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by bobbylarrybobby 11mo ago
I wonder whether they're simply priming Claude to produce this introspective-looking output. They say “do you detect anything” and then Claude says “I detect the concept of xyz”. Could it not be the case that Claude was ready to output
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by bobbylarrybobby 11mo ago
Would knowing that Claude is maybe kinda sorta conscious lead more people to subscribe to it? I think Anthropic genuinely cares about model welfare and wants to make sure they aren't spawning consciousness, torturing it, and then killi
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
I actually think ffmpeg’s UI is simpler than Handbrake for those at all acquainted with the command line (i.e., for those who understand the concept of text-is-everything-everything-is-text). Handbrake shows you everything you can possibly
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Let's prove it. In general, sum(x^k, k=1…n) = x(1-x^n)/(1-x). Then sum(kx^(k-1), k=1…n) = d/dx sum(x^k, k=1…n) = d/dx (x(1-x^n))/(1-x) = (nx^(n+1) - (n+1)x^n + 1)/(1-x)^2 With x=b, n=b-1, the numerator as defin
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Apple has done some really shady marketing about live translation because it's also supported on the AirPods Pro 2. It's clear they don't want people to know that to drive the upgrade to the 3s.
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Seems odd to call it a fit issue when the solution is to make the fit worse by dislodging them from your ear. If it's a fit issue then improving the fit should make it go away!
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Could this really invalidate research? Managing to produce a model that works (assuming you check all of the myriad modeling correctness checkboxes) is sufficient on its own. The fact that the modeling process itself was broken in some wa
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
100% agree. With tex it feels like when you use a package or template, you're stuck with every choice it made because changing it yourself is just too daunting. With Typst I feel confident that I can go in and muck with whatever I don&
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Probably viewed as too onerous for small businesses to comply.
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
You are comparing Go to Python, JS, and C++, arguably the three most complex languages to build. (JS isn't actually hard , but there are a lot of seemingly arbitrary decisions that have to be made before you can begin.) There are lang
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Walrus operator: if (cookie_token := req.cookies.get("token")) is None: raise ...
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Do you really want type inference to be global? The idea that changing one line in a function might change the type of a whole other function — and thus variables assigned to its result, which affect the types of other functions, which ...
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
The latin alphabet was designed for atonal languages. When you need to also indicate tone, you've gotta put the marks somewhere. You could do a lot worse than diacritics whose shape roughly reflects a graph of pitch over time. (In Mand
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Whereas rendering Chinese names with Chinese characters would make the names entirely unintelligible to an audience of English speakers, the nice thing about the diacritical marks in Vietnamese is that they can simply be ignored by those fa
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
A car wouldn't become more productive if you were to strap a person to the roof. If you instead happen to move that person inside the car for the trip, what exactly changes?
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
I think they would've been allowed to do the scanning even without destroying the originals. AFAIK destroying the originals was just done to facilitate scanning — they needed the pages to be loose sheets, not bound.
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:monospace">k </div></body></html> Should the title include the trailing space?
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
I thought this couldn't be correct, but... nope: > We adopted a pragmatic approach: maintain the Ruby code but only port functionality to Haskell when we could add meaningful value in the process. This meant our Ruby codebase gradua
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
There's also the issue of iOS virtual memory limitations. Whereas macOS lets apps use swap space (duh), on iOS apps will be killed if their memory use is too high and they move into the background. (And possibly if it's too high w
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
The thing is, China seems to be able to keep up with much less invested. I don't know how much it took for them to create DeepSeek and their other power efficient models, but it sure doesn't take much to run them. Meanwhile Americ
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Yes, Lance Armstrong did just that! https://www.usada.org/wp-content/uploads/ReasonedDecision.pd...
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
The body font appears to be Libertinus Serif (and I assume Libertinus Sans is the seldom-used sans font), which I agree look much nicer than the default Computer Modern
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
IMO, Mini Metro is the far better game. In Mini Metro it always feels like the congestion can be solved, it's never hopeless... in Motorways the congestion does really feel impossible to work around, and then you lose. Not sure if that
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Variance doesn't affect generated code because it acts earlier than that: determining whether code is valid or not and in doing so preventing invalid code (UB) from being compiled in the first place. The simplest example of incorrect v
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Aside from better documentation (it would be quite nice if rustdoc automatically showed the computed variance for types where it mattered), what would writing it down in the type system get you? Separately, if everything were invariant, you
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
The only thing that base affects is digital representation — statements like “multiples of 3 have their digits sum to a multiple of 3”. All other behavior is a consequence of numbers’ values, which is independent of base.
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
LISP — the contortions are expected, not surprises
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
You might be surprised how little there is to know. There are basically three strategies: 1. set your light theme color variables in :root and your dark theme colors in `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { :root { ... } }` 2. use the newi
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by bobbylarrybobby 1y ago
Here's an interesting result of that: whales that have developed “internal antlers” ( https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-abstract/113/2/5... ). Mostly invisible to eyes but perfectly visible

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