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by dgreensp 3y ago
Well it sounds like it’s a web standard and clones a heck ton of browser objects that ECMAScript wouldn’t be able to require it to clone. But yes, I suppose requiring it to exist and work on non-host objects in ECMAScript would be ideal!
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by dgreensp 3y ago
If we’re going to spend half a billion dollars for a company to hire a few hundred people and then fail, I wish it was for a better cause.
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Yes, but, operations like, “Does this node have children or is it a leaf?” should not require reading the entire array. Or, how many children; get the first child. Traversing the tree in pre-order or post-order doesn’t just have less ca
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I'm sure that's how Google feels! "Unfairly competing in the 'Android app distribution market'?? We are Android!!" This is one of those legal situations I really can't wrap my head around, though. The
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by dgreensp 3y ago
It really isn't so big a deal; the author of this post is spreading fear, in a way. For example, saying that you need "real world data" to catch "edge cases" like this... no, proper unit tests will do just fine. Al
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Yes, I get the impression it only runs on Linux? And we're supposed to infer that by the fact that it's "distro-agnostic" and sometimes the word Free is capitalized in the middle of a sentence. Because if you're i
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Exactly! Nothing is like we would have expected. The seeming “understanding” and coherency of LLMs is a surprise, and it doesn’t seem like anyone knows exactly what it means about human language and cognition. It’s possible that by analyzi
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I'm looking for a good video summarizer! Sometimes a really interesting video pops up in my feed that I don't have time to watch but I want to skim a text version of it. The ones I've tried have had a lot of issues. I just
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Headline should read "MAC" layer like it does in the article, not "Mac" layer. Two very different things :)
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by dgreensp 3y ago
He gave generously to Obama's campaign. When he was advocating for universal basic income (2016?), and before that, he called himself a moderate, somewhere between the Democrats and the Republicans of the time (who hadn't themsel
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I don't think it's relevant that other industries have their own kinds of evil—isn't that just whataboutism? Tech is trying to "disrupt" and remake our society in ways and to an extent that other sectors aren'
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by dgreensp 3y ago
For me, when Musk suddenly went far-right, and I realized that Thiel et al. kind of all shared the same philosophy (described in the article as "Libertarianism for me. Feudalism for thee"), it made me suspect that at the top of Si
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by dgreensp 3y ago
She's not speaking metaphorically, in my read, she is saying people like "Thiel, Musk and Andreesen" don't just share an ideology, they share a personality disorder. The super-powerful companies they run and the ecosyst
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Well that’s concerning
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by dgreensp 3y ago
The part in the article about calling into question “the most basic tenets of the web3 philosophy” made me laugh. Every statement ever made about web3 has been questionable.
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Is AV1 encoding still many times slower / more computationally intensive than other codecs? I think when they were developing it, it was said that the difference would mostly disappear as encoders got more optimized. (Not because of
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I just want you to know this was exactly my reaction. I am working on a programming language, and I can tell you exactly why I’m bothering to write a whole new language, because it is based on all my frustrations spending my days writing co
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by dgreensp 3y ago
In addition, if I’m reading the article correctly, the reason why it would have been better to raise money when the projections looked amazing is that they didn’t pan out, and to expect them to be accurate was greedy? I’ve been a founder, s
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Thanks!
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I used to write browser UI code all the time, but it’s been a few years. This is the first I’ve heard of someone using pointer events. Do you worry at all about someone’s browser not supporting them, given that Safari added support in 202
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Well it’s true, they don’t have to worry about amount of demand because everyone needs search and Google dominates that market, with no one challenging their >90% market share or the use of that kind of search to find things on the Web.
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by dgreensp 3y ago
There are always so many blindly pro-business comments on stories like this, like when the Theranos stuff was happening, people were saying "come on, she was just pitching big returns and innovations like any start-up does," ignor
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by dgreensp 3y ago
There’s a spectrum of what different programming languages call “modules” and what they use them for, with languages like ML having “true” modules in the conceptual sense, where a module is a unit of abstraction, the way that classes and in
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Charging $20,000 for a dose? Really?
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I’m Jewish (by cultural background), not aligning myself with this article or liberal values, but I would say the framing here does indeed conflict a bit with liberal values. 2.4% of adults identify as some kind of Jewish; 1.7% by religion.
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by dgreensp 3y ago
My understanding (not an expert) is that the time for a LLM to produce an output is linear in the length of the output, but may not be in the length of the input (i.e. context). It may be quadratic in the context, or using some kind of fan
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I’ve played around with Eleven Labs a bunch, and while it does a pretty good job sounding like an audiobook a lot of the time, the quality of cloned voices and the ability to convey emotions is inconsistent IME. Based on the samples, this
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Related: Slender Yellow Fruit Syndrome (when a writer doesn’t want to repeat a word like “banana” and so writes something like, “He peeled the slender yellow fruit.”) http://www.teflspin.com/2009/10/technical-writi
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I agree. He talks about LLMs surpassing humans in what they can do, but LLMs can’t do anything, really. And I say this as someone who had a heart-to-heart chat with a ChatGPT persona that made me cry, earlier tonight. Manipulating lang
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Google or YouTube could probably give you a good nutshell answer to that.

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