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by inimino 6y ago
You might be surprised to learn some of the history of the traditional taxi industry.
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by inimino 6y ago
Perhaps downvoted for spoiling the problem? Some people review the comments before looking at the article.
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by inimino 6y ago
I did read the article, and also the design doc which I linked in my top-level comment. The facts are that they started with TypeScript and moved away (for a particular internal component). The interpretation of that as wanting to use it
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by inimino 6y ago
I'd be very disappointed if I only get bay area devs (since that's a miniscule fraction of the people I've had the pleasure of having interesting discussions with during my life). And indeed, "give me a few sentences abo
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by inimino 6y ago
You're on for $100. I'm > 99% confident that I won't be fooled by any AI before 2023, and would have bet any amount that I could afford to set aside. Ideal weather at slow speeds, with a professional human driver throwing
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by inimino 6y ago
You're a dogmatic true believer, and it's rarely worth arguing with dogmatic true believers. Just notice that you threw everyone that disagrees with you (or rather, that comprehends a wider range of circumstances than you do) unde
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by inimino 6y ago
You're betting that in the next roughly two-and-a-half years, the common sense problem will be solved well enough to fool me, despite not having been solved in the entire history of AI up until now. I'll take that bet. How confide
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by inimino 6y ago
> That document is not particularly enlightening either. Here are some key words that many kibitzers here could benefit greatly from internalizing: > > The target audience is the 5 to 10 people who work on this particular internal
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by inimino 6y ago
> Any developer who's done many years of both TS and JS would never in a million years consider going back to JS. Except, apparently, for the topic of this article. > If I misspell something, or provide the wrong argument type to
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by inimino 6y ago
I do understand the value, thanks mostly to Haskell. I also know that (language- or tool-enforced) type safety and type discipline are separable concerns. I also understand when the former gets in the way, thanks to JS, TS, Rust, Lisp, and
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by inimino 6y ago
How will the bot answer "when and where were you born, and how do you know?" How will it answer "what color, besides red, best communicates the flavor of a strawberry, and why?". How will it answer "What historical
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by inimino 6y ago
If it wasn't a bot but a human, we'd typically have an unbounded conversation, except by the bounds of politeness, until I was satisfied one way or the other, so that seems a reasonable protocol here, perhaps with some reasonable
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by inimino 6y ago
Unfortunately the state of web dev in 2020 is such that using a vanilla "best practice" setup is very much doing something wrong.
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by inimino 6y ago
Spoken like someone who's never solved problems with medium-to-large scale JS projects... criticising people who have.
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by inimino 6y ago
Nobody's asking them to.
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by inimino 6y ago
There are so many uninformed and misinformed comments on this post. Please read the design doc[1] before commenting if you assume the Deno team is doing it wrong, or hasn't ever considered some obvious solution you came up with in 0.7
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by inimino 6y ago
That seems like a pretty testable prediction. If I can't tell the difference between GPT-5 or whatever it is and an adult human native English speaker by the end of 2022, you'll win the bet.
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by inimino 6y ago
Yes, it would be difficult but not impossible to agree on clear criteria. We would also need an impartial third party to make a determination. The Turing test hasn't been passed if I'm the judge. Supposing I were unable to tell th
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by inimino 6y ago
Why just wait when you can bet?
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by inimino 6y ago
My only correction is that there was a lot of content out there! We didn't call it that, of course, because we're people and not corporations, so we just called it articles, blogs, rants and musings. A lot of it is still out the
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by inimino 6y ago
At this point we're better off building a samizdat -like shadow WWW which simply loads the genuine content by using the URL as a content identifier, but without relying on the HTTP server on port 443 on the A or AAAA record mentioned
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by inimino 6y ago
Please don't wildly speculate about technologies you clearly don't understand. "Does not strike me as a particularly high bar" means you're unfamiliar with how these systems work at a deep level (by which I mean, yo
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by inimino 6y ago
We know much more about the world-model of GPT-3 (which is none, but it has a language model) than we do about the three year old (which we can't build or reproduce in silico) but we know plenty well enough to say that no, things are n
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by inimino 6y ago
So now that it's not the latest hype train, we're back to calling it "AI"? For the love of Christ, dear Economist, ML and AI are not the same thing and we have words for both of them. Use your words, people! An understan
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by inimino 6y ago
A certain flight out of a certain airport (I won't say which one) was routinely delayed to the point that passengers waiting for the inevitable compounding series of delay announcements (always after the predicted departure time ha
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by inimino 6y ago
> Yes, there is absolutely a reason. Your point is valid, but reading "there is no reason" literally misses the intended meaning, which is "this is unacceptable and cannot stand".
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by inimino 6y ago
> Let's move this to a productive conversation though. What can Microsoft do, as an alternative, that doesn't result in an identical or worse situation? They could prioritize the radical concept that the owner of the hardware a
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by inimino 6y ago
You are greatly underestimating (1) the effort it took (in committees, over decades) to get CSS where it is now (and DSSSL, XSL-FO, and all the related work in this area) and (2) the vastness of the gap between where the Web platform is aft
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by inimino 6y ago
It's a fantastic product for locking the organizational knowledge of countless teams in the data centres of the biggest (publicly traded) enemy to privacy the US has ever seen. This would be a disaster for science, would suck the life
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by inimino 6y ago
Knuth wrote TeX as a labor of love. The surest way to kill everything good about it would be a few million dollars, and a team, and to turn it into fucking Google Docs for science. Ask Knuth to name one person who has the clearest vision fo

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