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by dwb 9mo ago
Etymology is irrelevant to current meaning and understanding.
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by dwb 9mo ago
I don’t think Musk is super smart. I think he has some skills that account for how he got to his position other than privilege and luck, I think he probably works hard (or at least, harder than me), but I can’t get to “super smart”.
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by dwb 9mo ago
Sure, but I can’t see myself sitting significantly further away from any desktop monitor than I do now.
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by dwb 9mo ago
I don’t think it was.
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by dwb 9mo ago
lol, post the prompt that generated this
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by dwb 9mo ago
> This is 128 ppi, which would be considered "retina“ If by “retina” we mean “pleasantly sharp”, not by me. I’m never buying less than the 218 ppi of my Apple Studio Display unless I absolutely have to. I’m totally spoiled.
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by dwb 9mo ago
It’s intended for conversations that are probably different every time too. It’s like a more expressive form of what Claude Code already does with the “AskUserQuestion” interface.
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by dwb 9mo ago
Sure. The difference is that with a strong typing system, the compiler makes sure you write those checks. I know you know this, but that’s the confusion in this thread. For me too, I find static type systems give a lot more assurance in thi
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by dwb 9mo ago
And Option-Shift-Hyphen in macOS, which is easy if you know it. And a press and hold on a hyphen on iOS, which is discoverable, even.
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by dwb 10mo ago
I found two, and happy is not part of their emotions.
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by dwb 10mo ago
I feel sorry for your daughter. 16 was very late to get one as far back as the late 90s - I was very glad to get one at 14 as it meant I wasn’t quite such a weirdo outcast.
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by dwb 10mo ago
That is not how the legal system works in the UK or USA. That said, I am worried that we are going quickly in that direction.
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by dwb 10mo ago
You are reading perhaps more generality than I intended. To be clear, I am talking about the present greater-Anglo-American military-industrial complex, driven by present ideologies, in which the distinction between “enemy” and “civilian” i
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by dwb 10mo ago
To me this is all insufferably pompous. Drop the big talking and marketing and I would pay more attention. The quality of the idea and implementation should speak a lot more for itself.
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by dwb 10mo ago
The companies involved definitely want you to think that part of their noble goal is reducing civilian casualties. As far as I can see, though, that is pure propaganda.
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by dwb 10mo ago
No it’s not. It’s totally conceivable that the (perceived) quality of targeting data would contribute to the decision of whether to run a mission at all, and if so how extensively.
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by dwb 10mo ago
Because powerful interests are trying to hijack human creative pursuits in the interest of profit. None of the images in the post are art.
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by dwb 10mo ago
This kind of comment mystifies me. What’s the value of it, what are you trying to say? Are you proud of your ignorance, or trying to ridicule, or what? What is alarming about coming across something you’re not familiar with? J and APL have
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by dwb 10mo ago
Boundless optimisation is something we should be resisting, at least in our current economic system.
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by dwb 10mo ago
?? I know you didn’t. I don’t think my post is hard to understand. The point of freedom of speech is the free expression of ideas and opinions. You can do that in many ways. You could write a book. You could email the editor of a news websi
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by dwb 10mo ago
Don't want businesses to communicate with me, thanks. So entitled!
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by dwb 10mo ago
If you change words in a text then the meaning changes. Even if all ads are speech (I don't think they are, but I don't need to argue that), not all speech is advertisement. You can say your piece in one of many other forms that d
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by dwb 10mo ago
There’s almost countless languages that don’t do anything like this, whereas Zig is very similar. It’s fine to prefer this syntax or that, but Zig is pretty ordinary, as languages go. So yes, the differences are trivial enough that it’s a b
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by dwb 11mo ago
These are extremely trivial, to the point that I don’t really know what you’re complaining about. What would expect or prefer?
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by dwb 11mo ago
I think for production code this is wildly irresponsible. I’m having a decent time with LLM code generation, but I wouldn’t dream of skipping code review.
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by dwb 11mo ago
That all sounds incredibly dystopian, ugh.
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by dwb 11mo ago
I don’t get the extreme negative reaction here and elsewhere. It’s not for me either, but I also don’t think it looks ridiculous – it just a little bag. There’s a pretty hard limit on how crazy that can look. It’s like the detractors aren’t
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by dwb 11mo ago
Capital has other ideas, it wants “problems” “solved” faster and faster.
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by dwb 11mo ago
Completely agree. The review burden and context switching I need to do from even having two running at once is too much, and using one is already pretty good (except when it’s not).
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by dwb 11mo ago
You have just restated the similarity I referred to. The ways they are different make them important enough to distinguish. “Tabulate” doesn’t just mean organising anything by rows and columns, it means organising data for a particular purp

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