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by demosthanos 1y ago
> Look, they sourced their claims (quite literally, they put how they calculate, from which standard). No, they said that IEEE 1789 also uses Modulation % (which they've renamed Flicker %) to calculate risks. That is pointedly not
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Can you please cite the page number where this definition exists? When I search for "extreme" in the standard that the other commenter links to I don't turn anything up, so I'm unclear where that classification is define
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by demosthanos 1y ago
You can't just point people at a 60-page paywalled standard and say "the supporting evidence to my claim is somewhere in here, I pinky promise". You are the one making assertions, it's on you to prove that the standard a
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by demosthanos 1y ago
I am not questioning that certain types of flickering are harmful, so that there's an IEEE standard for how to safely use PWM does not contradict what I said. What I'm asking for is for articles like this that cite numbers and p
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by demosthanos 1y ago
If the article said "I find PWM annoying" I wouldn't have commented like I did.
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by demosthanos 1y ago
I know that people anecdotally report complaints about flicker and it's plausible to me that there could be an effect, but the way this piece is written reminds me distinctly of similar essays about WiFi sickness, MSG, and GMOs. It ide
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> We don't know yet how a modern transformer trained on radiology would perform, but it almost certainly would be dramatically better. Why? Is there something about radiology that makes the transformer architecture appropriate? My u
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by demosthanos 1y ago
It's from The Practice of Programming, published 1999. Not a lot has changed in debuggers since then from what I can see.
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by demosthanos 1y ago
True, but then you're still left stepping through your breakpoints one by one. Printf debugging gives you the full picture of an entire execution at a glance, allowing you to see time as it happened. The debugger restricts you to step
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Your framing makes it sound like the log is worse in some way, but what the log gives you that the debugger makes you assemble in your head is a timeline of when things happen. Being able to see time is a pretty big benefit for most types
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by demosthanos 1y ago
There was a good discussion on this topic years ago [0]. The top comment shares this quote from Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, neither of whom I'd call a young grug: > As personal choice, we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Remember that LLMs aren't trained on all existing programming languages, they're trained on all text on the internet. They encode information about knitting or streaming or whatever other topic you want a DSL for. So it's not
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> To these people, if it's not exposed as a API call it's just some opaque blob of code that cannot be understood or reused. I think this is correct as an explanation for the phenomenon, but it's not just a false perceptio
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> These comparisons to existing uses of water besides cooling "AI data centers" ignore the fact that water use for "AI data centers" is additive. It is a _new_ use of water not seen before. As such, the comparisons to
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Sure, but then it's silly to throw a fit about data centers which pretty clearly provide a greater benefit to Europe's interests than chocolate does. It's just another example of how the rhetoric gives the established water a
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> This shows pretty much what I'd expect: coverage is fine in and around cities and less great in rural areas. (The Dakotas are an interesting exception; there's a co-op up there that connected a ton of folks with gigabit fiber
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> As the sector grows, consumption is expected to reach 90 million cubic meters by 2030, according to the water sector lobby Water Europe. People who are trying to organize opposition to particular uses for water have a habit of citing t
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by demosthanos 1y ago
If that's the distinction you're drawing then it's totally meaningless in the context of the question of where the information is going to come from if not Stack Overflow. We're never in a situation where we're usin
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by demosthanos 1y ago
This is wrong. I write toy languages and frameworks for fun. These are APIs that simply don't exist outside of my code base, and LLMs are consistently able to: * Read the signatures of the functions. * Use the code correctly. * Answer
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by demosthanos 1y ago
I spend way more time on YouTube than I ought, but it's on a pull basis, not a push basis. I go to YouTube and go to my subscriptions or to recommendations on the Home screen. I can't imagine wanting YouTube to be able to push c
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by demosthanos 1y ago
No, it's a thin wrapper around an API, probably OpenRouter or similar: https://github.com/ccbikai/ssh-ai-chat/blob/master/src/ai/in...
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by demosthanos 1y ago
I mean, it's a thin wrapper around LLM APIs, so it's not surprising that most of the code is rendering. I'm not sure what you're referring to by "handling issues with rendering", though—it looks like a pretty b
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Skimming the source code I got really confused to see TSX files. I'd never seen Ink (React for CLIs) before, and I like it! Previously discussions of Ink: July 2017 (129 points, 42 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by demosthanos 1y ago
To name just a few costs that aren't worth it for many businesses: * A much smaller ecosystem of libraries to draw from. * Much weaker editor tooling than with more established languages. * An entirely different paradigm for deployment
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by demosthanos 1y ago
And if you need that kind of persistent immediately reactive connection and are willing to pay the price, go for it! If that's truly a requirement for you then you're in the subset of web that overlaps substantially with telecoms.
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by demosthanos 1y ago
In the grand scheme of things, if we're considering everything from web to bridge building, yeah, the distinction is small. But within the world of software engineering specifically it's not all that small and it's worth bein
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> is actually designed from the ground up for web dev (being based on the Erlang VM) Nit: this makes it sounds like the BEAM was designed for web dev, which it was not. Erlang came out of Ericsson and was built for telecoms (OTP stands f
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by demosthanos 1y ago
They DO take the same care if not more care, the problem is that just like with copyrighted content stuff slips through because stochastic text generation is impossible to control 100%. I've had the most innocuous queries trigger it
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> who had previously been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia The man had schizophrenia and ChatGPT happened to provide an outlet for it which led to this incident, but people with schizophrenia have been recorded having ep
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by demosthanos 1y ago
The same reasoning that would call this consideration of the possibility of machine consciousness "dehumanizing" would necessarily also apply to the consciousness of animals, and I can't agree with that. To argue this is to d

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