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by astrobe_ 1y ago
It sounds like a submodule... But certainly if the problem could be solved with a submodule, people would have found out long ago. Git's submodules also support shallow-cloning already [1]. I can only guess what the issues are with lar
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Yet, that's exactly what you do when you read English - and many of us even read it as a foreign language with different roots and different grammar etc. So I don't understand how it would be more tedious in hiragana; it looks lik
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
You can't possibly count the third time as a real attempt. A language reform initiated by a foreigner and recent enemy at war, who burned your cities and even nuked two of them? If someone knows about successful examples, I'd be c
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
"Things on any given day has over 100 individual actions, most of which are recurring" looks more like checklist(s) to me.
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
they +think they+ can beat business people
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> Personally i am not a fan of minimum wage. I rather have tax payer Tax payer? > in exchange for an agreed upon number of years of employment at an agreed upon fixed wage post-training (they cannot quit or will have to pay back the c
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Sophistry. "many" according to which statistic? And just because some people consider that a trade is very favorable for them, doesn't it is not a trade and it doesn't mean they are correct - who's so naïve they can
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Yes, 386 and 486 stayed relevant throughout the 90s because the price tag for new shiny processors is always higher, and it was not uncommon for customers to favor more or faster RAM/Disk space/graphic card/sound card (that w
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
The marginal value being too low is just the company being bad at optimizing. Yes, contrary to fairy tales, companies are not so good at this because internal politics and/or poor management. My country switched from 39 to 35 hours max
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Academia has a lot to offer with regard to: - fundamental principles and concepts, like paradigms, SOLID, coupling, cohesion, etc. - Maybe design patterns too - and when and how to apply them - To paraphrase a famous author, how to av
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> The bit about running the study multiple times also seems kinda random. Reproducibility? But knowing it comes from the CEO of Github, who has vested interests in that matter because AI is one of the things that will allow to maintain G
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
AIs grading AI-generated essays looks like a recipe for model collapse. That's why we certainly need people who go after the "diminishing returns" of improving their writing skills beyond the "good enough" that AI d
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
I think at least it is good at answering questions that have been asked before, in some way or another. But the real question is, why didn't I also ask my follow up question to it, instead of trying to talk with humans? I think I prefe
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
What can one actually do with a 1 Watt laser? That's a good question to ask to an AI: "A 1-watt laser can be used for various applications, such as cutting materials, engraving, and even lighting cigarettes. However, it poses sign
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
A program is not a novel, despite the arguments of literate programming fans. It is more like interactive fiction. In the small, it is just short pieces of text. In the large, there is an invisible network connecting each of them. And the c
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Hopefully these cases will get viral to the general public, so that everyone becomes more aware that despite the words "intelligence", "reasoning", "inference" being used and misused, in the end it is no more t
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
You both fall for the false dichotomy trap. If anything, this remark should be taken as criticism towards parents who find it much more convenient to use an app and a tablet, rather than buying physical stuff, have to put it away, and to ke
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> It does feel like modern designs are treating everyone like children I read TFA because I thought some of it because some of it could be applicable to attention-deficient adults, victims of the pandemic that started before the pandemic
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
.. But the house always wins ?
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> This approach doesn't work ethically if you are working for (say) public service organisations. This remark is specially apt with regard to the leitmotiv of TFA; one sees, indeed, an entirely different picture when the goal of an
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Poul Anderson [1] in its short stories Time Patrol has this theory that the past can be disturbed to some extend, some things have to happen independently of particular individuals or events. As a let down as it is for readers interested
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> when somebody's first answer to a problem/inquiry is "you're not good enough or else you would see the lights" it raises alarms in my head. You are kind of right about that, as it is often leads to the "No
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
You realize you are talking about something you have never seen, right? I do. Maybe my ten thousand lines of Forth were barely readable. But not anymore. I have dozens of scripts meant to be throwaways, not something perfect and beautiful m
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> Forth and other similar languages write-only If you see write-only Forth programs, that's probably because they are poorly written, or maybe you are not familiar enough with Forth to read them. > is that you can easily lose tra
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> And there isn't really just one thing that gets outdated on phones. You usually want a better screen, better camera, better CPU, more ram, new battery. I can't help but notice that you don't mention the part that makes i
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Well, C and C++ together have around 7M repos, so about 10%. Actually not entirely esoteric, but Github is only a fraction of the world's codebase and users of these repos probably never looked in the makefile, so I'd say 10% of C
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Yes, these are really esoteric options, and IIRC GCC's docs say they can be counter-productive.
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> For some consumers — although we know there won’t be many — the Nokia’s extreme durability may be more valuable than the iPhone’s technological innovations I still use a phone of the generation after Nokia - it must be 20 years old now
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Just my opinion, but the dependency on Chromium is a problem in itself. You don't need a full-blown browser to render HTML email. The fact that it is no more viable for a client to ignore HTML nowadays is something unfortunate, to say
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Yes. I wanted to warn about a rough draft being too rough. There are corners one shouldn't cut because this is where the actual problems are. I guess that rally pilots do their recon at a sustained pace, otherwise they might not realiz

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