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by ghurtado 1y ago
> In all seriousness, let's just rename it "WebScrip... This has approximately the same chances of success as the rebranding of Twitter
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by ghurtado 1y ago
keep in mind I don't know much about waves, so all of this could be wrong, but I think PWM works by modulating the width of the pulse, in other words, the "duration of the note" if you will, so the frequency of the square wav
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Did somebody say Spectrum? https://softspectrum48.weebly.com/notes/tape-loading-routine... I always assumed that PWM was the go-to method for this kind of low bandwidth / high noise medium, I wonder why the author
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by ghurtado 1y ago
My name is certainly not George :D but I'll pick two features: - fibers - advanced pattern matching These are two not so common language features that are often the differentiator in a class of languages: "I like Python - but Ruby
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Feature-wise it looks very complete / modern. It seems to have a pretty high ratio of "I use X because it's the only one that has Y" type features, all in one place. Very appealing to Python users, since it fills a few w
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Perhaps the one I'm replying to. It seems too pointless to be human.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> The fact that our consciousness is so mysterious as for us to be unable to begin to truly understand it is the biggest clue to why our software isn't getting close to it. You offer a pretty big statement without any backing whatso
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by ghurtado 1y ago
It sounds like you stopped just short of realizing this is also how others feel about your consciousness.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> Perhaps one day a criterion will be found for the equivalent of Turing-completeness but for consciousness My money is on mankind perpetually transforming the definition to ensure only our species can fit within. We've been doing
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> The system is doing it's best to coherently fill in the rest of a story > Would any of these ideas been present had the system not been primed... I would like to know of a meaningful human action that can't be framed this
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by ghurtado 1y ago
I don't have any interest in the subject matter, but I did end up at https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol reading the sort of thing I come to Hacker News to read so I dunno....
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by ghurtado 1y ago
You sound like everything that is wrong with the US education system concentrated on one single person. What made you get into teaching?
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by ghurtado 1y ago
That reads like a XKCD comic disguised as a Dilbert strip. Very nice. And also, what a cool read that was, thanks for sharing the article.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> No, that's Physics Going on a total tangent, if you'll forgive me, and I ask purely as a curious outsider: do you think math could have ever come into being if it weren't to fill the human need of describing and categori
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> Not "coding uses math", I mean it is math > I mean equivalent in the way mathematicians do That sounds like you're backing off from your original claim, probably because it is impossible to defend. That you can use ma
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Oh, my bad For some reason I thought you sold an app or a service. Serves me well for assuming, my apologies.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> Why on startup? Because Windows is usually a lot less optional than Office, for the average user.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
I'm more surprised that this is news than anything else. If you had asked me a minute ago, I could have sworn it's already a well known fact that they do this. They've been doing it since Windows 95 and explorer. At least.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> disappointing but understandable. It's amazing to me that there are some people that will go to these lengths to defend the profits of one of the largest corporations in the world. At no point does it even occur to you that Google
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by ghurtado 1y ago
I quickly realized it was approximately 20,000 ft over my head, but I still power through these sort of things to see if anything "sticks". So far, nothing but I'll keep trying ..
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Right! The "send and receive" button is seared into my brain I was in Spain at the time, and at first you had to connect to the Internet through a phone number in France. Did you guys have something like that?
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by ghurtado 1y ago
It seems a bit self centered to make their lost $8000 the focus of the article. The title should have been: "how a single line of code cost our users probably more than $8000"
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> out all the ways this bug could have been avoided. The most obvious one is setting up billing alerts. Past a certain level of complexity, you're often better off focusing on mitigation that trying to avoid every instance of a cert
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by ghurtado 1y ago
IIRC, Every 5 minutes used to be the standard interval between email checks, back in the days of dialup and desktop email clients. How the times have changed ..
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by ghurtado 2y ago
> in my experience they are as dumb as a bag of bricks In my experience, anyone that describes LLMs using terms of actual human intelligence is bound to struggle using the tool. Sometimes I wonder if these people enjoy feeling "smar
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by ghurtado 2y ago
I know it's a single data point, but yesterday I showed it a diagram of my fairly complex micropython program, (including RP2 specific features, DMA and PIO) and it was able to describe in detail not just the structure of the program,
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by ghurtado 2y ago
That's actually the term I prefer, but I couldn't remember it
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by ghurtado 2y ago
We used to call that "the zone", and it's not exclusive to coding.
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by ghurtado 2y ago
All the things you describe are already being done by any team with a modern CI/CD workflow, and none of it requires AI. At my last job, all of those steps were automated and required exactly zero human input.
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by ghurtado 2y ago
I only hope that it is, but you never know.

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