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by dilap 4y ago
Sure, but basically all desirable places to live now are expensive, which wasn't the case before. I'm not sure about the exact causes, but at some level it has to be supply and demand, I agree. Maybe just growing population. Certa
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by dilap 4y ago
Cars and healthcare are debatable, but with housing you're literally buying the same houses as the previous generation, just way more expensive. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4518-Rosedale-Ave-Austin-... htt
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by dilap 4y ago
it's funny, when i was younger i'd never use the nose-version (it seemed lame), but then at some point i got fond of it i'm trying to think if any1 i know in gen-z has ever sent me a text emoticon. i think it's all bee
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by dilap 4y ago
Thanks, it's good to know my Gen-Z coworkers think I'm a friendly grandmother, rather than a cold psychopath :-)
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by dilap 4y ago
I think you could make an argument that it's still worth it just to get car emissions out of dense urban environments. Even in San Francisco, which has pretty clean air (being right by the bay), it was really remarkable during the earl
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by dilap 4y ago
OK, now I finally understand why Gen-Z hates the simple smiley so much. (Cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34663986 )
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by dilap 4y ago
Yeah, it's definitely a problem. I still find ChatGPT massively useful, but it would be more useful if it didn't do this. Steve Hsu talks a little bit about this on the most recent episode of his podcast (1); he has a startup th
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by dilap 4y ago
That's wild, per the article the first officer was flying and simply got disoriented. Aircraft was recovered by the captain. That's the sort of thing you would expect to happen to a newly-minted private pilot in a cesna, not a com
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by dilap 4y ago
No, that's not it at all. The point is to give a small amount of structure to the comments section, so people can see what they want. Think of it as very roughly analoguous to the different sections of a newspaper.
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by dilap 4y ago
Since we're already way off-topic, allow me to share my idea for solving this perennial problem: When commenting, there is a little selector: [ ] My comment is on-topic and positive to neutral [ ] My comment is critical [ ] My comment
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by dilap 4y ago
more difficult maybe maybe not, but the way zig does it is simpler in that it's fewer languages you have to know: you don't have to learn the c preprocessor (c/c++) or about magic +build tags (Go) or whatever; it's just
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by dilap 4y ago
A nice thing you get in return tho is for separate platforms you can disable code just in the language itself; it doesn't need to be a preprocessor or or handled magically in the build system. It's also not nearly as bad as a dyna
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by dilap 4y ago
Yes, it's a good point -- in its current form it's a bit hit or miss, since it can completely lie to you. At least one person is working on this: https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623388682454732801
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by dilap 4y ago
Microsoft's integration of ChatGPT with Bing is really bad. No-one wants a busy search page with a side-bar of ChatGPT; what's the point of that? The correct interface for ChatGPT + search is just...ChatGPT. But it can also show
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by dilap 4y ago
i'm millenial/gen-x cusp, and they all seemed pretty reasonable and intuitive to me, EXCEPT number 3 -- a good-old fashioned simple smiley is passive-aggressive and cold to gen-z??
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by dilap 4y ago
i'll at least try out the subscription service i use it for tons of stuff i'm learning some foreign languages, and like to read newspaper articles in the target language. chatgpt is great at translating, and, what is really killer
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by dilap 4y ago
Most hotels don't have a kitchen tho. Killer difference if you like making your own food.
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by dilap 4y ago
I tried talking to the "Ask me anything" bot suggested on the main page, comparing it to ChatGPT. It's pretty good, but definitely not as good as ChatGPT. ChatGPT is usually so flawless it passes some sort of phase-transition
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by dilap 4y ago
I'm sort of confused -- so Google has had this amazing, breakthrough chat tech but just didn't feel like making it available? I asked ChatGPT and it had this to say: > is google's LaMDA available to the public? how does it
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by dilap 4y ago
Interesting, thanks. It looks like over the last 20 years Japan has made a lot of progress on suicide, and the USA, sadly, has been going the wrong direction -- and they've recently crossed over. So both USA and Japan are higher than t
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by dilap 4y ago
And yet it has a much higher suicide rate. What gives?
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by dilap 4y ago
Thanks. My haskell knowledge is minimal, but looking at formatting and fmt library examples, what stands out is you're operating in the syntax of the language, so it's clumsier to use (imo) than a string with interpolations. (It s
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by dilap 4y ago
Sure, it is basically a dynamic language at compile time, but I feel like the downsides of that are significantly mitigated by the fact that it's running at, you know, compile time -- you'll still get compile-time errors for any m
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by dilap 4y ago
You don't like Zig's solution? I think it's excellent. Normal zig code, executed at compile-time. No magic, no macros, fully compile-time error-checked formatting. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob
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by dilap 4y ago
Ah, my bad, I just assumed the new version would be in Swift.
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by dilap 4y ago
In practice would be what the resulting apps turn out like. In my experience, old-school ObjC iOS and Mac apps generally tended to be quite snappy. On the other hand, the new Swift hotness of Messages and Settings on macOS are noticably slo
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by dilap 4y ago
it's a neat system, but it's basically a fragile natural-language wrapper on very precise calculations. i actually think if you trained chatgpt to spit out the internal wolfram language it could be awesome. (maybe he talks about t
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by dilap 4y ago
I was amused by the Texan racial categories: White, Black, Hispanic, Other Spot checking a handful of statements, it seems like most people executed found God, peace, and remorse at the end. Though at least one person never stopped proclaim
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by dilap 4y ago
It also promotes tighter writing -- it feels more egregious to have a filler tweet than a filler sentence in a traditional essay.
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by dilap 4y ago
Yes -- they have done an impressive job of introducing "artifical stupidity".

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