Sharlin

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by Sharlin 6d ago
UTF-8 originally supported up to six-byte encodings (see eg. RFC 2279), but it was restricted to four bytes in 2003 in order to match UTF-16 constraints :(
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by Sharlin 6d ago
No, WTF-8 is its own encoding: https://wtf-8.codeberg.page/
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by Sharlin 6d ago
That much is obvious and everyone learns it like on the first week of English learning, of course. It’s the various cases where that simple rule doesn’t apply that are difficult. "I play the piano" And then there are those cases w
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by Sharlin 7d ago
Yeah, but it doesn't have to sound like you have invented a time machine and deserve a Nobel prize.
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by Sharlin 7d ago
These giant stars burn so very very bright. And correspondingly only live a few tens of millions years at most.
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by Sharlin 7d ago
I have called it Claude's "iamverysmart" voice, but as you said, maybe it's more of a "thisisveryimportant" voice.
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by Sharlin 7d ago
Communication between two people is hard enough. Involving another actor as an intermediary rarely helps. It quickly becomes a game of telephone. Doubly so if the intermediary is an LLM.
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by Sharlin 7d ago
I just read a Quanta article from 2015 and literally had to check the date after the third "X not Y" I encountered. But the models have learned that from somewhere, too.
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by Sharlin 7d ago
The surface radius of a star is defined based on optical thickness. If you were there, the star would in fact look like a fairly well-defined opaque spheroid with the reported radius. The density of the photosphere plasma is near zero, but
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by Sharlin 7d ago
The same that they use for the rest of the already known tiger cat species?! This one diverged from its closest relatives 1.3 million years ago. There are other tiger cat species that diverged later than that. Read the paper if you want to
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by Sharlin 7d ago
Ok, think what you want. I have zero interest in arguing about stuff like trying to quantify qualitative things.
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by Sharlin 7d ago
No, I’m not. Old digital point-and-shoots, and the harsh direct flash aesthetic, have been very popular. Some specific camera models that some random popular TikToker happened to recommend have been selling at quite a mark-up. Two-ish decad
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by Sharlin 7d ago
The similarity may be partly the image model's fault – especially if it's been post-trained/distilled towards performance, correctness and "quality" (for some value of "quality" anyway) which inevitably oc
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by Sharlin 7d ago
Incidentally, the "early digital camera" aesthetic has been back in style for a couple of years now.
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by Sharlin 7d ago
> A genetic analysis of 38 cats from South and Central America, including 26 individuals in the Leopardus tigrinus species complex, revealed that the tigrinus complex consists of five distinct species, including L. tilcayo, which is beli
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by Sharlin 8d ago
I believe the word was already in use to denote a malfunction of any sort of machine or device. As such this was a bug (insect) that caused a bug (glitch); it was punny already in 1947.
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by Sharlin 8d ago
The argument is that an infinite loop without side effects isn't a real program. It's not useful for anything except wasting cycles.
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by Sharlin 8d ago
No, the latter. To make a lattice, we usually want to decompose x to floor(x) and whatever's left over, which is x - floor(x) and always nonnegative. fract(x) gives the leftover of trunc(x) instead and is negative when x is negative, a
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by Sharlin 8d ago
Because subnormals are fixed point, ie. have a fixed exponent, the difference of any two distinct subnormal values is nonzero like with integers.
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by Sharlin 8d ago
Because it should be smart. I mean, why would a human coder ever observe standard best practices unless the client specifically asks them to?
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by Sharlin 8d ago
Subnormal numbers have a different, basically fixed-point, representation. They exist in order to bridge the large (relatively speaking; indeed "infinite" in a sense) gap between the least positive normal number, zero, and the gre
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by Sharlin 8d ago
Should be noted that `fract(x)` is importantly only equivalent to `x - floor(x)` when x >= 0. Which it was in this case, but often negative values are also possible/expected and the latter should be used instead. This is an easy mis
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by Sharlin 9d ago
Not the GP, and this is just the free ChatGPT, not a frontier model, but just a few days ago it happily confabulated an entirely incorrect version of the plot of Iain M. Banks’s "Matter" when I asked it to analyze the novel in a c
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by Sharlin 9d ago
There's an inline link under "Recordings".
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by Sharlin 9d ago
All of the things like free trade and free movement could presumably be negotiated separately, they’re just creating an omnibus deal and slapping a fancy label on it.
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by Sharlin 9d ago
Yeah, but standard texture compression formats are built in and may be implemented directly in hardware, without requiring any custom compute shaders or any GPGPU capability at all to decompress.
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by Sharlin 9d ago
But typing "b*tch" with T9 is just as difficult (if not more) as typing "bitch". Anyway, I guess I never had a need to swear much over SMS. On IRC, on the other hand...
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by Sharlin 9d ago
I'm definitely from the generation of texters and there was never any censorship going on with SMSs... yours must be a cultural or regional thing.
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by Sharlin 9d ago
"Bug" implies something you can locate and fix, or at least work around. Misalignment is more like a fundamental architectural defect – of a black box whose architecture you didn’t design, and whose internal workings you can neith
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by Sharlin 9d ago
This question reminds me of one that people apparently have seriously asked: "Why didn't they simply send up the Space Shuttle to rescue the Apollo 13 astronauts?"

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