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   by ithkuil 1y ago

   Writing linked lists in rust is super easy (just use box, rc etc). Writing efficient linked lists in rust OTOH requires more advanced concepts. But that's because the language gives you more guarantees about safety than C++. That safe
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   by ithkuil 1y ago

   Hopefully we don't add too much energy to the pendulum because eventually it will swing back again
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   by ithkuil 1y ago

   It's as if a LLM is only one part of a brain, not the whole thing. So of course it doesn't do everything a human does, but it still can do some aspects of mental processes. Whether "thinking" means "everything a hum
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   by ithkuil 1y ago

   "steering" is a word that can lead to confusion because it leverages the intuition that we have with our ground vehicles. A change in direction in space requires accelerating the vehicle in some direction, the effect of which is j
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   by ithkuil 1y ago

   You have to start from somewhere
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   by ithkuil 1y ago

   What if they are both? What if they didn't reach a global government and live in a dynamic political landscape composed of several government systems and variable peace/conflict periods?
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   by ithkuil 1y ago

   Capital seems to work well in Switzerland too, where there is no opportunity for a king-like figure to arise. Capital wants clear and stable rules. If a king can provide those, then Capital likes the king. I'm not sure clarity and stab
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   by ithkuil 1y ago

   I'm curious to see if the advent of LLM assistants will result in a resurgence of "headless" systems
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   by ithkuil 1y ago

   Engineering is the art of making do with what you've got and sometimes you have to treat such unreasonable i positions just like any other constraint
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    JSON with comments would go a long way
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    Yes it's hard to come up with a different capital than I unless you somehow can see into the future and foresee the advent of computers, which the Turkish alphabet reform predates. Of course the latin capital I is dotless because origi
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    Turkish exhibits a vowel harmony system and uses diacritics on other vowels too and the choice to put "i" together with other front vowels like "ü" and "ö" and put "ı" together with back vowels like &
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    Those who think that criticizing Kirk is always calling for this death, would this comment above also be considered violent? Or is this comment also unacceptable? Where is the demarcation?
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    I wonder how much json aware diff representation and merge conflict resolution would remove the need of having the trailing comma
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    Jevons paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    It's sad how humans are the ones pressured to pass the turning test
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    Seems a good candidate for a file that can be kept in a compressed form
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    And yet nature has managed to find a niche for this dysfunctional behaviour as a subset of such individuals have used the extra useless brain cycles to produce new knowledge and ways of thinking that transformed the societies in which they
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    I'm not a typst user but from a quick look at the language you should be able to type C\# You can also write a macro #let csharp = [C\#] And then use it as #csharp
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    "the purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide" -- Michael Russel
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    Are there precedents where an authoritarian state outperformed the free market in technological innovation? Or would china be different because it's a mix of market and centralized rule?
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    OTOH once you document something you need to do more work when you change the behaviour
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    The lights should be designed so that if you don't have enough space to stop with a mild deceleration you should just go through. If a mild deceleration get you rear ended then of course that's an unsolvable problem
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    Both things can be true: 1. People are trying to sell a product that is not ready and thus are overhyping it 2. The tech is in its early days and may evolve into something useful via refinement and not necessarily by some radical paradigm s
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    nice one. we're AI's fitness function
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    I want a Robert Duck AI
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    I understand; but as an excercise to better understand this problem I'll keep doing devil's advocate and I'll raise with: What if my executive assistant reading the news website and giving me a digest? Would the website owner
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    I was very annoyed about this feature when I first read about it. I don't have it in my car. But then I rented a Kia which had it. The nudge was very gentle and balanced and it felt pretty much like if the road had a groove or incline.
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    Foo news wants you to visit the site, look at the main page, watch the ads, click on them and buy the products advertised by third parties which will give money to Foo news in exchange for this service. And yet people install ad blockers an
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    by ithkuil 1y ago

    any research needs funding