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by harpiaharpyja 8mo ago
The author refers to a few things that he thinks will appeal to the "early majority," but I feel like that's a weakness of the article. Is the author part of the "early majority?" (doesn't seem like it). Does h
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by harpiaharpyja 9mo ago
Kicking myself because I ran out of time yet forgot to mention any vultures, elephants, or large cats. I guess that's for trying this first thing on a Sunday.
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by harpiaharpyja 10mo ago
I'm one of those people. What is a work truck used for?
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by harpiaharpyja 11mo ago
Seems like the essential criteria is not whether you can write opaque code in it, but rather whether the language enables you to accomplish most tasks using clear, readable code. They aren't mutually exclusive. Hopefully I am paraphras
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by harpiaharpyja 11mo ago
At that point the whole idea becomes quite removed from what most people would think of when asked to consider if the universe is a simulation. To clarify: without being able to simulate the universe from within the universe itself (i.e. ne
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by harpiaharpyja 11mo ago
A design that was once useful but no longer has a use is not the same thing as a failed design. Which is what the disagreement seems to be about.
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by harpiaharpyja 11mo ago
If air was highly conductive that analogy would totally hold. "If there’s a cut in my wire’s insulation, the device won’t get enough voltage" doesn't follow from: "voltage is like water pressure in pipes" So I don&#
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by harpiaharpyja 11mo ago
Not all models can actually do that if your prompt is particular
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
It's an indictment of how bad coding interviews are/were
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
It's funny how this article seems to repeat itself halfway through, like it was written by AI
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
That is a criminal level of fraud. If as a society, we continue to tolerate this, it will get worse. If there is no corrective mechanism, other bad actors that might engage in similar conduct are only going to accumulate over time. It doesn
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
Maybe just take a weekend and build something by writing the code yourself. It's the feeling of pure creative power, it sounds like you've just forgotten what it was like.
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
It's another public health issue that could also be receiving attention which causes harm to people.
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
I'm not sure if "economies of scale" is the thing here. I think calling it that may confuse people. Really what produces an advantage is an environment of trust. Having that reduces a lot of friction when it comes to economic
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
> The structure of British democracy kept fascists away, not British people. That sentence was particularly hard to parse. It read like you were saying that the structure of British democracy kept fascists away, but did not keep the Bri
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
The other replies do a good job of explaining what 2s complement is. I find the best way to understand why 2s complement is so desirable is to write down the entire number line for e.g. 3-bit integers. Using 1s complement, the negative numb
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
I've been working quite heavily with async Python for five and a half years now. I've been the principal developer of a control system framework for laboratory automation, written pretty much entirely in async Python. I say framew
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
I'm sure that's how companies these days justify their choices, but I don't see those problems as being inevitable on self-hosted infrastructure
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
A lot of negative comments in this thread, but I think the article makes one really good point, that has had far-reaching consequences for for society before and beyond AI: humans are pretty bad at assessing intelligence.
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
Yeah, "commodification" is the wrong word here. I'm not sure what the best word would be, but it would be more along the lines of "extraction" or "exploitation". As in: The last 15 years has been just rel
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
Ehh, I think the real footgun here is using a property with backing storage to store what is clearly a derived value. Using a computed property is what we really should be doing here, if we think our code should line up with our intentions.
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
Probably more than you might think. As a teen I used to play around with Core Wars, and my high school taught 8086 assembly. I think I got a decent grasp of it, enough to implement quicksort in 8086 while sitting through a very boring class
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
Generating tables is the way to go in that case. The flexibility you need, with the advantages of being data driven.
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
So, this is just about declarative programming style? I thought based on the title it would have been about different approaches to backoff.
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
And if you were the sort of captain to see it that way, that's probably where the admiralty wanted you. There are only so many ships, after all.
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
I don't use numpy much, but based on the documentation for that function and the fact that you can index by None to add another dimension, it seems like the correct call is: y = linalg.solve(A,x[:,:,None]) The documentation give
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
A UUID wouldn't be creative, well, except for the very first time. Sure, they are all unique. But also very high entropy.
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by harpiaharpyja 1y ago
Would DAP support allow this to be used with OpenOCD?
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Terrestrial GPS Alternative [video](youtube.com)
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by harpiaharpyja 2y ago
Yeah, and that's exactly what makes the title into clickbait.

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