Timwi

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by Timwi 1y ago
I considered whether to mention C# in this thread but initially decided against it because it doesn't actually have a bottom type. You can't assign a throw expression to an implicitly-typed variable, or anywhere else where it is n
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by Timwi 1y ago
> This would be something the Boomer generation grew up with ... in your country I assume. I've never heard of these, but from the looks of it, they look like an American version of Playmobil or Fisher Price.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I'm so glad to hear that from someone unprompted. I tried WPF and it was a million times harder to use than WinForms, and I couldn't even be bothered to try out MAUI (although I accept it as an apology for WPF lol). I'm still
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by Timwi 1y ago
I don't think the commenter you replied to disagrees with any of that. They were talking about poor rates of adoption, not its feature set.
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by Timwi 1y ago
> Corrections and follow-up questions are welcome. There are two places where you accidentally wrote “omega” instead of “\omega”.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I would invite you to re-read some of the comments you perceived as judgement and condescension and keep an open mind. You might find that you took them as judgement and condescension unfairly. Meanwhile, you have absolutely been judgementa
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by Timwi 1y ago
Here is how I might have handled it differently: Instead of > Meanwhile, plenty of us have found a way to enhance our productivity during deep work. No need for the patronization. you could have written > Personally, I found doing X d
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by Timwi 1y ago
As an observer to this conversation, I can't help but notice that both have a good point here. Soulofmischief’s main point is that meesles made an inappropriate generalization. Meesles said that something was impossible to do, and soul
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by Timwi 1y ago
> You could have asked for tips since I said I've found a way to work deeply with them How do you work deeply with them? Looking for some tips.
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by Timwi 1y ago
> It’s compelling OpenAI retain data they have the contractual right and technical ability to retain. You were so close. It’s compelling OpenAI to retain data they also have the right and technical ability to delete. It removes OpenAI’s
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by Timwi 1y ago
Hm, have you been on the web lately? I've got bad news for you.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I developed web software with frames and I thought it was perfectly fine. To this day I still don't understand the issue with frames. People sometimes mention accessibility for screen readers, but nothing more specific than that, so I
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by Timwi 1y ago
Hm, this article is absolutely about a court order that exhibits “[...] almost no regard for the privacy of parties not involved to a given dispute”, so I don't get your point. If your point is that OpenAI are contesting it, then that
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by Timwi 1y ago
Do you think there is nothing private about your terminal commands? Would you be 100% ok with bash sending all of your command lines to a corporation with a database?
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by Timwi 1y ago
Although I'm in a similar boat as you, I don't think access to ChatGPT would have helped because it's still much too sycophantic to tell people the kinds of things they need to hear in order to learn interpersonal skills. If
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by Timwi 1y ago
> if we did, we would be overwhelmed to the point of confusing the real world with the dream world. How do you know? That seems a bold claim, and not one that I suspect has any experimental evidence behind it.
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by Timwi 1y ago
> I don't know how a materialist could answer anything other than no Well, I'm a materialist and I say yes. Materialism doesn't preclude the existence of information which can be represented by matter. Recreating matter in
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by Timwi 1y ago
OK so either you're confirming that LaTeX is useless for anyone who actually needs to generate HTML and not PDF, or you're implying that nobody ever needs to use HTML and the whole Internet should just be PDFs?
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by Timwi 1y ago
I'm confused. Your first sentence implies that LaTeX can generate HTML and then you process to list other projects that you need. This whole thread is about an alternative to LaTeX which can actually genuinely just output HTML.
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I admit I was unclear but I wasn't talking about output.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I've always wondered why so many instruction pages for software meticulously include all key presses like Enter. This explains a lot
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by Timwi 1y ago
I love the term “Google fu”. We should call it prompt fu or LLM fu instead of “prompt engineering”.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Oh okay, guess all LLMs are just fine then and we don't need to do any further development on them.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I think you've listed several disparate incentives that should be looked at separately. Economic incentives are what this thread is about. If those are removed, some instances of cheating will subside. Reputational incentives are simil
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by Timwi 1y ago
That assumes that the only issue with LaTeX is its syntax. Other issues I can think of are that LaTeX doesn't generate HTML and that LaTeX is completely Unicode-disabled.
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I didn't read it as attempted comedy. I am genuinely dismayed by how easy it is for grifters to continue to find victims long after being exposed.
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An HTML version that I can just read on a phone would be nice.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Indeed, before the planet/dwarf planet debate, Pluto and Charon were sometimes called a “binary planet” because their center of rotation is outside the volume of either body.
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I'm not the person you asked but I'll answer. Because I've used both.
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Wealthy people are manipulating the world in their favor, and frequently explicitly tell us so. They can do it without forming a global cabal because they're wealthy.

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