Kranar

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by Kranar 1y ago
No disagreement on your point, but this is a different argument than claiming that macros are an ugly hack to workaround lack of reflection. Because Rust lacks reflection macros are used to provide some kind of ad-hoc reflection support, th
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Of course you could perceive it, measure it and record it. The entropy of your body or your brain is not necessarily increasing, nor is the entropy of your computer or other information storage systems. Entropy only statistically tends towa
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by Kranar 1y ago
There's a perfectly good explanation for why though, in fact the explanation is what motivated the formalism of entropy to begin with. There are significantly more ways that the energy contained within a closed system can spread throug
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by Kranar 1y ago
Strictly speaking, modern cosmology does not treat the Big Bang as the beginning of all of existence, it's what happens when you take observations about large scale cosmology and run them backwards in time. Based on the information we
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I used to think the models got worse over time as well but then I checked my chat history and what I noticed isn't that ChatGPT gets worse, it's that my standards and expectations increase over time. When a new model comes out I t
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by Kranar 1y ago
I don't understand your follow up, are you still maintaining your claim that almost every other exchange in the world has been stagnant or declining? Worth noting that a stock exchange becoming defunct is not the same as the value of t
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by Kranar 1y ago
>Note that almost every exchange outside the US has been flat or negative for decades. As someone who works in finance this struck me as a remarkable claim. Upon inspection it turns out to be spectacularly incorrect. After adjusting for
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by Kranar 1y ago
Oh that's fair. I am not actually an LLM expert so I could have some misunderstanding about this. I remember hearing this explanation given for why previous ChatGPT models failed to answer "How many "r"s are in strawberr
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by Kranar 1y ago
Forget single character tokens, you can just go on OpenAI's own tokenizer website [1] and construct tokens and ask ChatGPT to count how many tokens there are in a given string. For example hello is a single token and if I ask ChatGPT t
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by Kranar 1y ago
This is true, in general LLMs are not great at counting because they don't see individual characters they see tokens. Imagine you spoke perfect English, but you learned how to write English using Mandarin characters, basically using th
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by Kranar 2y ago
It seems like people think dereferencing an unengaged optional results in a crash or exception, but ironically you are actually less likely to get a crash from an optional than you would from dereferencing an invalid pointer. This snippet o
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by Kranar 2y ago
There is no reason that ambiguities or paradoxes can't be expressed analytically and formally. Math and computer science are full of such things and they are celebrated. Being hard to communicate is precisely why it's important to
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by Kranar 2y ago
Not a quibble at all. The redshift I'm referring to is the kind of redshift due to gravity, as opposed what you're describing which is redshift due to the Doppler effect.
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by Kranar 2y ago
Most languages you mention let you import the individual names that you want, and you can resolve potential clashes at the point of import. In C++ you basically ```#include``` a file and with it comes a flood of names that are often times u
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by Kranar 2y ago
It can be a general-purpose C++ IDE and also very tightly coupled to Qt at the same time. Visual Studio is also a general-purpose C++ IDE and yet I don't think anyone would say it's independent of Windows.
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by Kranar 2y ago
Which is why that advice confuses the metric for the principle. This is your exact quote: "We write code once, but read it many times, so shorter names (incl. namespaces) seems like a poor efficiency choice." And the point being m
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by Kranar 2y ago
I like to present questions to people to justify their position so that others reading the advice can better evaluate it, understand the reasons and make a more informed judgement on it. I am also principled in critiquing an argument and ne
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by Kranar 2y ago
There is no such thing as slow photons, photons always travel at the speed of light. When light enters a medium there are two mostly (but not entirely) equal ways to think about what happens, one is to view light as a purely electromagnetic
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by Kranar 2y ago
This is some absolutely crazy idea. I mean I'm in no position to analyze it critically but that is pretty mind blowing.
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by Kranar 2y ago
Almost everything you said is correct. Photons do not have a reference frame, so time does not advance because for a photon there is no time coordinate system in the first place. It's not simply that photons don't experience time,
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by Kranar 2y ago
I am not saying you are cargo cult programming, but being a cargo cult programmer has nothing to do with seniority. There are plenty of people who have been programming for decades who blindly follow rules because that's how they learn
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by Kranar 2y ago
OP is making a dig at C++ the language. A lot of people, most likely OP included, consider the language to be a monstrosity, so how can the person who developed such a monstrosity possibly share good advice on programming? That said, I some
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by Kranar 2y ago
>We write code once, but read it many times, so shorter names (incl. namespaces) seems like a poor efficiency choice. I think it's fascinating how different people can interpret this so differently. I feel like it's precisely b
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by Kranar 2y ago
Qt Creator makes working with Qt a heck of a lot easier in a way that working with Visual Studio or vim does not. It comes with an integrated Qt form designer, Quick Designer for QML, supports Qt's moc syntax out of the box, integrated
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by Kranar 2y ago
Fascinating, you went from saying this has nothing to do with postmodern philosophy to describing constructive postmodern philosophy. I love it!
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by Kranar 2y ago
Time travel is required for this thought experiment. The single electron moves forwards and backwards in time so that at any slice of time it can appear at multiple locations simultaneously. Just like a time traveller can go back in time an
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by Kranar 2y ago
You can't just set c = 1 as a pure number and conclude that E = m, the units won't match. Natural units are very useful when doing math, but they don't reduce constants down to plain numbers, they still retain their units. On
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by Kranar 2y ago
>A simulation of that would be training materials for LEA or forensics teams to practice their craft. You are laughably misinformed on this matter in a way that is quite incomprehensible. You are welcome to refer to the legal definition
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by Kranar 2y ago
Yeah, good luck simulating a terrorist attack at an airport, or simulating legal tender, or simulating a police officer. There are plenty of laws that make it an offense to perform a simulation. Nitpicking the term simulation as being meani
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by Kranar 2y ago
No dispute about that, antisemitism as a term to describe persecution of Jews certainly is used to apply to instances that took place 1000s of years ago. That does not mean that antisemitism didn't change, with different forms emerging

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