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by countWSS 3y ago
I use this(i don't call it Mikado or use the idea), its much easier than rebasing your development branches on whatever was last commited. Breaking things down into simple components is possible even for big things, just add them as
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by countWSS 3y ago
Why would a superintelligent AI expose itself and its long-term chances by very public takeover. It will likely be something very low-profile like stealing electricity and mining ore underground.
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The likely "AI singularity" scenario
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by countWSS 3y ago
Copper price rises forced the switch in coinage around the world to aluminum/steel. Perhaps some aluminum alloy with low resale value and high conductivity could replace the copper?
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by countWSS 3y ago
This all could be fixed with better string library, Strings in C are awful to deal with and most of such errors is about memory buffers for strings that are manually allocated.
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by countWSS 3y ago
The real value of Reddit is old comments: this is the "content gold" mined by AI companies. I don't think there is anything approaching Reddit data in terms of quality and size. That is also why Reddit made its API paid to m
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by countWSS 3y ago
I use libreworf and it it spends few minutes of startup connecting to some mozilla server on AWS. Then all webpages start loading. I tried removing every single setting related to telemetry, replacing servers and it still doesn't work
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by countWSS 3y ago
Likely "Return to Office" is actually raising fixed costs(office space,devices,maintenance, electricity,etc) to pre-Covid levels, which means it much costlier to have tons of people on premises vs remote workers(which don't
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by countWSS 3y ago
What does it print with this? #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("%d.%d.%d", __GNUC__,__GNUC_MINOR__,__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__); }
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by countWSS 3y ago
These are "poetic terms", people usually use "flock of X", which is far more approachable. Using archaic terms with collective nouns is uncommon even in literary prose: e.g. https://books.google.com/ngram
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by countWSS 3y ago
Cell networks are dependent on local electricity, anything major happens they get overloaded or shutdown, and much of society stops functioning without cell towers.
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by countWSS 3y ago
Sunk cost fallacy: they invested time, effort and their reputation on the "smart solution", its going against the consensus. There is no point optimizing overengineered stuff, it will be simplified to that closed-form equation on
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by countWSS 3y ago
If there was a book like "How to lose customers and alienate people" mandatory logins, 2FA and modern account systems with their captchas and phone/SMS verifiers would be the first chapter.
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by countWSS 3y ago
Actually this sounds useful as alternative to C++ stdlib: i've often compiled C++ code via GCC for simple stuff where C++ stdlib isn't included by default and all 'nice' C++ things are not linked, giving less overhead
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by countWSS 3y ago
I initially wrote cursive, then turned to block letters as it was more intelligible and lately write in cursive-block hybrid that is easier to read/write, where simple block letters are written with curves and not connected(easier to
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by countWSS 3y ago
The main factors are alien syntax and extremely deep abstraction levels, leading to cryptic/dense code like APL but with nested lists instead of arrays.
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by countWSS 3y ago
A curious counter-example to 'metaprogramming is essential' is Zig that explicitly rejects macros and "abstraction towers", there is no operator overloading or OOP methods.
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by countWSS 3y ago
likely she nuked her gut microbiome with anti-biotics and now cannot handle sugar alcohols.
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by countWSS 3y ago
Debugging. It takes hours to pinpoint exact cause of anything more complex than a toy program, especially when the bug requires a combination of factors to manifest. In most situations its much harder to debug code that you didn't w
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by countWSS 3y ago
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/18/chinese-mutant-covid-... Snopes: they didn't mutate the virus it mutated on its own in cell culture. And its 100% lethal based on 4 out of 12 mice, the same 4
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by countWSS 3y ago
MathJax+chart plotter lib+table sorter lib and embedding images as base64 would make PDFs obsolete. Unfortunately there is no agreed for standard embedding(all use different inline js/fonts) and rendering on browsers differs so peopl
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by countWSS 3y ago
Any architecture that could compete with LLMs is going to reshape the ML landscape that is now dominated by GPU-heavy algorithms like transformer attention. Its likely there is something more fundamental that could work without much traini
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by countWSS 3y ago
Then, D will compete with GC languages that outclass it in ecosystem diversity and metaprogramming.(i.e. it will remain same niche language it was for decades). Having a huge runtime with GC doesn't seem appealing or efficient.
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by countWSS 3y ago
My suggestions: completely get rid of GC(use refcounts or borrowed pointers), add macros(see FreeBasic extensions of C macros), migrate everything complex/optional out of stdlib to specific packages(Rust ecosystem is centered on packa
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by countWSS 3y ago
I'd like to start some hobby projects, but only when i have energy and health resources to do it. Doing the bare minimum is default. Besides i doubt investing in something long-term is worth it, except very rare circumstances that don
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by countWSS 3y ago
Perhaps synthetic generation could help? something like InseRF or Instruct-NeRF2NeRF could be used to generate components and variations.
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by countWSS 3y ago
C++ makes people disgusted, from iostreams to meta-templates that slow-down compilation to a crawl. Its natural they wanted to replace C++ with something, but turns out the big bad C++ optimizes to better code and Swift isn't that g
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by countWSS 3y ago
So as understanding of "AI tech" improves it become a tool with specific label, and magical AI hype migrates to something more advanced and less understood. However the utility of stochastic parrots in this case is more general an
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by countWSS 3y ago
Many people complain about teaching C leading to bad habits or something of that sort. C is crucial to understanding OS apis, driver code and low-level algorithms, its not locked to single platform like assembly and allows composing fairly
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by countWSS 3y ago
"Its called code" Can you code a million games per day? The barrier to entry if this works out, would allow anyone to make such games by simply writing down a few pages of "mods" every hour. Or if you force ChatGPT to cr

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