andrewflnr

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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
If you put me on that surface I don't think I would have any idea it was a glacier.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
This is a social media presence worth striving for. > You can put it on your LinkedIn, because it’s true. I only take LinkedIn seriously under extreme protest, so this is extremely tempting.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
Sequencing and necessity are not separable in practice. Time and resources are finite, so prioritization is mandatory. If you define everything as "necessary" and try to do it all at once, you just fail even harder. Edit: Perhaps
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
That's an embarrassing example that shouldn't have been at the top, but most of the rest are good.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
Any given optimization reduces running time of a program, but you should still focus on your hot loops.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
As far as terminology goes, I still see these both as subcategories of slop, but I can buy that they do deserve different categories of obvious slop versus more virulent slop.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
That's the most reasonable read of "coding" as opposed to the overall discipline of software development/"engineering", yeah.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
As far as AI-generated images go, that was a good one.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
I think the Trump admin is more complicated than just Trump, if only because he doesn't have enough marbles left to run the whole thing. That said, power, pain, and dominance are the one thing he does actually understand, and that&#x27
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
Part of that is because progressives also hate the Democrats for being hypocritical and/or ineffective. Doesn't mean they're going to vote for an R, though.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
It's not even unfair. It's just a heuristic that occasionally gives incorrect results. We and the author would have both been better off skipping the illustration. The real problem is that "serious content creators" beli
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
At least in my mind, lack of substance was always the defining feature of slop. Stuff like "it's not just x, it's y" would be reasonable (if grating) tics from a human writer. Whereas humans are also capable of clever-so
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
> It’s almost like a pseudo-language where it has the correct form and presentation but is missing critical components. Slop. The word is slop. Has been for years now. I mean, is this not exactly what we've all been talking about th
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
I don't think these people read the official documents either, though. Adjusting communication to the audience is a good guiding principle, but not an absolute. There comes a point where no attempt at communication works for a given au
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
This defines "communicating effectively" in a way that it can't possibly cover a complex topic. Sometimes you need to communicate complex topics, so this definition is a failure. The problem remains that people refuse to do t
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
Abandoning ethics doesn't mean you actively seek out unethical acts, it just means you only care about pragmatics. Limiting how overtly you break the law, copyright law in this case, is often pragmatic regardless of ethics.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
I can't attest to the implementation. I can only attest to the jank.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
DrRacket seems to have doing the thing where they implement of a bunch of GUI stuff from scratch and miss a lot of edge cases in the process. It feels unpolished and a bit janky.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
This is good to know, and we might even mostly be on the side of the lawbreakers here but, like, monitoring public coordinated attempts to break the law is squarely in the job description of law enforcement. Maybe if someone had done a bett
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
They did explicitly specify: > 1. Supported in mainline LLVM and GCC. Which pretty well encapsulates the ecosystem requirements.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
If it's not a lie, then yeah, that's pretty mild.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
I'm very much a curious autodidact and there are still people who easily 10x me or more. Someone like Fabrice Bellard is an obvious, extreme example.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
People doing "mechanical engineering" in their garage don't need licenses either. I don't love the licensing idea either, but that's not a good argument.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
> Computer scientists, or computer-science-associated businessmen, are the new gurus, This is a dangerous conflation. It's a conflation that society is currently making, and we should note that, but we should not make the same mista
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
It seems more likely when you put it that way. Thanks for the interesting links regardless. Deeper cuts than the average aphantasia reference.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
Subjective experience (what most people mean when they say "consciousness") is basically prior to logic, language, etc. "Making sense" just doesn't have a way to come to grips with it. Despite this, for most of us a
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
The contradiction is the notion of having hardware to support metaphysical dualism. It's an oxymoron. I think what they're actually trying to say is that the physical reality of LLMs doesn't leave any metaphysical space for d
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
That was always true. We'll just know the difference better.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
This is no one's end goal. It's just the market being irrational longer than sane people can stay solvent.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
Assigning blame doesn't fix the brakes either though, does it? And now their time has been wasted by bullshit they had to carefully analyze, in a field they're unfamiliar with. And yes, this was a problem with lazy writers before,

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