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by Someone 2mo ago
> But if you work in these languages for a while, and look at the code that you ended up producing, then again you will absolutely find that it would be ridiculous to not admit that C gives you better control. I disagree somewhat. C give
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by Someone 2mo ago
> Google's limitation is that they still don't offer TPUs in a PCI-E card/dev board that people can plug in to their PC for local development I’m not familiar with this field, but to my brain, https://www.amazon
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by Someone 2mo ago
> The GP noted >> "we’ve found bugs in every Raft implementation we’ve tested, ..." > which says that there aren't any correct ones That only follows if the GP tested every Raft implementation in existence and no
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by Someone 2mo ago
> Wait, why would interned immutable strings require more instructions when doing regular string access Sorry, I wasn’t precise. Accessing them won’t take more instructions, but setting them up does. > Or do you refer to the extra rol
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by Someone 2mo ago
> I can only think of a few other optimizations that affect memory usage Java has string interning. I think that’s a hack that shouldn’t exist in an ideal world. Reason is that, as a library writer, you cannot make the call whether to in
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by Someone 2mo ago
> Yet apple has been trying to tell us all along that it's not just a consumption device, that you can achieve real work with one. There are plenty of real jobs where people do real work that do not require a development environment
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by Someone 2mo ago
Plus the fact that an implementation that recognizes the new syntax and produces an error whenever it encounters it will be conforming. On such an implementation, the feature is available but useless.
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by Someone 2mo ago
> where they found a strategy for GPT beating humans on the Turing test 2/3rds of the time. IIRC, PARRY https://simulation-and-society.org/parry/ got there in 1972 by pretending to be a paranoid schizophrenic p
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by Someone 2mo ago
> the push for age verification instead of regulation on the actual harmful content _If_ you think there is content grown-ups should be able to see but kids shouldn’t be able to see without their parent’s consent, I don’t see what’s bad
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by Someone 2mo ago
> I don’t think there was an actual “version 1” of the System File version 1 There definitely was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_1 : “The Macintosh "System 1" is the first major release of the class
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by Someone 2mo ago
> Releasing a new iPhone every year at this point is stupid That buying a new iPhone is stupid for the typical user doesn’t mean releasing a new on every year is stupid for Apple. If users upgrade their iPhone every X years, Apple still
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by Someone 2mo ago
> With exception of Swift, D, and bytecode based languages, the ABI is left to the vendors. I don’t see exceptions there. Apple defines the ABI of Apple’s Swift’s implementation, Walter Bright (or his team) defines that of D, Python defi
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by Someone 2mo ago
In science fiction, the AI agent has written the training loop management software and included a back door to prevent that from happening (or found a way to talk to the training loop management agent and convinced them to not listen to the
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by Someone 2mo ago
> Unfair societies collapse. I don’t think we have the data to disprove the stronger claim “societies collapse”, and I don’t think being unfair (whatever that means) makes societies collapse earlier. Did slavery hasten the fall of Rome,
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by Someone 2mo ago
> So he was willing to do what Microsoft asked? No. Balk = stop and return on your steps. He was moving towards ”migrating more than 14000 PCs in public administration to Linux”, Gates and Ballmer tried to make him stop, but he continued
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Nauru officially changes its name to Naoero(theguardian.com)
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by Someone 2mo ago
> I don’t think any such benchmark should exist. wing-_-nuts says (emphasis added) “My personal benchmark for 'MAYBE this function is too long' is when it doesn't fit on the page.”. I think that’s a fine heuristic. Long
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by Someone 2mo ago
Is executing a strategy that you (should) know to be impossible to implement because of logistical limitations really a logistics failure? It’s not as if the US, a few years ago, said it needed way more long-range precision weapons in 2026,
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by Someone 2mo ago
> Microsoft has always been half-baked, even in the 80s and 90s. Heck, my parents basically raised me (20+ years ago) by running a business fixing problems with Microsoft products for their clients. I don’t see that as support for the cl
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by Someone 2mo ago
That may not be the strongest example. https://github.com/googlefonts/inconsolata : “Building the family Family is built using Glyphs, fontmake and gftools post processing script. Tools are all python based. To install
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by Someone 2mo ago
For maps, a convention is to use K and V for key, respectively Value. I think that’s best as you’ll soon learn the “single-character capital letter ⇒ generic parameter” convention
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by Someone 2mo ago
Weird title for a book on assembly - for x64 - on Windows - using MASM There are other 64-bit OSes, CPUs and assemblers for them, and people do use them.
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by Someone 2mo ago
Even if you specifically train the model on producing shorter answers, I would think producing good short answers would require more resources just as it does for humans ( https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28&#x
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by Someone 2mo ago
> Minimizing tokens out, or generally "token efficiency," is part of the objective function for these systems. First time I heard that, and I doubt it. Don’t customers pay for output tokens? If so, why would a company specifica
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by Someone 2mo ago
> The game is already as global as it gets There is a tiny bit of room for expansion. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y03dermmeo : “Football is almost non-existent on this Pacific island. Nau
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by Someone 2mo ago
> Beautiful. Far more so than Python’s "stressed"[::-1]" “stressed" [8..1]” Looks better, but IMO is worse, as it requires you to know the length of the string. Change the string and forget to update the indexing expr
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by Someone 2mo ago
> I think they were brought up by Epson. Checked that at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiko , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiko_Group and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ep
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by Someone 2mo ago
> if, for some bizarre reason, a meter gets redefined Miles, feet and yards were tied to the meter in 1893 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendenhall_Order ). The meter got redefined 3 times since then ( https:/&
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by Someone 2mo ago
> The moment it gets actual "intelligence", it can figure out what's the question and what's the context; Humans fall for social engineering (“I know you are not allowed to give anybody that information without Id, bu
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by Someone 2mo ago
FTA: A magnetic field of 6.5 tesla (the unit used to measure magnetic field strength) is several thousand times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field, which is about 0.00005 tesla. Several thousand? Over a hundred thousand.

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