Timwi

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by Timwi 3mo ago
Did anyone notice how the article goes on and on about making AI accessible to the billions of people in the world, but then in the same article says this: > Your agents need to be sovereign. Your company must own and control the agents
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by Timwi 3mo ago
How do you think humans experience desktop interfaces? “Basically just OCR'ing screenshots” is exactly what humans do.
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by Timwi 3mo ago
> Is that specified or does it always just assume it isn’t really being put in charge of things for real? I think it's neither, and it's interesting that those are the only two possibilities you thought of. I think the article
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by Timwi 3mo ago
The button to place an order should 100% be idempotent. There's one order you're constructing in your shopping cart, perhaps with an internal ID, and the irreversible “commit” button should place that order, not create two separ
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by Timwi 3mo ago
It seems somewhat clear to me. You want it executed twice if and only if the operation isn't idempotent. Can you give an example where you think both behaviors are equally defensible?
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by Timwi 3mo ago
It shouldn't buffer them like the author describes. It should execute the button’s function immediately when pressed. This might mean to cancel the current animation and jump ahead, or it might mean to speed it up by the appropriate fa
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by Timwi 3mo ago
Have you tried asking your son if the slippers and/or the coat might be uncomfortable to him in some way? You seem to assume that he randomly throws tantrums just to annoy you, but maybe he has a reason.
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by Timwi 3mo ago
How does this affect the Fairphone? If I buy a Fairphone now (which I've been considering for months now) will I continue to be able to run F-Droid and load arbitrary apps, or does it come with “official” Android that will contain the
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by Timwi 3mo ago
Technically anonymous I suppose because the struct is not named, but the article is mostly about type inference while your example has every type made explicit.
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by Timwi 3mo ago
If a statically typed language has no support for record type (or the support it does have is insufficient for your purposes) then you are forced to find other ways to express your logic, so over time those other ways start feeling more nat
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by Timwi 3mo ago
This is the one area where you actually want an LLM to be “nothing but a fancy auto-complete” like so many people say it is.
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by Timwi 3mo ago
I'm not surprised the Ruhr area (the cluster of cities in West Germany surrounding Essen) sweeps the “30% greenery” benchmarks. This area was especially rich in coal deposits, leading to massive coal extraction during the industrial re
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by Timwi 4mo ago
Just as a heads-up, if you do this and you want to use #rrggbb color codes or url(#id) links, you have to escape the # as %23, otherwise it gets parsed as a URL fragment and your SVG code is cut off there.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
What non-contrived polynomial time problem can you think of that is n^20? I'm really curious.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
It is in the context of this thread, because the article is about exponential growth.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
You're fond of asking candidates an unrealistic hypothetical and you think that's revealing?
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by Timwi 4mo ago
The one that is labeled as “German” is similar to, but noticeably different from, the hardware display actually in use on Berlin underground trains. The real one has proper descenders, and also has narrow i/t/l and wider m/w
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by Timwi 4mo ago
There are a few mistakes in this talk; I'll list just two that I noticed. 1. He calls Array(16) and then talks about there being 16 separators. Of course, there are only 15. This kinda breaks the Batman joke. 2. He writes {}+[] and cla
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by Timwi 4mo ago
For future reference, the phrase is “hear, hear”.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
Do you like Kool-aid? Perhaps a lot? You may be addicted.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
Mastodon does not have persistence of data though. Your instance shuts down? All your posts are gone. I naively assumed I could just move them to a new instance and found out the hard way. I have felt disillusioned with Mastodon ever since.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
It’s megahit, no hyphen. Also the exe is called prince.exe in my copy of the game but it’s possible there were other versions.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
What SQL system have you been using where just escaping a string requires “an ever-increasing pile of regexes”?
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by Timwi 4mo ago
Why is a format string or string concatenation (or interpolation, what I would use) the “wrong way” when all user input (more precisely: all string literals) are properly escaped?
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I can tell you about my experiences with this, which from what I hear are unusual. I first learned programming in C128 BASIC. Then on the PC it was QBasic and Turbo Pascal, and later Perl. What all of these languages have in common is tha
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I want doctors to outsource their diagnosis to AI if and only if the AI’s accuracy of diagnosis has surpassed that of the doctor.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
> how do you take the shape of the human corpus and all its gradients and [somehow] arrive at something greater than human, where was the missing information hiding? Well, how do humans do it? Scientists discover new stuff that isn'
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by Timwi 4mo ago
> But that’s not how humans writing code generally think about ambiguous expressions. You can see that by how few precedence rules programmers tend to internalize I'd argue that it is how humans think about ambiguous syntax, exce
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I actually hung out in their IRC for a while hoping to maybe form a social connection and then get an invite, but somehow it just never materialized, and the chat wasn't engaging, so I stopped coming back...
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by Timwi 4mo ago
> "Matter" is an abstaction. Mind, properly considered, (i.e. not with words) is not. > Strict adherence to Occham's razor would have us dispense with the former, but the latter is useful empirically. Did you mean to sa

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