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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Defining the goal is the easy part: as I said in my OP, the goal is unit tests passing. It’s the other weights that are harder. You might want execution speed to be one metric. But how do you add weights to prevent cheating (eg hardcoding t
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Might be worth having this submission changed to that URL instead
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
It’s basically called “reinforced learning” and it’s a common technique for machine learning. You provide a goal as a big reward (eg test passing), and smaller rewards for any particular behaviours you want to encourage, and then leave the
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Terrible advice. Different languages excel at different things. There shouldn’t be a “one size fits all” otherwise we’d be writing software in FORTRAN and assembly. And designing a language is a good exercise if purely from an academic pers
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Cost want my point. It’s that if you have skills then people will call upon them. I’m also not making a point about whether that’s a good or a bad thing, before you make that assumption too
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Unfortunately buying closed systems hasn’t stopped me from being IT support: - “why can’t I play online with EA Sports?” - “I can’t log into Roblox!” - “why can’t I see my sisters world in Minecraft?” - “I’ve lost my Fortnight skins!” - “wh
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
There’s quite a few Tectoy ports of Sega games that were Genesis only everywhere else. Including games like Sonic Spinball. The ironic thing is while Tectoy kept making MS games because it was cheap, those games now go for a small fortune (
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> Docker was the first viable containerization technology on Linux. No it wasn’t. Docker was late to the party even for Linux (and Linux was late compared to every other “UNIX”). OpenVZ was around for years before docker. Its main issue
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Plenty of techno there too. I still listen to Slam’s podcasts to this day.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
There isn’t a fraction of me which didn’t appreciate that comment
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Also Facebook feeds weren’t even a feature back before Twitter was around. Zuckerberg added it to compete with Twitter. So you couldn’t even access “public feeds” in the mid-00s because no such thing existed.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Any terminal app can be an “ssh app”. There isn’t really a distinction.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> Yet the recent wave of API & public site lockdowns were mostly kicked off when Musk took over Twitter, and he publicly stated that a big reason was using the data for AI training. Similarly, platforms like Reddit have started selli
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> You're getting downvoted for stating falsehoods. I'm getting downvoted because people are either to young to remember the web in the 00s, or just misremembering what the web was like. > The big platforms were accessible wi
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Nature is full of them.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
It’s also an integer. Who ch I pretty special when you consider that most numbers in nature are real.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Unicode can be useful. The emoji subset generally are not.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> Perhaps your definition of power user is limited to uses aligned with your own? I was clearly being flippant. Terminal.app does suck but if you’re happy in it then I’m not going to judge. For what it’s worth, I cut my teeth on very lim
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Why?
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
I was clearly being flippant. But IE definitely sucked.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Getting down voted for stating a fact. Just goes to show how short some people’s memories are.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
That exhibit is shown in the article.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
People already knew the value of data long before LLMs were popularised and web scraping has been a thing since the very beginnings of the web. Why you’re describing isn’t a recent phenomenon. Not even remotely. Facebook has never allowed p
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> using various modern command line tools that insist on printing emojis in their output Ugh. Unpopular opinion this but I personally find this practice repugnant. Same for when used in git commit messages, CI/CD task names and othe
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Apple Terminal is a lot like Internet Explorer in the 00s: for power users it’s only purpose is an interface to install something else which doesn’t suck.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
I thought built in theme pickers were the norm…?
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Hahaha. To be fair, I do have a record table and my speakers are of the non-smart variety with copper wires connecting them to Cambridge Audio amplifiers. So you could easily be talking about me too.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
That would explain my surprise then. :)
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
I wouldn’t say it’s a recent phenomenon. It’s just reached absurd levels. As for who’s responsible, there’s plenty of blame to go around. However it’s hard to deny that conduct of one party is far far less professional than the other part
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
I’m probably around 2 decades older than the invention of earphones and people definitely did used to call them that here in the UK.

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