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by boothby 10mo ago
> Monday’s ‘Ultra–Capitalist Free–For–All’ isn’t just an event—it’s a revolution in snack economics! Classic
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by boothby 10mo ago
I don't see the irony. The industrial age brought industrial warfare.
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by boothby 10mo ago
Excellent point. Inkscape has (had?) a feature to simplify SVG files, which pushed transformations down the tree. I never needed to use this in an automated process, just the occasional file.
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by boothby 10mo ago
I find svg.path to be good for parsing path data https://pypi.org/project/svg.path/ For actually parsing the file, there are a number of options (in the end, it's an XML file and I tend to treat it as su
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by boothby 10mo ago
Here are some types that support hashing: str bytes int, float complex tuple frozenset Aside from int and float, you cannot perform comparisons between objects of different types. Moreover, you cannot sort complex numbers
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by boothby 10mo ago
LLMs don't "know" anything. But as you say, they can identify correlations between content "porn" and a target image; between content labeled "children" and a target image. If a target image scores high
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by boothby 10mo ago
Problem being that sets aren't consistently ordered and conversion to a tuple can result in an exponential (specifically, factorial) explosion in the number of possible keys associated with a single set. Nor can you sort all objects.
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by boothby 10mo ago
I know what porn looks like. I know what children look like. I do not need to be shown child porn in order to recognize it if I saw it. I don't think there's an ethical dilemma here; there is no need if LLMs have the capabiliti
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by boothby 10mo ago
I'm not sure I needed to know that multiple sharknado movies had been made, but I do now.
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by boothby 10mo ago
> Jaws is the only movie (within reason I guess) that I don't let my 13 year old watch. On the other hand, I totally forgot about Sharknado until just now; that's my next movie night pick and my kid's gonna love it.
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by boothby 10mo ago
Well, that's a bit of an unfair projection; I'm fairly fastidious about keeping my consumption around 2-3 cups a day before 11am and taking occasional tolerance breaks without consequence. But if you feel like your coffee intake
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by boothby 10mo ago
One thing I've learned over the years is that specifically setting out to enjoy and appreciate something on a daily basis is beneficial to overall satisfaction with life. And for me, that's my morning cuppa before the rest of the
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by boothby 10mo ago
I live near a river that flows backwards for some 50km or so with tides. The first time I saw it, I thought I'd gotten turned around because surely water can't flow uphill, right? It's fun to find out that one is so wrong
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by boothby 10mo ago
What's Tg?
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by boothby 10mo ago
Specifically, after 133_076_755_768 steps, the 1-dimensional pattern reoccurs translated by two pixels. On skimming the thread I haven't determined if that shift is parallel or perpendicular to the line.
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by boothby 10mo ago
Straight from a noir detective pulp, even.
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by boothby 10mo ago
Around 2006 or 2007, I was working on the Sage Notebook. I did a little JavaScript injection, and managed to make the notebook execute JavaScript instead of sending Python code to the server and printing the result. Lo and behold, I could
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by boothby 11mo ago
That's how we lost public transit the first time. Here's hoping local government knows their history.
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by boothby 11mo ago
Autoplay movie that can only be minimized and not stopped while I try to read the text of the article... "these 3 tricks will help you get AI chatbots to do your job" . Yeah, um, we can't... let... that... what. You're
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by boothby 11mo ago
Implying that they're lying in order to collect emails for marketing purposes? Unheard of.
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by boothby 11mo ago
As I write this, 7 / 10 "founder" models are available. So, three. Perhaps this is more in line with the nautical use of that word.
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by boothby 11mo ago
Breathless speculation aside, I think it would be extremely cool if we could identify, intercept and sample an extrasolar object at some point in my lifetime.
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by boothby 11mo ago
Well part of the point is that I detest the function call overhead of CPython but yes what I described is precisely how lispers roll their linked lists! And several years later I am writing about as much lisp as I am Python (and making p
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by boothby 11mo ago
Yep, that's the main exception when I said "many stack-based algorithms". It's worth mentioning that examining the stack while debugging is annoying because of the number of parens involved.
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by boothby 11mo ago
If I operated a vending machine that spat out a dollar every time somebody pressed a button, I'd have just as many weekly users as I put dollar bills into it. You wouldn't call that a winning business despite the exceptionally hi
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by boothby 11mo ago
Once upon a time, I wanted to back a stack with a linked list in Python. I had been reading a lot of compiled bytecode, and had recently learned that CPython is a stack-based language capable of unrolling and popping tuples as singular byt
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by boothby 11mo ago
There are two competing figures in motion: human intelligence and computer intelligence. Either can win by sufficient reduction of the other.
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by boothby 11mo ago
Having some limited experience with lazy imports, yes, but this eliminates a lot of gross boilerplate. It also has the effect of "blessing" the practice of lazy imports which can have a cultural impact; it also prevents a situati
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by boothby 11mo ago
It reads like the Time Cube... which wasn't un-funny until we learned more about the author. As for the math itself, you can put anything amount of data you like into this 2-component vector, but nowhere is it claimed that you can ge
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by boothby 11mo ago
As always, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. And if we take Conservative talking points in good faith, proctective trade policies buttress the economy in the long term. Right? But I think you're wrong about the extracti

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