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by fenomas 2y ago
Related: given that markdown is meant to be read , it kind of drives me up the wall that some people nowadays run autoformatters like Prettier on it. Super-aggressive formatters like prettier remove various whitespace, and mangle other thi
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by fenomas 2y ago
I mean, the SRD is pretty plain - there's a list at the beginning of stuff that is asserted not to be Open Content, and Underdark and Mind Flayers are on it, and in contrast the open content part includes names and stats for all the
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by fenomas 2y ago
Magic Missile is generic, and included in the SRD. The other stuff you mentioned is all correct AFAIK.
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by fenomas 2y ago
Note, this is a 2024 update to a ruleset whose previous version was released under Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0). Also, this is the SRD - the "genericized" version of the rules, that includes all the core game systems but omits con
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by fenomas 2y ago
Oh, I thought JIT in your comment meant a single compilation. Either way, having TS type guarantees would obviously make optimizing compilers like v8's stronger, right? You seem to be arguing there's no value to it, and I don&#x27
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by fenomas 2y ago
> Because of structural subtyping, you can’t do that In practice v8 does exactly what you're saying can't be done, virtually all the time for any hot function. What you mean to say is that typescript type declarations alone d
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by fenomas 2y ago
It's insane if the facts are what you're imagining - the company strung the candidate along for months for no reason. If the facts are something different, like the process took months because the candidate kept rescheduling, th
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by fenomas 2y ago
Nearly every comment so far is reacting to this line: > I had been talking to the candidate for months.. and how appalling that is. But TFA says nothing about why the process took months, because that's not what the article is about
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by fenomas 2y ago
Ah, so the issue here is the difference between quickSort and quickSelect. In both cases you pick a pivot and divide the data into two partitions - but in quickSort you then recurse on both partitions, and in quickSelect you determine which
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by fenomas 2y ago
It's past 2am in Japan so maybe not the best time to get answers, but as I head to bed here's my two cents. The concrete daily-life answer is, I've virtually always found it an incredibly welcoming place. With very few occa
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by fenomas 2y ago
Big-O analysis is about scaling behavior - its real-world implications lie in what it tells you about relative sizes, not absolute sizes. E.g., if you need to run a task on 10M inputs, then knowing that your algorithm is O(N) doesn&#x27
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by fenomas 2y ago
I'm not a big thinker on such things, but my general rule is that subtyping is okay only for implementation details. I.e. it's okay for ConsoleLogger to be a subtype of Logger, but PaidUser probably shouldn't be a subtype of
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by fenomas 2y ago
Have you seen the Othello paper? [1] To me it really puts paid to the idea that LLMs could just be stochastic parrots, in the sense of just rearranging things they've seen before. They at least can apply world models they devised dur
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by fenomas 2y ago
To be honest I'm not 100% sure it was meant to be satire - but if it was then I agree with you :D
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by fenomas 2y ago
I get what you mean but I have to disagree about this one being good. Epic rants are fun when there's a cold hard point being made, and the author uses the rant format to make the point irrefutably clear and drive it cruelly home. Here
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by fenomas 2y ago
I'm still utterly boggled by why Google thinks it's a good idea to serve generative answers to "give me true information about the world" type questions. It's stupid in the same way that it would be stupid to have M
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by fenomas 2y ago
GP is talking about getting jobs via professional colleagues that know you're good at what you do. Nepotism is the opposite of that - getting a job from connections that aren't work-related.
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by fenomas 2y ago
I don't know anything about Korean. It's a different language, and I'd imagine that some of the things I'm saying here don't apply to it, but that's a guess. For thought experiments, you're assuming your c
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by fenomas 2y ago
> Try have them be educated in a kana only system and then have them try read it. I can't, because there are no native speakers who learned that way, as I'm sure you know :D But there are many learners like that, and my exper
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by fenomas 2y ago
> Why does this tool in the language need to exist? The answer cannot be because Kanji make things easier to read, else you wouldn't need tools to help you read Kanji This just isn't true. Even most native JP speakers agree tha
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by fenomas 2y ago
> It's the same with homophones in any language, It really isn't. In conversation fluent JP speakers tend to avoid compounds that would be ambiguous, or add distinguishers like "学校の校歌". Honestly, try converting a par
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by fenomas 2y ago
Not for beginners. But for fluent speakers, kanji are very necessary to distinguish all the homophones. E.g. 効果, 硬化, 降下.. are hard to learn, but they're clear. こうか is much easier to learn, but it could mean any of 10-15 unrelated thing
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by fenomas 2y ago
I find this view completely mystifying. The image generator that somebody piped random() into didn't fall off a tree - a human made it . They took pure thought-stuff, as Fred Brooks put it, and instead of shaping it into an image they
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by fenomas 2y ago
I don't think the writing matters a whit. The only premise the story depends on is: that the camp guards saw the workshop and took it for granted that it was approved by somebody, since it was orderly and operating openly. If you accep
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by fenomas 2y ago
This is such a facially bizarre thing to contest. They got a Japanese NCO to write the text, and presumably copied it as he wrote it. Why imagine that the NCO wrote it vertically and the soldiers horizontally? Likewise the article doesn&#x2
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by fenomas 2y ago
Every language has various out-of-band features (gestures, etc). I was asking if any of them are similar to the (written) furigana usage described in TFA.
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by fenomas 2y ago
The nuance is a bit different. With what TFA is talking about with furigana, the implication is that whoever is speaking has said one word but pronounced it like another. That doesn't really make sense in English but with JP and ka
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by fenomas 2y ago
> they mention furigana, characters that aid in reading Kanji characters ... There are many examples of similar use TFA's main point about uniqueness with furigana was how it's occasionally used for out-of-band communication, l
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by fenomas 3y ago
I can't speak to origins, but currently in the JS world DCE and tree-shaking refer to different things. "Tree-shaking" normally refers to when the bundler omits unreachable code, that a more naive bundler would have include
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by fenomas 3y ago
> outside of stuff like .. fair use That's the important bit - the things you called illegal a few comments back were obvious examples of (presumptive) fair use. More generally, whether something is copyright infringement can be vag

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