jstanley

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by jstanley 2mo ago
Do you even have crackheads in London? I was familiar with "crackhead" only as an American concept.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
There are 101 boats called freedom but they're all the same boat because they're not de-duplicated.
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UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack(theregister.com)
2 points by jstanley 2mo ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 2mo ago
> The numbers are as good as they can get That doesn't mean they don't warrant error bars. Error bars aren't there to show that you didn't do a good job collecting the data, they're there to show your level of un
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by jstanley 2mo ago
You think you would be better off if the industrial revolution were stopped in its tracks?
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by jstanley 2mo ago
Because nobody did it on purpose?
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by jstanley 2mo ago
Do you have an encyclopedic knowledge of which terms are regulated and which ones aren't? Don't you think it would cause more confusion if people expecting to buy a Jamaican beef patty instead have to buy a "Jamaican beef-ins
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by jstanley 2mo ago
I can get behind deliberately misspelling as "genious" when using it sarcastically.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
Oops, my mistake!
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by jstanley 2mo ago
> How do you make an std::array of a given type? std::array isn't a thing in C, so you don't.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
We call a proof that is not tautological "wrong".
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by jstanley 2mo ago
> * measurements, when executed correctly, are objective with numeric evidence, thus some people are wholly incapable of measuring things for the same reasons some people cannot introspect I don't understand what you're trying
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by jstanley 2mo ago
> You already correct yourself and revise your speech in an append-only rolling edit. No, I think before I speak and say what I planned to say. What do you do, sir?
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by jstanley 2mo ago
Doesn't work outside the US sadly.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
It's so bizarre to me that people want to do this. Can't you type faster than you speak? Doesn't your speaking inhibit your thinking? Aren't you self-conscious talking out loud? How are our experiences so different?
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by jstanley 2mo ago
> giving each hash function it’s own bit table is equivalent to having one bit table with a number of bits equal to that of the sum of the numbers of bits in each hash function. This is incorrect, although I also initially had the same i
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by jstanley 2mo ago
Seems to me that as long as the total number of bits is the same it makes no difference whether each hash function has a separate table or not. EDIT: Although, https://chatgpt.com/share/6a67336b-8600-83ed-9671-fab769b48
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by jstanley 2mo ago
Saving any nonzero amount of lives for any unbounded cost is not necessarily a good trade, if there are ways to save more lives for the same cost, or the same number of lives for a lesser cost.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
> I don't forsee politicians in either country handing over their power to AI They won't see it that way, but also programmers don't see ourselves as having handed over our power to AI, and yet...
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by jstanley 2mo ago
Is it just me or are these almost all terrible? Almost all of them are animated, move when hovered, move when clicked, or sometimes all three. Just awful. LLMs keep making buttons like this and I keep telling them not to.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
This is exactly the kind of take that the comment you replied to is talking about.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
Can you elaborate on how a hobbyist with a 3d printer could use this process?
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by jstanley 2mo ago
Not if the new weights don't influence the old outputs.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
It's reassuring to know that even a supergenius's ChatGPT session is one sentence from the human followed by 3 pages of LLM output.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
Were you using the Gemini image generator though? The article is about using LLMs to do drawing via tool calls.
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Systems Check – Programming Challenge(systemscheck.dev)
4 points by jstanley 2mo ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 2mo ago
I pasted the introduction into Pangram and it said 100% AI.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
I too judge books by their covers.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
I'm sure the track surface and shoes are important, but if "singlet" means the clothing he is wearing? It's really hard to believe that makes a material difference.
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by jstanley 2mo ago
Trading on polymarket for example?

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