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LLM Morality: asking LLMs difficult moral questions(llm-morality.deno.dev)
2 points by charlesetc 1y ago|0 comments
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by charlesetc 3y ago
Yeah auto format solves a lot of the syntax problems. Dangling else for instance is not at all ambiguous when you have automatic indentation.
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by charlesetc 4y ago
Don't they? Isn't that axis just "how much they like the candidate"?
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by charlesetc 4y ago
"How Ranked-Choice Voting elects extremists" https://psephomancy.medium.com/how-ranked-choice-voting-elec... This article recommends instead a STAR voting system which is still simple to implement and understand w
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by charlesetc 7y ago
https://arc.io/product#how-does-arc's-cdn-work-technically
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by charlesetc 7y ago
Air pollution causes 4.2 million deaths a year.[1] From the data in this link, we can infer that historically this adds up to 467 times nuclear. [1] https://www.who.int/gho/phe/outdoor_air_pollution/burden_tex
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by charlesetc 7y ago
Thinking about this decision just as a performance one disregards the fact that the code is substantially different. It does seems likely that one way is more intuitive / easier to work with than the other, I wouldn't know which t
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by charlesetc 8y ago
It seems a bit premature to claim high performance without having a story for memory. I'm sure ocaml, swift, and basically all languages that do any type of runtime garbage collection would be significantly faster without it.
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by charlesetc 9y ago
Does npm even allow you to use projects that don't allow you to make changes to their code?
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by charlesetc 9y ago
I used Pony and bindings to opengl to write the (very) start of a graphics engine. http://www.charlesetc.com/stars-game-7.html It was surprisingly easy to learn - I found the capabilities system rather intuitive compared to
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by charlesetc 9y ago
Code generation is one way to get around generics. Go also stores all the type data at runtime so you can inspect the arguments passed to any function, which gives the same kind of generic behavior in any dynamically typed language. So you
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by charlesetc 9y ago
There's replication, but I mean that all the data is in one pg instance, whereas there isn't a single mysql instance with all the data.
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by charlesetc 9y ago
This is missing one huge point of the [uber engineer post]( https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/ ). They did not switch from a postgres instance to put all their data in a mysql instance. They switched from a single pos
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by charlesetc 10y ago
I use konsole which is better than I found gnome-terminal to be and less klunky than I was expecting
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by charlesetc 10y ago
There have been many times when vim starts glitching out or something because of the terminal emulator I'm using. Even well tested ones like X-term and gnome-terminal. I never had that problem using st. We hack so much into a text inte
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by charlesetc 10y ago
I used st for a good year and it worked really well! I've switched recently for features like the ability to change the font size without recompiling, etc. Despite its spartan feature set, st is quite usable.
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by charlesetc 10y ago
> Using Bitcoin for cybercriminal activities is becoming increasingly commonplace, as tracing payments is much harder due to the way the cryptocurrency works "Cryptocurrency" is a large set of currencies, each of which work dif
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by charlesetc 10y ago
You could easily prefix your special environment variable with 'lambdoku_' so you don't have to fear that people could use it..
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by charlesetc 10y ago
Keep in mind this was written 8 years ago and last updated 4 years ago.
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by charlesetc 10y ago
This is so awesome! I now am a lover of islands :D
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by charlesetc 10y ago
I found this super interesting and great 'hacker news' - any idea why it was flagged?
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by charlesetc 10y ago
People might be interested in this one too - got a weird name, and it's still under development, but it seems pretty good http://www.vim.org/
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by charlesetc 10y ago
Spoiler: There's no difference
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by charlesetc 10y ago
Why do you all rely on oil? Just use batteries... \s I think it's important to note that they are not "replacing fossil-fuel electricity generation with lithium-ion batteries". They are putting fossil-fuel supplied electricit
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by charlesetc 10y ago
Purely functional doesn't mean immutable by default - it means immutable, period. A function called with the same arguments will always have the same result.
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by charlesetc 10y ago
Let's ignore that your operating system is probably written in c.
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Git rebase for fame and power(charlesetc.com)
4 points by charlesetc 10y ago|1 comments
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Exceptions in OCaml (Reason)(charlesetc.com)
15 points by charlesetc 10y ago|3 comments
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Type Inference by means of unification(cs.cornell.edu)
2 points by charlesetc 10y ago|0 comments
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Heroku's Psychedelic Art(heroku.com)
3 points by charlesetc 10y ago|0 comments

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