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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Their point was that "familiarity" apparently means different things for different people :P Someone using linalg in computer graphics applications may say they're familiar with it even though they've never heard the ter
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Yeah, I don't think this was revealed on my undergrad linalg course, and neither during all my years of using linalg in computer graphics =D
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
It would’ve been specifically asteroids from beyond the "frost line", where it’s cold enough for volatile substances to coalesce and stay solid.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
If we assume that the amount of training data matters at least a bit (which is a very reasonable assumption), I wouldn’t immediately discard the functional hypothesis. Scala’s score is almost equal to Java’s even though there’s probably som
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
I’m not sure if you got my joke but I referred to the mathematical philosophy, finitism.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Trust must be earned. Thiel has earned none of that.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
I never said it was efficient. There's clearly a lot of potential value wasted compared to more trustable institutions. Your point about monopoly is off the mark, though – in every high-trust society it's the government that peo
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
The funny thing is, according to infinitists real numbers are not real. But I do like the concept of the set of actual numbers.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
I'm obviously not defending these things, but people do get things done in everyday life in deeply corrupt countries. It's not chaos. Society is self-organizing like that, and this stuff is all iterated prisoner's dilemma i
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Perhaps ironically, there are still institutions that to some extent rely on social trust in autocracies. For example, the black market is an institution. As is the "bribe economy" – the general understanding that getting X done g
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Yeah, but before LLMs we didn't have "reads like LLM output" as a downvote reason. In 2022 nobody would've had qualms with the phrasing of the comment.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
I'm sure we'll shift to hex-grid displays any day now. After all, hexagons are bestagons.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Huh, that definitely explains it. I wonder how many people know that. In that case it's particularly unfortunate to downvote the OP simply for filling a field in the submission form! Sigh… I guess it's another case of LLMs having
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
But the articles are well-researched, very high quality (the illustrations in particular are incredible), and in every way prime HN material, and there's no money involved as far as I can see. I definitely don't have any qualms ab
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
@ExAr I suspect your comment was downvoted to oblivion because people didn't realize you're the OP and thought you were an LLM summarizer bot :(
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
> 0.1 just isn't an actual number. A finitist computer scientists only accepts those numbers as real that can be expressed exactly in finite base-two floating point?
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Next you're going to tell me that Canadians have stopped bothering to apologize!
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Do you actually know Rust or were you just talking out if hour ass? I’d like you to enumerate even thirty problems of C or C++ that Rust doesn’t fix, never mind hundreds (because Rust fixes a metric shit ton of C/C++ problems!)
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
The name is actually pretty clever (the fact that it was originally un-googlable notwithstanding). There are at least three interpretations: * "C sharp" as in "C but higher", * C with four pluses, and * a homophone of &q
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
> return a+a+a+a; which is certainly an interpretation. Zero is the only valid index of &a, so I presume the compiler just assumes that all the indexes in 1[&a] + 2[&a] etc must be zero. Even though they're in this case
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Fixing syntax by definition does not affect the ABI. And Rust has shown that both ABI and API compatibility can be achieved in the presence of several "versions" (editions) of the language in the same build.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Well, it’s more that there will be a specific society that you’ll be forced to be a part of. You can try to keep to yourself but you’ll still be living, eating, showering, and so on in rather cramped conditions with many others.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
To be fair, that’s pretty common and the justification is that it’s much more difficult to get caught (and the criminals are usually much smarter and better at not getting caught too).
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Not nearly as drastic as the cabbage case, but to me it’s also interesting that there are three ancestral, wild species of citrus fruit – mandarin, pomelo, and citron – and all the popular modern cultivars are hybrids of those three.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
I mean, it was a solid interpretation of cyberspace as envisioned by one W. Gibson (the name of the system not being a coincidence, obviously). As it was meant to be. You (hopefully) wouldn't see boring nmap terminals in a hypothetical
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Compilers made programming faster, cheaper, and more consistent in quality. They are the proper analogy of machine tools and automation in physical industries. Reusable code libraries also made programming faster, cheaper, and more consiste
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
> It evokes memories of SOAP configs and J2EE (it’s fine, even good, if those acronyms don’t mean anything to you). Heh, a couple of years ago I walked past a cart of free-to-take discards at the uni, full of thousand-page tomes about e
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
I'm not in the market for LED bling (though I guess I might've been back when I was 15), but the neat cable management of today's cases definitely appeals to my sense of aesthetics, compared to the terrible mess of the yest
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
I'd estimate that most consumer PC cases sold these days have a glass side panel, and have had for a while.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
I just think about cats and Larry the Chief Mouser in particular.

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