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by jstanley 2y ago
How can it be true that they're really expensive and you can't even give them away for free on Craigslist? Probably if you want a good one it's expensive and nobody wants bad ones.
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by jstanley 2y ago
> There isn't even a continuity of experience for when you go to sleep. But you remember having lived the previous day. Why is it any different if you remember having lived as a human a second ago and are a computer program now? &gt
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by jstanley 2y ago
> You can wrap it with all the feel good trappings you want, that set of bits is not you. If there's a continuity of experience from your present day life to your virtual life, if the virtual version shares all your memories, hopes,
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by jstanley 2y ago
> there's an argument that our eyes are very coarse sensors. Instead they do basic analysis from which the brain can infer the real world around us with other data from other organs I don't buy it. I think our eyes are approxim
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by jstanley 2y ago
I found that when I tried to use Cursor for blogging I was totally infuriated by it. As happy as I am to have Cursor auto-complete my code all day long, the sensation of having Cursor try to put words into my mouth (or, worse, put thoughts
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by jstanley 2y ago
> Before we implemented this, we played entire games with not a single stick piece in over 100 pieces Are you sure there wasn't some other bug? There's a 6/7 chance of not getting a stick piece, which means for 100 pieces
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by jstanley 2y ago
Meanwhile every time I import a CSV into LibreOffice I can't work out how to make it interpret my dates as actual dates.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Kind of, maybe more like not realising that each VS Code plugin has access to all your other VS Code plugins.
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by jstanley 2y ago
> None of these involve crossing a privilege boundary, they just found a weird way to do something they could already do It's slightly more subtle than that. The tool poisoning attack allows the provider of one tool to cause the AI
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by jstanley 2y ago
When I was working with LLMs without function calling I made the scaffold put some information in the system prompt that tells it some JSON-ish syntax it can use to invoke function calls. It places more of a "mental burden" on the
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by jstanley 2y ago
I actually really don't like moving configuration out to a config file unless it actually is necessary. I also don't like feature flags except where actually necessary. Yes this gives you more power to change things with config in
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by jstanley 2y ago
> being born into bondage board, committed by their ancestors to a shitty life in a metal tube, with their only purpose being a preordained duty to keep a few systems operational and produce the next generation of slaves just so that eve
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by jstanley 2y ago
And all of those are simply translation and scaling of 36 parameters with an implicit unit circle at the origin. Then if you want to factor out rotations, drop another parameter and say the 1st explicit circle lies on the x axis.
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They're not quite opposite. High appetite -> lots of fruit imported -> consumption "explodes" You can't consume what you don't have, so if they're not growing enough then they have to import them before t
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by jstanley 2y ago
> There's too many things already In what sense? History hasn't finished. There's more things today than there were yesterday, and there will be more things tomorrow than there are today. If you stop making new things beca
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by jstanley 2y ago
> "but won't there be a model in the next 6 months that can just do this itself?" Then you've got 6 months to cement your place in history as one of the last humans ever to have accomplished that thing before AI could
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by jstanley 2y ago
Can we please not discriminate against people because of what their governments are doing? Thoughtful intelligent people deserve to be included regardless of what regime they live under.
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by jstanley 2y ago
I'd recommend putting some information about you in your About page. It says that the site is for answering questions from your fans, but doesn't say who you are, what you do, or why you have fans. I can Google for "Nick Cave
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by jstanley 2y ago
You claimed that CSV is "easily the most widely supported data format in existence in terms of tools and language support", which is a claim that CSV is better supported than JSON, which is a claim that JSON support is lacking.
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I, too, habitually write 7500 lines of code per day.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Hi, my blog incoherency.co.uk appears at number 207 but it says the author is David Given. I'm not sure if the error is that you think my blog is written by David Given instead of James Stanley, or if you think David Given's blog
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by jstanley 2y ago
> In practice, the author presumably with the desired output image and backed into this esoteric format, but I'm not following how. I actually don't think this is how he did it. You might notice the font is kind of weird. I thi
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by jstanley 2y ago
Really cool idea. I've been curious about theorem provers but never tried one out. I had a quick look at this on my phone (so, maybe not representative UI). Some things that I think could be improved: It tells you to click on "Tut
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by jstanley 2y ago
So 2000 fps, 16 million pixels, and 7000 operations per pixel, works out to 224 TFLOPS. An RTX 4090 is advertised as being able to compute 82 TFLOPS. Where do you think the extra is coming from? Is it just straightforward optimisations like
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by jstanley 2y ago
Break down the range of x values from -1 to 1, and y values from -1 to 1, each into 1024 parts (or whatever resolution you want to plot at). Evaluate the function for each (x,y) coordinate. If the resulting number is negative colour the pix
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I'm thinking that we can parse the input into an expression tree, and then for each x coordinate, have each node in the tree tell us which intervals of y coordinates it would return a value < 0 (or <= 0 without loss of genera
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by jstanley 2y ago
The inventor of the aeroplane (to the extent that the question even has an answer) doesn't depend on what country you're in! How many legs does a dog have if I call it's tail a leg?
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The Prospero Challenge(mattkeeter.com)
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by jstanley 2y ago
> That's an Inkscape (plugin?) bug plain and simple. GUI apps should be using the appropriate xdg portals We can state what they "should" be doing until we're blue in the face, but if they "aren't" doin
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by jstanley 2y ago
> including no access to ~/ This is such a headache with snap and flatpak though. If you're trying to do something that the package maintainer thought of in 5 minutes of testing then it's usually fine, but still inside any

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