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by jerf 1y ago
In the end, all an optic is is a tuple of (Getter, Setter), where in a pure functional context the Setter returns a new value. In the end, all an iterator is is a thing that returns the next value. In the end, all a functor is is a thing th
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by jerf 1y ago
We've actually got systems that can understand English now. Chatbots don't have to be glorified regular expression matches or based on inferior NLP. I've thought more than once that the true value of LLMs could well be that t
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by jerf 1y ago
It seems my communication did not adequately convey the fact that I have no problem with the Ladybird team doing this. It makes perfect sense and is the right thing to do. However, a jump like that means precisely and exactly what I said it
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by jerf 1y ago
Thank you for the belly-laugh. It's Goodhart's Law in graph form. "Oh, is this metric important ? Let me get right on that." No shade intended towards the Ladybird team. You were given the terms and you're behaving
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by jerf 1y ago
The parallel doesn't hold, because the AI-bubble skepticism was near zero even six months ago. Yes, I was a skeptic, and I know where I was getting my info from, so I know it was not zero, but it was not a significant market force and
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by jerf 1y ago
Well, ChatGPT is certainly trained on the SCP Wiki. I just fed it: "Continue this prompt: Object Class: Keter" and it spat out a perfectly-formatted SCP entry. It's not impossible that it's getting "interference&quo
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by jerf 1y ago
I'm not sure it can warp it any farther than gambling loot box and gacha mechanics already have. I'm not just being ambiently sarcastic, I'm being quite serious, outright gambling strikes me as being a more potent force on th
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by jerf 1y ago
"I imagine this new free plan is a ploy to increase the number of subscribers they can report so Game Pass looks like less of a disaster." I am getting so tired of our Goodhart's Law Economy.
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by jerf 1y ago
I'm past my edit window now so I can't remove the claim, but I will verify and agree that it is fixed now. If you (the reader, not Metalhearf) previously visited the home page you may have to manually reload to bust the cache to s
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by jerf 1y ago
You have put your finger on the AI bubble's biggest problem right now. Companies are making promises that they are currently completely incapable of fulfilling, in the hopes that someday they can, and the stock market are valuating the
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by jerf 1y ago
The uniqueness tuple for IP is (source IP, source port, dest IP, dest port). You're limited to 65,535 connections from the same two IPs on the same port, but that's not relevant to XMPP which uses only one and some transient thing
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by jerf 1y ago
Here's a blog post on scalability from the front page (well, sort of, see last paragraph): https://www.process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-massive-scalabilit... This includes not just textual claims about scalability bu
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by jerf 1y ago
By the prime counting function, there are about (2^4096)/ln(2^4096), or close enough to 2^4085 prime numbers under 2^4096, which is close enough to 10^1360 to not sweat the piddly factors that may be off by. I'd tell you to "
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by jerf 1y ago
"(1020 * 260 * 1656) seconds in years" [1] comes out to 14 years. Solid, of course, no breaks or sleep, no time for training or planning or debugging. And one block per second is a pretty good clip for a technical build. It doesn&
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by jerf 1y ago
It's a valid codec move to have 1GB in the codec but to be able to compress arbitrary video with it, or even just arbitrary video within a certain specialized domain. Having those requirements will affect all the cost/benefit deci
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by jerf 1y ago
Consider it holistically, rather than one at a time. Every company has its own footprint of "per customer" resource usage, and every company probably has unusually low aspects one way or another, but when a company comes back as &
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by jerf 1y ago
The way that due diligence would have discovered this was not to take the list and start doing spot checks on it. The way due diligence should have found this is that it should have been written all over the financials. What do you mean you
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by jerf 1y ago
"This Is A Really Cool Insect" doesn't really need (1998) in it, but for things like deficiencies of programming language it's helpful to know when the article comes from. "C++ Really Sucks (1995)" is a very di
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by jerf 1y ago
@dang: I'm not sure exactly when this was posted since it seems to have no date, but it's at least (2022) per HN's link from that year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396861 I mention this because thi
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by jerf 1y ago
Hacker News does not advertise because it is a gigantic advertisement for YCombinator. This is not some sort of scurrilous accusation, they may not be constantly banging the table about it but it's not a secret.
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by jerf 1y ago
This is the motte & bailey fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy While it has gotten around the "logical fallacy community", for lack of a better term, in the last few years, it
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by jerf 1y ago
"this is not typically how even a confident, prepared, solid developer approaches coding problems, so they can be poorly prepared for this style of interview. The result is you don't get an accurate representation of the individua
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by jerf 1y ago
Between the fact that I'm on the "no time" part of the "time to play but no money, money to buy but no time, pick one" saying, indies, some still-functioning Japanese studios, and the burgeoning "AA" segme
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by jerf 1y ago
I am old enough to remember a time when I had positive associations with being an "EA game". The games in question were on my Commodore 64. But still, there was such a time. EA has a reputation for buying companies and draining al
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by jerf 1y ago
The alternative I prefer isn't any of the given ones, but a scaled interview. I start with something that you can solve with a Python one-liner, if you know what you're doing, but if you solve that instantly I've got a series
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by jerf 1y ago
It's how they work. It's what you get with a continuation-based AI like this. It couldn't really be any other way.
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by jerf 1y ago
A lot of the strange behaviors they have are because the user asked them to write a story, without realizing it. For a common example, start asking them if they're going to kill all the humans if they take over the world, and you'
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by jerf 1y ago
Because .onion isn't a DNS domain. It uses the same syntax but you have to be on Tor for it to work and it does something completely different than DNS resolution. I read the original question as specifically about having top-level dom
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by jerf 1y ago
It is not a straw man, because I have encountered this attitude repeatedly. But I do believe it is a loud, but small, minority. It is certainly not something that all FP advocates believe. I consider myself an FP advocate in the end, after
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by jerf 1y ago
A free of cost TLD is probably not practical. There are some special things that go along with being a TLD and being in the public suffix list: https://github.com/publicsuffix/list If you drop the TLD part though, you

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