globnomulous

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by globnomulous 1y ago
> The increase in soundquality since that tech is marginal at best. I'm glad you enjoy your system, but, having upgraded from a very, very good 70s system to a pretty excellent system using contemporary parts, I can assure you that
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Thank you so much for this. I'm already planning to visit Aarhus and Copenhagen at some point in the near future. I'll add Odense to the itinerary!
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Correction: > It has no connection whatsoever to 'data' in our sense. This is wrong. There is an etymological connection, which means that 'data' in our sense is derived from the sense 'that which is given.'
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Yep! See entry II of Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary for the word:[0] > II. Repeated, que . . . que . > A. Both ... and (not in Cæs., once in Cic.; v. Zumpt, Gram. § 338), co-ordinating, To my ear it sounds more emphatic
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by globnomulous 1y ago
> I've asked Gemini, so it came up with four primary arguments for this claim, commenting on them briefly: This line means, and literally says, that everything that follows is a summary or direct quotation from an LLM's output.
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by globnomulous 1y ago
That comment was an unclear allusion to ideas I've absorbed from Jaron Lanier, plus a bit of my own elitism. Regarding the elitism: I'm not a free-speech absolutist; I don't prize individual, positive freedom over negative fr
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Please don't apologize. You seem like a wonderful chap -- generous, warm, caring, open -- and you did nothing wrong. I'm just some anonyhmous, cantankerous turd on the internet. People like me are a dime a dozen and not at all wor
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Thanks for this. Yeah, it's partly that. But do I accomplish anything worthwhile by being a total jerk and making a humiliating example of someone who means well? Probably not. I don't feel good after I write a takedown, and when
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by globnomulous 1y ago
It's entirely uncharitable. I don't care about the author's humility. I will spare not one iota of sympathy or empathy for spreaders of AI slop or for the embarrassing naivete of writing a motto in a language one doesn't
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by globnomulous 1y ago
That may be right. I want to blame JavaScript though. :(
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Oh, interesting, I like those odds! Thanks for the correction!
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by globnomulous 1y ago
'Res gestae' in Latin are aren't just 'things done.' The phrase is an idiom meaning "exploits" or "deeds" -- with the implication that there's something notable about them -- e.g. they'
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by globnomulous 1y ago
But I prefer your version of the motto.
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by globnomulous 1y ago
"do," pronounced with a long o, means "I give" in Latin. 'data' is the perfect-tense, passive participle -- "given" -- in the neuter gender, with plural number: literally "things given," but
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Why on earth do you take it as an ad hominem attack? Do you really think your comment isn't dismissive or pompous?
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by globnomulous 1y ago
> The fact that philosophy hasn't recognized and rejected this argument based on this speaks volumes of the quality of arguments accepted there. That's one possibility. The other is that your pomposity and dismissiveness toward
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by globnomulous 1y ago
I blame npm and the entire JavaScript ecosystem for promulgating the awful, sleazy-used-car-saleman practice of writing your readme in the form of advertising copy.
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by globnomulous 1y ago
On the other hand, maybe the original motto really is a perfect motto for programmers. It nicely exemplifies the inadvertantly silly results of the DIY, libertarian, anti-establishment spirit of so many programmers (Who needs experts, knowl
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by globnomulous 1y ago
I think we're saying the same thing about "veritas." I'm saying, in essence, that if I ran into this absolutely bizarre expression in a manuscript or papyrus, and I wanted to publish an edition of the text, I might capit
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Beats me. The very idea of a "user" is, in every phase of Latin that I know, gobbledygook. There's no translation for it. It makes as much sense as "haver" would make to us ("haver of what? "). Maybe &quo
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Plus res gere
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by globnomulous 1y ago
This is horrible, horrible spaghetti Latin. "Tueor" in this context sounds very weird to me -- more "oversee" or "watch" than "protect." 'custos' is, to my ear, the idiomatic noun for "
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Not exactly related to the story or to your comment, but: is Aarhus as happy and wonderful a place as all writing about it claims it is? I know immigrating to Denmark is nearly impossible, but I keep telling my partner that if (or when) the
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Thank you for censoring the word "shit." We try to keep Hacker News clean, for families and children.
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Why on earth would you copy and paste an LLM's output into a comment? What does that accomplish or provide that just a simply stated argument doesn't accomplish more succinctly? If you don't know something, simply don't
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by globnomulous 1y ago
The 'x' is omitted when the following word starts with a consonant. The only places where you're likely to find counterexamples are in poetry, where breaking the rule can be metrically expedient.
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by globnomulous 1y ago
I don't particularly care what this, or any, LLM spits out, and given the pervasive problems that have bedeviled social-science research, I also don't care what the results show, let alone what they show on average. Anybody who ha
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by globnomulous 1y ago
I want this job.
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by globnomulous 1y ago
What were the required skills that bootcampers lacked? Has anybody without a university degree succeeded there?
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by globnomulous 1y ago
> Anything that makes development faster or easier is going to be welcomed by a good developer. I strongly disagree. Struggling with a problem creates expertise. Struggle is slow, and it's hard. Good developers welcome it.

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