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by hughw 1y ago
Related: what's the status of content negotiation? Any browsers use it seriously, and has it been successful? If so, then why not zpng.
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by hughw 1y ago
Ok but after the first 1500 articles you’ve read about cancer breakthroughs, you understand that you’re going to read about a very early phase research project. You’re no longer sucked in by the baity headlines, are you? Do you really click
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by hughw 1y ago
But we know how to read critically, don't we? When I read it, I searched for and noticed "mice" and "proof of concept" in the text, and understood the limited claims they're making. I'm glad to learn about
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by hughw 1y ago
I miss the old @justsaysinmice twitter (account deleted) https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/15/in-mice-twitter-account-...
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by hughw 1y ago
Well it was accurate if you were asking about the Dave Barry in Dorchester.
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by hughw 1y ago
Earlier, @oisee said 'I hate LinkedIn article style -> let LLM convert my hadrcore-oldschool style into something like "You won't believe what my grandmother's cat taught me about ..."'
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by hughw 1y ago
Yes, this reinforces that the article suffered from the LLM rewrite. Your comments here prove your natural voice is more compelling for this audience than the LLM "cat post" style.
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by hughw 1y ago
The promise of REST and HATEOAS was best realized not by building RESTful apps like say "my airline reservation app" but by building a programming system, spiritually like HTTP + HTML, in which you'd able to declaratively spe
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by hughw 1y ago
We need to rewire the economy in a zillion different ways. Nobody should be using fossil fuels if they can avoid it, but so many cannot at present e.g. air travel, steel mills. Shell and Exxon aren't forcing people to burn their produc
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by hughw 1y ago
I'd hope there could be some distinction between using LLM as a super autocomplete in your IDE, vs giving it high-level guidelines and making it generate substantive code. It's a gray area, sure, but if I made a contribution I&#x2
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by hughw 1y ago
thanks for that link. if you are HIV negative, have had anal or vaginal sex in the past 6 months, and: Have a sexual partner with HIV (especially if the partner has an unknown or detectable viral load), or Have not consistently used
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by hughw 1y ago
Who will take this drug? Every sexually active person? Would insurers pay for prophylaxis?
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by hughw 1y ago
I realize I'm talking about C++ not C, but coincidentally just today I ported our 7 year old library's Swig/Python interface to nanobind. What a fragile c9k Swig has been all these years (don't touch it!) and the nanobin
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by hughw 1y ago
Usually the TZ offset is enough. The use case is a guy reading notes and logs from multiple sources. All that guy needs is to see the local time at the time and place of the event. So that, for example, he can match up the time stamp on som
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by hughw 1y ago
Some use cases really do require the local TZ offset be saved. Transforming everything to UTC wipes out that information. An engineer in the US reviewing industrial measurements logged in a plant in Asia from a variety of sources is defini
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by hughw 1y ago
Feels like a "what could possibly go wrong" thing.
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by hughw 1y ago
But you can't turn that into a business book and speaking engagements. The article strikes me as yet another shallow, masquerading as deep, insight you find in the business paperbacks at the airport shop.
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by hughw 1y ago
A Sid Caesar skit showed doughboys celebrating and one shouted "World War 1 is over!"... when they made GPLv2 maybe they didn't anticipate creating future versions (although yeah, if you're already on v2 you should fores
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by hughw 1y ago
wait, first graders?!?
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by hughw 1y ago
I could scarcely believe this new t-string wasn't a joke. As an occasional, grudging Python programmer, I rue the accretion of string formatters over the years. My code bears the history of successive, imperfectly understood (by me)for
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by hughw 1y ago
Google Wave (ca 2009) also claimed that it would replace email. Expect the next email replacement from Google in 2029.
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by hughw 2y ago
It's unclear to me whether you read the journal article or just the Ars article? If you're referring to the journal article that gives your assessment much more weight.
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by hughw 2y ago
I'm mystified at Homebrew's dominance. It seemed to come unglued for me every few months. I switched to Macports years ago and my cli world has been stable and up-to-date.
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by hughw 2y ago
It's weird that we've come to accommodate this abuse of the plain English meaning of "full self driving".
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by hughw 2y ago
Yes?
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by hughw 2y ago
“no sign that X or the general public is aware of the largest social media breach ever.”
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by hughw 2y ago
Tail call optimization uses no stack at all
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by hughw 2y ago
All right! I cannot count to any fractional number, even conceivable ones, so using the counting time to assess conceivability fails for all fractions. For small numbers, groping for any experience in the macro world fails once you ge
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by hughw 2y ago
the length of time it takes a modern computer to count to 10 or 1,000 is perhaps inconceivably small by your metric But I'd just call it "instantaneous" and something I experience frequently. Whereas 10^3978 years is beyond
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by hughw 2y ago
Please leave recursion to math and keep it out of (in particular C) software: it kills and will kill again. Is the whole (tail-recursion optimized) Lisp language family subject to DOS? Just check that you terminate at some point, right?

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