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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
He's talking about "wonder bread" and other factory breads that have had much of their nutrients stripped and some put back, to the detriment of their absorption. Some also are concerned with artificially included preservativ
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
I appreciate when "Woe is Me" style comments are knocked down a notch when they conveniently ignore half of the world. The activity surrounding the discussion is indeed using networked applications, of which the web is only one. S
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
From your other responses in this thread, it looks like you do concede that e is useful in symbolic computation, and others use the phraseology "how the function is implemented", which is quite a silly thing to say in a classical
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
Unfortunately, I live in the US, and so a plug in induction range can deliver at most 1800 Watts. Though maybe it would be worth it for unlocking new techniques that require its fine grained control. But I agree, if I am ever in a position
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
The real problem is with trust and encroachment. I think a lot of people that spend a fair amount of time on their computers start to feel like their OS is their home and they go on excursions through apps. Previously, ads were limited to a
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
Good sir, have you ever used an electric stove? Every gas stove I've ever used excels only at precise and immediate control of heat and totally sucks at actually delivering heat. making bagels on a gas stove is such a pain in the nec
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
Room temperature ketchup is always suboptimal in my opinion. It's fine if I have to open a fresh bottle, but room temperature ketchup is like room temperature milk to me: consumable, but a bit unsettling.
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
As others have said, you're missing the author's point. The author is claiming that the act of writing software is getting industrialized by LLMs. LLMs will produce small, useful, but completely disposable programs that under the
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
This. Muscles can be optimized for volume/endurance or power, or some balance between them. Taking legs as an example: Powerlifters obviously go for pure power, whereas runners need a bit of power but mostly endurance, whereas cyclists
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
This comment is quite strange to me. e is the base of the natural logarithm. so ln 2 is actually log_e (2). If we take the natural log of 2, we are literally using its value as the base of a logarithm. Does a number not matter "in pr
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
That is not my read on the post, and your point doesn't really make sense. The objective of all these activities is measurable improvement. The practical discipline in each practice session for each activity is the bare minimum to impr
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
Completely agree. NaNoWriMo solves a problem that the author doesn't even mention. And I like your point that writing is part of the thinking process. Indeed, Richard Feynman claimed that his notes were his thoughts. He saw no distinct
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by d-us-vb 9mo ago
For the kinds of things you’d need to reach for an LLM, there’s no way to trust that it actually generated what you actually asked for. You could ask it to write a bunch of tests, but you still need to read the tests. It isn’t fair to say “
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by d-us-vb 10mo ago
I like this post. It reminds me of contemporary programming language research. There are precious few people actually doing interesting stuff in PL research these days that are actually trying to uncover new paradigms that aren't just
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by d-us-vb 10mo ago
No, rendering to a vector display (hardware whose primitive operations are points and lines) is almost free for the kind of drawings he was rendering. Zoom is just one linear transformation on each point in the model, no different from pann
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by d-us-vb 10mo ago
*2swap
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
It's just the popular wisdom these days. Companies tend to deprioritize hiring engineers in their 40s, especially if their overspecialized. At face value, Companies want high-energy 20-somethings that they can mold into their specialty
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
Watterson explicitly stated that the names have no relation to the characters' personalities or philosophical views. As someone familiar with John Calvin's views and writings, I can say safely that Calvin is not much in any way si
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
Well, I'm definitely anti-pseudo-intellectual. Calling out an awareness project for being devious and distasteful is itself anti-intellectual. The nuance here is that LLMs seem to exacerbate depression. In many cases, it's months
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
If a new technology is directly or indirectly involved in people's deaths, we can't just ignore the problems. Unfortunately, there are people like you who want to basically paint over the issues, probably because these takes &quot
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
If they were developed to actually tell people the truth, rather than simply be a sycophant, things might be different. But as Pilate said all those years ago "what is truth".
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
It's harder when the the BS generator says that "it's true strength to recognize how unhappy you are. It isn't weakness to admit you want to take your life" when you're already isolating from those with your be
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
The mind is much more sensitive to writing it didn’t produce itself. If it produced the writing, then it is at least somewhat aware of the emotional state of the writer and can contextualize. If it is reading it from an outside “observer” i
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
Perhaps not a true counterpoint, but there are systems like the GA144, an array of 144 Forth processors. I think you're missing the point, and I don't think OP is "being critical of companies making practical designs." A
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
You won't be bringing your own graphics card to RadiantOS. According to one of the pages, they want to design their own hardware and the graphics will be provided by a memory-mapped FPGA. If your question is about the general intricaci
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
There are lots of systems that have tried to do something like the first quote. They're usually referred to as "semantic OSes", since the OS itself manages the capturing of semantic links. I don't think anyone denies the
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
Based on its /log page, it doesn't look like it has one yet. They're just now implementing the implementation language, R'.
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
Yeah, this is concerning. Although, if the system is architected well, accessibility features ought to be something that can be added as an extension. What is a screen reader but something that can read the screen? It needs metadata from th
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by d-us-vb 11mo ago
Seems like this is one way of visualizing the solutions to many closely related equations simultaneously. I wonder what the graph looks like if instead coloring based on error, one composited all the solutions within a range of values of of
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by d-us-vb 1y ago
It was a deliberate word choice by the author. "Illegible" conveys that it's difficult to track from the outside. It's a clever analogy: illegible hand writing can be read by those who are familiar with the scribe. It&#x

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