Yoric

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by Yoric 11mo ago
Yes, my kid has ADHD. The browser add-on does the job at slowing down the impulse of going to YouTube (and a few online gaming sites) during homework hours. I've deployed the same one for me, but setup for Reddit during work hours. Bot
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by Yoric 11mo ago
> Socialising is the same. You get better at it through practice. Practice is fun, it makes you do fun things and meet fun people. Not for all of us, though. For some, socializing is considerable pressure.
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by Yoric 11mo ago
Apparently, it's a common symptom of ADHD. Probably of other sources of anxiety, too.
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by Yoric 11mo ago
Any solution based on this sounds monstruously more complicated than my browser addon. And technical bandaids to hyperactivity, however imperfect, are damn useful.
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by Yoric 11mo ago
Notice that I'm not discussing economic collapse, I'm mentioning the environment and international relationships (e.g. the apparent return from the rule of international right we've had since WW2, however partially and imperf
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by Yoric 11mo ago
No, I don't. But the OP didn't discuss "Should Valve do something about the sorry state of the world", it discussed whether we individually should buy a Steam Machine.
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by Yoric 11mo ago
Let me be that guy: we live in a time of collapse, for both the environment and international relationships – do we really need more gaming rigs?
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by Yoric 11mo ago
I did that, but my router doesn't offer a documented API (or even a ssh access) that I can use to reprogram DNS blocks dynamically. I wanted to stop YouTube only during homework hours, so enabling/disabling it a few times per day
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by Yoric 11mo ago
Ah, that might explain some communication issues I've had. Looking it up, it seems that marxists use the word "capitalists" to refer to the class of owners of capital. I've always used "capitalist" to refer to
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by Yoric 11mo ago
Not the exact same problem, but a few months ago, I tried to block youtube traffic from my home (I was writing a parental app for my child) by IP. After a few hours of trying to collect IPs, I gave up, realizing that YouTube was dynamically
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by Yoric 11mo ago
How do you define "capitalists", in this context?
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by Yoric 11mo ago
Ah, interesting data points, thanks. Still, let's not forget Napoleon :)
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by Yoric 11mo ago
Unless I'm mistaken, by imposing tariffs, Donald Trump has broken pretty much all trade treaties ever signed by the US. Since these treaties covered more than tariffs (e.g. some of them were the same treaties that ensured recognition o
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by Yoric 11mo ago
I don't think that the sky is falling. However, I think that many in the US are underestimating the current paradigm shift. Right now, in Europe, leaders and voters need to take decisions while keeping in mind the possibility that the
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by Yoric 11mo ago
I think GP means that Europe didn't intervene when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and, more generally, has done its best to limit rearmament until now. And we're going to pay for it by having a war against Russia that we might hav
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by Yoric 11mo ago
> With one notable exception: A __del__ that put a termination notification into a queue. Yeah, at some point, I was working on a prototype of finalization for JavaScript, and that was also my conclusion.
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by Yoric 11mo ago
Does it? I mean, it already has a library of games vaster than all other consoles taken together.
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by Yoric 11mo ago
Not sure where that comes from. We're not even discussing Rust in this thread.
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by Yoric 11mo ago
I'm not entirely certain what you mean. These C++ developers I'm mentioning are all at least senior (some of them staff+), which makes their remarks on segfaults scary, because clearly, they haven't realized that a segfault i
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by Yoric 11mo ago
You should take a look at TAL (the Typed Assembly Language) and DTAL (the Dependently Typed Assembly Language). The latter was designed specifically to support co-writing assembly and formal proofs.
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by Yoric 11mo ago
> Building yet another CSV exporter? Who gives a damn. The problem with memory unsafe code is that it can have unexpected and unpredictable side-effects. Such as subtly altering the critical data you're exporting, of letting an atta
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by Yoric 11mo ago
I've spoken with quite a few C++ developers who swear that they don't need memory safety tooling because they're good enough to achieve it on their own. More than a few also expect that the worst that can happen from breaking
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by Yoric 11mo ago
While Ada is a great and sadly underused language, if my memory serves, it's not out-of-the-box memory-safe by today's definitions. I seem to recall that it takes Spark to make it memory-safe.
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by Yoric 11mo ago
On the other hand, I've had extremely skilled senior Indian colleagues who were essentially paid like juniors. As far as I understand, there's extreme variance between highest-tier and lowest-tier universities and it's not ne
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by Yoric 11mo ago
> I tend to use LLMs from different companies and personally compare them, and read between the lines. Read between the lines? Does this mean that you're using LLMs as a source of information?
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by Yoric 11mo ago
I agree with you. However, open weights (please let's not call these "open source", they are essentially binary blobs) are easier to fine-tune.
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by Yoric 11mo ago
Well, not using the site probably means that you're avoiding the mini-LLMs powdered before and after the main LLM to provide filters (including some layers of censorship) and the system prompt. So I guess it depends on how deep the bia
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I certainly do.
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by Yoric 11mo ago
As someone who sold a few pieces of (non-gaming) software I (co-)wrote in a box in the 90s, I seem to recall that just the retailer kept ~70%. With the remaining 30%, you had to pay for the physical aspects (the box, the discs, the manual,
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by Yoric 11mo ago
I found some :)

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