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by dcrazy 1y ago
The current JSON spec mandates UTF-8, but practically speaking encoding is a higher-level concept. I suspect there are many server implementations that will respect the Content-Encoding header in a POST request containing JSON.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Not all input methods use dead keys to emit combining characters.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
This is the job of the Bidi Algorithm: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ Of course, this is an “annex”, not part of the core Unicode spec. So in situations where you can’t rely on the presentation layer’s (corr
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Why didn’t you include “Unicode Scalars”, aka “well-formed UTF-8”, aka “the Swift string type?” Either way, I think the bitter lesson is a parser really can’t rely on the well-formedness of a Unicode string over the wire. Practically speaki
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by dcrazy 1y ago
You’ve heard that generative AI is better at what, precisely? Many problems rely on simulations that follow rules derived from experimentation or theory. Are you suggesting that replacing such a simulation with a generative model that appea
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by dcrazy 1y ago
You’re arguing against a strawman. The advice wasn’t to ignore learning about code points; it’s that if your solution to a problem involves reasoning about code points, you’re probably doing it wrong and are likely to make a mistake. Trying
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by dcrazy 1y ago
That’s not true. They were talking about a mod on the Cursor community/space/whatever it’s called on X: https://old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1mwyyp9/cursor_char...
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Swift? JavaScript?
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by dcrazy 1y ago
> I don't begin to understand why the bank should have to "justify" its decision to replace workers with AI in the first place. Because the workers belong to a union, and in Australia unions have the statutory right to con
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by dcrazy 1y ago
When the iPhone was developed, Jony led industrial design but not yet software design.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Throw your knives in the dishwasher and they’ll dull right quick.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Yes, there is an inconvenience threshold that must be reached before bringing out the food processor. We also have a mandolin that can make cross-cuts for intermediate jobs: https://a.co/d/da8OxnE
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I’m not going to try to make consistent partial cuts down through an onion. I’m going through to the cutting board every time.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
The planar cuts just determine the thickness of the dice. You just want to make them equal to the thickness of the rings.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
And two men in orange vests missing their left arms? Didn’t realize battery recycling facilities were so hazardous to limbs.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Sea-Doo is a derivative of Ski-Doo. Both are made by Bombardier Recreational Products; the Sea-Doo is a “personal watercraft,” and the Ski-Doo is a snowmobile. The Ski-Doo came first, and I’m guessing the name is a pun on “twenty-three skid
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Sounds awesome, but this article seems to be an LLM rewrite of a press release: > This article is based on verified sources and supported by editorial technologies. Is there perhaps any other news about this plant or process, maybe with
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I don’t think he was chasing glory, but he did a bunch of stuff post-Apple. In addition to the things mentioned in the book passage Gruber quoted, he funded the Us festival because he loves music.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
First thing I thought of was JiaTan75’s pushing of a new website for XZ.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Sort of. Your photoreceptors are sensitive to overlapping frequencies, which means they’re not linearly independent and therefore cannot form the basis vectors of a 3D space. CIE XYZ accounts for this by projecting SML excitations down to a
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by dcrazy 1y ago
It’s not, it’s a weird loop shape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space You can distort this shape into a circle but you lose the geometric relationship between chromaticities—two points an equal distance
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I feel like you can say this about many politicians. A lot of the work of politics isn’t done in the Capitol building, it’s done on vacation with your favorite senator’s family. Plus the Vice Presidency is a ceremonial job.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
It’s one of those “well actually” things that the Latin nerds would point out. So the Latin nerds who went into college administration decided to change it to be a clearly English derivation.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Humans are notoriously bad at checking for meticulous detail—hence why copyediting was a specialized role. We’ve seen what’s happened since the newspapers eliminated it for cost savings. I only used an LLM for the first time recently, to re
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Positive expected value. In other words, it’s likely using a LLM saves you time relative to performing the same task without using an LLM.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
One advantage of Apple Silicon is the unified memory architecture. You put memory on the fabric instead of on PCIe.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Are you conflating GDDR5x with PCIe 5.0?
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by dcrazy 1y ago
It is definitely optimistic, but I was steelmanning the optimist’s argument.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Landing is tough because it’s somewhat counterintuitive. You need to maintain enough airspeed to avoid a stall but obviously you need to slow down to lose altitude and, you know, stop.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
The counter argument is that’s just a training problem, and IMO it’s a fair point. Neural nets are used as classifiers all the time; it’s reasonable that sufficient training data could produce a model that follows the professional standards

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