Mawr

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by Mawr 9mo ago
I don't see how your position is compatible with the constant hype about the ever-growing capabilities of LLMs. Either they are improving rapidly, and your intuition keeps getting less and less valuable, or they aren't improving
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by Mawr 9mo ago
Sure they, do, the problem makes no sense as stated. The solution to the stated problem is to remove all weights all at once, solved. Or even two at a time, opposite the centre of gravity. Solved, but not what you're asking I assume? Y
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by Mawr 10mo ago
Unfortunately the current trend among new languages seems to be eschewing GC; a clear mistake IMO — we don't really need yet another low-level systems programming language, but we badly need the go-to GC'd lang — one that'd
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by Mawr 10mo ago
At the point you want to interface with people outside of your direct influence. That's the value of a language — a shared understanding. So long as only you use your custom C dialect, all is fine. Trouble starts when you'd like o
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by Mawr 10mo ago
There's zero entitlement expressed by the parent, he's just trying to help the project, but is encountering unnecessary friction. It's not that he has some inner urge to contribute in some way, he just encountered a bug while
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by Mawr 10mo ago
Total nonsense. You've taken a very specialized observation and presented it as general truth. Can't do that. Yes, once you get to the level of being able to compete with others, genetic factors will determine who will do better.
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by Mawr 10mo ago
You've lost your sense of perspective. You might lift twice a week and try to get in 3-4 days of cardio ? You're in the top <1% people on this planet by fitness.
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by Mawr 10mo ago
It's a UX issue. The author is correct — nobody cares about all the mumbo-jambo virtualenvs or whatever other techno-babble. The user just wants to run the damn program. > `uv run` and PEP 723 solved every single issue the author
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by Mawr 10mo ago
For Go, there are more impactful features: minimal version selection and the culture of fewer, but larger dependencies. Your average Go project likely has 10x fewer deps than a JS project. Those deps will not get auto-updated to their lates
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by Mawr 10mo ago
This is more or less the thinking that got us into the mess Python packaging is. I, as a user, do not care whatsoever about any of this. At all. If you're explaining "virtual environments", you've lost the plot. Compiled
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by Mawr 10mo ago
God forbid someone expresses an opinion that's not blind praise of every random thing anyone does. OP pointed a camera at a parking lot "at some personal risk of injury". I should have pissed myself in awe. Go do something us
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by Mawr 10mo ago
Random passerby are not law enforcement professionals, they're untrained and therefore can't be held to such standards. The case of Daniel Penny cited above is straightforward: "Neely boarded the car Penny was riding and repo
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by Mawr 10mo ago
> If you purposely go into your phone settings and turn off auto-capitalization (which is what the kids do, since they're all typing on their phones), isn't it the very definition of pretentiousness? That's incredibly pres
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by Mawr 10mo ago
No. Readability, explicitness, one way to do things are examples of great design taste. Perl was the opposite of all that.
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by Mawr 10mo ago
It was designed by a person with good taste, not by a committee. That's about it, there's nothing inexplicable or accidental about a well designed language rising to the top. The excessive mentions of Perl are weird — it, along wi
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by Mawr 10mo ago
"and he kept overriding the other pilot who was doing the correct thing to recover from the stall he had put the aircraft in." Yep, the real design problem here is the idiocy of allowing dual input.
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by Mawr 10mo ago
Let go of the controls.
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by Mawr 10mo ago
Not these days, with detailed terrain maps and GPS + GPWS. The chances of colliding with anything else would be tiny. In case of other commercial jets zero, thanks to TCAS at the least.
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by Mawr 10mo ago
Comparing "100% safe" vs the danger cars represent is so ridiculous I have to question if you're kidding? We're talking 40,000 people killed every year in the US alone on account of traffic accidents. And you're tal
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by Mawr 10mo ago
> Cars bring a lot of benefits like autonomy and decentralization, how do we keep that but kill fewer people? 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens This is a solved problem: look at the curre
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by Mawr 10mo ago
> Also, my son was just hit by a driver while he was on a bike and in the bike lane. Let me guess, the painted line on the road did not in fact prevent the vehicle from crossing into the bike lane? What we as a society consider acceptabl
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by Mawr 10mo ago
Then you've only ever seen fairly new, modern cars. Seatbelt warnings are a relatively new feature.
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by Mawr 10mo ago
That's not possible. It's not an SSD thing either, it always applies to everything [0]. Sequential access is just the simplest example of predictable access, which is always going to perform better than random access because it&#x
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by Mawr 10mo ago
> Creating something smarter than you was always going to be a sketchy prospect. Sure, but not so sure that this has any relevance to the topic at hand. You seem to be taking the assumption that LLMs can ever reach that level for granted
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by Mawr 10mo ago
> this would allow them to move to a bump allocator like Java for super fast allocations and would make deallocation effectively "free" by only moving live objects Ah, you've been misled as well. Super fast allocations is
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by Mawr 10mo ago
That past criticism was and is correct, proven by the fact new Java GCs like ZGC were deliberately designed to offer few knobs. Go isn't getting any new knobs, there are only two; that's nothing compared to 100's of options t
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by Mawr 10mo ago
Cute, essentially equivalent to Python's inner functions and Go's closures, e.g in Go: func foo(cfg_file string) (parsed, error) { config := func() { return json.Parse(cfg_file) } return c
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by Mawr 10mo ago
Very weird question. What do you think most jobs entail? Driving, mining, warehousing, even office jobs all come with risks. Perhaps the most relevant example though is firefighting. Just like in policing, there is obvious risk you take on
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by Mawr 10mo ago
Tesla is free to provide information that debunks these claims. They're the ones who redacted the details of the incidents in the first place.
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by Mawr 10mo ago
I don't know what you're trying to prove here. Stopping safely and waiting for human input in edge cases is fine (Waymo). Crashing into things is not fine (Tesla).

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