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by cfiggers 9mo ago
I know this is weird, but....... I'm really happy with Microsoft Launcher.
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by cfiggers 9mo ago
Yes, absolutely. In fact, it behooves all B's to make all the A's BELIEVE that society is still "Basically Ethical" for as long as possible. That's what prevents the A's from banding together and forcibly restr
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by cfiggers 9mo ago
One solution to this problem that was popular in certain ancient societies was, "Round up and execute all the B's." But A) that's not very ethical, so we can't do that without becoming B's ourselves; and B) you
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by cfiggers 9mo ago
Because, "opt-in ethics" turns stronger ethical preference into a game theoretic disadvantage. There are two populations: population A is those who prefer ethical behavior internally and would volunteer for it even if not compelle
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by cfiggers 10mo ago
If Zig does eventually save the world one day, it'll be just as much thanks to TigerBeetle as to the Zig Foundation itself. Having a serious, dedicated, and smart partner, in industry, working hard to operationalize and turn a profit
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by cfiggers 10mo ago
One great way to start learning is to code your own! Here's a step-by-step guide to writing a TUI text editor in ~1000 lines of code (and it's super easy to embellish as you go): https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoke
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by cfiggers 11mo ago
When two humans want to talk but don't speak a shared language, if they spend enough time together, they will figure out how to communicate eventually. But when two computers want to talk to each other and don't speak a "shar
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by cfiggers 11mo ago
They aren't necessarily tracking you personally. Gemini Protocol hitting the front page of HN means a spike in interest generally, which the YouTube algorithm could be reacting to in aggregate.
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by cfiggers 11mo ago
Same here. Those are my gripes exactly.
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by cfiggers 1y ago
Zig is still pre-1.0, and the creators have been VERY clear that they're not done breaking stuff on the way to getting things right. It's a fair contrast to draw.
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by cfiggers 1y ago
> the label has no value in-itself Yes. And, as you have eloquently said in your other comments in this thread, the label CAN (not DOES but CAN) readily become value-NEGATIVE, if it becomes in itself an object of fixation that draws time
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by cfiggers 1y ago
I've only been a hiring manager once, and it was for a junior-level position so take that into account. When I read resumes, accomplishments meant next to nothing to me. I was looking for capabilities. Your EC2 example is probably
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by cfiggers 1y ago
I'm really dumb, genuinely asking the question—when people do such things, where are they generally running the actual code? Would it be in a VM on generally available infra that their company provides...? Or like... On a spare laptop
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by cfiggers 1y ago
Pathos is a NetHack-inspired but mobile-interface-first roguelike dungeon crawler packed with features and with no ads or micro transactions.
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by cfiggers 1y ago
Agreed on the need for better Janet tooling. I'm trying to be the change I wish to see with Janet LSP[0]. Issues and contributions are welcome! [0] https://GitHub.com/CFiggers/janet-lsp
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Mostly irrelevant to me. Maybe a tiny bit more *if* that means it comes with more RAM at the base price (as with "Copilot+ PC"s starting with a minimum of 16GB).
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by cfiggers 2y ago
In my so far very limited experience, Zig is very intentionally verbose at almost every opportunity. This isn't what some people want in a language, and I get that. But because they're SO consistent about it, Zig does end up with
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Tsoding explored this project on a recent stream: https://youtu.be/aKk_r9ZwXQw?si=dvZAZkOX3xd7yjTw
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Do people with "Copilot+ PCs" get benefits running stuff like this from the much-vaunted AI coprocessors in for e.g. Snapdragon X Elite chips?
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by cfiggers 2y ago
I enjoy Lisp and Lisp-alike languages specifically because with the right editor support you can do a lot of this kind of structural editing stuff without giving up the niceties of source code as text.
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Ah, that makes sense! I googled it and the only thing I found spelling it the way the app does is that it's a word meaning "sorcery" in a language from the Philippines that I've never heard of before this... https:&#x2F
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Here's my opinion: there's actually two very different use cases here. Most apps I've tried do not distinguish between the two and that, for me, is their downfall. Sometimes, you're in the moment trying to make a decisio
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by cfiggers 2y ago
I gave GNU Cash a real honest try about a year ago and couldn't figure it out. I don't think I'm above-average intelligence, but I'm very software-savvy. And I simply could not do it. Like at some point I got angry and d
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Respectfully, 70 folks is not larger than I thought.
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by cfiggers 2y ago
> One cool feature of Unexpected Keyboard (which may be available elsewhere, I haven't looked at many others) is that you can swipe left and right on the space bar to quickly and accurately scroll left and right in a text field. Nic
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Hey there. This project isn't posted publicly anywhere at the moment—it's a very idiosyncratic one-of-one sort of deal. For one thing, while I know Python a little bit , I much prefer to write Lisp. But the Textual [0] library is
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by cfiggers 2y ago
This is cool. I like the ongoing trend of TUIs getting more attention and use. A little while ago I wrote my own little TUI tool using Textual that interfaces with Outlook using pywin32. I really only needed (need) one specific feature abov
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Hi, not the person you asked, but I have an answer to the question. I have an AutoHotkey script that auto-replaces "--" with "—" (and auto-disables it in contexts where it's likely intended, like SQL editors and my
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Big assumption there
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by cfiggers 2y ago
> If you compute P(AllPossibleModels|AllSensoryInput) you end up never learning anything. ...whoa. That makes complete sense. So you're saying that there must be some form of meta-rationality that gives cues to our attempts at Bayes

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