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by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago
> the PRC operates on long time horizons and will probably succeed long-term in raising birth rates. That would make them the first country to do so, I think. Others have tried and nothing has worked. But China will likely become rich be
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by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago
Forgetting LLMs and coding agents for a second, what OP describes is like watching a Youtube video on how to make a small repair around the house. You can watch that and "know" what needs to be done afterwards. But it is a very di
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by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago
Oracle also briefly convinced the market it was a serious AI company and received a market cap increase. Until it evaporated.
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by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago
I came here to say this as well. The various Lisp dialects I've used still offer this rich REPL experience today. Other languages haven't caught up.
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by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago
> Most western countries have somehow decided over the last couple decades that small negative actions should mostly be free of negative consequences. There's a general loss of decorum, and it has such immense negative impact. Ther
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by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago
I would not be surprised to see the UK enact something like the Ottoman millet system, and grant semi-autonomy to its various ethnic and religious communities to run their own internal affairs. I don't think this would be a good move,
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The Hater's Guide to Nvidia(wheresyoured.at)
8 points by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago|0 comments
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
Not the Platonic ideal of a hotel room
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
A Dixie cup probably
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
Are there any serious attempts to enact a "corporate death penalty" in the US? Is there even a viable route to getting something like that in the current regime?
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
They won't be new, but Ebay has a lot of old linear rules.
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/ offers a different point of view on OAI's profitability on inference.
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Britain to make refugee status temporary(reuters.com)
12 points by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago|1 comments
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
Two approaches might work here: 1) Run Emacs on your local machine and use Tramp to edit the remote files 2) Run Emacs on the remote machine with the files you're editing. This likely means running in the terminal itself (emacs
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
> so the current stock price is mostly irrelevant to the shares that aren't moving. If it moves enough, shares that aren't moving might become shares that are though. Unless a company's stock is all held by Die Hard True B
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
Value capture seems to be happening in the hardware companies (really company) right now. Like with CPUs in the late 90s when Intel was dominant and AMD was struggling.
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
An ergonomic keyboard can help. I like the Kinesis Advantage but it's expensive for a keyboard.
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OpenAI Seeks Government Backing to Boost AI Investments(barrons.com)
2 points by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago|0 comments
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
Lisp was the first to have first-class functions and garbage collection which have become common language features by now. But it also has many features that still are not widespread. Its metaprogramming is unparalleled, especially reader m
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
I think that's true as a personal vehicle. But you'll see them driving around with ladders, pipes, etc. on them as direct competitors to the Ford E-Series. You definitely don't see the Ford vans turned into luxury RVs though!
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
Mercedes runs their Sprinter line with the Mercedes star on the front. I know some after-market modifications can turn these into really nice RVs, but they're mostly in the "work van" category. In Europe, Mercedes doesn'
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
I do think that publishers will become more a point of trust in the post-LLM world as a result.
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
Just needs some lick smacking and a very satisfied "mmmm..."
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
I hope you don't actually start inhaling deeply each time you're around your coworker.
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
I have been thinking about the reason why Lisps aren't more popular today. I'm not sure yours is the right reason though. It seems like the statement you make would be no more true today than in the 80s, when Lisp was much more po
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by PessimalDecimal 11mo ago
The question is about Emacs configuration, but the keybindings might also be unfamiliar if you're coming from Vim. When I was learning I printed https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcar
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by PessimalDecimal 1y ago
It got mentioned briefly in an article in Mickey Petersen's excellent Mastering Emacs blog.
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by PessimalDecimal 1y ago
I've used Emacs for years but just recently learned about zone.el. I wonder if this is based on it too. I see some of the same screensavers here.
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by PessimalDecimal 1y ago
Yeah I really need to. I do occasionally go through a bout of trying to take my business elsewhere. I am sort of a used book junkie and Amazon still owns that market. Though I do often get my used books from Alibris when I can. Recommendati
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by PessimalDecimal 1y ago
Thank you, this is fantastic! I am exciting to try my own hand at Logo again too with a _bit_ more experience as a programmer than I had back in kindergarten. I have also been looking at Scratch and at Racket as fun programming sandboxes fo

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