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by helen___keller 3y ago
That is probably why Zig has such a focus on seamless C interop. There’s a good thread in these comments talking about this. Regardless, point taken. You’re more or less describing the internal fear I have (mentioned in another thread) that
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Yes you can easily make a one liner allocation function in zig that takes an allocator as input with a comptime type and panics if allocation fails and returns the unwrapped allocation I just say nuisance because zig code often looks like G
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by helen___keller 3y ago
If we’re comparing C to Zig I’m not sure what memory safety even needs to be mentioned for. For C to Zig there’s plenty of reasons one might prefer Zig. For memory safety obviously you might opt to choose neither.
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Personal computer
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by helen___keller 3y ago
My main issue with Zig is that I’m scared to invest time in writing something nontrivial to see the community/adoption flounder then regret not using Rust or C++ later The language itself is fun. The explicit-ness of choosing how alloc
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by helen___keller 3y ago
If it actually became a societal priority I’m sure a solution could be found. For example, a sufficiently large lifelong stipend per child for qualifying mothers could be compelling, although politically impossible. Basically paying people
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I’ve been married for 5 years, together for 10. The main reason we got married is because my new job had really good health insurance and her graduate school had crap health insurance. We didn’t do a big (or any) wedding, buy expensive ring
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Seattles still one of the most capable American cities in regards to constructing transit. Boston began planning a 4 mile line extension in 2006, completed 2022[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Line_Extension
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by helen___keller 3y ago
All the socioeconomic reasons to have children are virtually gone in the first world, leaving only your personal feelings about having children So it’s your personal feelings about maybe wanting to raise a tiny version of yourself, against
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Things that bother physicists but not mathematicians
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Your original reply to my post asked for specifics of what a carbon tax is. I replied: a tax on either the sourcing or consumption of fossil fuels. I can see now that you were actually looking for me to justify a carbon tax from a policy pe
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Any specifics about generational improvements and hardware are moot without a reference point for total cost (hence why I brought up cost for a single human level intelligence) To put it another way: the specifics about hardware don’t matte
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by helen___keller 3y ago
And I suppose the AI just presses the “take over the world button”? Most “rogue AI” scenarios begin with good-faith operators handing high credentials to an AI and then the AI abuses them. If I’m an evil billionaire and I can build a human-
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by helen___keller 3y ago
What matters is whether the cost of human-level machine intelligence is dramatically cheaper than the cost today of human intelligence (via employment) If the cost of intelligent AI is dramatically cheaper, society will change overnight an
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Stop trying to pick a fight. I gave reasonably specific information of what I mean by carbon tax in my previous post: > To be specific, taxing [use of and/or extraction of] fossil fuels.
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> Carbon is an element that's all around us, we're made of carbon too. So what exactly are you going to tax and for what purpose? To be specific, taxing [use of and/or extraction of] fossil fuels. The reasoning is that ext
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> If the goal is to offset climate change, there are cheaper, higher-value targets. Two good places to start: Tax the electricity usage of data centers and artificial intelligence. No, the best goal for this is to tax carbon. Obviously a
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Also: potential hackers might never really form into hackers because there’s a strong career path and financial incentive to work on big boring software engineering using the same skills That’s actually the exact same story of how I ended u
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I don’t agree. My perception is that the author doesn’t think “atmosphere” discussions about programming languages are of less value, it’s just an example to segue into the classification of “soil, surface, and atmosphere” as types of progr
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Silly as this sounds, if it’s just freshman year, that would mean that your graduating GPA is weighted more heavily towards non-intro classes, which i view as a plus overall. My chops as a computer science graduate was about my mastery of a
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Working at a well known big tech company that recently mandated a return to office. Despite them playing “hardball” with RTO, the fact is that our teams are already distributed and it’s telling that they aren’t mandating we all move to be c
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I don’t think what you’re saying and what GP is saying are incompatible. Many people choose to work exclusively remotely so they can live where they want; those who want top wages, or who are in a non-remote-compatible field tend to prefer
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Agreed. Years ago my wife and I considered moving to my hometown, a medium sized city with affordable housing (at the time). There are a grand total of 2 employers in her field in the whole city. It’s simply not possible to reliably grow he
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> With the self driving car there is 0 feed back. It's just an empty car that may or may not run me over. As someone who struggles with nonverbal communication sometimes, I frequently feel this way about all vehicles both as a pedes
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by helen___keller 3y ago
In a place like the Bay Area where the weather is pleasant and the commutes are primarily by privately owned vehicles I think it should be the case. If you live in NYC, Boston, or Chicago, and used to take the train, maybe it’s different Ho
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> Back in 2017, if you wanted a car that cost less than $20,000, you had 11 options. Fast forward to March of 2023, and that list had been narrowed to only two. The story here is just “inflation happened”
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by helen___keller 3y ago
If you look at CDC risk maps for physical inactivity you may change your mind regarding sedentary lifestyle. In my experience city people tend to be less sedentary than average - since you have to walk around the city - compared to average
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> But yeah, I have to imagine these effects are society-wide with varying strength for different sub-populations. This is consistent with various macro-scale observations like decreasing population-wide male fertility. Right, what I’m sa
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by helen___keller 3y ago
This seems like it could be a game changer. Modern LLM based applications face a balancing act of context limitations, which often results in some kind of mapreduce-type behavior when that context can’t fit the input If contexts keep growin
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Putting aside how impossibly vague it is to dig into this (who are the people you see? How are we supposed to relate complex sociological patterns to understudied biological phenomena?), I can say this: We know that endocrine disrupters are

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