Timwi

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by Timwi 1y ago
But that would require any SQL library you're currently using to make the breaking change of no longer allowing strings.
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by Timwi 1y ago
True. Then you could use sql"..." html"..." for each of the given examples and achieve some runtime type safety.
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by Timwi 1y ago
> School is very successful at convincing kids (and former kids) of two things: Well, and thirdly, that your worth as a person is determined by your results in graded examinations, and by extension, your salary or some other numerical ra
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by Timwi 1y ago
Are there any systems like that, even if experimental?
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by Timwi 1y ago
> Probably because English is written left to right and doesn't work so well top to bottom. My browser tabs are on the left side of the screen and they are all written left to right. There is ample space on the sides of websites to
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by Timwi 1y ago
That explains the layout of websites and web apps, but not the desktop taskbar and the desktop browser’s tab bar.
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by Timwi 1y ago
The time offset impedes the ability of viewers to interact with the streamer via chat, which for many people (incl. myself) is the whole reason to watch live instead of a recording.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Agree. For the record (in case it gets changed), the title at time of writing is “Wait. HOW MANY supernova explode every year?”.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I have written long methods and will do so again and I wouldn't say it's because I have larger working memory or some other supposedly superior attribute. Some methods are just a long series of steps that you can just write one af
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by Timwi 1y ago
And yet, for some reason, most people want their tabs and toolbars on the top, and the taskbar on the bottom, taking away vertical space that is actually used, and leave swathes of space on the left and right completely unused. I will never
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by Timwi 1y ago
You're assuming all you can do is prompt it. Surely you could also constrain its output to tokens that genuinely contain no e’s (or make only max 4 letters per word). LLMs actually output a probability distribution of next tokens; Chat
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by Timwi 1y ago
> Producing content with an AI that will re-edit the film on each watch They made it clear that it's not AI. They could have been clearer on what it is instead, but the impression I got is that it's procedural generation with a
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by Timwi 1y ago
I don't understand why Android only? Why would nobody want to use this on a PC?
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by Timwi 1y ago
You can't be serious, right? As a consumer, where can I choose to buy a printer with no planned obsolescence? Or a food item with no plastic packaging? In capitalism we do not, in fact, have the power you describe, because only the mos
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by Timwi 2y ago
A real intelligence would recognize that this task is better solved with an automated tool and actually do so. ChatGPT is capable of writing and executing Python code, but it doesn't occur to it to use that in cases like this.
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by Timwi 2y ago
For what its worth, my reading of the text you're criticizing was not at all characterized by the level of distraction you describe; and this coming from somebody who is otherwise so distracted by typos that I will skip a comment (or b
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by Timwi 2y ago
I do tend to agree with your sentiment — his business practices have not been ethically stellar. Despite, if you wish to bring forward criticism and be taken seriously, you’d do well to first familiarize yourself with the basic difference b
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by Timwi 2y ago
To be fair, Bill Gates is a corporate guy. That's why he's rich, not because of his programming.
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by Timwi 2y ago
Same here, though with one exception: things that are not usually written out in English words (operators and punctuation) still have German names to me. In my head I still say “Stern”, “Klammer zu”, etc. when reading code like “x = *y;” an
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by Timwi 2y ago
I am annoyed that comma won out as the separator. Tab would have been a massively better choice. Especially for those of us who have discovered and embraced elastic tabstops. Any slightly large CSV is unreadable and uneditable because you c
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by Timwi 2y ago
That was indeed my point. You can't just disable JavaScript and expect the web to work for you.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I think we agree but you missed my point. You can create JavaScript-free websites (“documents”) and you can use a JavaScript-free browser, but there will still be websites with JavaScript (“apps”) around that your favorite websites (“docume
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by Timwi 2y ago
You sound like we need to work out which technologies to allow or ban. A true Indie web would just let technologies exist side by side, see which ones get implemented by popular clients or which clients become popular due to their implement
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by Timwi 2y ago
I mean, you could just turn JavaScript off in your browser, but we all know your experience of the web will be abysmal. I think what you actually want is a web without JavaScript. One where you can only find documents and not accidental
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by Timwi 2y ago
> The inefficiency of American institutions is nearly limitless. Don’t put too much stock in the glacial pace of our bureaucracy as being malicious when it happens everywhere else out of broad incompetence. Correct me if I'm misread
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by Timwi 2y ago
> I just don't understand why some people are so blind to the ongoing abuse of power. What a shame! They're not blind to it. They either like it and want it (sometimes because they benefit from it), or they're indifferent
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by Timwi 2y ago
Antineutrinos are produced in nuclear reactors when the radioactive products of nuclear fission undergo beta decay. Source: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v10/66
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by Timwi 2y ago
> Earth and everything living on it will be long dead by then How do you know? It's not far fetched to think that, if humans don't go extinct in the meantime, they will continue to find ways to shape the world according to the
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by Timwi 2y ago
Runtimes and operating systems consist of files, too.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I have the exact same issue. I'm in a ton of Discord servers but have never found a way to hold a conversation like I used to on IRC in the 2000s. I also assumed that I must be the problem, but now I'm not sure anymore.

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