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by exitb 2y ago
I was watching the Olympics opening ceremony with my young son and he noticed that, at least in some cases, people from particular countries share a skin color. Was I supposed to tell him that he's mistaken and we indeed don't kno
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by exitb 2y ago
Arrays in C are often passed around as pointers to the first element, in which case you can no longer get a correct answer with this pattern. This is the most common scenario where it stops to apply. Sometimes the sized array form is actual
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by exitb 2y ago
You formatted your post, as if you were trying to debunk it, but nothing you said makes it better. Yes, there is technically a reason for that policy/recommendation, but it is essentially a bug in a safety system. Instead of fixing tha
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by exitb 2y ago
Big publishers don’t care for those cases, but they’d rather you don’t spend time with that and buy a fresh, new book they just printed.
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by exitb 2y ago
There are office-grade coffee machines that make espresso-based drinks with a single button press and work with beans. They’re not as good as a real machines with non-pressurized baskets, but not worse than the pods.
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by exitb 2y ago
According to NASA [1], asteroid needs to be larger than 25 meters to cause localized damage. It’d need to be larger than 1-2km to cause globally observable consequences. [1] https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids&#
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by exitb 2y ago
These are probably wisely chosen amounts of time. But this kind of assumes that one can “wait out” their childhood and come out all ready for a life surrounded by social media and digital gizmos. I don’t think that’s true though.
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by exitb 2y ago
It seems like a much broader issue than disability. A general approach to difficulty switched from attempting to overcome, to acknowledging and accepting. That being said, this sounds suspiciously similar to what every older generation woul
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by exitb 2y ago
Social credit systems always struck me as not that different from just money. Especially with high inflation.
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by exitb 2y ago
This is the function that confused the person you respond to, ported to Python: def color(word, letter, idx): if word[idx] == letter: return GREEN elif letter in word: return YELLOW else
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by exitb 2y ago
In a way it’s not surprising that a company that has such a wonky product strategy as Google, hates product people.
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by exitb 2y ago
Can't imagine a bigger red flag on a resume.
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by exitb 2y ago
Taking the "curl | sh" pattern to the next level.
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by exitb 2y ago
Lisps are considered powerful, as you can easily mold them into new paradigms. That’s not really much of competitive advantage in the real world, where it’s usually better to use boring and dependable tools. Especially since most good featu
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by exitb 2y ago
Is this the right forum for accusations lacking evidence? We appear to be very reluctant about it, if it’s someone like Sam Altman, but it’s just fine for random developers?
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by exitb 2y ago
What if they do a "clean room approach" of sorts. One non-public LLM is trained on copyrighted material and creates its own articles about stuff. Then a public LLM is trained on these articles. It appears to work for people-based
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by exitb 2y ago
It's kind of like putting a slogan "Factory made!" on pastries and wondering why they don't sell too well. AI is an automation technique. It might make things cheaper or more available, but rarely it will make something
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by exitb 2y ago
In many cases people are being rewarded based on superficial appearances, rather than concrete results. No wonder that's what they optimize for.
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by exitb 2y ago
The article makes it more complex than it needs to be. push_back and emplace_back have different goals. The former works with existing objects, the latter gets used when you intend to construct a new one, right in the collection. It happens
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by exitb 2y ago
You know how Nintendo released Pokémon Red and Blue? The final goal of the game was to catch all the Pokémon, but depending on which version you’ve bought, some of them were missing. The only way to actually collect all was to trade with ot
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by exitb 2y ago
It sounds nice and correct, but what if it’s literally part of the job?
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by exitb 2y ago
Playdate is much more powerful than the original platforms Doom targeted. There’s a nice port for GameBoy Advance which is slower by an order of magnitude.
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by exitb 2y ago
There's market for small models with large context, for cases where there’s little need for reasoning (summarization, searching etc). 4o-mini is probably better and cheaper to run than 3.5.
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by exitb 2y ago
Hypothetically speaking, if a chat provider used a Golden Gate Claude [1] technique to essentially create and pump a meme stock, is that a fraud? [1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude
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by exitb 2y ago
That's a quite horrible outcome though. It basically means that this persons income is paid by fellow workers who happened to be more fortunate, so that the business owner can have an almost free workforce.
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by exitb 2y ago
Only the original commit was from 2021. The discussion is recent.
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by exitb 2y ago
It's like the opposite of the "I hate almost all software" [1] rant. [1] https://tinyclouds.org/rant
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by exitb 2y ago
The floppy is just a visible artifact of a system that works, but is no longer easy to modify. Old systems often didn’t abstract away the implementation details of a floppy drive, so it might expect not a block storage, but rather something
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by exitb 2y ago
The bulbs emit more lumens per watt when the filament runs hotter, but it lowers its expected life span. Using a bulb with a longer life span wouldn't necessarily save you money, as you would need to use more electricity to get the sam
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by exitb 2y ago
This might be a bit more complex. We like to remember that we were creative in C64 BASIC, but it is really too slow for any sprite-based game development. What's different between then and now is that changing the frame color used to b

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