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by brundolf 1y ago
Periodic reminder that a PDF is a turing-complete script that generates a document and should be treated as foreign code
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by brundolf 2y ago
Or 4 days
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by brundolf 2y ago
And who knows where his whims will go tomorrow
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by brundolf 2y ago
Terminology aside, you're making a lot of accusations/character portraits that I don't think you have any basis for. Doug was an uncynical person.
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by brundolf 2y ago
> and agree Lenat was a grifter I worked at Cycorp for 3.5 years, so I can say: While I haven't been surprised to see Cyc become more and more clearly a failure, Doug Lenat was no grifter. To the very end, he (alongside a handful of
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SquiggleConf 2025(2025.squiggleconf.com)
2 points by brundolf 2y ago|0 comments
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by brundolf 2y ago
Formally the team/docs are very clear, but I think many users of Rust miss that nuance and lump memory safety together with all the other features that create the "if it compiles it probably works" experience So I agree with
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by brundolf 2y ago
I also spent five minutes clicking around and couldn't find a sample of what the code looks like
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by brundolf 2y ago
I would go farther and say it's not even a lack of "optimization", it's a bloat of spaghetti logic that no sane person would ever write, driven by teams that don't talk to each other and are constantly pushed by sta
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by brundolf 2y ago
The human or "natural" interface to the outside world. Interpreting sensor data, user interfacing (esp natural language), art and media (eg media file compression), even predictions of how complex systems will behave
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by brundolf 2y ago
I think there's a more general bifurcation here, between logic that: 1. Intrinsically needs to be precise, rigid, even fiddly, or 2. Has only been that way so far because that's how computers are 1 includes things like security,
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by brundolf 2y ago
Until early adulthood the only cheese I really knew was kraft slices, kraft parmesan powder, bags of pre-shredded, etc. Literally buying cheese by the block turned my world upside down
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by brundolf 2y ago
Based on the description I was hoping it would include some classic DOS and Windows games to play via wine :)
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by brundolf 2y ago
They extend it in some ways, but I'm not sure if they do in this way. They do sound kind of terrible, but I always assumed it was due to the microphones being way back by your ears. I'm not sure though
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by brundolf 2y ago
Here's a similar situation with the macbook pro's speakers, from the Asahi Linux team (scroll down to "Audio Advances"): https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/november-2022-report/ Similarly they
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by brundolf 2y ago
That's not at all the takeaway. macOS has the requisite software built-in; the hardware is designed in such a way that it requires software assistance to function, which is a choice that has advantages and disadvantages. The OP exist
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by brundolf 2y ago
My guess (without value judgement) is he was referring to the fact that they don't really work without such software
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by brundolf 2y ago
The built-in microphone is actually excellent, I often use it even when I have my AirPods Pro in because the sound quality is so much better If you've got headphones with a wraparound microphone on its own arm then it could be better,
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by brundolf 2y ago
Ah you're right, it had a physical escape button and TouchID button, but a touch bar in between them
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by brundolf 2y ago
When they came out with the 16" in 2019 it solved most of the issues (no more touch bar, good keyboard, etc) ...and I excitedly bought one. And then a year later the M1 came out, and I was kicking myself
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by brundolf 2y ago
A key there (and it sounds like in the OP) is that art direction is an order of magnitude more important than graphics technology, especially these days
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by brundolf 2y ago
A takeaway may be that cutting-edge rendering doesn't really matter for cartoon-stylized films, especially for kid viewers
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by brundolf 2y ago
Which fields? I feel like software has been an outlier here for a decade; the only place where traditional economic intuitions still apply (semi-smart people can work hard, learn a technical skill, find a job in their field, pay off their l
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by brundolf 2y ago
Agreed. I've had a lot of success using ChatGPT for nontrivial bash one-liners. They're small in scope and there must be a huge amount of training data for them, I use them rarely enough that I don't remember details off the
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by brundolf 2y ago
I for one would like to see TypeScript's type inference be self-hosted
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by brundolf 2y ago
Their software stack is open-source, and their machines don't have any telemetry or external dependencies. They're designed to be air-gap-able, while still giving you a cloud-like experience
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by brundolf 2y ago
I wonder if growing distrust in the american cloud will benefit companies like Oxide in coming years
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by brundolf 2y ago
It's been life-changing when combined with my AirPods Pro. ANC deadens most sound, but acute sounds still get through. Adding background noise on top of it can usually cover the rest. And they have both bright and dark noise, to cover
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by brundolf 2y ago
My main barrier to IDEA is actually performance. Despite people's complaints about electron apps, VSCode is viscerally snappier in all the little interactions. I tried to switch to IDEA for the powerful features, but it always felt lik
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by brundolf 2y ago
Thanks to both of you for the detailed explanation!

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