Sharlin

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691.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
As usual when it comes to scaling of mechanical things including organisms, it’s a matter of the square–cube law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law
692.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Huh? Of course those get remembered, and of course it's allowed by GDPR. If the websites you visit don't remember "reject all", they're doing it maliciously (or out of incompetence, I guess).
693.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
I'm sure that this time the language will be simple and English-like enough that execs can use it directly, similarly to COBOL and SQL.
694.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
There was actually only a short period of time when only write-once DVDs existed. By 2005 just about any computer DVD drive you could buy supported all combinations of {CD,DVD}±{R,RW} that existed. Blank RW disks were, of course, more expen
695.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Except that according TFA they can actually last thousands of rewrite cycles.
696.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
No, this is optical media, rewriting in rust only pertains to magnetic storage.
697.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Very tangential, but this hexing business brought to mind the classic https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
698.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
What are you referring to? What word did the GP use that means nothing like what they meant to say?
699.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
More formal register doesn’t mean easier to read or understand. To many people the exact opposite is the case.
700.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
There's nothing inherently better about the edited version. It's just saying the same thing with synonyms substituted, at a slightly more formal but less personal register. HN comments are not academic text, colloquial turns of ph
701.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
I doubt smart TV manufacturers care about those places or people.
702.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
They'll just set up a token quota and an automatic "That will be all, we'll be in touch" message once the quota is full.
703.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
The terrible bits were all stuff that Clarke never wrote in any of his solo novels.
704.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
The i486DX 33MHz was introduced in May 1990. A 30x increase, or about five doublings, in clock speeds over ten years. That's of course not the whole truth; the Athlon could do much more in one cycle than the 486. In any case, in 2010 w
705.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
True. Some people announce their OSS project and upload it to package management the day they start. While I develop something for two years and still find myself hesitatkng whether it’s good enough to announce.
706.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
From 2022. Funny that soon after that we figured out how to automate the Tactical Tornado programmer and collectively decided that they're the best thing ever and nobody needs other kinds of devs anymore.
707.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Oh boy you're wrong. Many people (including myself) are experts at doing 0 to 0.8. The rest is much more difficult.
708.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
No, it really does not work like that, for reasons that should be obvious.
709.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
If nothing else, this whole AI craze will provide fascinating material for sociology and psychology research for years to come.
710.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
> Why was Claude acting on these messages anyway? Because that's how LLMs work. The prompt template for the triage bot contained the issue title. If your issue title looks like an instruction for the bot, it cheerfully obeys that in
711.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
> It's basically impossible to protect against malicious injections when consuming unknown inputs. Oh, it's fully possible. Just don't have a fucking LLM in the loop.
712.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
There are many games these days that support controllable sex toys. There's an interface for that, of course: https://github.com/buttplugio/buttplug . Written in Rust, of course.
713.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
I was talking about libraries, higher-level units of reuse than individual functions. And your "syntactic" vs "semantic" reuse makes zero sense. Functions are literally written and invoked for their semantics – what they
714.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Yep. It's ridiculous to talk about 10x or 5x or 2x anything in any but the smallest companies. All this talk about programmer velocity is micro-optimizing something that's not a bottleneck .
715.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
> Yeah, exactly. And LLM help developers save time from writing the same thing that has be done by other developers for a thousand times. Before LLMs we did already have a way to "save developers time from writing the same thing tha
716.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Yes, I know, and marginal numbers would also be great to have. But just the naive cost of energy per passenger-kilometer averaged would be good to see, given that it too would be much less than that of a private car.
717.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
The point is that even a work written by an AI trained exclusively on liberally licensed or public domain material cannot have copyright (isn’t a "work" in the legal sense) and thus nobody has standing to put it under a license or
718.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Imagine if some other authority figure like a teacher or therapist did this and their employer would just shrug and lament that people are imperfect. And no, "but LLMs aren't authority figures, they're just toys" isn&#x2
719.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Anyone who has that reaction has no humanity. As s society we’ve kind of decided that we should preferably make people with mental health difficulties better, and if that’s not possible, at the very least prevent them from getting worse. Ev
720.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
For reference it would be good to have per-passenger numbers for "sitting on a diesel bus", "sitting on an electric bus", "sitting on a tram", "sitting on a commuter train" as well.

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