
OTOH, if "stop whining about how hard the system is to use correctly, just pay attention, be careful, and don't write bugs" worked, we wouldn't have issues like the one this thread is about, and no-one would have needed
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by Karellen 2y ago
> UNIX filenames are NOT necessarily printable text, they're byte strings. Don't treat them as printable text. But they nearly always also happen to be printable text. Treating them as printable text is soooo convenient 99.
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by Karellen 2y ago
> To bad modern Linux systems only support UTF-8 locales. Do they? On my system: $ grep _ /etc/locale.gen | grep -v UTF-8 | wc -l 183 That's 183 non-UTF-8 locales that are available on my system. OK, I don&#x2
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by Karellen 2y ago
> Too bad its defined in POSIX. Well, a conforming implementation could just return -1/EINVAL from `iconv_open()` for any given pairs of character codes. https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/manpages-dev/ic
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by Karellen 2y ago
> The file systems of Unix machines all have the same general structure. [...] Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; this is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black
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by Karellen 2y ago
A lot of filesystems don't store file creation dates. Posix only requires last modification date (which for directories, is the last time a file/subdirectory was added, removed, or renamed), last access date, and last status chang
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by Karellen 3y ago
Making war feel less risky to politicians who want to wage it for domestic jingoistic bullshit reasons[0] makes war more likely to happen in the first place, which costs lives. Also, bold of you to assume you're going to be winning. Do
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by Karellen 3y ago
You're excited... at the yet unexplored military applications... of humanity finding ever more efficient ways of killing each other? FML, that's dark.
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by Karellen 3y ago
As someone did with one of the previous ones? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4jKSdfRtxk
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by Karellen 3y ago
Check if your password manager has a "perform auto-type" (or similar) function, where it can send keyboard events to another window. That way your browser (or whatever app) doesn't have to support paste to work.
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by Karellen 3y ago
The Terminator 2 effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pq9F5f8kyE&t=119s
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by Karellen 3y ago
Boston Dynamics: Hey everyone, we're really excited to show you the great progress we are making in our attempts to re-create the Torment Nexus, from the classic cautionary sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus . Too many r
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by Karellen 3y ago
Reader mode works fine for me.

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