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Steve Shirley countered sexism by founding her own company(economist.com)
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by cgh 1y ago
Quite a cynical perspective. The Economist’s writers have been anonymous since the magazine’s founding in 1843. In the 19th century, anonymity was normal in publications like this. Signing one’s name to articles was seen as pretentious.
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by cgh 1y ago
This is discussed and dismissed in the first paragraph of the article.
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by cgh 1y ago
To expand on the capabilities thing: https://fil-c.org/invisicaps_by_example In particular, check out the sections called "Laundering Pointers As Integers" and "Laundering Integers As Pointers".
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by cgh 1y ago
Various cities in Canada regularly see temperatures way below zero. For example, Edmonton’s mean daily minimum is below zero for seven months a year. It has hit lows of -50°. And let us not speak of Winterpeg, er Winnipeg. Toronto != Canada
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by cgh 1y ago
Yeah, have to say I am a little surprised to see a Jordan Lasker article here. It follows his usual race-science pattern: innocuously well-researched article that he takes to a somewhat bonkers conclusion.
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by cgh 1y ago
Anyone interested in a fictional take on this period could consider Pynchon's "Against the Day", although it is no light challenge. It takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the years following WW1 and, ap
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by cgh 1y ago
I saw a quote somewhere to the effect of “LLMs are lossy compression of the internet” and it seemed about right.
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by cgh 1y ago
Should be fine as long as these government workers never have to use it for basic arithmetic. After all, when do governments deal with actual numbers? What is 10,286x953751? ChatGPT said: 10,286 × 953,751 = 9,817,342,086
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by cgh 1y ago
Yes, the point wasn’t “Clojure rules, Haskell drools”, it’s that at a high enough level of abstraction, encoding business rules with static types is brittle. It’s not some huge revelation; enterprises have done this for decades with SQL and
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by cgh 1y ago
In my experience, online gambling or banking.
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by cgh 1y ago
This is answered in the article’s second paragraph.
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by cgh 1y ago
There's another specific class of person that seems helped by them: the paralysis by analysis programmer. I work with someone really smart who simply cannot get started when given ordinary coding tasks. She researches, reads and unders
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by cgh 1y ago
In Thailand in the ‘90s, there were street vendors selling every dvd and cd you could think of, all bootlegs, complete with copied artwork and packaging. It was completely out in the open.
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by cgh 1y ago
Re your Gulf Stream comment: Whitehorse, Yukon is roughly at the same latitude as Bergen, Norway. Bergen’s climate is temperate and similar to, say, Vancouver: rainy, a bit of snow in winter, rarely staying below freezing for long. The cold
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by cgh 1y ago
Canada is recruiting US scientists: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/us-scientists-canada-1.750252...
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by cgh 1y ago
This is a fantastic comment, thank you.
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by cgh 1y ago
I think the idea is that the cycle is inferred by analyzing purchasing data.
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by cgh 1y ago
In a previous comment, you remarked you don’t even know Zig.
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by cgh 1y ago
Yes, NHL blackouts are a great example. You want to watch your home team? Great, you have to subscribe to what they refer to as your “RSN” (regional sports network, usually a regular tv channel). But the RSN doesn’t show all the games acros
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by cgh 1y ago
There is a reason why corporations aren’t letting LLMs into the accounting department.
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by cgh 1y ago
Debugging Java is great, as others have mentioned. This includes probably the best remote debugging capabilities available for any platform. OpenJDK, the de facto standard version used by everyone, is licensed under the GPL version 2 with t
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by cgh 1y ago
Every large company I’ve ever worked at had a strict “no Microsoft on the server” policy and for better or worse, C# is closely identified with Microsoft.
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by cgh 1y ago
> Here in Sweden, it is customary to roast and brew coffee the same color as your soul: dark and ragged. Okay, caffeine pills it is. In fact, I take a half of one now and again to get 100mg of caffeine, especially before hard physical ac
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by cgh 1y ago
Paperclip (word processor) had an 80 column preview mode, which showed your text in hi-res 80 columns. It seemed like magic at the time and made ten year old me feel like I was performing serious business.
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by cgh 1y ago
Thank you, this is excellent information. Hopefully it beats the Kate + LSP experience.
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by cgh 1y ago
Again, this list is from Random House, a major American English-language book publisher.
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by cgh 1y ago
The Modern Library is a publishing imprint of Random House so it’s pretty much focused on works in English.
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by cgh 1y ago
Our neighbours have Prime vans as well as unmarked white delivery vans dropping stuff off almost daily, mostly small items. I have sometimes wondered where it all goes, until I see their overflowing garbage and recycling bins.
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by cgh 1y ago
Perhaps ironically, I know a guy who uses ChatGPT to write ad copy. The snake eats its own tail.

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