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by bsder 6mo ago
> The recommended advice is to start with semantics first. Syntax will change, there is not much point fixing it down too early. It's actually the reverse, in my opinion. Semantics can change much more easily than syntax. You can
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by bsder 6mo ago
Agreed. The idiotic law not allowing college debt to be cleared by bankruptcy is the primary reason why college has gotten so expensive.
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> The inevitable and unfortunate result of "handing out 'free' stuff" however will always be widespread fraud. The optimal amount of fraud is not "zero". The goal is to enforce just enough to keep the frau
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> If this is counter-intuitive, a refresher on basic statistics and probability theory may be in order. I'm not running "statistics". I'm running an individual run . I care about the individual quality of my run
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> There should be volunteer groups at local libraries running these services for their local communities. The problem with bespoke anything in computers is always the support. No one wants to be on the hook for customer support. I abs
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by bsder 6mo ago
> I was fighting deadlocks in some Java code this week Why? You have java.util.concurrent; you should never see a deadlock. You might see a performance degradation or maybe even livelock, but that's very, very, very rare. What abj
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by bsder 6mo ago
> The models are nondeterministic, and therefore it's pretty normal for different runs to give different results. And how is that an excuse? I don't care about how good a model could be. I care about how good a model was on m
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by bsder 6mo ago
> I really wish AMD and Intel boards get replaced by competent people. Intel? Agreed. But AMD is making money hand over fist with enterprise AI stuff. Right now, any effort that AMD or NVIDIA expend on the consumer sector is a waste of
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by bsder 6mo ago
How is the cleanup with DrinkMate? Washing everything was my primary problem with SodaStream.
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> Like tenish gallons (~40L). Ah, that would do it. I was thinking this was like beer homebrewing and would be around a gallon. Thanks for the info.
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> The much bigger danger for home distilling is fire, as you have open flames and combustible vapor. This would suggest that using induction heating would be significantly safer and have the possibility of precise temperature control. I
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by bsder 6mo ago
> Will RISC-V end up with the same (or even worse) platform fragmentation as ARM? Sadly, yes. RISC-V vendors are repeating literally every single mistake that the ARM ecosystem made and then making even dumber ones.
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by bsder 6mo ago
> In any build system, I think the distinction between “cross” and “non-cross” compilation is an anti-pattern. This is one of the huge wins of Zig. Any Zig host compiler can produce output for any supported target. Cross compiling beco
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by bsder 6mo ago
> I just couldn’t gamble my vision on the outcome of LASIK. Perfectly reasonable. However, do know that modern versions of the procedure are way better at identifying the people who are likely to have problems. However, even if the od
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by bsder 6mo ago
Apple does the same thing with iCloud. I had to go through a lot of hoops to get my wife's photos back down locally on the computer.
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by bsder 6mo ago
> maybe they just don't want to learn the alternatives. Or they use word/excel/powerpoint and have to interact with others who do also. If they're on Office 365, they could be on Linux.
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by bsder 6mo ago
Teachers of beginners understand that keeping them motivated and practicing is the primary problem. Cleaning up your technique is simply not a goal. Doubly so if you are an adult learner. Piano is also a lot harder to have very bad techni
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"Motor City" was basically the "Silicon Valley" of its day with entrepreneurs and companies. Then it got mired by a bunch of businesspeople rent seeking rather than innovating and collapsed. > When I was a kid, Detro
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by bsder 6mo ago
> The sales really exceeded their expectations that much? Windows 11 demands TPM 2.0 which means that your old laptop may not be upgradable and yet support for Windows 10 has dropped. And add in a dash enshittification via AI and no rea
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> first, there are local maxima in terms of learning something like guitar where you get bad habits and the only way to progress is to undo them. I'm not convinced for guitar. Some of the fastest and most famous guitarists had shoc
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by bsder 6mo ago
Because of just how many programmersI've interviewed who can't pass FizzBuzz? I also taught upper level CS and my first assignment was always "You have 10 days. Here is a 10 line program on this sheet of paper. Type it in,
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by bsder 6mo ago
"Effective C++" ? Chapter 2: Constructors, Destructors, and Assignment Operators Item 5: Know what functions C++ silently writes and calls. Item 6: Explicitly disallow the use of compiler generated functions you do
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by bsder 6mo ago
Because the two go together. If you have to ban one, you pretty much have to ban both. Although, I guess if you only statically allocated everything once at startup, you could use constructors without destructors? Presumably using the pla
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by bsder 6mo ago
> This is language-version-specific behavioral minutiae that anyone can look up in 5 minutes in the rare case it matters, and is otherwise irrelevant to engineering software at a senior level. The fact that C++ programming books have ent
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> Honestly, this doesn't seem unreasonable to me. At some point, you have to cut off previous technologies because virtually everyone's moved to something better. Better? In what way? And for whom? Certainly not for this man
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> where do people stand on the Flying Lizard's cover of Money (that's what I want)? It's fine precisely because it provokes emotion that AI stuff doesn't. You may love or hate what the Flying Lizards did, but it&#x27
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> Or that the doctor has some magical insight into your getting-on beyond a couple questions they ask you in your visit? Remember to eat. That's it. Apparently we have forgotten people who died from eating disorders (previously call
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> Most code written by humans is indeed, garbage. I think that this is the problem, actually. It's similar to writing. Most people suck at writing so badly that the LLM/AI writing is almost always better when writing is "
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by bsder 6mo ago
> Calculators are deterministically correct given the right input. It does not require expert judgement on whether an answer they gave is reasonable or not. That's not actually true. The HP-12C calculator is still the dominant calc
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What he is referring to are perfectly good students whose parents will go shopping for a medical diagnosis so that their child can get "accommodation" like extra time to complete tests. The problem is that this is treating the sym

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