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by elcritch 1y ago
I feel the same. Apple software quality certainly hasn’t increased . Years back I remember some apps crashing suddenly after updating MacOS. I checked the binary and saw they’d started adding Swift. Half a decade later it seems like it sho
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by elcritch 1y ago
Except that libraries using different async libraries in Rust seem generally incompatible.
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by elcritch 1y ago
I’m curious about those neck brace style “vagus nerve stimulators” you see on the internet. Anyone have experience with them? Are they legit or snake oil?
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Building a GPU Prover with Runtime Compilation (Nim)(lita.foundation)
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by elcritch 1y ago
Reminds me of another one: > To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we m
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by elcritch 1y ago
I hope Micron or another commercial player builds a product on this!
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by elcritch 1y ago
So a single company that claims to detect AI writing says these two linked books were AI written? The one book that was actually read doesn’t seem linked or the name actually given, so it’s hard to verify. The article makes good click bait,
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by elcritch 1y ago
Ah good to know. For my use cases I would probably be looking at Couchbase Lite [1] not PouchDB. I’d be more concerned about file attachment sizes and syncing. 1: https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-C
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by elcritch 1y ago
Porn is already destructive enough to society. Making it more immersive would be even worse.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Nice, I’ll have to try out Triplit. There’s also Couchbase which has a local sync database in C++ IIRC. Also, heads up the first triplit link I tried gave me a 404: https://www.triplit.dev/docs/client/query/se
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by elcritch 1y ago
Sqlite also doesn’t have fixed types, but uses a tagged value system to store data. Well according to what I’ve read on the topic.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Agreed, thought if we could get silicon + perovskite working well with stable perovskite that combined efficiency might be worthwhile.
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by elcritch 2y ago
Good points, background downloads would speed it up. And the language doesn’t have much to do with that. This project looks to be someone just toying around with Rust or their own PM. Props for that, but the headline has extra implications
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by elcritch 2y ago
> WARNING: ALPHA SOFTWARE > Sapphire is experimental, under heavy development, and may be unstable. Use at your own risk! Ruby seems fine for brew. Does this do anything else better? Ruby makes it easy to write recipes for it which is
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by elcritch 2y ago
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was referencing. In lisp the type doesn’t matter as much, just the structure, as maps or other dynamic pieces will be used. However in typed languages it matters a lot.
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by elcritch 2y ago
It’s interesting to use crusade in that fashion. The origins of the Christian crusades were to help free lands with still largely Christian populations from Muslim conquerors. It wasn’t to spread Christianity. Now the crusade’s definitely w
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by elcritch 2y ago
It’s not a feeling. Getting grants requires following whatever hype trend is popular at the moment. Savvy academics know this and respond accordingly. Whether it’s AI (now) or DEI stuff (until recently), they add the required little section
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by elcritch 2y ago
Definitely, you can do most of those things in Nim without macros using templates and compile time stuff. It’s preferable to macros when possible. Julia has fantastic compile time abilities as well. It’s beautiful to implement an incredibly
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by elcritch 2y ago
> And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Ecclesiastes 12:12 ;)
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by elcritch 2y ago
I've found that I need to point it to the right bit of logs or test output and narrow its attention by selectively adding to it's context. Claude 3.7 at least works well this way. If you don't it'll fumble around. Gemini
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by elcritch 2y ago
I almost fear more that we'll create Bender from Futurama than some superintelligent enlightened AGI. It'll probably happen after Grok AI gets snuck some beer into its core cluster or something absurd.
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by elcritch 2y ago
I have some Coptic friends as well. They’re fantastic, and very proud of their Coptic heritage. Alexandria was also very influential in early church theology and one of the primary bishopric “sees”. Interestingly they call their head bishop
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by elcritch 2y ago
While English “Easter” might’ve had some relation to a Germanic Eostre goddess, the much more clear relation for Christians would be for “austron” as the word for dawn, and the east, etc. Traditionally all churches faced east as Christian’s
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by elcritch 2y ago
In Eastern Orthodox churches the main hymn we sing is: > Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life! [1] It’s sung about a hundred times in Pascha (Easter) liturgy, so _very_
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by elcritch 2y ago
And what were they predicting? Most reasonable predictions were that once the GDP to debt ratio reaches a certain point that’s when issues arise. It’s just now nearing that 100% of GDP mark. Obviously predictions on a national scale can tak
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by elcritch 2y ago
That attitude sounds like a college grad with a fresh credit card they keep spending on. Their parents warn them that if they keep spending on it there will be major issues. But hey, they still have like $10k of credit and they can get anot
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by elcritch 2y ago
The notion of shareholder primacy capitalism is one of those ideas that seems great on paper, much like communism, but its end effects are disastrous. It seems great cause it’s simple and gives a nice simple answer to “what’s capitalism” an
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by elcritch 2y ago
This attitude that manufacturing is moving down the tech tree ladder completely misunderstands manufacturing. IME the entire notion was invented by elitist economists and embraced by CEOs looking to justify sending manufacturing overseas fo
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by elcritch 2y ago
> The ancient Greek understanding of an “idiot” referred to someone who was a private citizen or a person who did not actively participate in public life or politics.
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by elcritch 2y ago
Fine I’ll oblige. :P I believe hastening it (momentarily) has been good. Well the looming debt issue as I understand this subthread to be about. Like a patient getting indigestion and goes to the ER thinking it's a heat attack, only to

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