dreamcompiler

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by dreamcompiler 5d ago
Siri was always AI, but the popular connotation of "AI" changes all the time. It now means "LLMs built with transformers."
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by dreamcompiler 6d ago
Rclone doesn't support MacOS extended file attributes. Or it didn't in the past anyway.
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by dreamcompiler 6d ago
Dallas was a ridiculous soap opera with hammy over-the-top acting. And I lived in Dallas so I never missed an episode.
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by dreamcompiler 6d ago
This was one of my favorite shows when I was 10. When I am too old and demented to remember my own name, I will still remember the first four notes of that theme music.
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by dreamcompiler 7d ago
I agree that keep-if is a better name. But you reiterated my point: remove-if works in the counterintuitive way the original comment noted, i.e. not like the common connotation of 'filter.' As for deprecation, IIRC the '-if-n
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by dreamcompiler 7d ago
Agreed. Anybody who looks at a picture of the brain can see the cerebellum (part of the hindbrain) is obviously a different organ. I only clicked the link to find out if there was any new science buried under the hype of the title.
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by dreamcompiler 9d ago
Common Lisp's filter is remove-if which works this way. (It also has remove-if-not but that's deprecated and if you use it your code smells.)
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by dreamcompiler 10d ago
Amen. As an EMT/Firefighter you'll never catch me wearing a ring made of any kind of metal. I have seen and dealt with some pretty horrific things. Degloving is the only traumatic injury that makes me queasy to think about.
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by dreamcompiler 11d ago
EMT here. I've never had a patient with a tungsten ring but I'm pretty sure our ring cutters would not work. So I looked it up. Apparently you have to break them off with vise grips [0]. One more tool for my kit I guess. [0] http
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by dreamcompiler 12d ago
Yes. It's kind of like the halting problem: You cannot write a general computer program that will analyze the source code of any random other computer program and tell you if it will halt. You can write a program that will analyze
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by dreamcompiler 12d ago
I took graduate orbital mechanics from Roger Broucke. He was one of my best professors. Not only did I learn from him what orbital elements were, but he also taught me the Runge-Kutta numerical integration method. I didn't learn until
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by dreamcompiler 13d ago
Companies are amoral. If killing people boosted their share price they would issue every employee a machine gun in a heartbeat. The only reason this doesn't happen is it's illegal.
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by dreamcompiler 14d ago
I call bullshit until you cite evidence. Farm equipment doesn't even need to comply with road vehicle requirements. What special regulations does a farm equipment manufacturer need to comply with that don't apply to any other indu
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by dreamcompiler 15d ago
Changing a hardlinked file changes it everywhere, unless your specific editor happens to create a new inode. Thus it depends on your editor. CoW is similar except the new inode is created by the file system itself and is independent of the
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by dreamcompiler 16d ago
Agreed but the word is stoke not stroke.
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by dreamcompiler 16d ago
I would almost buy one of these even at such a ridiculous price if I could get it with all the AI features permanently disabled.
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by dreamcompiler 17d ago
It seems like public art is always in danger of being erased when it's nobody's official job to protect it. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/08/dallas-fifa...
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by dreamcompiler 17d ago
Not good enough. Eventually the grandparents will come to visit. They'll turn on the TV, it will ask them to "finish the setup procedure," they'll type in my wifi password and BOOM! I'm pwned.
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by dreamcompiler 17d ago
Delta-sigma is not a compression technique. A good delta-sigma encoder will use roughly the same number of bits as a PCM encoder. Delta-sigma uses more samples per second but fewer bits per sample to capture the same information. The reason
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by dreamcompiler 18d ago
Agreed. You can leave out the hyphens to make sorting even easier with almost no loss of readability.
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by dreamcompiler 18d ago
The TPS reports are written with the sender's AI and then read and summarized with the recipient's AI. At this point it would make more sense to just write the TPS reports in MCP.
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by dreamcompiler 18d ago
Offtopic blogging tip: Americans will read dates like "8/9/2026" as "August 9, 2026." I'm pretty sure the author is using the (more sensible) convention of day/month/year but expressing dates as
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by dreamcompiler 18d ago
Absolutely correct! I find dynamic binding quite annoying in the modern era; it can cause subtle and unexpected errors. Common Lisp switched mainstream Lisp programmers over to lexical binding in the 1980s. Scheme had used it from day one.
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by dreamcompiler 18d ago
Not exactly everything is free. I'd prefer to live in a world where stuff like this was expensive and RAM was still cheap.
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by dreamcompiler 18d ago
> Bedrock now uses the lexical-binding: t cookie in all its .el files. This is the right thing to do if you wrote your .el files recently and assumed lexical-binding was true and you understand the implications thereof. OTOH if your .el
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by dreamcompiler 19d ago
The average person (e.g. my Mom) only needs office software, email, and a web browser. Linux has all of that out of the box.
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by dreamcompiler 19d ago
The Match monopoly buying you out is one problem. A bigger problem is that dating sites have to have a lot of users before anybody wants to use them. (They especially need women users.) This conundrum is a huge barrier to entry in the spa
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by dreamcompiler 19d ago
So many daemons. And while a lot can be disabled, some of them cause important stuff to break if you disable them, or even cause the OS to crash in a Heisenbugian fashion. And there's no documentation. So debugging this crap is anythin
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by dreamcompiler 21d ago
AT&T used to exist. Because it was a monopoly, it was broken up into the baby bells in 1982. One of which was Southwestern Bell, which eventually bought up all the other baby bells and what was left of AT&T. And then in 2005 it rena
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by dreamcompiler 26d ago
I use adapters for AA cells. It's just a plastic tube the size of a C cell that you snap an AA into. I have to replace them more often but I use rechargeable AA cells so waste is not an issue.

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