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by ithkuil 2y ago
> what kind of comment is this? It's part of a broader new new age movement. The race to the bottom in the quality of online comments made any informative content immediately suspect of being produced by LLMs which got trained on th
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Probably it will be used for many things. Just like computers, electricity, iron
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Yes, the dangers of Dihydrogen monoxide are well known yet underestimated
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Things become popular because they are good/decent/better than the alternatives. Then, popular things become the default choice even when they don't necessarily make sense because they are not solving the problems they origin
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by ithkuil 2y ago
We have to put things in perspective. During the Balkan wars about 5% of Europe's population lived in a country that was at war. Yet that time period was relatively peaceful compared to the first half of the 20th century where Europe w
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Learning many writing systems is my hobby. But despite having learned the Georgian alphabet and being able to read მიღება as "migheba" I still am none the wiser since I have no idea what that means. Today my kid bought a pokemon t
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Isn't the survival rate of us all technically zero anyway?
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Minused
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by ithkuil 3y ago
One part of me is secretly glad SPARC lives on
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by ithkuil 3y ago
The package management story before go.mod was sad but I have to plat devil's advocate and point out that GitHub did have special treatment by go get, you could use any domain name to host your code and you just had serve a <meta n
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by ithkuil 3y ago
I agree. Same with Go. When I started with Go, I quickly forgave it all little rough edges in the language itself because they were offset by a tooling that was just miles ahead the state if the art of the time.
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by ithkuil 3y ago
This! Tooling ease of use matters! A lot of interesting tech died off or never took off because the tooling was just too cumbersome to setup and use.
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by ithkuil 3y ago
I realized that it was mostly my problem of not understanding what philosophers do
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by ithkuil 3y ago
I must admit I always scoffed at philosophers, but then I started reading Dennett and not only I finally met a philosopher that I respected, but he helped me unlock what other philosophers are doing and I started to see philosophers as a wh
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Wouldn't it be better to have laws that make sense instead of relying on the side effect of the police force being overwhelmed and hence ignores the laws that don't make sense?
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by ithkuil 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/386/
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by ithkuil 3y ago
For me a useful coding assistant would be one that looks at what I'm _doing_ and helps me complete the boring parts of the task. The current wave of coding assistants target junior programmers who don't know how to even start appr
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Huge shout-out to depot! It works really well!
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by ithkuil 3y ago
I wonder if the problem that LLMs solved was not the lack of "intelligence" of logic driven systems but the lack of a particular intelligence that is so crucial for is to make effective use of the interaction with such tools, name
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Yep. The problem is not only that the AI enhanced image may contain details that are not in the original, but also that the sharpened image may give the impression that something (some feature) cannot possibly be there and yet it was there
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Oh yes. Also another thing: often people end up with the worst of both worlds: one (or two!) big monorepos plus a swarm of many little repos. Now you only pay the price of the monorepo but rarely ever notice the benefits
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by ithkuil 3y ago
The opensource tooling to handle large monorepos is just not there. The monorepo at Google with the massively distributed build system and all other tooling make it very effective to work with. You cannot just take one part of that system a
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by ithkuil 3y ago
What's the likelihood of uncorrected mispellings of last names? That could AGM generative torte that counteracts the effect
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Or even better: not even organize by sex! First child, second child, etc. who cares about the sex or gender!? This problem appears in other related areas too. Many people think that the right way to fix racisim is to make everyone obsessed
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Which is not incompatible with what the title said.
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by ithkuil 3y ago
Doesn't the beam intensity decrease with the square of the distance?
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by ithkuil 3y ago
But the point was that if you were hit with a full container ship at 0.1 mph and not allowed to move you'd be dead. The only reason why a high energy but slow moving object (thus high momentum) is harmless is that it will deliver a sma
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by ithkuil 3y ago
If you're moored on the ground you'd be torn apart in both cases
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by ithkuil 3y ago
well, "economically viable" doesn't necessarily mean scraping the bottom. For example the great pyramids of giza are very solidly built. You certainly don't expect that level of build for every commercial or residential
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by ithkuil 3y ago
“Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.” And in practice only bridges that "barely" stand are economically viable

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