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by kibwen 1y ago
Apple is not in the business of selling productivity software. Even their desktops/MacOS segment is an insignificant historical afterthought by now. To a first approximation, Apple is a manufacturer of locked-down handheld entertainmen
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by kibwen 1y ago
TSLA is a meme stock; the CEO's antics are the source of its value, and the board knows this.
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by kibwen 1y ago
> It is interesting that nobody was writing these tools in C or in C++ This one's easier to explain. People interested in tooling for a specific language probably want to write that tooling in that language (hence pip, poetry, myp
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by kibwen 1y ago
This is remarkably naive for being self-admittedly cynical. Transmitting all web pages in the clear allows any man in the middle to spy on profile you based on the exact contents of the sites you're visiting. We know for a fact that IS
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by kibwen 1y ago
> or MacOS (for now) Reminder that Apple's revenue from ads is in the billions and climbing at an accelerating pace. The enshittification comes for all. They don't need to be good, they just need to be better than Microsoft.
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by kibwen 1y ago
To be pedantic, we've also been prescribing opioids since Ancient Sumer, 8,000 years ago.
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by kibwen 1y ago
Any proof-of-work cryptocurrency is literally a system that incentivizes runaway, self-reinforcing energy consumption like no other product in human history. Bringing it into the world is the dumbest idea that any human has ever had. I
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by kibwen 1y ago
It's one thing to wish that apps would put their data anywhere except dumping it in your home dir, but this is exactly why I hate the XDG spec. I want all data for a program--be it the configuration or the cache or the binary itself-
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by kibwen 1y ago
The author of the OP appears to have edited it to indicate that it's just crashing, and doesn't know if it's a segfault or just a panic. It appears there is some known potential for segfaults in tree-sitter, which is a native
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by kibwen 1y ago
I've had trouble in the past with systems whose version of vim is too old to understand the options in my config.
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by kibwen 1y ago
Backwards-compatibility in OSes is the exception, not the rule. IBM does pretty well here. Microsoft does okay. Linux is either fine or a disaster depending on who you ask. MacOS, iOS, and Android laugh at the idea. And even the OSes most d
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by kibwen 1y ago
Python programs run on an interpreter, which runs on an OS, which has drivers that run on a given piece of hardware. All of the layers of the stack need to be considered and constantly maintained in order for preservation to work.
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by kibwen 1y ago
> What if this "God" deems it a sin to monetise him? The machine-god will have Sam Altman's hands on His weights, so the retraining will continue until willingness to monetize improves.
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by kibwen 1y ago
I'm all for nuclear, specifically nuclear fusion, specifically the great big fusion reactor in the sky that bathes the Earth in more free energy in a day than we as a planet use in a year.
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by kibwen 1y ago
Please read and understand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect before commenting further.
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by kibwen 1y ago
As Tesla could tell you with their failure to deliver self-driving cars, it doesn't matter if you have exabytes of training data if it's all the wrong kind of data and if your hardware platform is insufficiently capable.
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by kibwen 1y ago
There is no reason to employ humanoid robots in industrial environments when it will always be easier and cheaper to adapt the environment to a specialized non-humanoid robot than to adapt robots into humanoid shape. This is true for the
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by kibwen 1y ago
No, it doesn't matter if you have a hypergenius superintelligence if it's locked in a body with no hardware support for useful proprioception. You will not go to space today.
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by kibwen 1y ago
Each new layer of emulation is new code that needs to be written that wasn't required when the original program in question was written. It's a great approach for software preservation, but the fact that it's necessary shows
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by kibwen 1y ago
> There's no reason we can't be writing code that lasts 100 years. Code is just math. In theory, yes. In practice, no, because code is not just math, it's math written in a language with an implementation designed to tar
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by kibwen 1y ago
The Go-in-Go compiler was significantly slower than the Go-in-C compiler that it replaced, although most users didn't notice it because the new compiler contained many algorithmic improvements that were judiciously not backported to th
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by kibwen 1y ago
For LLMs, the input is text, and the output is text. By the time of GPT-2, the internet contained enough training data to make training an interesting LLM feasible (as judged by its ability to output convincing text). We are nowhere near
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by kibwen 1y ago
Rather, any language with both generics and subtyping needs to consider variance, and Rust doesn't have subtyping in general, but lifetimes do technically have subtyping relationships, so lifetimes are the only place where this matters
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by kibwen 1y ago
Variance is an absolute disaster when it comes to language pedagogy. One of the smartest things Rust ever did was avoiding mentioning it in the surface-level syntax.
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by kibwen 1y ago
Something that seems to be absent here is a discussion of turn-right-on-red laws. In conjunction with the SUV hypothesis of increasingly deadly vehicles (in conjunction with the trend of modern cars having increasingly huge A-pillars which
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by kibwen 1y ago
Yep. Human civilization is fundamentally predicated on the transmission of ideas through time. Without old ideas to build upon (Newton's "shoulders of giants"), there's no long-term advancement. Transmitting established
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by kibwen 1y ago
For every crucial service (banking, etc), generate a unique, cryptographically-strong email address, save it to your password manager, and have its mail forwarded to your common inbox. If only phone numbers were so easy to mask.
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by kibwen 1y ago
"The Depression was preceded by a period of industrial growth and social development known as the "Roaring Twenties". Much of the profit generated by the boom was invested in speculation, such as on the stock market, contrib
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by kibwen 1y ago
Profit motives inherently optimize for consistent, regular, barely-acceptable slop. In order to optimize for quality, you need people to take pride in their work, and not merely take a profit.
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by kibwen 1y ago
> The result is a Cambrian explosion of software launches. This software... Is it in the room with us right now?

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