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by contextfree 2y ago
GitHub sublates AI deals with Google, Anthropic
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by contextfree 2y ago
"WinUI3 hasn't even officially launched" ? It officially launched with version 1.0 and it's now on 1.6?
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by contextfree 2y ago
One of the researchers involved (I think) also maintains a "Fifth Generation Computer Systems Museum": https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/... As the OP article mentions much (mos
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by contextfree 2y ago
Also, RAM, CPU and disk space are shared resources on PCs. If your computer is slow you don't necessarily attribute it to any particular program, let alone website. As Terry Crowley says here https://terrycrowley.medium.com&
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by contextfree 2y ago
I liked this post by Terry Crowley: https://terrycrowley.medium.com/software-ecology-bb4653046fd... "The classic response to accusations of bloat is that this growth is an efficient response to the additional resources
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by contextfree 2y ago
Lenin more or less defined "socialism" to mean that
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by contextfree 3y ago
TAOCP itself embodies several layers of yak shaving, since he was initially commissioned to write a book on compilers, then decided to start the book with material on more basic algorithms (with compilers relegated to later chapters), then
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by contextfree 3y ago
Windows supports this out of the box (via the Phone Link app), it works reasonably well in my experience.
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by contextfree 3y ago
"criticism of bureaucrats starts with the 1960s" seems wildly off? I don't know much about the history of anti-bureaucracy but e.g., Lenin was using "bureaucratic" as definitionally negative in 1923: https:/&#
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by contextfree 3y ago
The article doesn't make this clear, but 关系 in Chinese is a very general word that can refer to any kind of relations/connections, not only between people but between institutions, abstract ideas, etc.
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by contextfree 3y ago
Good post. My simple take is that the FA(A)NG acronym just never made any sense at any time, never understood how some random nonsense coined by Jim Cramer got taken up by so many people who should know better.
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My Objections to “We're All Going to Die” with Eliezer Yudkowsky(lesswrong.com)
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by contextfree 4y ago
There's no single "alignment faction" in terms of these questions. There are people associated with the alignment research program who do advocate slowing things down, e.g., https://worldspiritsockpuppet.substack.c
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by contextfree 4y ago
The framing is kind of weird - AI isn't a specific technology to begin with, so someone can't really correctly or incorrectly "discern six ways that artificial intelligence (AI) is used around you every day".
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by contextfree 4y ago
Is the name 式? I always found this word interesting, it can mean "mathematical term/expression", but also "form" (as in formalism) in general, and can also mean "ceremony" as in ritual form
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by contextfree 4y ago
One thing I do think ChatGPT has been good for is reducing the "learning overhead" of making use of a lot of different APIs - this makes extensibility, scriptability, end-user programming etc. more attractive, although other probl
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by contextfree 4y ago
I remember even in the 90s the nose version felt sort of "old fashioned" to me.
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by contextfree 4y ago
Other way around, Xiaoice came first, Xiaoice came first, Tay was supposed to be its US version although I'm not sure if it was actually the same codebase.
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by contextfree 4y ago
It was once in use throughout much of East Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning As an American, I remember first encountering it in a footnote to an English translation of the Tale of Genji.
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by contextfree 4y ago
I remember playing the Hitchhiker's Guide text adventure on C64 where everything you typed took like 20 seconds to get a response.
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by contextfree 4y ago
Fair enough, but those were a couple sentences out of a multipage article. I just get tired of comments for any article that involves Microsoft in some way turning into generic arguments over whether people should like or hate Microsoft, ov
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by contextfree 4y ago
The article seems like less a critique and more of an informational report of this person's experience.
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by contextfree 4y ago
I always thought a metaverse was defined as a virtual 3D world that is composed or federated across multiple apps or servers from different sources (that's what the "meta" part signifies, right?), so the OS-like and/or p
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by contextfree 4y ago
I tried "combine only when full" mode for a while in Windows 7 and 10, thinking it would be the best of both worlds, but quickly realized that 1. usually I have too much open + the title captions aren't good enough for the ti
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by contextfree 4y ago
"Advice: don't let the tag predicates refer to other tags" But then how would I search by the tag of all tags that do not tag themselves???
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by contextfree 4y ago
Sure, I just wish articles would provide the basic context needed to make sense of what's in the article. I don't think bitcoin provides any value to the world, so trivially it doesn't provide value commensurate with its envi
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by contextfree 4y ago
Without it I don't know how the total absolute (as opposed to relative) climate damage associated with bitcoin compares with the total absolute climate damage associated with those other things.
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by contextfree 4y ago
"The research found that every $1 in Bitcoin market value generated an average of 35 cents in global climate damages between 2016 and 2021. For comparison, gasoline generated 41 cents, and beef production was responsible for 33 cents i
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by contextfree 4y ago
I guess flat design can be tied back into that tension/mixed metaphor between electromechanical and print analogs - it's based on a decision to lean towards the print side of things. Actually the designers of early-ish influential
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by contextfree 4y ago
It would be interesting to see articles like this for various common elements of UI widget toolkits, which I guess kind of mix metaphors in that some of them (buttons, sliders) evoke electromechanical devices while others (checkboxes, text

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