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by blep_ 4y ago
I think the flippantness helps, actually. It being a joke is a safety measure . As long as the top comment on every GPT post is someone trivially breaking it and everyone laughing, it's much less likely to get put in charge of anythin
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by blep_ 4y ago
> tree laws 1. A robot may not injure a tree, or through inaction, allow a tree to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given by trees. Fortunately, this is trivial, as trees cannot speak. 3. A robot must protect its own existence b
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by blep_ 4y ago
Because this entire industry runs on trends?
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by blep_ 4y ago
Isn't this the exact reason nearly every EULA has an "if any clause of this is found invalid, the rest still applies" clause? (Are those enforceable?)
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by blep_ 4y ago
If it's that trivial to find them (with code, not eyeballs), it's also trivial to remove them.
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by blep_ 4y ago
> He didn’t say that it was “possible”, he said it was the “most plausible explanation”. You're right, I had misremembered. This is still not the same thing as "must have", but it is much scloser. I still have trouble seei
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by blep_ 4y ago
Sigh, this again. I expect better from HN than getting mad at things based on blind keyword matching. > must have presented as “entirely willing” Everyone insists on interpreting this as "Stallman thinks she was entirely willing&quo
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by blep_ 4y ago
> components like buttons, labels ... components like labels , which consist entirely of text, should not scale with the font size?
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by blep_ 4y ago
I'm genuinely curious: as an autistic atheist, what spiritual cues do you think I'm missing? What even is a spiritual cue? I can conceptualize what a social cue is even if i miss them sometimes, but you seem to be describing an en
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by blep_ 4y ago
There was also the thing from a few years ago where people were logging in and seeing other users' camera streams. This is probably the most blatant false advertising I've seen.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Plumbers do not come to your house with the intention of permanently living there.
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by blep_ 4y ago
> Why can't anyone be part of my family Because you won't let them. > and why can't I jump to another one? You can. People do sometimes, if their birth family is bad enough. Immigrants are, by definition, people with mo
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by blep_ 4y ago
You're confusing vacations with immigration. If that "guest" has come to your house on the premise that they're going to live with you, and you kick them out, yes, that is bad. We even have laws about this, that's w
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by blep_ 4y ago
For 1, also remember that you can just run multiple copies of emacs for different projects. Nobody says you have to use all the packages that ostensibly solve some problem you have.
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by blep_ 4y ago
... aren't literally all the iPhone camera sensors from Sony?
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by blep_ 4y ago
So send an email, and ignore it until you get a response. You don't need to fly to Kona for this.
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by blep_ 4y ago
I just went back and reread the section to see if I'd missed something, and... kind of, I guess? They acknowledge that it is hard to join, but they don't seem to fully get why - that the problem is their system of scheduling mee
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by blep_ 4y ago
Some memory-touching orders are better than others, because CPUs will prefetch nearby memory into CPU cache during memory accesses.
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by blep_ 4y ago
> why all these groups of people decided to start from scratch than to put up with the C++ committee In which the C++ committee continues to not acknowledge that its problem is being a committee , in the most ridiculously bureaucratic s
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by blep_ 4y ago
> how quickly could someone on, say, mastodon.art see my posts? Would they even see them at all? As soon as someone from there follows you. Post federation is based entirely on that. The bootstrapping process here is social, not technica
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by blep_ 4y ago
> I actually figure I can't get them interested anyway, so don't pursue these people. This seems self-fulfilling? People who have applied to your company are saying they are interested in working there. The lack of response is
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by blep_ 4y ago
I did something similar. It worked out for me because I live in the midwest US, with a lifestyle that's not actively frugal but is definitely below the average cost of living, but I was working remotely for west coast salaries. That ma
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by blep_ 4y ago
> Students who are learning to build things on these platforms ... and have not yet learned about version control or backups the hard way.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Convenience is relative to how the rest of your life is arranged. Some people have easy enough access to their computer that switching to a Switch would be less convenient.
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by blep_ 4y ago
And then it silently creates a user named True because the non-empty email address you passed as `create_if_not_exists` evaluated as truthy.
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by blep_ 4y ago
> Many people have tried to explain to me why cryptocurrencies aren't a Ponzi scheme. I love how many people will read this sentence, and then respond by trying to explain to you why cryptocurrencies aren't a Ponzi scheme.
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by blep_ 4y ago
> You also often get a pretty-printed version of the problematic code, but it looks nothing like the code you wrote What compilers do this? Every one I can think of either shows nothing or a verbatim line of code.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Most of the plumbing stuff will be, because it's also used for plumbing (for water that people will drink).
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by blep_ 4y ago
It has to be last because it's not a pointer to the array, it is the array. The array elements are immediately after the struct in memory. You can't resize it without reallocating the whole struct.
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by blep_ 4y ago
I find it slightly worse to read. It's C, so my brain is in "newlines don't matter" reading mode, so I see an array of 6 things and then have to mentally split them back up.

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