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by kibwen 6mo ago
Companies with less than 20 employees aren't federally required to offer COBRA. Companies larger than that are required to offer at least 18 months of coverage. I don't know how large your old company was, but Coinbase is large en
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> Language data is among the most rich and direct reflections of human cognitive processes that we have available. This is both true and irrelevant. Written records can capture an enormous quantity of the human experience in absolute t
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> Humans WILL anthropomorphize the AI, humans WILL blindly trust their outputs, and humans WILL defer responsibility to them. Sure, and humans WILL lie, murder, cheat, and steal, but we can still denounce those behaviors. Do you want t
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by kibwen 6mo ago
It's been ages since I used an IBM green screen but I seem to recall that in our application Tab did move between fields, but I think there were also function keys reserved for this purpose.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
People keep saying "deterministic" when they mean "probabilistic". For illustration, a bloom filter is deterministic, but it's also probabilistic. LLMs are the same.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
No. The Rust project developers are more lenient when it comes to developing patches with AI assistance, but the amount of leniency one receives is proportional to the amount of pre-existing trust a contributor has with the project, and eve
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by kibwen 6mo ago
This is a statement of religious faith, not a statement of fact. Engineering is not magic, it is where physical reality crashes into economic reality.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> Consignment doesn't offer the seller a very good monetary deal, though. They're essentially a junk hauler that might pay you a few bucks. You've just unflatteringly, yet accurately, described GameStop's business m
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by kibwen 6mo ago
If bagholders were capable of buying low and selling high, they wouldn't be bagholders.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> And neither are LLMs. This is not my claim, you're veering wildly off course here. I'm merely responding to the common, tiresome and, to be frank, stupid analogy of LLMs to compilers.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Not true, on many days it becomes enormously more stupid.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Determinism is a red herring here. The problem is that LLMs are inductive systems, not deductive systems. This makes them powerfully general, and yet inherently unreliable.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> The whole field of reproducible builds is only a field because compilers also have had trouble No, this is not comparable. The reason reproducible builds are tricky is not because compilers are inherently prone to randomness, it&#x27
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Sure, US vs. UK English has this as well, in things like "fanny", "boot", "chip", etc. But a key difference here is that NK and SK are separated by a fence, not by 2,000 miles of ocean.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> I'm sure you have ways to entirely purge a crate. No, the lesson from left-pad that every centralized package manager learned was that you cannot allow users to remove uploaded packages at their leisure. All outright code remova
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by kibwen 6mo ago
I have never even heard of the linked repo, and it does not appear to be overly popular. Nor have I ever heard of "witness types" or seen code that attempts to make use of them. And no, any new borrow checker would not require som
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Why would bots and the people operating them care what you want?
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by kibwen 6mo ago
For the purposes of this discussion the question is not whether or not a crate exposes optional features that require a nightly compiler, but whether or not a crate makes use of the nightly compiler mandatory, which has become extremely rar
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> Does the business mandate we use a cache for this hot path? No, but the business set performance targets, and the cache was a sensible way to satisfy them. See the difference? This seems confused. Specs are free to include as much or
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by kibwen 6mo ago
It's complicated. The soul of Nethack is opaque design, secrets, and emergent gameplay from mechanical interactions. In theory, the best way to play Nethack is by going in completely blind ("unspoiled"), so that you maximize
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by kibwen 6mo ago
More than that, in theory an opaque handle would also do things like statically prevent a handle taken from one array from being used to access a different array. I feel like this should be possible in Rust with type-level shenanigans (e.g.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> As long as you keep your values and types separate, the unsigned type that you got a number from originally feeds just fine into the unsigned type that you send it to next. Part of me feels like direct numeric array indexing is one o
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Wikipedia's historical list of MUDs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MUDs ) suggests that MUD1 (1978, homepage: https://www.british-legends.com/CMS/ ) and MUD2 (1985, homepage: https:
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> And even then, I don't think Tesla is at the end of their hardware journey. I dunno about that. Tesla seems completely adrift, pretending to pivot with random forays into humanoid robotics or whatever, to the point that I wouldn
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Surely you realize that police states exist to protect the ones on top, and have no incentive to give a shit about the ones on the bottom.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
You need to recalibrate your bullshit sensor, because that statement from Tesla is clearly a farce.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> In less than 10 years there’s going to be millions of bipedal robots everywhere No, there won't be, and I have no clue why you think this is true. It's been more than 15 years since the first demos of self-driving cars, a
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Same here. I guess "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx12345" made it easy for Satoshi to remember, though.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Surely you must realize that the fuel for nuclear power plants is not more freely available than sunlight. In the event of "all out nuclear war or asteroid hit", you're not getting those shipments from Kazakhstan.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> Sure, though most of the time it's library-only, not language change While this distinction is often useful, here we have to think about it from the perspective of users: you press the button to upgrade your toolchain, and code

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