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by gwd 2y ago
It's certainly an interesting angle. It might have been more clear if the documentation and how-to's had explicitly used that sort of terminology: e.g., saying that step 1 of creating a project would be to create a new workspace
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by gwd 2y ago
I think you missed my point. Did Sam Altman personally think, a few days before the release, "Hmm, maybe I'd better call Scarlett again, just to be sure"? Or did someone else in the org propose that, to which Sam didn&#
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by gwd 2y ago
> And why ask Scarlett again, just a few days before release? For one, because it's obviously better to have the exact voice rather than an imitation. For two, because it avoids exactly this kind of sticky situation: even if you be
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by gwd 2y ago
Man, I'm shocked at how often this has to be reiterated here... "TFA" means The F[ine]* Article (or insert another 'F' word if you wish), which I first heard on Slashdot, which was perhaps the OG "news aggregat
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by gwd 2y ago
I'm seeing a lot of this kind of comment, but it's a bit non-sensical. You can implement pop-overs currently using existing <div>'s and such; e.g.: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/components
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by gwd 2y ago
I love Go, but it certainly doesn't have the safety guarantees that Rust has. You're not going to have a memory leak or use-after-free, due to the garbage collector, but you have nil pointer dereferences and data races.
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by gwd 2y ago
I wonder to what degree this also implies, "More opportunities for speculative execution attacks".
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by gwd 2y ago
Recently I started using a new golang library that generated random IDs for different components of a complex data structure. My own use case had tens of thousands of components, and profiling revealed that a significant chunk of the time
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by gwd 2y ago
Consider this quote: "Every time we send 5 fire trucks to a fire, the damage is 10x than when we only send one fire truck. We've observed this 1000 times. And still you don't believe that the fire trucks are causing the dam
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by gwd 2y ago
The order seemed pretty rational to me. Describe the problem, then introduce your solution. I knew pretty much within a few sentences this was going to be some quixotic solution to a "problem" 99.999% of people don't care a
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by gwd 2y ago
This. Golang's error handling forces you to think about what to do if there's an error Every Single Time. Sometimes `return err` is the right thing to do; but the fact that "return err" is just as "cluttered"
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by gwd 3y ago
The parts I love are where I get to make my own decisions locally, with people who are directly affected (which to be fair, is the majority). The parts I hate are those planned centrally; which thankfully right now are mainly limited to IT,
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by gwd 3y ago
Reminds me of the Existential Ad Agency: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/204
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by gwd 3y ago
> It could be used, for example, to build an nuclear clock that could measure time more precisely than the best atomic clocks available today. Are today's atomic clocks really so imprecise? Without further explanation of this, it r
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by gwd 3y ago
This is pretty much exactly what the article says.
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by gwd 3y ago
> Except few of us actually do. Most plans are unlimited for calls and texts at least. If there's a limit, it's on data. Whether you pay per-SMS or whether you pay bulk for "unlimited" calls and texts, you're sti
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by gwd 3y ago
And as an American who lives in the UK, I always make the exact same response, and I'm continually surprised that people still don't understand. In the US, the person receiving the call / text pays for the airtime to the cell
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by gwd 3y ago
> they don't improve muscle growth or 1rm strength comparably to traditional schemes I didn't say they improved muscle growth cf traditional rest times, just that they took less time. The person I responded to didn't soun
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by gwd 3y ago
If you want to do weight training but don't want to spend a lot of time in the gym, look into "myo-reps". Rather than doing a traditional "Do 3 sets of 12 reps separated by 90-120s", you do a set of 12, then do sev
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by gwd 3y ago
I had a long discussion with GPT-4 about various things that might go into a Trump vs Biden win; about similarities and differences between the 2016 election, and so on; then asked it to re-write "Chapter 12", and the result came
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by gwd 3y ago
Please write a section of a history book from the future, writing about the 2024 US presidential election and its fallout. Assume that Biden and Trump are the Democratic and Republican nominees respectively, and that there are no significa
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by gwd 3y ago
Write a scene in which a family is watching the results of the 2024 US presidential election. The family is staying up late into the night as the news corporation is "calling" state by state. Describe the scene culminating in th
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by gwd 3y ago
Have you done the math that shows that the centralized "long time to heat-up" system, even assuming a certain amount of wasted heat, is actually less efficient than per-unit, fast-to-heat-up system? It's quite possible that
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by gwd 3y ago
> I get one or two encrypted emails on a good year, and they are rarely important (or require encryption really). Well if only "important" things are encrypted, then the existence of an encrypted message is evidence to whomever
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by gwd 3y ago
Is there a way to hand cpan a perl executable, and have it automatically download all the appropriate dependencies? So far for me it's worked like "Run command -> get failure -> search on CPAN, install -> repeat 4-5x&quot
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by gwd 3y ago
Resilient, but also infamous for being hard to modify. Our security team has a massive set of automation written in Perl, and it's slowly being replaced, not because it fails, but because the original author left; and when we need to
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by gwd 3y ago
One of the things I appreciate about SQLite is being able to keep all the schema initialization and upgrades in the application itself, which are then checked into git and can be tested like mad with throw-away copies of the data. Here&#x27
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by gwd 3y ago
> Instead of storing all user's data in one mega table, what if I made a SQLite database for each user? Provided users never talk to each other, I think this might work? I'm doing this in a project I'm developing for langu
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by gwd 3y ago
> It depends on why you play though; the "combinatorial explosion of overhead" is only a problem if you're trying to min/max, if you play for fun it's more "What character do I like" or "What wings
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by gwd 3y ago
> I can't think of any other plausible explanation of why he was arrested with $500 in his hand at a specific place Maybe he had an ex that wanted to make life hell for him. Create a new e-mail account using the guys name, use that

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