Sharlin

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781.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Yeah, that’s fair.
782.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
If protons decay. There isn't really any reason to believe they're not stable.
783.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Kennings are different from normal compound words (which Finnish as a synthetic language is full of, like German). They're poetic/metaphorical synonyms for existing standard words for things, whereas something like tietokone (li
784.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
You could insert the message on every single webpage you serve, hidden visually and from screenreaders.
785.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
But hey, at least it’s POSIX compliant! In that respect, anyway.
786.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
But in principle the phosphors used might have some power outside the visual spectrum, making them look different to an eye that can see into the near UV or IR. A lot of UV in particular would be filtered by the thick glass though, I guess.
787.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Square brackets are often used in contexts where the function is "higher-order" in some sense, with the type of the parameter itself being a function, distribution, or a similar object with richer structure. I think in this case C
788.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
I had almost forgotten that single-level undo was ever a thing. I'm sure there are some applications still in production use that don't support multi-level undo/redo though.
789.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
I certainly hope the Bsky post is satire, but I honestly can't tell anymore.
790.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
No worries! I definitely sympathise. Irony is truly dead these days.
791.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Communication is definitely a skill, and most people suck at it in general. And frequently poor communication is a direct result from the fact that we don't ourselves know what we want. We dream of a genie that not only frees us fr
792.
by Sharlin 8mo ago
No, clearly not. First, future is never inevitable, and second, I was being ironic. Though the fact is that thin vs rich clients is one of the major fashion cycles in the IT industry.
793.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
They're hedging on LLMs inventing time travel any day now.
794.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
The future is thin clients for everyone, requiring a minimal amount of RAM and storage because all they are is a glorified ChatGPT interface.
795.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
They haven't forgotten, they've expressly decided to soft-pivot away from consumer GPUs. RTX 60x0 series is apparently coming in 2018… (oops, 2028. No time travel involved. Probably). If the bubble has burst by then.
796.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Yeah, some sort of pluralization support is pretty much the second most important feature in any message localization tool, right after the ability to substitute externally-defined strings in the first place. Even in a monolingual applicati
797.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Given that humans must have "always" known that carving a hole in something is easier if you use your wrist to reciprocally rotate the tool, I'd be inclined to suspect that both hole-making and firestarting with a bow drill w
798.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
One thing that has happened since 2020 is that recent AMD CPUs support AVX-512, so that raises the number of registers by 16+16+32.
799.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Most mainstream news sites around here have by now hidden the comment section somehow, either making it folded by default or just moving it to the bottom of the page below "related news" sections and the like.
800.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Yeah, I later found that quote on Wikipedia too. Though I don't think the cited source is super reliable either, or just folklore ("Oh, 'code page' refers to actual deadtree pages"). All the IBM documentation I co
801.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
It’s awesome that Lurker’s Guide is still there.
802.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Objectively? Many consider it the best of the three 90s Treks. And TOS is really too remote for a meaningful comparison with the three.
803.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
It was lauded for being made on Amigas. The Season 1 CGI really is rather rough compared to TNG, never mind DS9. But it improved considerably in S2. Still, there are things like the starfield visible from C&C’s observation window never
804.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
When I re-watched B5 a few years ago, I wad surprised by the amount of humor and small pieces of situational comedy. It’s really missing from most 2000s TV dramas, everything became really serious after 9/11. If there’s humor in a 00s
805.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Season 2 is good to great, not mediocre. It’s just that S3 and S4 are even better. Season 1 you can skip most of the fillers if you’re in a hurry. There’s a plenty of curated S1 episode lists on the internet that tell you which episodes you
806.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
In this case there certainly were experts doing hand-holding. But simply being able to ask the right question isn't too much to ask, is it? If it had been merely a grad student or even a PhD student who had asked ChatGPT to figure
807.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
I'm a big LLM sceptic but that's… moving the goalposts a little too far. How could an average Joe even understand the conjecture enough to write the initial prompt? Or do you mean that experts would give him the prompt to copy-pas
808.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
As brazzy said, there's no such thing as extended ASCII. There's just a huge number of ASCII-compatible eight-bit encodings. The original IBM (and DOS) character set, hardwired into ROM, is the one you're thinking of, and wen
809.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Hate to be that guy, but ASCII doesn't contain box-drawing characters or arrows. I guess it's a lost cause though…
810.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
That seems like a crazy position to take. LLMs have changed nothing about the point of "Lena". The point of SF has never ever been about predicting the future. You're trying to criticize the most superficial, point-missing re

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