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by dkersten 3y ago
“Are there any items in this list that are true? No? Ok, then False” I don’t care about any fancy philosophy. What’s important is what kind of operation you want for when implementing algorithms, and False is what I always want in cases whe
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by dkersten 3y ago
I think it might actually be beneficial for artists, in the long run. Assuming that AI will remove the need to work for a living[1]. I recently saw a “modern art” exhibition and one of the things on display was quite literally a black squar
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by dkersten 3y ago
That’s fair. I’ve had a similar argument with a friend about AI and creativity where he was aging that AI just produces mashups of existing work, but unless you’re a top author, the best that the vast majority of us can expect to produce is
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by dkersten 3y ago
How well does this work for them in practice? Try as I might, the great I could get ChatGPT to generate was what I would consider student quality code. Good enough for learning, maybe ok as a starting point, but would never pass code review
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by dkersten 3y ago
I just want to thank you for that blog post! I’m currently writing a little bytecode vm for something and this really improves my code! Luckily I’m currently already only targeting clang, so I’m ok with using a non-portable feature.
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by dkersten 3y ago
And good old web (well, that intermediary persons were many things didn’t yet use captchas but bots were already prevalent ) levels of spam and flooding of comment sections with links to advertisement and scams. Sounds great. I hate captcha
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by dkersten 3y ago
In the four parts, surely “current status” is more important than “punch line” and should come first? As for the bull being dead, that seems like the least important piece of information from that situation.
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by dkersten 3y ago
Most people don’t get over 50 to 100 hours in any game, regardless of how fun the game is, so players dropping off playing a single player game after they’ve finished the story is pretty much normal, even on highly replayable games.
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by dkersten 3y ago
Shouting across the room saves one person 15 seconds while simultaneously distracting every single other person in the office. Regardless of how pro-open office one is, that seems like a terrible trade off. > day, others need to resolve
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by dkersten 3y ago
That’s not “solved”, that’s highlighting what the problem is.
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by dkersten 3y ago
I don’t generally play their games but I currently have a PSN+ Extra subscription which has access to a large portion of their library, so I’ve been playing all the games I’ve missed (far cry 5 and 6, AC Valhalla, watchdogs legion, ghost re
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by dkersten 3y ago
I personally am finding it difficult to find a tangible difference int he quality of output produced by GPT-4 vs GPT-3.5 in what I’ve been using it for recently. Might just be me and perhaps my prompts are not very good quality, but noneth
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by dkersten 3y ago
Pure unsubstantiated speculation isn’t useful. You could just as well say a fortune cookie told them not to.
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by dkersten 3y ago
They do also deprecate and remove stuff too, and not all new versions are large (C++14 was very small). So, sure, they found a bunch of new stuff to add, but the frequency and size of updates does seem to depend on how much stuff is propose
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by dkersten 3y ago
The standard library is at least under the control of the people implementing the standard, which is much smaller breakage (ie can be fixed at the time of implementing support for the keyword) than breaking a random users code. The standard
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by dkersten 3y ago
Oh, I’m completely with you on this and always prefix my namespaces. Occasionally I will alias long namespaces to short ones, but I never pull identifiers into the global scope and I really dislike when I see code online that does “using na
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by dkersten 3y ago
The std namespace is from the <print> standard header. It’s not just print because while you might want it in the global namespace, other people do not. For example, my code isn’t cli and doesn’t need to print to the cli, but perhaps
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by dkersten 3y ago
It’s not even real censorship. Everyone knows that the word is “dick”. It’s like Louis CK once said, “the f word” is far worse than just saying “fuck” because you’re making the other person say it in their heads while washing your own hands
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by dkersten 3y ago
My day to day over the past 15 years has been similar to you: Python, javascript, Clojure and clojurescript and some Java. In my free time, for a few years now, I’ve been writing C++ (17) and I love it.
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by dkersten 3y ago
Running Python and such is still, largely, done by hobbyists while the majority of software used in commercial embedded projects is still primarily C or C++. Maybe it’s been slowly changing but, slowly.
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by dkersten 3y ago
Deep. Just like the cuts from the bear claws.
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by dkersten 3y ago
So the AI that asked MTurk to solve a captcha will now va e MTurk asking the AI to solve the captcha which will ask Mturk to…
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by dkersten 3y ago
Why? What would I put on it? What would I blog about? Why do I want to broadcast to strangers? If it’s just to friends, I can send them an email or private message. Everyone who wants one should have their own, sure, but saying everyone sho
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by dkersten 3y ago
From what I’ve heard, std::regex is notoriously inefficient (lots of memory allocations, no allocator support). But I’ve never used it myself.
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by dkersten 3y ago
Symptoms of chronic acid reflux, laryngopharyngeal reflux and heartburn can also be caused by hypochlorhydria (low stomach acid), in which case taking hydrochloric acid will obviously also reduce the symptoms in that case.
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by dkersten 3y ago
> Wasn't the primary premise of the cancellation attempt him defending pedophilia? That’s certainly the one I remember, and everything else was just people piling on to try and provide more ammo or more legitimacy to that claim beca
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by dkersten 3y ago
> In all cases you want the maximum performance. Not necessarily true. In many cases of concurrent programming, you don’t actually care about performance, you care about multiple different things happening seemingly at the same time (sur
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by dkersten 3y ago
Parallelism is concurrent. Concurrency isn’t necessarily parallel. There are still plenty of single core systems out there running concurrent software, even today, for example embedded systems.
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by dkersten 3y ago
Concurrency didn’t necessarily require threads. Concurrency is not a difference in how you use threads, its logical computer science concept. Parallelism is a physical property and parallelism is almost always concerned with doing things a
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by dkersten 3y ago
Conspiracy theory of the day ;) Paul Graham is being paid by Big Office Rental to day this!

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