Sharlin

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by Sharlin 5d ago
Because plagiarization is not illegal . It’s just unethical and dishonest, and in certain contexts where your work is directly related to your status or compensation, it gets you in trouble. Copyright violation is a specific type of plag
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by Sharlin 5d ago
Use AI all you want but don’t imply that the work was done by you in any sense.
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by Sharlin 5d ago
No. It’s dishonest, not in any way different from plagiarizing another human’s text or code without proper attribution.
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by Sharlin 5d ago
As I’ve also repetitively said, it’s simply dishonest and plagiarizing to offload most of the work you (explicitly or lying by omission) claim as "yours". I can’t understand people who think it’s just fine.
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by Sharlin 5d ago
It seems like a good pixel art model should be trained from scratch to emit high-quality low-resolution outputs, rather than trying to jerry-rig a generalist high-resolution model to unnaturally output tiny images (or even worse, a regular
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by Sharlin 5d ago
Now I’m wondering what were some of the last generation of games to dominantly use fully hand-drawn pixel art. After 1995 or so, games using isometric art such as Red Alert (1996) and Fallout (1997) were more and more switching to sprit
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by Sharlin 5d ago
Agreed. While the IP mafia (pardon the derogative) has vast influence on legislators and even the executive, it pales in comparison to the "terrorist" and "think of the children" scarecrows.
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by Sharlin 5d ago
Yes, I know what ye is :) Similarly, the "olde Finnish" is usually not exactly historically accurate. Agricola was born Mikael Olofsson/Olavinpoika, i.e. a simple patronymic surname. He assumed the Latin name when he started
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by Sharlin 5d ago
Having an LLM generate major parts of text that you (implicitly or explicitly) claim as yours is dishonest and plagiarism and should be brought to readers' attention, and it baffles me that many people just don't seem to mind or s
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by Sharlin 5d ago
Having an LLM generate major parts of text that you (whether explicitly or lying by omission) claim as yours is dishonest and plagiarism, and it baffles me that many people just don't seem to mind or see anything problematic about it.
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by Sharlin 5d ago
Yes, thanks for the addition! I though about mentioning the link to Swedish W but wasn’t fully sure about the details.
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by Sharlin 6d ago
Well, if LLMs actually turn out to solve some of the Millennium problems, at least some of these biology problems are almost certainly at least as difficult. Certainly solving any of them would be Nobel-worthy if biology nobels existed (and
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by Sharlin 6d ago
Not to mention "www", which when pronounced is actually three times longer than its expansion.
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by Sharlin 6d ago
The history of W in Finnish is interesting (for some values of "interesting"). Mikael Agricola [1], a Lutheran clergyman, essentially created literary Finnish from scratch in the 1500s (before that, Finnish had existed solely as a
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by Sharlin 6d ago
What.
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by Sharlin 6d ago
> https://www.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/DuoTable_... Oh god that plasticization of the faces is absolutely horrifying. Like a bad image gen AI from 2022. Or reptilians wearing cheap rubbe
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by Sharlin 6d ago
Of course. This is just a list of someone's ideas for equivalently difficult (and transformative) unsolved problems in biology. Many of these would of course have obvious and immediately impactful practical applications, unlike the mat
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by Sharlin 6d ago
My experience is that most people don't enjoy code review, which is why it must usually be actively encouraged and not just something that happens naturally. Mechanically writing boilerplate is not enjoyable, and unfortunately in some
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by Sharlin 6d ago
It occurs to me Lemmings is the sort of game that could work extremely well as a tablet adaptation, and perhaps on phones too, although the screen may be a bit too small.
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by Sharlin 6d ago
So you're saying that LLMs let you accrue technical debt faster? I suppose that's like the fact that living on payday loans let you accrue monetary debt faster.
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by Sharlin 6d ago
In a way it reminds me of the good old "if agile doesn't work for you, you're not doing agile right".
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by Sharlin 6d ago
Yes, but it doesn't matter if nobody actually does that. Either because 1. they don't care 2. the rest of the team doesn't care 3. the powers that be actively discourage it because velocity.
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by Sharlin 6d ago
No, everybody else is talking about short identifiers in general which is what the GP asked about. For car and cdr specifically you’re right, of course. I also love how the register names don’t even have ANY mnemonic relation to what the
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by Sharlin 6d ago
I wonder if there’s some obscure syntax for "do this if the preceding command fails and propagate its exit code". For just returning some error you can of course have something like `die("boom")` (though not as a built
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by Sharlin 6d ago
There is, of course, a programming language designed to do shelly things as succinctly as a shell script: Perl.
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by Sharlin 6d ago
"Desktop" here means "desktop environment" aka the whole shell, not just the literal desktop part of the desktop metaphor.
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by Sharlin 6d ago
Yeah, this may be a case of "this project is really important to me so it must be really important to the users, too".
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by Sharlin 6d ago
And in Windows it will doubtlessly be implemented such that the AI will be very helpful and make subtle UI changes based on your usage patterns, without telling you, so that your muscle memory becomes useless. And insert ads, obviously. Als
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by Sharlin 6d ago
The usual convention (which also occurs in natural languages) is that often-used words should be short, rarely used should (and can afford to be) more descriptive.
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by Sharlin 6d ago
As a total aside, the names `car` and `cdr` for "head" and "tail" are honestly some of the most baffling historical relics in all of computing.

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