Timwi

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by Timwi 1y ago
A lot of the things you listed are already partially true of the EU. I wouldn't exactly call it fully decentralized, but I doubt many Europeans know by heart the name of the current EU president (I don't even know the proper title
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It's komentonäppäin. Don't blame you for using the much shorter omppu!
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I agree. A better choice of word would have been diligere , meaning to value (verb). Value the user, the data, and the truth. Diligere usorem, data, (et) veritatem. Further, I'm not sure if the infinitive was the best choice of ve
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SWITCH: SoftWare Implementation Through Computer & Human BASE: Brain And Silicon Engineering CLASS: Computer/Llm-Assisted Software Specification STRUCT: Scripting Through Recurrent User/Computer Teamup ELSE: Electronically Lev
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You are also free to give away all your money and not participate in capitalism if you wish. Wait, are you sure?
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When the Mozilla foundation took over the Netscape codebase, it was initially called Mozilla, or Mozilla Browser. There was also a Mozilla email client that came from Netscape Communicator. Then they made a trimmed-down version of the brows
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For the record, Wikipedia has not (yet) blocked the UK. They are awaiting official classification by Ofcom of the Wikipedia website. However, the uncertainty is definitely vexing, and the direction this is going is truly worrying.
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This is a great example of an unnecessary pop-up. There should just be an obvious way to undo it.
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Is that what European countries do? Is that why there are no robocalls there?
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> We need to see them fined, shut down, and executives jailed. Is that what European countries do? Is that why there are no robocalls there?
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Whatever it is that gives rise to consciousness is, by definition, physics. It might not be known physics, but even if it isn't known yet, it's within the purview of physics to find out. If you're going to claim that it cou
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I have not seen any evidence of either. We have no way of knowing if we are “definitely” a true general intelligence, whether as individuals or as a civilization. If there is a concept that we are fundamentally incapable of conceptualizing,
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No.
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This is such a provincial attitude, wanting to prohibit people from using perfectly normal names like Amélie or Jürgen or Ольга to log in just because you as a programmer can't be bothered to deal with a numerical ID instead.
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This is definitely something very early LLMs could do that has kind of gotten beat out of them. I used to ask ChatGPT to simulate a text adventure game, but now if you try that you always get exactly the same one.
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How did you get access to enough ChatGPT conversations (in multiple languages, no less) to do this training?
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> I have to ask my product nicely to do it's fucking job because OpenAI designed it not to. This honestly describes my experience with almost all software.
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Same here.
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OK time to brag big time. I was not taught Sütterlin in school but I learned it anyway while in 5th grade simply because it was fun. I arranged with my teachers to be allowed to do homework in it and most of them agreed, seeing it as (at le
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by Timwi 1y ago
> it has type inference, full algebraic types [...] For the record, I didn't say Java doesn't have those. The only thing I said it doesn't have is value types (and in another post, true generics). I'm aware that it ha
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by Timwi 1y ago
For me it was VB 6, then Borland Delphi, then C#. I also found a cool app that was written for .NET Framework before I started with C#: the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. To this day I'm using my own custom-defined keyboard layout
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by Timwi 1y ago
While C# certainly has tech debt too, the specific feature the author mentions (value types) has been there since version 1. C# pioneered async/await in version 5, and has a plethora of functional features like generics, type inference
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Same. Lisp’s selling point is that “code is data” — not objects.
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> Why abuse .class files for data storage The only alternative is to have the data in a separate file, which needs to be available, read in, and parsed. .NET/CLR provides a mechanism to bake large objects into the assembly and I don
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A lot of functional programming patterns have made their way into newer versions of C#. That obviously doesn't make it a functional language now, but it is also no longer just obviously procedural.
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> int is different to Integer Having separate types for these is the problem; not the boxing. C#/IL/CLR handles boxing in a way that doesn't exhibit the problem. If your code is dealing with integers, they are never boxed.
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by Timwi 1y ago
No mention of C#, which of all the languages I've seen makes the best distinction for what he wants: structs/“value types” = data, classes/“reference types” = objects. He briefly mentions that Java is in the process of adding
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That has nothing to do with the 2D syntax though. That's just a separate language feature. A feature that 1D languages can (and already do) provide just fine.
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That's really more the fault of the tab completion. There's no reason why it couldn't complete `prog` to `Programs`. It's just Unix tradition that they don't. I would prefer if they did.
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Why are you trying so hard to avoid saying that it uses a NodeJS server?

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