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by int_19h 1y ago
I'm Russian myself, and I think Russia is a Western (white European) colonial empire, and the largest one in terms of the sheer number of peoples and amount of territory it still occupies. Just look at the map of its administrative reg
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by int_19h 1y ago
I'm not a "Western power". I am a person, and as such I am entitled to make my own personal judgments on ethical matters. (But, yes, what Israel is doing is occupation, and most Western countries are explicitly or implicitly
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by int_19h 1y ago
You don't need a Bluetooth mesh for that. A simple call or text to a cheap Nokia will do just fine, same as it always has been.
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by int_19h 1y ago
Thing is, that motivation doesn't make the heinous acts any less heinous. When Viet Kong tortured and executed civilians who happened to be opposed to their ideology, that was wrong. When South African revolutionaries bombed churches,
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by int_19h 1y ago
> Although the good news is that Israel is and will be the last true Western colonial state. What do you think Russia is?
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by int_19h 1y ago
Anthropic fairly consistently advocates for the same broad approach to such problems: have the government tightly regulate AI. It is, of course, a pure coincidence that this is exactly the approach that would kill off any open competition a
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by int_19h 1y ago
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-and-the-department-...
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by int_19h 1y ago
Gemini specifically is actually kinda notorious for giving up. https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1mp5mks/this_is...
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by int_19h 1y ago
I write quite a lot of prompts, and the closest analogy that I can think of is a shaman trying to appease the spirits.
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by int_19h 1y ago
Casual users don't care about rendering engines. They care about things working or not working, and in practice Safari with AdGuard is "good enough".
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by int_19h 1y ago
Trying to teach LLMs to speak proper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban .
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by int_19h 1y ago
AI features that nobody has actually asked for is a big contributor to the overall suckiness of Win11 right now.
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by int_19h 1y ago
If I remember correctly, it was Roku, which is already doing things like this: https://www.wired.com/story/roku-tests-showing-video-ads-bef...
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by int_19h 1y ago
The funny thing is when you have that spill over to civilians who then take it to 11. Case in point: firearms. The standard-issue M4A1 is actually pretty good on that front already, but for civilian ARs, there's a whole cottage industr
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by int_19h 1y ago
Kindles have been showing ads on their lock screen for the ad-supported tier for a very long time now. These days, we have moved to far more insane schemes. E.g. smart TV manufacturers are patenting detection of static frames to show you ad
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by int_19h 1y ago
From the perspective of a casual user, on Android you get mobile Chrome which doesn't do extensions at all, while on iOS mobile Safari has extensions including ad blockers.
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by int_19h 1y ago
They don't actually have to be good. They just need to be better than viable alternatives.
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by int_19h 1y ago
I don't think Metro died because it was bad as a matter of taste. Quite the opposite actually, I wasn't a huge fan of its aesthetics but I was surprised by how many people liked it. No, the real problem was functionality. Not of M
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by int_19h 1y ago
The worst part of it is that despite all this, Apple still has the least frustrating desktop experience overall, at least for the casual user who needs things to "just work", because the bar is plummeting that fast. Especially whe
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by int_19h 1y ago
Let's be honest: most people follow a specific religion simply because it is the predominant one in their society, and what they were taught to believe in and not question since childhood.
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by int_19h 1y ago
Aside from ADTs, what else did Rust take from OCaml?
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by int_19h 1y ago
What you wrote is roughly equivalent to this in C: { const int x = 1; { const int x = 2; } } which is to say, there are two different `x` in there, both immutable, one shadowing the other. You can observe this if
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by int_19h 1y ago
But, again, loops aren't automatically imperative per se. Consider loop / recur in Clojure for an example. For someone coming from JavaScript, it's not really much different from writing a while loop where every branch has to
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by int_19h 1y ago
OCaml is a much more powerful language. Take a look at functors, for example, or modules as first-class values, or GADTs, or its object system that can do type inference from use: # let foo x = x#frob;; val foo : < frob : 'a;
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by int_19h 1y ago
Python was already big for scientists back in 2010. I remember working on Python tooling at the time, and DS/ML was one of our single largest user groups. It was already popular enough to have an IDE specifically for scientific Python
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by int_19h 1y ago
F# is not "OCaml for Windows". Not even close.
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by int_19h 1y ago
Why would a specific way of structuring data in memory be relevant to breaking down sequences of problem steps? If what you mean is the ability to think in terms of "first" and "rest", that's just an interface that
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by int_19h 1y ago
The reason why functional languages like linked lists so much is because they are very easy to make immutable without a lot of pain all around. If you implement an immutable vector in a straightforward way, though, you basically need to do
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by int_19h 1y ago
F# is indeed an ML-family language, but at this point it doesn't have all that much in common with OCaml specifically: it doesn't have the latter's structurally typed object model with inferred row-polymorphic types, nor its
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by int_19h 1y ago
Reasoning models are pretty interesting for this because they can iterate on the translation to get the subtle parts (like tone) right, especially if you prompt them to do so specifically.

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