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by d-us-vb 6mo ago
Worked for me.
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by d-us-vb 6mo ago
A direct conclusion. The insight I'll draw from that is that academia gives voice to the results the current zeitgeist finds interesting and believable without properly verifying the evidence. See also the replication crisis.
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by d-us-vb 6mo ago
The purpose stated in the article in the mind of Birren was to reduce eye strain. I don't think it's so much that humans "prefer" it as such, more that we're very well adapted to work in environments with lots of it
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by d-us-vb 7mo ago
This reminds me a bit of the Vannevar Bush's Memex; what he'd really hoped it would become.
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by d-us-vb 7mo ago
A costly gamble for tech they really wanted that wasn't mature yet.
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by d-us-vb 7mo ago
Instructions unclear: my website is now advertising the logic of spaghetti for an Italian restaurant.
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by d-us-vb 7mo ago
While I agree with the sentiment for the effect its adherents want to have, but... Why not just "Communicate clearly"? - Don't add fluff - write as plainly as possible - write as precisely as is reasonable - Only make reasona
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by d-us-vb 7mo ago
The blog post is an open letter: the author wants everyone reading to follow the those rules.
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by d-us-vb 7mo ago
erase the context, perhaps? Deny access to Gemini associated with that google account? These kinds of pathological AI interactions are the buildup of weeks to months of chats usually. At the very least, AI companies the moment the chatbot i
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by d-us-vb 7mo ago
The deadpan irony is on point. Something it seems the Norwegians have perfected. Another one of my favorite examples of this (an ad for Oslo tourism): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vhD59ac7nw
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by d-us-vb 7mo ago
My breakfast recipe this morning, thanks to this article: - 1/4 c. milk - 1/2 c. flour - 4 eggs - 1/3 c. sugar - some salt - cinnamon - cloves - nutmeg - poppyseeds Did the first two cakes without baking powder, turned into s
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by d-us-vb 8mo ago
As others have mentioned, SPICE is the traditional answer to that question. But SPICE feels more like a macro-assembler for circuits. One project that comes to mind for high-level programming style circuits-as-code: https://githu
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by d-us-vb 8mo ago
Probably not much: the requirement is exact equivalence of program inputs to outputs, and as such the agents are performing very mechanical translation from the existing C++ code to Rust. Their prompts aren't "implement X browser
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by d-us-vb 8mo ago
Iverson's point is more regarding semantics than syntax, though. The only mention of syntax suggests its better for it to be simple (presumably so that the semantics are closer to the surface). Every programming language is a notation
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by d-us-vb 8mo ago
Breadboard is an excellent name for this project: it tells me that I can snap preexisting components (analogous to ICs) onto a grid and make connections (analogous to wires) between them. Context, as always, is everything. I don't thin
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by d-us-vb 8mo ago
It is never wrong to be considered untrusted. It is only occasionally right to be considered trusted. Especially in zero-risk relationships that is the default on the anonymous internet.
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by d-us-vb 8mo ago
“can” has multiple meanings in English. It can express both epistemic (describing the world accurately as is) and dynamic (describing the capabilities and attributes of an object) modes. If used epistemically, then parent’s phraseology make
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by d-us-vb 8mo ago
It depends on the language, paradigm (or lack thereof), quality/accuracy of the names. My work’s codebase is 30 years of never-refactored C++. It takes an exceptional amount of focus and thinking to get even a cursory understanding of
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
Because codepens can run javascript. And if a page has 50 of them, it might make the page load time much longer. I know that all these examples are pure CSS, and maybe there is a setting in codepen to disable the "Run" button and
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
It's easy enough to interpret Peanuts as being that. But Charles Schultz was not trying to present that. He was presenting the world as it is, and how one person can still maintain his optimism in spite of all that. This is made abunda
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
Calvin is such an interesting character. He never "learns", similar to Charlie Brown, but his outlook is that of a scientist who just wants to "see what'll happen". Anything to occupy his hyperactive mind, whether i
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
Today I learned that I would make a terrible detective! When I watched Broadchurch with my family, I thought he was doing a fine job at getting to the bottom of the case. Goes to show much crime drama I watch. I see now that Tennant's
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
Notice that I never once in this discussion claimed that it was a "good idea". This is about research and experimentation. The blog post has the title because of the Haskell documentation. Also, claiming that the lack of an argume
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
It is clear now that you don't understand the claim. It sounds like like you're conflating pure and impure functions. It's obvious from context (did you even read the blog post?) that the title of the blog post is referring t
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
> One doesn't have to presume anything, there are general principles that people eventually find are true after plenty of experience. I guess I just disagree with you here. Plenty of programmers with decades of experience have found
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
> No, the best thing you can do for simplicity is to not conflate concepts. This presumes the framework in which one is working. The type of map is and always will be the same as the type of function. This is a simple fact of type theory
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
Trial and error is necessary and beneficial, but not after the student becomes frustrated or anxious/bewildered by the complexity. The research shows that striking a balance between teacher intervention and trial and error is the optim
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
As a young Linux user I always hated the experimentation aspect because usually it meant just straight up getting the command wrong 5 times before trying to read the man page, thinking I understood what the man page meant, trying again anot
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
The curse of knowledge really. Or perhaps more accurately “awareness”. You know about things that are to others unknown unknowns. Since ignorance is bliss, it definitely feels like a curse to you, and since what one doesn’t know can hurt th
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
I think about this often as an org mode user who uses it exclusively for journaling with none of the GTD features. Org mode was released before markdown by over a year, but never saw the uptake like markdown did, despite being a more featur

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