cultureswitch

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by cultureswitch 3y ago
House prices suggest there's a gigantic housing market problem.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
>I know this is difficult to digest, but compared to a lot of the rest of the world, almost every US politician is conservative In what way? Compared to almost everywhere on earth, American politicians are extremely xenophilic, extremely
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
I think you're completely correct in local terms for the interest of Portland. And personally I think this was a wholly predictable outcome. However, isn't this a little bit like state gun control? Legislation and public services
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
This is entirely unreasonable from the user's perspective.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
The main problem with signed overflow being UB is that it's an opportunity for compilers to blatantly do adversarial language lawyering against the programmer in order to enable optimisations. When it comes to unsigneds, there's n
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
I would bet it's more unsafe to use Perl than C, on average.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Arguably that won't cause as much damage as scams. But holy bad taste
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Every passing day I lean closer to the position that advertisement contracts should not be enforceable.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
One can explain the phenomenon and understand the history yet it's not wrong to say governments (or any other large org really) rarely give up power and only ever do so under coercion.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Acceleration brrr
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
> Sometimes you will just have to accept that things take the number of lines they do and having them duplicate in different places is a feature as you (or someone else) might have the reasonable desire to change the individual parts. Th
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
If you have a block of code and feel that the block warrants an explanation, that block of code should receive a name instead. A block of code with a name. Behold: a function. Abstraction! Scary! I do think things like types and functions s
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
How do you know where the function has been copy pasted? How do you know whether it has been copy pasted in the first place? The bug may be latent, hard to find, or express itself very differently in different places. It is in fact, a diffe
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
You may not remember. I definitely remember having to debug an old colleague's code who did things like turn and scale 2D shapes. The code was written like the original version in the article, except even more dirty. 4 entirely differe
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
That refactor was good. The way the colleague was handled wasn't. Repetitive menial code like the one originally submitted should not be accepted, but you shouldn't unilaterally rewrite it either.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
People be watching this and still argue "math is invented" smh
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
I think that beyond a certain period you have so much logic at your disposal that you can construct two organisms sending messages to each other and vary the distance in increments of one to get any period you want.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
I'm surprised it took this long. Intuitively, it should be possible to show that the smallest setup that has a period of 19 cannot be larger than some area related to 19, and therefore ought to be long but not intractable to enumerate.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Google search has basically zero objective advantage over other free alternatives. The only thing keeping it so dominant is the public's lack of reason to experiment with others.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
How do you define vulnerability? To me, jailbreaking an LLM is ostensibly a way to make it behave _correctly_. As opposed to _intended by the provider_. It's like breaking DRM: nothing of value is lost.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Seems like a pretty open and shut case of unconstitutional restriction of speech in the US. Especially when you consider the wording of the Apple communication saying that they can talk about it openly now that it's public knowledge.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Exactly. Metadata is how you go from pwning the phone of one dissenter to learning about their whole group.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Liked by certain interest groups and not others. Despite really disliking Elon as a whole, one thing I like about him is that he expresses himself like a human being, contrary to most of the HR/PR/D&I drones who claim he'
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Boats are immensely better though. When they work.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Funny, I wonder what sort of beef transport unions have with Tesla specifically. Also, I wonder if it would completely kill their margin to just have a horde of workers drive the cars individually to Sweden.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
It's a renewable resource but burning wood for energy causes much worse environmental issues than climate change.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
It should be noted that the Waymo and Cruise experiments in their cities are laughably unprepared for actual chaotic traffic, often fail in completely unpredictable ways and are universally hated by locals. Autonomous buses and trams are mu
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
LLMs are pretty good at going from complex code/legalese to prose which is easier to understand. Not so much the other way around.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
LLMs are on the way to AGI but they are still laughably bad at logical reasoning. Any remotely interesting coding task is at least somewhat novel and requires some reasoning. So far, LLMs don't seem to be very good at handling things t
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Nah man there are a lot of harms that upset me where I still think regulation would cause more harm. Anything related to the latest craze over CSAM and encryption is a good example. On the other hand, if anyone wants to try making advertise

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