dmvdoug

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by dmvdoug 2y ago
First encase them in carbonite so they’re not so wiggly.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Propelled us a head, eh? I see what you did there.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
CaaS (Chewed as a Service).
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Startup opportunity: AI inside a small in-mouth implant to provide nerve stimulus to open mouth for you when it detects floaty inbound gum.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
You are hereby put on notice that the undersigned intends to and henceforth will appropriate for his own further use without attribution to you the phrase “atypically dumb in the greatest way,” and furthermore that the undersigned may modif
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Pithy but, alas, meaningless. First, define “progress.” Second, innovation is a new idea, product, strategy, etc. Stagnation is lack of movement or lack of growth. There are alternatives to stagnation that are not innovation. Consider satis
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
First paragraph: “better at supporting new features.” Further down, he talks about changing the structure of the software in order to support planned features, etc. So putting it all together, “better” == more featureful at lower cost with
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Meh, the program execution language about main() has included from the beginning an escape hatch: it allows main to be defined “in some other implementation-defined manner.” “int main(void)” is one of four forms documented in the standard
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Right, right, right. So what we really need is for politicians to be consistent and never do anything at all, including during election years, because they don’t really mean any of it (as we wise folk all know).
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I guffawed (briefly), with a diminishing chortle thereafter. Well played and cheerio.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
One of the nurses at the high school I teach at only emails SHOUTY-STYLE. She’s been there 26 years.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Well, in this case, you have the CEO saying basically they didn’t know about it until about a month ago and then Vox brings receipts with docs signed by Altman and Friends showing he and others signed off on the policy originally (or at lea
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Don’t call me Shirley.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I was like ouch potshot at biotech but funny then saw what the link was to. Nuclear burn. Well done.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
The analogy is rather to the mismatch between expert systems (etc.) hype and expert systems’ results on the one hand, and on the other hand AI (circa LLM era) hype and AI results. Go back and read how lots of people (not just the evangelist
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, and the cognitive dissonance induced by comparing the actual applications of it to what the evangelists and marketeers say about it is extraordinary. The rhetorical gap widens apace.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
NVIDIA’s announcement included the declaration of a new Industrial Revolution based on AI. We’re coming to peak hype any month now. What will they ride when that wave(/bubble) dissipates? (Microsoft announcing a few days ago that they
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Came here to point this out, as a history teacher who is often told by students they use phone apps for math.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
“We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time.”
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
That's certainly... a take. Wilson had managed to wrangle the other Big Three into an agreement on an entirely new model of international relations, which he was in part responsible for coming up with, and which was actually somewhat p
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, and the historiography of the causes of WWI is truly enormous . It started during the war years themselves, when document collections were assembled by the various foreign offices in order to support their various disclaimers of respo
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
> Three, Wayland has a fundamental design flaw; indeed, its mission is to make its own development easier (quoted from the original website), and that means it's not intended for the end user, and therefore, it cannot do what it nee
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> Here's a paper, "Build systems à la carte: Theory and practice," Awesome, thank you. I actually had that saved in my files to read later, then started really digging into it after your suggestion. Almost exactly what I w
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Ask HN: Learning about build systems generally
19 points by dmvdoug 3y ago|5 comments
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
See, e.g., https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
But they grant cert in only a truly tiny percentage of all cases they get petitioned to hear, and the thing we're interested in looking at is the inter-circuit reversal differential. I wish I could find more fine-grained statistics tha
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Here's what I said in a different comment: As for the rest, I think what's tripping everyone up is that "use" isn't just any old use out in the world. The Code of Federal Regulations defines in great and painful det
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> Factor (A) asks whether the use is significant. You're making the mistake of thinking "significant" here has some independent semantic meaning that must be read into the text. First, it doesn't; it's a descript
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
You are correct. And they specifically ignored what the statute actually says in order to get there. It's super clear from the statutory text that "significant new use" is just "a use" the EPA has determined meets c

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