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by groby_b 3y ago
The problem is that the board state requirement makes searching for specific moves hard. But if you allow board state, you can do less than 14. 3 bits for the type of piece, 6 for the destination, 2 extra bits. (Promotion if destination is
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by groby_b 3y ago
It's worth noting that it's still a religious thing as well. It's just that if you want to claim the governmental benefits that accrue to people the state considers married, well, you'll need the state to say you're
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by groby_b 3y ago
It is? 44 minutes outage per month is critical? I doubt that's true for most jobs. But yes, there are jobs where it is, and some of us (e.g. me ;) are just finicky about network connectivity. In which case I highly recommend having a f
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by groby_b 3y ago
We're all clear on that the ultimate outcome depends on which lobbyists pay better, right?
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by groby_b 3y ago
"20-30 sounds crazy low even for O(n²), though." I mean, 30 means 2^30 sig digits. That means any operation on those are a bit expensive in pure memory throughput. Squaring that, let's use an FFT then it's just O(n log n
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by groby_b 3y ago
The "base rate" argument is a rather odd one to make. The base rate of war was hasn't changed much from 2022, that didn't stop Ukraine from happening. Neither did it stop people from calling it. (It certainly didn't
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by groby_b 3y ago
One of the two likely works with CSVs for a living, and it's definitely not the person suggesting "What if it just was hard to eyeball/edit". If you don't understand why something is the way it is, it might be bette
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by groby_b 3y ago
Because BASIC is a programming language (and was included with DOS, cf MS BASIC) DOS won because it offered a consistent way to manage your files and applications, it was "better" than CPM, and it was available on more machines th
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by groby_b 3y ago
Oh please. If you have money, you buy Pre+Clear+Global Entry. The "screening process" is nil (three simplistic questions for Global Entry). That leaves the bag inspections - and I can tell you that at least for the Pre checkins, t
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by groby_b 3y ago
It's not about "who does the deed". It's about who accrues the benefits, and who has a stake. Without a strong local stake, the only projects that work are resource extraction projects. These have a tendency to create de
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by groby_b 3y ago
This requires constant upkeep. The goal is to structure it so the local community is incentivized to invest that upkeep, but it's not just gonna happen all by itself. The goal is indeed a self-sustaining ecosystem, but one with human p
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by groby_b 3y ago
Not really. There's an ultra-brief scene where it's mentioned, but that's it, IIRC. The movie... is a bunch of anecdotes strung together to make a ham-handed point at the end. It was a decent movie if you treat it as a fictio
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by groby_b 3y ago
A few notes: # your pitch above targets the wrong audience. People on a maker schedule need to eliminate meetings, not have better transcripts. People on a manager schedule are the ones that need help, and "meetings suck" isn&#x27
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by groby_b 3y ago
Oh, yes, all of those are fixable. It's just a permanent reminder of a lot of bad decisions along the way. And it wouldn't be C++ if a large chunk of the bad decisions wasn't rooted in the preprocessor.
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by groby_b 3y ago
... until the cause is really and truly a non-deterministic build. Trust me, been there. For a long-ago example: I worked on a project that had an optimizer that used time-bounded simulated annealing to optimize. No two builds ever the same
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by groby_b 3y ago
Often yes. Sometimes, no. You haven't enjoyed C++ until you get reports of the app intermittently crashing, and your build at the same version just won't. But yes, if the goal is "slap it all in a container", that's
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by groby_b 3y ago
Step 0 sounds so easy. Until you realize __time__ exists. Then you take that away, and you find out that some compiler heuristics might not be deterministic. Then you discover -frandom-seed - and go ballistic when you read "but it shou
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by groby_b 3y ago
It's the simplest two-dimensional surface[1] with at least one hole in it. In topology - the math branch that deals with properties of geometric objects and how they can be deformed - it's one of the two simplest objects, the othe
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by groby_b 3y ago
CI/CD is usually a component of DevOps, and any decent DevOps team will have DORA metrics. Time-to-fix, frequency of deploys are both core metrics, and mirror frequency and scope of changes. You want change often, and small. Yes, chang
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by groby_b 3y ago
Yeah, I too wanted to have paper that runs its own JS interpreter. (Yes, PDFs can embed executable code, because why not)
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by groby_b 3y ago
between finite numbers and infinities. Plural, please, the discerning mathematician keeps a stable of infinities ;)
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by groby_b 3y ago
I'm fairly certain when an employee lays the company off, they do them the same courtesy and immediately lock them out from their life as well. Also, if you'd like more empathy, in both directions, there is nothing in the US _prev
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by groby_b 3y ago
Do we have the aluminum milling capacity at scale? Can we manufacture touch screens at scale? Can we manufacture Li-ion batteries at scale? (Tesla and Panasonic might be able to, with large new investments, but I don't think there&#x27
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by groby_b 3y ago
Oh yeah, QoL is pretty decent. The economy for most of Eastern Europe is great as well. It's a geopolitical question more than anything else right now. (Not that Western Europe is much better there, but the time scale for potential c
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by groby_b 3y ago
If you'd gently direct your eyes to Ukraine, you'll realize why Eastern Europe isn't exactly prime location material for a lot of folks right now. Meso/South America has a stability problem as well. Unless you pick Uru
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by groby_b 3y ago
Matches the German concept of "Nichtstun" (doing nothing) fairly well :) (It's not surprising, what with us being neighbors) And just like 'Niksen', that too is without deeper intent. You just hang. Closest I can co
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by groby_b 3y ago
This is shredding close to HNs "please no political battle", but I'll try to take this as neutral as possible. You are suggesting these are stores people should avoid for labor-unfriendly practices. Assuming that people are a
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by groby_b 3y ago
Congrats on building this! Initial feedback: That circle is gargantuan, focusing on it takes no significant mental bandwidth. Yes, that's the point of meditation, but if you challenge people a bit, it makes it easier for them to stay f
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by groby_b 3y ago
"what you would naturally expect to happen " Why? What is the reasoning this "is naturally expected" "When sci-fi authors for example have treated the topic in fiction" I'm sorry, but what you read in that
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by groby_b 3y ago
Premise 3 is where the problem is, of course. We have no idea how to build AGI. We know LLMs won't be it. Alignment is a tool that works with LLMs, but we don't know if it will work for whatever produces AGI. Even if we create AGI

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