Timwi

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by Timwi 1y ago
Why have we come to accept that a separate view mode is necessary just to read websites?
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by Timwi 1y ago
That's exactly what they're saying. If you write “the work required deep incite”, a traditional spell checker won't catch the mistake (but people consider it a spelling error).
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by Timwi 1y ago
Driving carefully is not a boolean. It's possible to design roads/environments (accidentally or not) in such a way that the “you drove carelessly” metric that triggers the fine statistically applies more often.
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by Timwi 1y ago
> (0) that reproduce everywhere on any OS perfectly Can somebody explain why this isn't the case for HTML? I'm frequently in a situation where a website that mimics printed pages fails to render the same between Firefox and Chr
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by Timwi 1y ago
> How are you prevented? The political divide. Every message is now seen as partisan and distrusted. When every nugget of health information is seen as a malicious manipulation tactic, there is no discourse.
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by Timwi 1y ago
At that scale of time, it's not implausible that we have the technology to relocate Earth itself by then (e.g. increase its orbit).
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by Timwi 1y ago
It was not my intention to be aggressive, and I'm still not sure how my comment came across that way. Nevertheless, I apologize. I have indeed felt at times slighted for developing open-source on Windows and been told that I'm “we
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by Timwi 1y ago
I completely agree with you — we should definitely decouple our conception of worth from what we “do”. And if the only issue with AI is that it gets good at doing what we want it to do, then I also agree with you. But if AIs become superint
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by Timwi 1y ago
Proof by example?
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by Timwi 1y ago
Curiously, C# does both. It uses compile-time checks to stop you from accessing an uninitialized local and from exiting a struct constructor without initializing all fields; and yet, the CLR (the VM C# compiles to) zero-initializes everythi
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by Timwi 1y ago
The CPU/GPU is to an LLM kinda like axons and dendrites are to the human brain: just a low-level implementation detail. The main crux of an LLM is what happens at a higher level. The machine-level instructions being executed are just m
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by Timwi 1y ago
I sometimes really wish religious people would engage in the reflection they expect from others and start to realize how offensive this is, especially to someone on their deathbed.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I'm a fairly competent programmer and problem solver and I'm curious about a wide variety of programming paradigms (Haskell, Lisp, etc.), esoteric programming languages, and even abstract concepts such as Turing machines and lambd
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by Timwi 1y ago
> LLMs do not think. I understand that you're responding within the thread, but to take this back to the original point, which is about human dignity, justice and labor: LLMs do not need to “think” for the point to be valid. Chess e
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by Timwi 1y ago
Why does the BMP file format store the image upside-down though?
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by Timwi 1y ago
Ask yourself why you added the “pretty well-known” phrase, and consider xkcd 1053.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Static functions (len, map/filter,...) that should have been methods on objects.
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by Timwi 1y ago
No, not really. It's not really your place to dictate what someone enjoys working on.
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by Timwi 1y ago
> I personally like the "open source Xyz" because I instantly know what the product is supposed to do. But that assumes that you're already familiar with the non-open-source software referenced. I've never used Cursor
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by Timwi 1y ago
I thought I was clever surviving one round by simply saying, “As an AI language model, I do not experience... blah blah” but in the third round my opponent did basically the same thing and I was eliminated...
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by Timwi 1y ago
I share the frustration the author describes. When I started out programming as a child, I used Turbo Pascal, but I was aware of Turbo C and that more people used that than Pascal. Nevertheless, I couldn't really wrap my head around C
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by Timwi 1y ago
I often wish LLMs would tell me outright the assumptions they make on what I mean. For example, if I accidentally put “write an essay on reworkable energy”, it should start by saying “I'm gonna assume you mean renewable energy”. It gre
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by Timwi 1y ago
I do have multiple YouTube accounts (channels) under one Google account. I initially logged in as one YouTube channel of mine that I wanted to categorize. Only then did I find out that it looks at subscriptions . So I logged out and lo
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by Timwi 1y ago
Hm, I tried to contribute, but it asked me to categorize a channel I've never heard of (DefendTheHouse) and no matter how many times I click “skip” it keeps going back to the same one. I also notice that you first said “browser extensi
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by Timwi 1y ago
No, you misunderstood that completely. They would still be like t-strings, but sql-strings are now a different type from html-strings. The escaping would be done by the library that offers the sql"..." functionality.
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by Timwi 1y ago
> Give it something weird and it'll continuously trip over itself. And so will almost all humans. It's weird how people refuse to ascribe any human-level intelligence to it until it starts to compete with the world top elite.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I've used both Usenet and web-based forums side by side in the 90s–2000s and I thought they were both perfectly adequate.
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by Timwi 1y ago
You can already get that with Mastodon.
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The single letter f or t does make it unnatural to read, but if it were sql"..." or html"...", I think that would help with that.
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by Timwi 1y ago
> The syntactic sugar of changing it from sql(t"...") doesn't seem particularly valuable. It's valuable because: - IDEs could then syntax-highlight SQL inside of SQL strings and HTML inside of HTML strings - You can&#

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