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by Maxatar 10d ago
It's not that physics feels no responsibility to explain why, it's that all other fields of science answer the why by punting to some lower level of science that is taken as an assumption until you get down to physics which has no
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by Maxatar 10d ago
> += deferred concatenation requires lazy strings and that didn't come until 10-15 years later. CPython's += does not perform deferred concatenation and CPython does not use lazy strings. The optimization uses an eager in-place
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by Maxatar 10d ago
Python has optimized string appending in the form of: s = s + "foo" and s += "foo" Since 2005 with the release of Python 2.4: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/2.4.html#optimizations
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by Maxatar 10d ago
The study addresses it. You don't walk into an ER and say "Doctor I have a gambling addiction.", rather you typically present as having a suicide attempt, intoxication or drug overdose, psychosis, or panic attack. During the
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by Maxatar 10d ago
Yes, gambling prevalence is direct related to suicide.
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by Maxatar 11d ago
This is entirely untrue. Almost anywhere you live in the U.S. you can find local brands with local production.
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by Maxatar 11d ago
Not that you've explicitly claimed it's authentic, but the very idea of a pirate hunting tour is a hoax that resurfaces across the Internet every so often in different forms: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/
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by Maxatar 12d ago
This is like saying, "I'm not addicted to smoking, I'm addicted to the happiness cigarettes give me." Addiction is a harmful dependency you pursue to achieve some desired outcome. The harmful dependency is the endless br
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by Maxatar 13d ago
How did you search? I really wonder if I just have a vastly different Google algorithm than others because whenever a post similar to this pops up I have no problem finding the info using the most obvious and basic of Google searches, while
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by Maxatar 13d ago
Not the sports betting sites though, also poker seems to be indifferent in terms of marketing even though it's dominated by men.
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
Users who are unhappy with some idiosyncrasies of a product tend to be significantly more vocal than users who are fine with it, and for any feature whatsoever there are going to be an unhappy group of people who vocally complain about it.
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
I do have a way of knowing, but I actually appreciate and respect your reply... My suggestion to you is to take this shred of skepticism that you decided to apply to me, and apply to every comment you read on Hacker News, not simply the o
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
Simply untrue. You think everyone is complaining about this because the ones complaining are the only people commenting. The vast majority of people using Claude don't really care or even notice this one way or another. Sure among thos
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
Compacting mostly gets rid of reasoning tokens, and honestly it would be nice of reasoning tokens did not constantly follow every follow up query. Asking even a simple/trivial question can have Claude use thousands of tokens. Compactin
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
>There is no “oops, I wrote ‘th’ but I should have written ‘tw’ so I guess I’m stuck writing three instead of tween”. You're mixing up two claims here, and only one of these is kind of true. Yes LLMs do internally plan ahead in a wa
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
There is no infinite regression involved in any of Godel's theorems.
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
The reason the world didn't end is because people refused to upgrade Visual Studio, in particular Microsoft's bigger customers. Microsoft surveyed their users for why people weren't making the switch to VS 2013 despite all th
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
Knowing a definition is not the same as understanding. I know this first hand from interviewing people who at the beginning of the interview can confidently tell me the definition of certain principles in statistics that I ask them about, a
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
What is the relationship between your claim, and the claim I replied to about GSL having special treatment? In other words, why did you reply to me with an interpretation about a post that claimed GSL is afforded special treatment by MSVC i
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
Here is the original statement about special treatment: "It was originally created by Microsoft and as Herb mentions "all our target platforms", so most likely it gets special treatment." My claim is that Microsoft is no
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
How does a library writer testing that their library works with a specific version of a compiler that was already released have anything to do with a compiler implementation providing special treatment for that library? Your interpretation
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
>A program with undefined behavior is by definition an incorrect program. This is simply false and an oft repeated myth. Undefined behavior has a specific technical definition that is in the C++ standard [1] and there is absolutely no me
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
I have no idea where you possibly got this idea from since the Github Issues tracker for GSL has numerous instances of new releases of MSVC breaking GSL compilation.
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
There is absolutely no special treatment afforded to the GSL by any of the target platforms. While we can't inspect MSVC's source code, both clang and GCC do not have any support or affordance for the GSL whatsoever and it would b
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
Yes, this is all true but Sutter's comment is that the specific platforms that this specific implementation of the GSL targets results in the correct output. The platforms officially supported are: GCC 12, 13, 14 XCode 14.3.1, 15.4 Cla
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
Yes that's true, many classical civilizations saw work as a role for slaves. The ideal for classical elites wasn't to work, it was to have enough slaves that you didn't have to work yourself. Aristotle in particular writes ab
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
Yeah it's a nice and pleasant story, assuming you've never actually met or seen the working or living conditions that most of the fisherman in your story actually live in and the terrible toll it takes on their body. Those fisherm
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
I adopted it by growing up poor to immigrant parents who had to work day and night to provide for me the best life they could. Having goals other than financial well being is a luxury. That doesn't mean it's not attainable or shou
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
This is an absurd statement. Lets use bank accounts instead of CO2 to point out the absurdity. Imagine every year a company makes $730,000 in revenue but spends $730,000 on various expenses. Its bank balance doesnt change because the income
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
You might be reading the prompt far too literally then. LLMs interpret words not based on literal and rigorous definitions but based on how those words are actually used in reality based on a large corpus of text. In general, the only time

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