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by beej71 9mo ago
TFA> By regenerable , I mean: if you delete a component, you can recreate it from stored intent (requirements, constraints, and decisions) with the same behavior and integration guarantees. The only way to do this is with a mathematical
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by beej71 9mo ago
> I _explicitly_ said that there will be changes that require adaptation. I think this understates how incredibly expensive, violent, and deadly that adaptation will be.
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by beej71 9mo ago
What are some of the problems with eradication of fiat currency?
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by beej71 9mo ago
This model makes the most sense to me. If you just model it as: Trump wants to do things that make Trump look good, everything he's done fits into it quite nicely. If you want to predict his next move, think to yourself, what does Trum
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by beej71 10mo ago
This isn't a product, but on the topic of unplugging, we decided to replace our TV with a bookshelf. One of the best results of this decision was it allowed us to rearrange the living room in such a way that wasn't focused on the
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by beej71 10mo ago
Looks like it's getting there, but still needs some work. It's not obeying the book output or number sections. I can probably get the indexing going, though. Measured at 10x faster than LaTeX.
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by beej71 10mo ago
Yes. Two reasons: 1) More control over the typst output... 2) I didn't know you could do that. :D :D :D I'll check it out--thanks for the pointer!
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by beej71 10mo ago
I use Markdown for all my books, currently. It used to be a custom XML format, but that was really annoying to type even with custom Vim keybindings. I do wish Markdown were more capable, but it's a good lowest common denominator for H
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by beej71 10mo ago
I did double quote it, but you're right—I should have made it clear.
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by beej71 10mo ago
I can tell you the current thinking of most of the instructors I know: teach the same fundamentals as always, and carefully add a bit of LLM use. To use LLMs effectively, you have to be an excellent problem-solver with complex technical pro
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by beej71 10mo ago
>>I get it, you’re too good to vibe code. You’re a senior developer who has been doing this for 20 years and knows the system like the back of your hand. >> [...] >>No, you’re not too good to vibe code. In fact, you’re the
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by beej71 10mo ago
I have an old point and shoot (20x optical zoom) and a SIM-free phone that has never been used in my name for anything.
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by beej71 10mo ago
Shoe stone.
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by beej71 10mo ago
One of my friends was an H1B here about a decade ago. He and his wife had a kid in the US, but then left shortly thereafter back to Europe. He said our social systems were "shameful" and neither of them was interested in sending t
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by beej71 10mo ago
All those reasons you listed were why I never went with a publisher. I'm a big fan of print-on-demand. Good luck!
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by beej71 10mo ago
You say you have data, but I haven't seen it. How many Palestinians have been killed? You said the numbers were wrong because of the people who said it. Your argument was directed "at the man"--"ad hominem".
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by beej71 10mo ago
That actually doesn't look horrible to my untrained eye. But the web page mentions accessibility, so I'm a little bit surprised it still exists.
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by beej71 10mo ago
We can draw no logical conclusions from your ad hominem comment. Do you have some data?
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by beej71 10mo ago
I'm going to have to be more explicit with "Gemini (the protocol)". :) Fing Google... :)
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by beej71 10mo ago
You're welcome! :)
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by beej71 10mo ago
Yup!
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by beej71 10mo ago
Resonates for me. I consume a bunch of content daily, but it's RSS mostly. Gemini, too. None of it is Facebook et al. I am in groups with friends and family on Signal and on Discord, and in email. It feels more boring, for sure, but it
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by beej71 10mo ago
I worry about that, too, but with my gas car. :)
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by beej71 10mo ago
This has definitely worked for me. Never got rich from putting stuff out there, but got a number of good jobs from it.
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by beej71 10mo ago
I've moved away from DOCish or PDF for storage to text (usually markdown) with Makefiles to build with Typst or whatever. Grep works, git likes it, and I can easily extract it to other formats. My old 1995 MS thesis was written in Lotu
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by beej71 10mo ago
You probably used UTF-8 encoding to write that. He co-designed that, among other things like the Go programming language. Used to work at Bell Labs.
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by beej71 10mo ago
I find it notable that he pointing out making simpler software. One of my fears is the ease with which GenAI produces reams of code—that this will just lead to bloat and fragility.
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by beej71 10mo ago
My dad (retired philosophy and ethics instructor) once told me, "Today the self-checkout computer thanked me for shopping there. Do you think it was being sincere?"
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by beej71 10mo ago
I used to use .Xcompose which was great, but then I stopped for some reason (like it didn't work right with XFCE or something). Now I use Vim digraphs. ^K-M.
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by beej71 10mo ago
The report did not say they were all non-violent criminals. It explicitly said some of them were violent criminals.

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