akavi

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by akavi 3y ago
In JS, we could do: open('file', (myfile) => process(myfile.read())) It would be on the implementer of `open` to call `file.close()`, but presumably that's true of python as well?
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by akavi 3y ago
What do blocks give you that good old-fashioned first-class functions don't?
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by akavi 3y ago
You seem to be conflating two different things: 1) How personally validating a job is to a person 2) How valuable the job is to society at large. To see how those might decouple, consider Superman continuously turning a crank to provide lim
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by akavi 3y ago
Objects are a useful idea. Object Orientation is a terrible, terrible idea. Functions + data (immutable when practical) is all you need for 90%+ of programming, and you should only reach for objects when necessary to manage some well-en
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by akavi 3y ago
Does this increase anyone else's sense that LLMs are actually modeling something similar to the way humans think? It certainly does for me. I find that negations/conjugations of negations are surprisingly difficult for to parse. B
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by akavi 3y ago
"Heir to an emerald mine" is intended to paint a very specific picture, and "some occasional spending cash from a handshake claim to a chunk of namibian rock outcropping (if we believe a man who doesn't exactly present a
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by akavi 3y ago
I'm not sure, but I believe that most, if not all, mergers from simplification were homophones.
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by akavi 3y ago
Mandarin absolutely does: * 行: xíng or háng * 的: de or dì * 长: cháng or zhǎng (plus I'm sure many more that I can't think of just right now)
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by akavi 3y ago
Have you used typescript? Because to my eyes, that's a massively successful "bolted on" type system. Sure there're holes in the system, but the utility is significant, especially relative to the cost.
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by akavi 3y ago
Protip: Slang words almost never come from acronyms (The lone exception I've found is "thot")
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by akavi 3y ago
The "g" is pronounced (in a sense). In Italian, the digraph "gl" represents a single sound /ʎ/, which is distinct from the sound represented by "l" alone (/l/)
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by akavi 3y ago
It speaks to waterloo’s success that i don’t know which waterloo unicorn you’re talking about. (Also worked at a waterloo unicorn. Codebase was the cleanest i’ve worked in, though perhaps excessively so, at the cost of product velocity)
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by akavi 3y ago
But what do those Full Stack engineers make? Salaries are hugely variable across the industry. There are “senior” engineers making 60 k$/yr, and new grads starting at 200 k$/yr
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by akavi 3y ago
Right, that's the canonical way to produce the vowel. But what the video explains is the fact that the rounding is actually less fundamental than the length of the resonating tract. It means that you can keep your lips unrounded an
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by akavi 3y ago
The revelation that I could generate a vowel that sounded awful close to /y/ with unrounded lips by centralizing /u/ slightly is blowing my mind…
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by akavi 3y ago
Your friend is a massive outlier in the pay distribution of electricians. He's either gaming the overtime system somehow, or has a unique set of specialized skills (or some regulatory arbitrage combo of both).
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by akavi 3y ago
In the "old days" (2015 and before), PD used Wormly to mass-blast all engineers.
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by akavi 3y ago
Note that the "phonetic" component can become incredibly strained in modern Chinese languages. Eg, take the character "俞"; in Mandarin, it's pronounced "yú". However, it's used as a phonetic component
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by akavi 4y ago
For many men who frequent HN "Participate in activities where socialization is part of the activity" without further qualification would mean many activities where few to no single heterosexual women are present.
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by akavi 4y ago
Oddly enough, though that root does produce "fermentum", "garum" seems to be etymologically unlinked.
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by akavi 4y ago
If they perceive that 1% chance of 1 M$ as having nonzero value, then they're not "valu[ing] it at 0 $"
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by akavi 4y ago
Y'know, a lot of people say they value it at 0 $, but are oddly hesitant to take me up on my offer to buy it off them for a hundred bucks...
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by akavi 4y ago
These people are affirmatively voting for these restrictions. Like, I don't think abortion is murder, but if I did, I'd vote for restrictions even if I could get pregnant. Just like I would vote for restrictions on "norma
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by akavi 4y ago
> the overwhelming majority of female voters are against those restrictions. Source? The polls I can find easily [0][1] show very similar levels of support for/against abortion restrictions between genders. Women tend to to be slig
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by akavi 4y ago
What's the cartel keeping SWE salaries high?
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by akavi 4y ago
I'd say more like a classical virus with a loop earlier in the central dogma. Ie, in the DNA => RNA => Protein cycle, viruses are a loop from Protein => DNA or Protein => RNA. Introners are a loop from RNA => DNA.
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by akavi 4y ago
Has anyone gone from not "getting" the value of algebraic effects to getting it? And if so, what was the tutorial/process by which you achieved enlightenment?
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by akavi 4y ago
It's only not tiny in terms of geographic area. Population wise and urban area wise, it's miniscule.
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by akavi 4y ago
How’d GPT-3/3.5-turbo do?
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by akavi 4y ago
The difference is unlike self-driving and crypto, LLMs are providing value to people _today_. In my personal life, GPT4 is a patient interlocutor to ask about nerdy topics that are annoying to google (eg, yesterday I asked it "What&#x2

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