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by foldr 1y ago
You did challenge the claim that they could complete take off on a single engine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256705
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by foldr 1y ago
The 787 doesn’t use bleed air to power anything.
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by foldr 1y ago
We know that twin-engined airliners can successfully take off on one engine. It happens from time to time. E.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna179267
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by foldr 1y ago
Sure. new Function(“…”) There’s no guarantee that it will be JITed, but then the CL standard is also pretty loose about the semantics of ‘compile’.
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by foldr 1y ago
Those two things really aren't the same at all, so I don't see where you're going with this. If it's an established biological fact that there are different subspecies of humans, then it should be possible to find a refe
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by foldr 1y ago
That article doesn't say anything about small populations. The word 'subpopulation' appears in the abstract, but it's talking about subpopulations of sperm in ejaculate. I have to say, this is a super weird paper to su
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by foldr 1y ago
Some animals have subspecies. Humans don't. This is something that's widely misunderstood popularly but which is indubitable biologically. For example, many people are not aware that there is vastly more genetic variation between
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by foldr 1y ago
There are also morphological and genetic differences between, say, an average 'white' Swedish person and an average 'white' Spanish person. But our systems of racial classification tend to put them in the same group just
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by foldr 1y ago
Mendel didn't get much attention until 1900 or so. European racism was alive and well long before non-academics had any notion of a "genetic population", or indeed a genetic anything.
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by foldr 1y ago
No, I haven't. I'm just saying that straight people with kids often talk about their personal lives at work (which is fine), whereas other groups of people don't always feel as free to do the same thing. If we were making a l
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by foldr 1y ago
This misses the point. Certain groups of people have always been able to bring their whole selves to work. For example, if you're straight and married with kids, there's never been a problem about casually mentioning these things
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by foldr 1y ago
Hmm, to me that comment is clearly making a comparison between the US and the UK and suggesting that the UK is in a worse position with regard to freedom of expression (“from across the pond”).
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by foldr 1y ago
They’re referring to the comment upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44198428
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by foldr 1y ago
> "I am pleased that Kent Police has apologised to him and removed the caution from his record." This is bad, but corrective action was taken. You can look through the news in pretty much any country and find some examples of t
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by foldr 1y ago
The article is undated, but the point about TinyGo not supporting reflection appears to be out of date. TinyGo has implemented the reflect package for quite a while now (though I don’t think it is 100% compatible yet).
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by foldr 1y ago
This could lead to a precipitous increase in the performance of the AI models.
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by foldr 1y ago
Go has a preemptive scheduler for green threads.
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by foldr 1y ago
The scope of the ‘not’ is also unclear here. I think they’re saying that you waste time if you don’t do all the things in the list, but it could also be read as saying that not using the debugger is a waste of time, and that adding debug lo
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by foldr 1y ago
Isn’t this just a roundabout way of saying that people who are skilled at using LLMs will get better results from them than people who aren’t? In other words, LLMs “mirror operator skill” in about the same way as hammers, paintbrushes or an
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by foldr 1y ago
You can also see lots of videos online of cockatoos playing the shell game, e.g. https://youtube.com/shorts/Pu6O_iOZIO4?si=WEko4pfOekdGIbgF What I love about these is that you can see that the cockatoo clearly knows th
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by foldr 1y ago
In fairness, the article is a lot more condescending and insulting to its readers than the comment you're replying to.
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by foldr 1y ago
You need a good amount of example code to train it on. I find LLMs moderately useful for web dev, but fairly useless for embedded development. They'll pick up some project-specific code patterns, but they clearly have no concept of wha
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by foldr 1y ago
Good point! It's useful to have a reference for this, thanks. It's obvious to anyone who's read some of Chomsky's work that he didn't write the NYT article, but I can understand why others might find this claim a bi
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by foldr 1y ago
Most likely not. This is one of his weird pieces co-authored with Jeffrey Watamull. I don’t doubt that he put his name on it voluntarily, but it reads much more like Watamull than Chomsky. The views expressed in the interview we’re comment
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by foldr 1y ago
Actually no. Chomsky has never really given a stuff about Chinese Room style arguments about whether computers can “really” understand language. His problem with LLMs (if they are presented as a contribution to linguistic science) is primar
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by foldr 1y ago
It’s uncontroversial now that the class of string languages roughly corresponding to “human languages” is mildly context sensitive in a particular sense. This debate was hashed out in the 80s and 90s. I don’t think formal languages classes
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by foldr 1y ago
It was just about playable on a 25MHz 386. We used to put up with frame rates that would make your eyes bleed back in the early 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VdRXgWoShM
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by foldr 1y ago
There are lots of less famous researchers toiling away who are also very smart and who have much more detailed specialist knowledge. I don’t doubt John Carmack’s intellectual ability, but he’s famous because he made some cool video games, n
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by foldr 1y ago
It’s O(n log n). If the strings contain the same letters then you end up fully sorting both lists, and there’s no magical way of doing that in O(n) time with a general purpose sorting algorithm. The article is just saying that the best case
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by foldr 1y ago
There’s the potential for a sensible post here about how Elixir and LiveView isn’t all roses. I agree, for example, that it remains unclear what the best approach is for integrating client-side interactivity with a LiveView page. (It’s tota

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