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by fmbb 2y ago
Who struggles to do what for which purpose? Sometimes the word “intelligent” is used by someone who sells IQ tests. Sometimes the word is used by someone who sells the idea of a computer that can think like a human. I don’t know if people i
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by fmbb 2y ago
I don’t use those tools and am not in a state of constant frustration. I use the Amethyst tiling window manager and multiple desktops.
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by fmbb 2y ago
But usually easier than making it build locally.
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by fmbb 2y ago
> temperature=0.5 Why not 0? I’m not a prompt engineer so I never worked with the API, but I thought the “temperature” was a little knob they added for variety in responses. Is that what you want in a CLI?
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by fmbb 2y ago
GDPR.eu is operated by Proton AG, a Swiss technology company offering privacy-focused online services. It’s not an EU site.
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by fmbb 2y ago
OCR has been a solved problem for years. Long before LLMs started being hyped. At least from typewritten documents that you did not torch or shred etc.
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by fmbb 2y ago
Can it be taught calculus?
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by fmbb 2y ago
Check out miniMAL from the person behind Make a Lisp. It’s exactly what you want, I think: http://kanaka.github.io/miniMAL/
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by fmbb 2y ago
Motorcyclists and bicyclists do not face the same dangers in traffic. I don’t see the relation to the extreme fatality of motorcycling.
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by fmbb 2y ago
That javascript version is obviously objectively the best alternative.
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by fmbb 2y ago
> It is a different story for game engines, renderers, physics, audio, asset loaders etc. those are much closer to system programming but this is also not where we usually spend the most time, as a professional you're supposed to ei
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by fmbb 2y ago
Cow Clicker and Cookie Clicker are not idle games. You have to interact with them constantly and the less you do the slower you progress. Idlerpg for IRC is the opposite. If you act you are punished. Progress Quest is totally idle. It has a
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by fmbb 3y ago
Wiktionary also says the Swedish “prata” comes from Proto Germanic: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic... So perhaps the Middle Low German and Scandinavian words just have the same old origin.
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by fmbb 3y ago
I think your comment may be arguing against you. Gleam is one of the really really functional languages out there. There is no mutability, there are no statements, no loops. It has let bindings, function application, and conditionals throug
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by fmbb 3y ago
Hardcore players play to win. Looking at the car, the picture quality or other image artifacts is a very useful tactic that everyone uses.
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by fmbb 3y ago
In 2007 Ikea stopped selling duvet covers with holes in the corners. “It’s for the international market” they said. There was a national uproar. People no longer knew how to make their beds. Attempts were made at convincing them to bring th
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by fmbb 3y ago
> The Romans at least got to enjoy a couple hundred years of wine, revelry and decadence before things broke down completely. Which Romans? I’m fairly sure a lot of powerful Americans have enjoyed a couple hundred years of good wine and
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by fmbb 3y ago
This seems to presume things about energy or resource use that we have no empirical evidence of. Making things more efficient makes them cheaper to use and make, leading to a total increase in demand of the resource: https://en.w
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by fmbb 3y ago
> But as soon as you have a boss and the boss asks "how long? who does what? where do we start?" - you have to have some framework. Why? Does it work? Is it productive? Is it better than not doing that?
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by fmbb 3y ago
All they need is money. The global IT industry will sell them what they want.
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by fmbb 3y ago
Which Chinese government when? These poems are supposedly 1000-1500 years old. I don’t think many governments (or kings, chieftains etc.) anywhere were very liberal back then.
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by fmbb 3y ago
Which is similar to DOS - Arcade Volleyball (1987)
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by fmbb 3y ago
> Why wouldn’t it be eventually possible to replicate them in silicon? I mean if you simulate all the chemical processes in some being then yeah probably you get close (assuming you get everything right), let’s assume there is no unknown
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by fmbb 3y ago
I’m not American so I don’t know what a staff engineer does, and googling the term is not helping much. I have also not worked in any software company that has “engineering teams” which would maybe have helped me understand the Google resul
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by fmbb 3y ago
And deep down at the bottom of every rabbit hole lies a Yak waiting for a barber.
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by fmbb 3y ago
I don’t think “instead” is the correct word here. “As well” I think fits better. ARCHITECTURE.md will have the current state of the architecture. ADRs is the log of decisions that got you there. Both are very useful.
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by fmbb 3y ago
> You think they could anticipate those future outcomes hundreds of years ago? Wow. Crops destroying native life is immediate, not years in the future. It’s not like there was nothing before on that acre you cleared for planting.
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by fmbb 3y ago
A good middle ground could be to only check what you suggested the bank wants to know: “Has this person defaulted before?” If someone wants to borrow huge sums from a bank the bank should take the risk and price it appropriately. If someone
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by fmbb 3y ago
I do this all the time in almost any repo I work in. I usually just keep the difference as “junk” in my local work tree. I never git commit -a anyway, my commits are always kinda prepared and meticulous. I just live with the spurious diff a
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by fmbb 3y ago
Is the tech hostile here?

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