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by cjk2 3y ago
I've found social media use a good yardstick for identifying lunatics and avoiding them. Since I stopped hanging around with anyone who uses TikTok, Facebook or Instagram and LinkedIn, I seem to have made better real life connections w
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by cjk2 3y ago
No instead I run 50 standalone browsers with one tab each on my machine ...
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by cjk2 3y ago
Electron serves the developer not the user. It also looks shit on every platform then. And eats all your RAM
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by cjk2 3y ago
Meh I just leave my shit in the dryer when it's done.
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by cjk2 3y ago
Minitab was the worst. I learned R because I hated paying for it, using it and using Windows. $1600 a year for dialog boxes where edit keys don't work in the text boxes properly. A long time ago, CAD software fit the same hole of dire
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by cjk2 3y ago
I have spent a lot more money on shitty ugly software on Windows than I have on macOS. In fact as an almost 100% full time Mac user the only things I've actually bought that run on the Mac are PixelMator and Goodnotes and I paid virtua
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by cjk2 3y ago
It's because the user interface is actually consistent and normalised across the whole platform and the paradigms are well documented and understood by the developers producing software. On Windows and Linux one minute you're cons
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by cjk2 3y ago
Debian is always the answer. It has the least corporate oversight and integration of all the remaining distributions.
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by cjk2 3y ago
I have some hopes for this. But at the same time I have many more doubts, principally that I don't think we'll ever see this in any hardware with any quality or support lifecycle even approaching Apple's ARM offering.
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by cjk2 3y ago
Doesn't surprise me. I know a managed service provider who keeps all his clients' AD domain passwords on a text file on his desktop. How do I know this? I saw it on a screen share.
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by cjk2 3y ago
When in Rome do as romans do. That means keep it in the neutral language of the subject, which is not wolfram language despite his ego thinking otherwise.
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by cjk2 3y ago
This would be really cool if it wasn't a thinly disguised Wolfram sales pitch.
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by cjk2 3y ago
I'm wondering if this Dilbert was prophetic https://imgur.com/a/JB5g9Fx
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by cjk2 3y ago
Is there a trustworthy actor on either side here?
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by cjk2 3y ago
I don't think you know how the music industry works
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by cjk2 3y ago
I suspect the truth around this is that it contributes to their eternal losses actually paying artists so they worked out another way of not doing it for their balance sheet. I was at a gig for a moderately successful band recently and they
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by cjk2 3y ago
a) it is more effort to rationalise something that is written than it is to write something rationalised. b) if it was that deterministic, then you could generate it without an LLM.
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by cjk2 3y ago
Haven't read that for years!
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by cjk2 3y ago
Urgh another rabbit hole. I should thank you but I'm not sure I will :)
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by cjk2 3y ago
This is actually one of my principal objections. A summary of a deterministic computation requires careful thought around how it is explained so that it is interpreted as intended. That requires understanding of the domain, understanding of
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by cjk2 3y ago
As it always goes: Monkey get shiny hammer. Monkey hit toes.
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by cjk2 3y ago
Just a nit pick, we got to the moon also on the back of slide rules and 3 significant figures of pencil scribblings by thousands of shirted engineers. The computer and calculator side bit is somewhat over-explained because it was sexier. Al
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by cjk2 3y ago
LLMs are "close enough" solutions. Which should never be used where "close enough" is not good enough. Like Turing machines. Or most things really.
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by cjk2 3y ago
I think we need a philosophy of the philosophy of mathematics to build an understanding around this...
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by cjk2 3y ago
I already use an HP48 emulator that pulls ROMs off the Internet on iOS. It has been around for a long time. I suspect that most of the rules were to prevent Sega or Nintendo getting pissy and start suing Apple.
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by cjk2 3y ago
I bought one of these many years ago. Extremely unreliable and inflexible. Worse than even the springy Rat Shack ones. I really wish someone would put together a decent kit and guide these days. I did consider designing and marketing someth
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by cjk2 3y ago
What about the s-domain?
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by cjk2 3y ago
That amazing. It makes me immediately want to fuck off and do something useful.
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by cjk2 3y ago
Philosophy deals with things that sound good but don’t work in reality. So does programming. I think that’s where the inherent connection is. I was going to put a facetious comment about Marx’s grave and my contribution to philosophy but I’
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by cjk2 3y ago
I don’t desire being ahead, just academic and intellectual honesty.

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