TillE

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by TillE 3y ago
None of the points listed in the opening here have any real bearing on whether or not an LLM can handle some weird, poorly worded ("we replaced ... by") text substitution problem.
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by TillE 3y ago
Generously, Musk has never been serious about making predictions. When he says stuff like this he just means he's excited about it.
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by TillE 3y ago
It's a portable computer that does a bunch of useful things. I really don't understand the fraught relationship some people have with their phones. Just don't install social media apps and other time-wasters?
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by TillE 3y ago
The ideal form of the flight booking interaction is that it's basically a computerized travel agent. So it could theoretically ask questions or listen to your objections and refine the request that way. That could be fine, it's pr
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by TillE 3y ago
InvalidOperationException means "the object is in an inappropriate state". That does not describe a parse error. C# conventions for exceptions are admittedly a bit confusing. There are a handful of very specific scenarios where yo
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by TillE 3y ago
I suspect the iPad will remain the best option for stuff like RPG books. It's relatively cheap, the screen is large, it's fast and responsive, etc. It's not pleasant for reading in a dark room, but otherwise it's close t
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by TillE 3y ago
I'm relieved that the GitHub repo has finally been restored. I was just about to make a commit to fix our liblzma dependency, which would have required a vcpkg overlay to use a different upstream repo.
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by TillE 3y ago
My experience with ARM64 Windows (in a VM on a Mac) was that Intel binaries run just fine, including some truly ancient VB6 stuff. Maybe there are performance issues with high-end games, I dunno, but for general use it seemed perfect. I was
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by TillE 3y ago
> you created a non-trivial project from scratch I think a lot of people overestimate the amount of effort it takes to create a moderately successful, useful project. Like, make a plugin for something. Demonstrate that you can solve a re
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by TillE 3y ago
This is pretty thin. Some Japanese cryptography researchers happen to have some very common syllables in their surnames. I still like Hal Finney as Nakamoto, just because those bitcoin have never moved, and his being dead is the best explan
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by TillE 3y ago
Germany loves endless bureaucratic paperwork which absolutely must be done in person (and good luck getting an appointment in Berlin), despite the many years of bleating about Digitalisierung which has apparently amounted to nothing.
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by TillE 3y ago
> specifically offering support for currently sold games/systems This has absolutely zero legal relevance.
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by TillE 3y ago
Given the policy, I'm still really unclear about how ScummVM was allowed into the iOS app store. Maybe it was a mistake, but it's been up there for months. There's no conceptual difference between interpreting SCUMM bytecode
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by TillE 3y ago
Google is vague about this, but the easiest solution to protect the quality of the ngram viewer is simply to only use books from known, non-vanity publishers.
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by TillE 3y ago
Every game programmer needs a strong math background. Every good game designer cribs extensively from history and literature. Having a sense of art is important even if you aren't an artist. There's very little in school that isn
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by TillE 3y ago
Ultimately autotools isn't doing anything magical, so it's not unusual for cross-platform package managers like vcpkg to simply ignore all that and write their own clean CMakeLists.txt. In this particular case xz-utils actually di
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by TillE 3y ago
Wikipedia itself isn't ideal for this, but I keep waiting for some major news institution to migrate away from the ancient newspaper article format and towards something more wiki-like for covering stories. I think you could productive
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by TillE 3y ago
Several years ago we crossed the point where everyone is on Discord because everyone is on Discord. Also it's free, of course. And there's a bunch of neat features that are somewhat unique, like using roles to sign up for specific
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by TillE 3y ago
Games would probably be the biggest, most common scenario where C++ isn't going anywhere any time soon. More generally, if you need to use existing C++ or even C libraries, Rust is at best an awkward fit unless someone else has already
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah zstd is nice on its own, but a proper dictionary will give you several times the compression ratio on top of that, plus super fast decompression. It's just absurdly good for specialized data.
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by TillE 3y ago
That's a little surprising; 6502 assembly is a fairly popular hobbyist thing, so I would expect the data is out there. It's also mostly pretty simple, but you do have to watch out for quirks like rotating through the carry bit.
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by TillE 3y ago
My favorite know-nothing gamer meme these days is "bad optimization". What they mean is that the performance is worse than what they would expect (?) on a given hardware configuration and game settings. They haven't poked aro
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by TillE 3y ago
I've found that LLMs are most exciting and useful when factual accuracy is irrelevant, like as a personal tool for creative brainstorming. Or searching for information that you're going to immediately validate anyway. It's de
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by TillE 3y ago
Every time you want to iterate over a map, for example, you're using std::pair<T,U> or std::unordered_map<T,U>::iterator. This gets very annoying without auto, and making an alias doesn't really address any of the comp
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by TillE 3y ago
As far as I've seen, the big tell for LLM-generated essays is that they're still largely fluff with little information. My memory of college essays is that you find your handful of sources, extensively cite them, and you're p
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by TillE 3y ago
> The release tarballs upstream publishes don't have the same code that GitHub has. This is common in C projects so that downstream consumers don't need to remember how to run autotools and autoconf. This doesn't seem real
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by TillE 3y ago
It's rarely mentioned, but a major casualty of the Reader shutdown was Google Listen, a perfectly good podcast app which I think was just somebody's side project. It used Reader as a backend, so you could also manage your feeds in
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by TillE 3y ago
> Voice Engine preserves the native accent of the original speaker I sort of understand this as a goal, but the American-accented German is weird. Like they nail some difficult "r" sounds but botch the easy ones. An odd hybrid
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by TillE 3y ago
Google Wave is an interesting case study because they identified a real problem (email sucks), came up with some really cool open technology, but never quite put it together in the right way. The web client was slow and clunky, and they pro
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by TillE 3y ago
I don't know what "ruling" you're talking about. The DMA is a law, and it will be enforced despite Apple pretending to comply with it. There's nothing like a judicial proceeding as yet, much less a ruling. This real

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