ashton314

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by ashton314 6mo ago
Maybe in your corner of the world but not mine.
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by ashton314 6mo ago
Amaze, amaze, amaze! Loved the Project Hail Mary quote from one of the mission controllers. :) This bright spot in world news has been good for my mental health and general motivation. Thank you NASA!
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by ashton314 7mo ago
You didn’t even look at what the tool does, did you? > If the issue is that people write bad floating-point expressions, a code-writing tutorial would be a better solution. Yeah you are just criticizing this without even looking at it. S
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by ashton314 7mo ago
They're not on God's green earth anymore, now are they?
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by ashton314 7mo ago
The poverty mindset is that you still need to check your mail while riding around the moon. Style would be no email at all.
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by ashton314 7mo ago
Please imagine the luxury of being SO FAR AWAY from all the crap happening on our planet right now, only to be spoiled by some lousy marketing emails from Microslop hawking their latest Copilot incursion.
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by ashton314 7mo ago
Most don’t seem to think about morals or quality at all: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/introspection-andr...
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by ashton314 7mo ago
This is cool! I use Zotero [1] to manage/read/annotate all my papers and it's got a built-in PDF inverter that works pretty well. I'll take Veil out for a spin some time and see if it works well in places where Zotero&#x
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by ashton314 7mo ago
You can have private repositories. It's discouraged because Codeberg is meant for FOSS projects, but it's totally possible.
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by ashton314 7mo ago
That song is gold.
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by ashton314 7mo ago
The core of this little essay seems to be this: Instead of "I understand the causal mechanism and can predict what happens if I change X," you get something more like "I have a sufficiently rich model that I can simulate wha
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by ashton314 7mo ago
This will probably help: ;; Speed up magit status by removing some things (remove-hook 'magit-status-sections-hook 'magit-insert-tags-header) (remove-hook 'magit-status-sections-hook 'magit-insert-status-he
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by ashton314 7mo ago
It’s not actually that concentrated. https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
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by ashton314 8mo ago
Grad student here. The paper-reading experience on an iPad is vastly superior to a laptop, and I've got an aging iPad Gen 8 that doesn't have enough storage to upgrade. I run the Zotero iOS app and it's absolutely perfect for
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by ashton314 8mo ago
Gorgeous. These are the graphics I wish Veloren[1] had. Maybe my machine is lacking the specs to dial up the graphics all the way… [1]: https://veloren.net/
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by ashton314 8mo ago
Ghostty is extremely performant. I had a bug in some concurrent software; when I added logging the bug would disappear because the threads acquiring the lock on STDERR was sufficient to make the bug go away. On Ghostty this happened fast en
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by ashton314 8mo ago
I’m curious: was Arc running Racket BC or CS? I understand it got a big performance boost after switching to Chez Scheme.
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by ashton314 8mo ago
And yet you've failed to engage meaningfully with my argument.
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by ashton314 8mo ago
I mean… GitHub's uptime story has been getting worse… I hear you and you're right that Codeberg has some struggles. If anyone needs to host critical infra, you're better off self-hosting a Forgejo instance. For personal stuff
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by ashton314 8mo ago
For the doubters replying here, Codeberg really is on average faster than GitHub. It's great. Objective measurements here: https://forgeperf.org/ Codeberg does suffer from the occasional DDOS attack—it doesn't h
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by ashton314 8mo ago
> Around 20 non-fiction and technical books in about 15 years That's not lot, mate. Maybe more than the average American unfortunately, but I consider a year where I get through 2–3 books a slow one. And that's just reading I d
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by ashton314 8mo ago
> “All educational content is obsolete. Every textbook, every lesson plan, every test, all of it is obsolete because gen AI is going to be able to deliver a personalized lesson just for you,” Joe Liemandt, Alpha School’s “principal” and
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by ashton314 8mo ago
Very happy to see a Trogdor the BURNiNATOR strutting across my screen
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by ashton314 8mo ago
> I need to know there was intention behind it. That someone wanted to get their thoughts out and did so, deliberately, rather than chucking a bullet list at an AI to expand. This! This is my feeling exactly. I wrote about encountering w
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by ashton314 8mo ago
Those are good arguments against. I want to make it clear that I think it’s a possibly interesting idea, but also probably a bad one too! :)
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by ashton314 8mo ago
Oh for sure. To be fair, that excerpt I posted is probably the worst in the entire book since Sammann is explaining something using a bunch of ITA ~~jargon~~ bulshytt and it’s meant to be incomprehensible to even the POV character Erasmas.
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by ashton314 8mo ago
Fediverse link: https://fosstodon.org/@mitchellh@hachyderm.io/11603152931120...
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by ashton314 8mo ago
> Then again, if this is the case, why would you risk your own reputation to vouch for anyone anyway. Good reason to be careful. Maybe there's a bit of an upside to: if you vouch for someone who does good work, then you get a little
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by ashton314 8mo ago
Reminds me of the reputation system that the ITA in Anathem by Neal Stephenson seem to have. One character (Sammann) needs access to essentially a private BBS and has to get validated. “After we left Samble I began trying to obtain acces
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by ashton314 8mo ago
Got to go through the Butlerian Jihad first… not looking forward to that bit. (EDIT: Thanks sparky_z for the correction of my spelling!)

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