Zambyte

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by Zambyte 2mo ago
The fact that you can write a C parser in C does not make C homoiconic. Not needing to have a user level parser is like, the whole thing that makes homoiconicity interesting.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
You can't natively index into a string and get any C syntactic token out of it besides a char.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
Easy is an understatement. Macros and dynamic programming (often done using runtime reflection in other languages) are so trivially easy in Lisps that one can stumble into it without realizing they're even doing it. Anyone who has done
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
One of the more notable apps originally written in Racket is https://news.ycombinator.com . See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)#His...
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
As noted in the default test, this site is by ZSA, a keyboard company. Their boards are pricey, but excellent. I have both their Moonlander, which sits on my desk at home, and their Voyager, which I went with quieter key switches (brown rat
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
> nor are they gonna crawl some dozens of websites That is quite literally what !research does. But agreed on local search - I tend to use Google maps for anything local. Otherwise for something I'd buy online, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
Guns also can't hold copyright; can they be charged with crime? (hint: it's the operator who gets charged).
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
> presumably they want a shopping feature so that they can shop Right... why? Is it really too much after talking to the assistant and finding the item you want to purchase, to then click the provided link to the product page and click b
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
That's already possible, so I thought they were asking for more.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
While the article is more about specialized search (videos, shopping) for general web search, Kagi has to be mentioned. It's been so long since I've used another search engine (years), I'm generally shocked to see what they l
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
> If only Kagi had a Shopping feature, then it would be a complete solution for us. Why?
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
> Swartz' use case was the dissemination and archival of knowledge; Meta's use case is powering up their proprietary plagiarism code It's hard to imagine a world where Aaron is still around, and he is not a huge fan of LLM
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
Yes. Telemetry is anti-social at best, authoritarian at worst. We have built industries on "the user won't tell us what they want so we have to spy on them so we can build what they want" and then instead of building what the
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
You didn't expect the application you developed called "Skynet" that has an eye of sauron as it's logo to be used by the military? Sorry, I don't believe you.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
What is that link?
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
I... really don't agree. Being confident in using documentation to program in a variety of environmnets is not "terribly hacky engineering". Good engineering involves leveraging documentation well.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
Last year I purchased an e-scooter (Hiboy X300)to compliment my car. I used it so much, I accidentally let my car rot into disrepair. The e-scooter is great, but it is quite limited in what you can carry (only what you can put in a backpack
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
Software that intentionally subverts the intent of the user is malware. We now live in a world where most financial institutions literally ship malware as their primary or only interference to access their systems.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
I have always found "not knowing" a programming language to be such a fascinating failure mode for professional software engineers. Especially as someone who learned to program with all programming documentation available online.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
Honestly it seems like a job for the harness, rather than the model. Sample the model with the same question, perhaps with varying temperature (?), and use that to establish a degree of confidence in the answer. If the model provides very d
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
With a torque sensor you can just raise the assist level and drop your gear to get the same effect, no? Seems like a torque sensor would be the best of both worlds.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
FUD. Cars in general can be trivially stolen if you don't lock them. Lock your bike and it can't be trivially stolen. The problem here is this device can be easily removed even from a locked bike, and it itself cannot be easily lo
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
Huh, this is the first I've heard of that one. Has anyone here tried it? I assume the main appeal for those who use it is the country of origin, rather than performance?
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
I read it as catastrophic for the companies trying to IPO. It'll be great for the rest of us though.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
I am extremely active on Bluesky, particularly on mobile. I use the PWA instead of the app on mobile. It works better for me.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
I'm not sure why specifically Javascript instead of something like Python or other options, but using an interpreted environment minimizes the friction for implementing extension systems, which are an important feature in AI harnesses.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
> I'm not entirely sure what your point is. I edit my reply as you were responding to make my point explicit.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
Legally speaking, is murder stealing? (And yes, "legally" matters, because we're talking about laws in this thread, not colloquial "their life was stolen" type expressions.) This question is obviously (hopefully) rh
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
Source please.
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by Zambyte 2mo ago
By conflating unauthorized copying with stealing, they're usually doing so to justify excessive punishment. If the owner lost what they had, they were obviously harmed, right?

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