fenomas

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by fenomas 11mo ago
> Large number of upvotes on the quoted comment however. Sure, and also downvotes - that measures factionalism, not correctness. But tech wise, you're confused. Functionally speaking chatgpt is a shared document editor - the server
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by fenomas 11mo ago
SyncThing syncs only when both clients are running at the same time. Nobody who edits a document on a website expects that they'll need to leave that browser window open in order to see the document in a different browser. Am I missing
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by fenomas 11mo ago
Great point! After playing that game I and a few friends were trading real-world photos of spots where we'd found examples of the in-game thing you're talking about.
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by fenomas 1y ago
Didn't occur to me, that's certainly more defensible! Though maybe less humorous.
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by fenomas 1y ago
Er, my justification was that the code in question was meant to be minimally demonstrating someFn, and adding an import or a verbose type seemed to distract from that a little. But mostly it just gave me a chuckle. I tried it because it see
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by fenomas 1y ago
Funny, just yesterday I found myself casting in a way I'd never seen before: const arr = ['foo'] as ['foo'] This wound up being useful in a situation that boiled down to: type SomeObj = { foo: string,
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by fenomas 1y ago
I wouldn't go that far - to me what's important is that nits must be non-blocking. I.e. the author is free to ignore them if they disagree, and a PR review with only nit comments should be an approval. If those things are true, it
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by fenomas 1y ago
I think the point there was that, deciding in advance that you don't necessarily have to continue the conversation can unblock you from sending the mail in the first place. Thinking "if they reply back and say XYZ I wouldn't
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by fenomas 1y ago
A good specific example of this that isn't widely known is the "muscle pass". It amounts to holding a coin in a classic palm position (dead center of the palm), then spending several months strengthening the palm muscles and
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Nintendo awarded US patent for "summon and fight" mechanic(gamesfray.com)
6 points by fenomas 1y ago|0 comments
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by fenomas 1y ago
I don't think this complaint stands at all. The original question is stated colloquially, not formally, and vos Savant's interpretation of it is the one that's consistent with the question's language and with how game sh
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by fenomas 1y ago
Puzzles like that one have always seemed dishonest to me. It only makes sense if you start from the conclusion that it's meant to illustrate Bayes rule, and then work backwards to the assumption that the predicate "boy born on a T
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by fenomas 1y ago
You're not wrong - "the staff ate it later" is a word-for-word translation, so it's kind of weird to leave out 美味しく. (among other things a meaningful translation would say "crew" instead of staff) But the nuanc
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by fenomas 1y ago
All my younger colleagues have heard my catchphrase: Copy-paste is free; abstractions are expensive.
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by fenomas 1y ago
Hey, great work, and just wanted to lend my voice in support! It's kind of wild how many open source devs have a story along similar lines. (Mine is the time when Mojang used my voxel engine..)
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by fenomas 1y ago
They likely mean as3sfxr, a predecessor of TFA that was built in Flash.
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by fenomas 1y ago
> I'm not sure what this webpage is, jsxfr is the name of the JavaScript library Basically: - The original sfxr was a win32 app, ca. 2007 - There was later a widely-used Flash port called as3sfxr, ca. 2010 - This page (TFA) is a JS
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by fenomas 1y ago
I got way into webaudio and made some libraries to that effect. For something close to TFA, try wafxr: https://fenomas.github.io/wafxr/ It can export wav files, but its main purpose is to generate code snippets for pla
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by fenomas 1y ago
LLMs do see randomized identifiers, whenever they encounter minimized code. And you can get a bit of an idea how much they learn, by giving an LLM some minimized JS and asking it to restore it with meaningful var names. When I tried it once
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by fenomas 1y ago
It's a description, not a claim. If a group tries to ban a thing, it obviously follows that they don't like the thing in some sense. Referring to them as "trying to ban stuff they don't like" describes their behavio
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by fenomas 1y ago
It's an imagined difference. Picture two people, each working to get a particular book banned. One is a petty moralizer trying to impose his likes and dislikes on everyone, and the other is legitimately fighting for what he believes wi
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by fenomas 1y ago
...ok? My comment didn't say anything about the distinction you're drawing here.
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by fenomas 1y ago
> The claim isn't "we don't like it", the claim is "this is damaging to society" That's their framing , it's not what they actually do. If Collective Shout was a group that studied which things ca
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by fenomas 1y ago
Also, it's worth reading the wiki page on the group behind this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist#Collecti... To me it doesn't look like this group is so powerful that they forced the payme
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by fenomas 1y ago
> Its not censorship when amazon removes a book Analogies like this are misleading, IMO. Like if a theater chooses not to show a certain movie that's obviously not censorship, but if the water company effectively prevents the movie
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by fenomas 1y ago
They mean Isejingu: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Shrine
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by fenomas 1y ago
> an invitation to beginning coders to think about If that's how it's phrased, and it's in a spot where that's on-topic, then obviously nobody would mind. This subthread is talking about cases where there's a tec
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by fenomas 1y ago
Naturally I'm aware of those things, but I don't think TFA or GGP were commenting on them so I wasn't either.
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by fenomas 1y ago
When I see these debates it's always the other way around - one person speaks colloquially about an LLM's behavior, and then somebody else jumps on them for supposedly believing the model is conscious, just because the speaker sai
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by fenomas 1y ago
> The moment that people ascribe properties such as "consciousness" or "ethics" or "values" or "morals" to these learnt mappings is where I tend to get lost. TFA really ought to have linked to some

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