dullcrisp

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1. 151.▲
   by dullcrisp 10mo ago

   Well yeah but if we’re being pedantic anyway then “render these bits in UTF-8 in a standard font and ask a human what number it makes them think of” is about as far from an unambiguous numerical representation as you could get. Of course if
2. 152.▲
   by dullcrisp 10mo ago

   I don’t think those bits unambiguously represent the square root of five. Usually they represent either 3800603189 or -494364107.
3. 153.▲
   by dullcrisp 10mo ago

   I always salute at the McDonalds drive-thru.
4. 154.▲
   by dullcrisp 10mo ago

   Who said they were poor?
5. 155.▲
   by dullcrisp 10mo ago

   And anything that can affect relevant state, any dependencies that may have changed, validations to input that may have been modified; it’s hard to know without knowing what assumptions the assertion is based on.
6. 156.▲
   by dullcrisp 10mo ago

   You must have some git plugin I haven’t heard about.
7. 157.▲
   by dullcrisp 10mo ago

   No it’s not. If you burn a sandwich, you make new sandwich. Sandwiches don’t abide by the laws of physics. If you call a physicist and tell them you burnt your sandwich, they won’t care.
8. 158.▲
   by dullcrisp 10mo ago

   You better hope Clause isn’t reading this thread!
9. 159.▲
   by dullcrisp 10mo ago

   So flying in a plane you built yourself is in fact safer than flying commercial because the motivations line up. Got it.
10. 160.▲
    by dullcrisp 10mo ago

    Someone once told me they built a trampoline and I show up in their backyard and there’s nothing.
11. 161.▲
    by dullcrisp 10mo ago

    I guess but if you write something down real small and I squint at it is that still hacking?
12. 162.▲
    by dullcrisp 10mo ago

    Plus we all know that fibs = 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs) is the only serious Fibonacci implementation.
13. 163.▲
    by dullcrisp 10mo ago

    Looks like from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/archive/refs/heads/master.... but you could also try Ubuntu.
14. 164.▲
    by dullcrisp 10mo ago

    You’re got the wrong catalog.
15. 165.▲
    by dullcrisp 10mo ago

    X0–X127, easy.
16. 166.▲
    by dullcrisp 10mo ago

    I think Linux is the most popular of the alternatives listed.
17. 167.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    I think we can stop at 8.
18. 168.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    They already got promoted and might not be managing the same team, plus it sells the lie better, and most people wouldn’t go along with this forever and might start claiming things so they have to discredit you first.
19. 169.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    I believe it’s an internal code name that stuck.
20. 170.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    vim +'exec "norm 99o"|%s/$/\=line(".")/|vert new|exec "norm i\r\rFizz\r\rBuzz\rFizz\r\r\rFizz\rBuzz\r\rFizz\r\r\rFizzBuzz"|exec "norm gg\<c-v>G$y"|bd!|let @q="10a \<e
21. 171.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    Neither humans nor LLMs are currently equipped with separate sarcasm-awareness modes so telling someone to engage theirs can only be…ohh
22. 172.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    Did you run the code samples?
23. 173.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    You mean, “I think there was article on English stackexchange where linguists proved word “the” is useless word. It’s filler word like umm, etc.”
24. 174.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    Let them say it.
25. 175.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    Can you explain? I haven’t been watching TV news, but I haven’t seen this being broadly covered elsewhere. You’re saying this is trivial and uninteresting? Or just everything relating to the US government is “politics” and we can’t talk abo
26. 176.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859402 It got flagged, but this is happening and isn’t being talked about because it isn’t happening to people who have influence.
27. 177.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    I get the feeling that maybe Mao wasn’t always such a good guy.
28. 178.▲
    by dullcrisp 11mo ago

    I bet you could use LLMs to turn stupid comments about LLMs into insightful comments that people want to read. I wonder if there’s a startup working on that?
29. 179.▲
    by dullcrisp 1y ago

    Can’t you just run the solving machine in reverse?
30. 180.▲
    by dullcrisp 1y ago

    This is excellent.