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by dilap 3y ago
if i understood the wwdc keynote correctly, they completely redid the text-to-speech, so this should actually be good now (maybe)
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by dilap 3y ago
tracks with what carmack said when he left. what a shame!
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by dilap 3y ago
well arguably here they are doing that -- w/o patent protection his NDA would probably completely stop him from talking about any of this (tho i personally still think the patent idea is probably misguided -- apple would develop this t
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by dilap 3y ago
Have two different people do the same work, see if they get the same answer. Ideally the two people use different tools, so "likely to make same mistake" is minimized.
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by dilap 3y ago
This seems very reasonable!
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by dilap 3y ago
Instigated is maybe too strong a word, but certainly at least provoked. It's a testament to the awesome power of US propaganda that you can't throw a stone in Texas without hitting a house flying the Ukrainian flag, but almost no
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by dilap 3y ago
I've tried a gazillion terminals but I always come back to the built-in Terminal.app. I appreciate that it has no bugs (that I know of).
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by dilap 3y ago
Sure but SF isn't just another run-down city, it's also the center of the tech universe! So you've got the driverless cars, geeks on one-wheels, the salesforce tower's continually animating digital display, &c. Tha
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by dilap 3y ago
luxury high-rises, tent cities, autonomous cars, sidewalk bazars, tech workers dancing on designer drugs while the homeless overdose & die in the gutters outside...
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by dilap 3y ago
You know the line, the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed. San Francisco is ground-zero for the coming cyberpunk dystopia.
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by dilap 3y ago
Such a great story. This part made me lol: > // Don't remove this print statement. Game will crash! :-)
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by dilap 3y ago
In somewhere like SF, yeah, definitely, in my experience. Riding the BART is disgusting. I think an interesting thing to remember about perceived safety, statistical safety, and actual safety, is that they are all different things -- you
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by dilap 3y ago
Visually he does fit right in.
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by dilap 3y ago
The Hiroo Onoda of grammar. Honorary member of the Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts.
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by dilap 3y ago
yeah i think w/ the increasing usage and corresponding decrease in formality of text, people are caring about stuff like your/youre, too/to, typos etc less & less.
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by dilap 3y ago
probably just humans -- very natural to see a story or comment and then think of something to submit.
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by dilap 3y ago
Are the incentives really there? Obviously the people with the real estate would like this, but if they were really that influential, you'd also see a huge push for private offices (=> more space per employee, more real-estate deman
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by dilap 3y ago
The way mainstream chickens are raised is terrible; I'd prefer non-existence to that life, for sure. The finishing lots of mainstream beef are very bad, but before that their life is decent. None of that comes close to the absolute pur
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by dilap 3y ago
Yeah, as a skateboarder in SF a few years ago, the driverless cars for testing were already way more predictable and generally chill than the human Uber drivers, who would do all kinds of crazy, erratic things. In an ideal world, we'd
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by dilap 3y ago
Yeah, I started out buying stuff. The DRM eventually inevitably fucks up and steals the item from me. Fuck it, they've failed to uphold their end of the bargain -- now I pirate, unless there is DRM-free content available for purchase.
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Hotspots, Premature Optimization, Hoare’s Maxim(ricomariani.medium.com)
2 points by dilap 3y ago|0 comments
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by dilap 3y ago
Yeah, it could definitely, from a biz perspective, be worth being arbitrarily slow or sloppy. But purely from a tech perspective, expect something like a rewrite if speed becomes a priority. Sadly, most software today is insanely slow(†), c
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by dilap 3y ago
Yep. You need to be thinking about performance from the very beginning, if you're ever going to be fast. Because, like the article said, "overall architecture trumps everything". You (probably) can't go back and fix that
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by dilap 4y ago
That's a fair point -- for whatever reason, I could never get into auto-hide for the menu bar (tho I do use it for the dock). I think maybe because I tend to trigger showing it accidentally too much (vs the dock on bottom where it&#x27
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by dilap 4y ago
I basically never do full screen, so for that reason I'm not bothered. (In fact, now I'm _less_ bothered, since I somehow no longer feel like the menu bar is "wasting" space.)
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Biden administration considers crackdown on AI tools such as ChatGPT(marketwatch.com)
7 points by dilap 4y ago|3 comments
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by dilap 4y ago
I think it was a bad move by Elon to ban (and good move to reverse, though some damage already done), but I see why he was pissed: it's a straight-up Twitter clone.
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by dilap 4y ago
I mean, int in c# is always 4 bytes, so this is something that's pretty close to being true. Plus I'm not even convinced you couldn't compile Go s.t. even on a 64-bit system an int was 4 bytes -- the spec just says it could b
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by dilap 4y ago
I don't think this is true. E.g., try to get ChatGPT to agree that humans can survive drinking only salt water.
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by dilap 4y ago
It's not the miserable plebs being kept in check, it's just isolating the small minority of the criminally violent. SF is terrible for the plebs, because basic safe and sanitary conditions are no longer accessible without great

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