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by _dain_ 4y ago
>It's irrelevant if 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis during WW2 instead of 7 million or 5 million. The problem is how this sort of nitpicking revolving high-level gross estimates is leveraged to deny it ever exist and f
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Yeah I know lol, just trying to be honest. It's a genuinely fun language to work with; if it wasn't I wouldn't have put in so much time trying to make it work with the way I like to program. I still recommend you check it out
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> What have you switched to from Nim? Have you gone back to Python and put up with the speed penalty or chosen something else? Just Python and shell scripting. All this stuff is for hobbyist programming not my day job, so I just shelved
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galling. gauling is what the french do.
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Iterators claim to be first-class but aren't. And "zero-cost" iterators that are only zero-cost if you don't value your own time spent debugging them. I've been able to crash the compiler when trying to write what i
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>I really wish that there was a language with the productivity, ecosystem and ergonomics of Python, with the speed and efficiency of Java and C# and a type system that increases productivity rather than word count. Nim has that except fo
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by _dain_ 4y ago
the article doesn't get the rule quite right. if you're sending a message with more than one sentence in it, a full stop is fine. but on shorter messages, the end-of-sentence is implied by the end of the message, so putting in a f
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you can use a laptop
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> Code doesn't lie, comments do pi = 3
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I don't want to continue this argument forever but let me make my final thought: I can imagine a language model that can learn how the Linux terminal works but not how English works. I can NOT imagine a language model that can learn ho
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it is pattern matching, the correct output is literally part of the prompt.
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>But none of this was done with chatGPT. No training specific to how a terminal works. chatGPT simply knows as a side effect. The only way for this inference to work is for chatGPT to develop some form of understanding from what is mostl
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>I literally cannot comprehend how you can get to the ending and still say it doesn't understand you. How does it query itself over the virtual internet without understanding what itself is? It needs to be aware of what itself is. A
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I read the article to the end and I don't see why the ending part is any more impressive than the beginning. We already know it can talk about itself, and write fiction featuring itself as a participant. Doing it in a faked linux termi
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by _dain_ 4y ago
You don't need to have a GP referral. I didn't. Just go with a private psychiatrist that specializes in ADHD and you can get diagnosed.
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>you can save your own money for retirement without anyone's contribution towards your pension No, that won't work. Money is only worth as much as the goods and services it will pay for, and those goods and services have to be
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>If you have properly set pension system population decline is completely irrelevant and beneficial for everyone. excuse me? pensions need a robust young population to work. otherwise who is going to be providing all those goods and serv
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by _dain_ 4y ago
If you scroll down past the lede and the table of contents the old design has more information. It's just that giant square of whitespace next to the ToC that is holding back the old one.
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Or, more optimistically: the perfect width to display footnotes and citations. Like how Gwern's site does it: https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes
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I have strong beliefs, you have an opinion, he is editorializing.
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>Younger people are less familiar with check boxes I get that people fill out paper forms less than they used to, but give the younger generation some credit here. It's not like we live in a Star Trek future world where paper is an
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Great observation.
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I'm convinced they're bad UI based on how I've seen my parents try to use them on touch devices. They try to slide them horizontally, not realizing you're just meant to tap them. And the slide motion ends up doing someth
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>The interface looks very, um, VisualBasic or Microsoft Excel. That is fine. There is certainly a market for that. But it will turn off a huge segment of your market, namely those that aspire to be the lead in the TV show Mr. Robot. I kn
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Function application is just substitution. >Your source code is a long text template, no magic to it. No, no, no! This is wrong, and really bad pedagogy. def func_1(x): return x + x def func_2(y): print(y)
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by _dain_ 4y ago
See also Vime, which is Vim as an Input Method Editor, supposedly works with any X11 app. I haven't used it though. https://github.com/algon-320/vime
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by _dain_ 4y ago
there are places like you describe and they get along just fine without those underground car roads. if you're going to the enormous expense of tunneling you should get your money's worth by building high-capacity transit.
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>confuses all your friends who exactly is confused by SMS?
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No
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by _dain_ 4y ago
My apologies dang, I'll try to keep a lid on it more. Thanks for the warning.

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