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by bmacho 2y ago
> They are serving a raw text file from the endpoint of an http server. In case you don't know what http stands for: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. ??? It has the valid http content type: text/plain If your browser can't dis
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by bmacho 2y ago
It is a txt file, not a tiny ascii webpage . If you can't read a txt file, that's more or less a you problem.
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by bmacho 2y ago
Justine has similar claims about POSIX allowing binary in shell scripts now > This is an idea whose time has come; POSIX even changed their rules about binary in shell scripts specifically to let us do it. https://justine.lol&
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by bmacho 2y ago
> Although it doesn't have the same level of compile-time guarantees, there are runtime checks to ensure memory safety if you use Debug or ReleaseSafe. it is not very good, as const std = @import("std"); const pr
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by bmacho 2y ago
So by 'reversibility' they mean that good graphics would require too much memory (bc quantum can't reuse memory as traditional computers do), and we don't have the resources for that yet.
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by bmacho 2y ago
What is all the "reversibility" the readme is talking about? How are non x-ray walls, reversibility and quantum connected?
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by bmacho 2y ago
Wow he is very good at taking over companies
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by bmacho 2y ago
Those are TK? They look good!
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by bmacho 2y ago
> I wonder why it is that "octopuses" just kind of sounds wrong? There are some Latin words ending -us in English, that keep their Latin plurals. For octopuses, both plurals are common and acceptable.
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by bmacho 2y ago
I thought that GPT2 was smart enough and had enough knowledge to be considered AGI, it just needed a bigger working memory, a long term memory*, a body, and an objective function to stay alive as long as it can. And I still think this. Curr
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by bmacho 2y ago
> This is a statement that can be said about any self-correcting system. Definitely can be said about any organization ever, without second thinking. It changed? Then is an evidence that it self corrects, improves. Also it must have happ
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by bmacho 2y ago
> This is evidence of science working, and self correcting. This is a statement that can be said, and is said every time when something changes. Is it true? No, obviously it isn't. Is literally any change in literally anywhere an ev
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by bmacho 2y ago
I am all for reverse Hanlon[0]: don't assume incompetence when people profit from something. I think however that "source available" is a legit business model, and not just a HN hack. They made their source code available aft
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by bmacho 2y ago
I don't think git bash comes with a make.
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by bmacho 2y ago
Musk and Bezos?
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by bmacho 2y ago
This blog post started good~ish, but around 1/3 of it, I got bored, the style got repetitive, the style wasn't enough to keep me there, and the content was sparse, very sparse. An advice: dense content is cool. If it could fit on
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by bmacho 2y ago
Made-up names are bad to read for me too. I don't like too many things in my head with unfamiliar names. I can't think of things with unfamiliar names, and it bothers me.
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by bmacho 2y ago
> Wait! The fact that arguments with a leading hyphen are interpreted as options is not bash's fault. It's ingrained in the convention of UNIX tools and there's nothing bash can do to mitigate it. You would have the same p
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by bmacho 2y ago
Or don't waste 5 minutes on this for that. Direct links pointing closer, and the transcript are available in this thread. (At the bottom, for some reasons.)
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by bmacho 2y ago
> I'm not sure that's entirely true (I wrote the examples) Which part? > the point I'm trying to make is that you can precisely describe what `doSomething` consumes and produces (because it's pure) I think you fail
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by bmacho 2y ago
> TL/DR: Haskell makes you add more meta information to the code, so that compilers can reason about it. Actually Haskell lets you to add more meta information to the code, similar to modern Python or TypeScript. Type information
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by bmacho 2y ago
A 'function' can't call itself (by name or by any other method), but since 'functions' can call each other, and can make each other to call each other, recursion is mostly trivial. You try it, then you'll get a
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by bmacho 2y ago
https://archive.md/oldest/https://systemsapproach.org/2024/0...
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by bmacho 2y ago
Well here in the project readme there is a table with the sizes: https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex-releases (a bit outdated, they didn't refresh it). I downloaded TinyTex-1 for Windows, it's 338 MB uncompres
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by bmacho 2y ago
I remember jj, pijul or another CRDT-git website offering a javascript demo (I can't find it now). I tried that user 'A' removes a line, user 'B' modifies that line, and it converges to that line becoming the modifi
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by bmacho 2y ago
> Strangely enough, I think the LaTex distribution qualifies, too. I tried to install it recently, and it wanted 1 GB of disk space! That's multiple times the size of the entire system disk when LaTeX was created... There is the Tin
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by bmacho 2y ago
That's what ’free as in puppies’ mean. Free software is typically described as "free as in freedom" or "free as in free beer". (This is probably a limitation of English tho, my language has 2 different words for per
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by bmacho 2y ago
And spoken language (toki pona or such) to various birds.
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by bmacho 2y ago
People should stop calling that set "imaginary numbers". It's net bad. That set isn't really worth it to be called anything. Maybe "pure imaginary numbers" . Also "imaginary numbers" is used for the
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by bmacho 2y ago
Needs (2016)

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