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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Posted link to ieeecomputer.org is expired. Found a not-expired one on Reddit: https://www.computer.org/csdl/api/v1/periodical/mags/so/2024...
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
IMO it's also important to understand the context of when GoF said that - Stroustrup's C++ book was advocating for things like "class WindowWithButtonAndScrollbar inherits from Window, Button, and Scrollbar" at the time!
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Alternate headline: "People who we refuse to acknowledge are deeply mentally ill tell us all about their delusions" If somebody went around claiming that the eclipse was proof that Team Rocket was going to take over every gym, the
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
35x more reasoning for a 10% increase in accuracy? Scaling with a scale factor of almost zero is still scaling, I guess.
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Author has clearly never worked with any folks whose commits ARE bullshit.
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
"Handling 80% of queries via LLM" sounds great, until you note that it's equivalent to "20% of support inquiries are answered by a hallucinating robot that can't actually solve their problem"
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
If you ask an LLM "tell me about inter-universal Teichmüller theory", how are you going to know if the result is correct?
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Looking at the post history from that site on HN, it's amazing how the author of the post keeps finding projects with totally irrational leadership that can't accept brilliant ideas /s
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
At best, you'd still need at least a square meter of reflector for every square meter of target unless you were willing to accept significantly reduced output.
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Sounds like the "unsustainable" part is having leadership that only knows Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, and Call of Duty exist and demands every franchise produce mega-success and endless ongoing revenue.
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
I feel like for open source projects to really get my attention they need to offer a way for me to generate income from it. So you're offering... "my attention" in exchange for people doing free work to make
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Not mentioned, but should have been: Stoneburner, who have done entire ALBUMS worth of exactly that kind of mining! A representative track: https://stoneburnerofficial.bandcamp.com/track/the-shere-blo...
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Shorter WSJ: "A cheeseburger just doesn't taste as good unless it's served by somebody teetering on the edge of poverty!"
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
you don't waste CPU on code that you don't use You don't waste _CPU_ on code you don't use EVER, Nix or not - that's what "not used" means!
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
I have tried every technical and legal recourse I know to fix this So you got the court order and forgot to mention it? There are rules like this to prevent social engineering attacks.
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Oh boy, do "Apple doesn't care about REAL PROS" next! What a nostalgia rush!
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
why would anyone choose to invest in something that could potentially incur losses It's a house. They'd LIVE IN IT, or they'd rent it out.
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
it would need to demonstrate a best effort to return at least 60% of royalties to users whose work was used LOL sure, I'm certain they'll get RIGHT on that. They definitely won't do a crappy job just so they can
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Alternate title: "How I wasted 80GB of some website's bandwidth because I don't understand what 'no' means"
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
The counsellor... well, let's say they have a specific task at hand. LOL I assume this went like the scene from "Half Baked": "You ever SUCK COCKS for YouTube? Get outta here!"
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
One particularly annoying "you had ONE JOB" thing: automatic captions aren't consistently searched either via the Youtube search or via the main Google product. For instance, searching for the double-quoted string "bears
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
How can a BRACELET be HI-FI????
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Those landlords really shouldn't have bought all that avocado toast /s
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
What would that even MEAN? Was this submission generated by AI?
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
In the world of ChatGPT, the current paradigm will. not. stand. If the author had paid more attention in English class, maybe they would have noticed that none of the points in their "manifesto" actually SUPPORT that as
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Just random questions to test my personality. "You're not turning the tortoise over, Billy. Why is that?" :P
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
IMO it's hard to spot the "holes" for parameters in a module - for instance, in the logic-card project the instantiations of "LDOReg" end up setting values of objects in "Vdiv" two abstraction layers down.
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
There was some grumbling when the initiative was proposed, with some predicting that people would quit. But that didn’t happen, Mr. Epstein said. A completely unbiased datapoint, clearly! /eyeroll
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
While this is true, the overall BEAM ecosystem has moved strongly in the direction of using binaries and iolists (lists made of binaries, integers, chartists, and other iolists) for a lot of cases where lists-of-integers aren't efficie
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by al2o3cr 3y ago
Every application on this sort of device was designed to work perfectly with this interface LOL is a stylus writing this post, or just somebody who never had to use the fiddly things for real?

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