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by _nalply 2y ago
For an RPN calculator I discovered similar problems with a number hierarchy as well. The calculator has four number types: - integers (for hexadecimal operations), - quotients (like some HP calculators), - IEEE 756 floating point numbers (b
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by _nalply 2y ago
I think what's missing: - A possibility to fact-check the text, for example by the Wolfram math engine or by giving internet access - Something like an instinct to fight for life (seems dangerous) - some more subsystems: let's hav
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by _nalply 2y ago
Sometimes I dream about a Rust-like programming language with optional garbage collection similar to Swift that runs in three stages: The first one is an idempotent interpreter so heavily sandboxed that it can only read the source code and
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by _nalply 2y ago
When I was twenty years old I bought a red Vespa. Suddenly I started to see them everywhere.
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Sometimes I do a little test: I tell about something I know wrong. One example would be: "X does this and does that, right? If not then it would be absurd. Could you give some examples of X?", where X is false or not applicable. I
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by _nalply 2y ago
Quora already started to decline years before LLMs becoming popular. I think, it's not AI that ruined Quora, but monetization. It's a strong case of Goodhart's Law. The measure is popularity and user retention. In an ideal wo
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by _nalply 2y ago
Achtung: Es hat Änderungen gegeben, die auf dieser Repository scheinbar nicht nachvollzogen wurden. (Attention: There have been changes that do not appear to have been reflected in this repository.)
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by _nalply 2y ago
Miri [0] is an interpreter for the mid-level intermediate representation (MIR) generated by the Rust compiler. MIR is input for more processing steps of the compiler. However miri also runs MIR directly. This means miri is a VM. Of course i
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by _nalply 2y ago
I would start with projects where the maintainer(s) suddenly got a very helpful contributor. I am sure there's a typical pattern. Then if a maintainer seems suspect investigate a little bit more. Here some balance is needed because pro
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by _nalply 2y ago
I discovered that it's better to avoid sweeteners completely and consume sugars in small amounts. Both seem to be bad for the body but differently. Sweeteners make me hungry. Sugars make me high then low. After a few years of low sweet
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by _nalply 2y ago
The problem with smartcards is: I don't see what's on them.
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by _nalply 2y ago
I can't help feeling this... In an adverse world software and electronic data is too ephemeral to entrust with authentication and authorization. What if we had something solid like a Yubikey, but: - credit card sized - completely airga
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by _nalply 2y ago
Corporate has learnt to misuse honorary or voluntary non-paid work in the software ecoystem and grabbing power. For example one big media outlet could adopt Tribler. At first everyone rejoices because it is recognition but what if it turns
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by _nalply 2y ago
I thought that's because Corporate wants to show that they are doing good, in fact so good that they look for employees. Probably Hanlon's Razor applies: «Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.»
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by _nalply 3y ago
Like the Fairphone. https://www.fairphone.com/
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by _nalply 3y ago
Because in a hobby you are your own master and in a job someone else is your superior and orders you to do things. If you are lucky many of these things are what you would like to do anyway.
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by _nalply 3y ago
It seems some geologists don't want stratigraphy speculating about the future. I can imagine they say, we don't play clairvoyant. That's what I can agree with. However I think that the concept of the Anthropocene is too impor
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by _nalply 3y ago
True but a bit too simple I think. In the article the Dutch disease is mentioned. It has three effects: 1. It makes the other exports less competitive (why bother with abundant resources?) 2. Imports financed by natural resources revenues i
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by _nalply 3y ago
Were I the tenant, I would try to tell my landlord that I paid the taxes for him and deduct the tax from future rent. Probably risky.
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by _nalply 3y ago
Yeah... Make a browser game out of it?
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And is HP's ink really better? Who knows.
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by _nalply 3y ago
"sonder" is a German word stem with the meaning of special, set apart, different. One form is "besonders" which can be translated as particular, peculiar, unique. In English maybe well known is "Sonderkommando"
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by _nalply 3y ago
You mean mechanical turks to train AI? Or in what way they are "all the way down"?
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by _nalply 3y ago
With a catapult maybe?
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by _nalply 3y ago
No, Silent Generation did that about Boomers.
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by _nalply 3y ago
> if a certain program compiles, and if so, disable something. Tiny correction: [...] enable something. The idea is: If that certain program does not compile it is because something is not available on the system and therefore needs to b
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by _nalply 3y ago
Speculating but I think a production line has a rigid synchronized speed. If a step suddenly takes more time everything else must wait. Imagine a queue of people at a buffet where overtaking is not allowed. If someone dawdles around at the
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by _nalply 3y ago
I installed EndeavourOS on my wife's Lenovo. Generally I am happy with it, however the upgrade to Plasma 6 was not without hitch. There was some incompatibility of the Breeze theme which caused a login loop. I told my wife that someone
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by _nalply 3y ago
Speculating here: What these companies seem to want is not an AGI. Corporate is known hostile to humans who don't have the power to give them money. Corporate is only working with people because they have to. Who else does the work? Ma
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by _nalply 3y ago
Interesting. What would you think about this approach: reduce each character to a standard form which is the same for all characters in the same confusable group? Then match all search input to this standard form. This means "ℍ℮1l೦&quo

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