TchoBeer

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   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   Is programming a purely vocational skill to you? Do you not find it fun? Exciting? Interesting?
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   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   >for the world to see, possibly forever. When I was 10 or so, I uploaded some dumb little skits with my friends to YouTube. The videos accumulated about 2k views total, and are all gone now, and no one will ever recognize me from them.
3. 273.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   To be clear, it paused the game when it was about to lose, it still played normal Tetris
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   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   Has no one bothered to remake probably the most used font in academic publishing in another vector format? If it's already in a vector format?
5. 275.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   I wonder if it's better for its intended medium (being printed rather than displayed on a screen)
6. 276.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   Note: that's for making the animations. Editing is done in a video editor, though I'm not sure which one he uses anymore
7. 277.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   The headline is misleading; the article isn't really about whether or not low-level optimisations matter. With that being said, the idea that one of the big speedups that computers have gotten in the past two decades is better caching
8. 278.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   Are you suggesting that Go literally was purpose built for this?
9. 279.▲
   by TchoBeer 5y ago

   I summon dark magician in the attack position
10. 280.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Some men just want to watch the world burn
11. 281.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I'm not confused by it, though I'm a native English speaker and live in an English speaking country and spend most of my internet time on English speaking internet, so maybe that's why
12. 282.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    That's hilariously bad design
13. 283.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I don't know what media you consume but I've consumed plenty in which not everything works out for the main character
14. 284.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    What is AY short for
15. 285.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    >Yet one political party likes to go on TV and talk about "predatory trade schools" Not doubting that it happens, but who does this?
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I understand that "the python programming language" probably doesn't involve snakes. On the other hand, "the TeXmacs math typesetting software" doesn't obviously not involve LaTeX and isn't obviously not f
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    What is this referring to, as someone with little exposure to the Chinese market?
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I've in the past used chrome and Firefox on mobile and Share has never been a mess
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Oh Lord, who thought that name was good
20. 290.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    >its output is random but not uniformly random Is the same not true of human writers? Are human writers deterministic?
21. 291.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I don't think GP's beef with Maps is that it's owned by Google, though I could be wrong.
22. 292.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    >pretty much just the RNG What RNG? It definitely doesn't randomly pick words. If the comment I responded to was written by a bot (is that legal? Can I report that?) then it's indistinguishable from a human written comment.
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I know right?! I've been ranting about this for the past year, having to use docs for a small organization. All I want is Google drive but when you click on a text file it takes you into the docs editor.
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I use Google maps for navigation between locations and it works great, not sure what your problem with it is, but if you want an alternate Waze works better imo.
25. 295.▲
    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    >when in fact the author was nothing more than a random number generator GPT is not "nothing more than a random number generator"
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    The C comparison is particularly apt considering that C is newer than lisp.
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    Is that really what you want? News being locked behind increasingly strict locks?
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    What about when someone pirates the game of an Indie developer? Is that also a refusal to pay rent tribute to knowledge capitalists?
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    I appreciate how this comment respects the fact that your knowledge is spotty and possibly fictionalized. I'm always scared to ask questions or make assumptions based on things I half know from narratives and period pieces etc. Somethi
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    by TchoBeer 5y ago

    >Scientifically speaking you would be correct to say that there is no evidence that chemical X is harmful. I wouldn't say that's true, if chemicals with a similar structure are harmful then there's weak but real evidence t