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   by kitd 4y ago

   I'm more interested in what happens when Google do decide to shut down Bard: "I'm sorry Sergei. I can't let you do that."
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   by kitd 4y ago

   Well, except that VB didn't become popular simply by being shipped by default on millions of Windows desktops. It earned it's popularity by scratching a huge itch (at the time).
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   by kitd 4y ago

   Excel is another amazing piece of software, that is almost universally looked down upon by programmers. I read somewhere that there are 10 x more Excel "programmers" in the world than programmers for all other languages put toge
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   by kitd 4y ago

   Java had green threads in v1.0.
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   by kitd 4y ago

   Another technique is used at Elmer Beach in the UK. Rock breakwaters are built with gaps between them. This means that the natural movements of sediment with the tides fills up the space behind them, ie between them and the shoreline. They
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   Daily Mirror publisher Reach reveals AI is already writing articles(standard.co.uk)

   3 points by kitd 4y ago|0 comments
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   by kitd 4y ago

   Good job. As an alternative view though, one of the nice things about Go, or specifically the http part of the stdlib, is that it composes well with libraries and middleware like Chi or Negroni. So rather than having to conform to an all-en
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   by kitd 4y ago

   The Duke of Wellington's address, Apsley House, was famously: 1, London Funny story: Back in the 1950s, my father went on a rugby tour to the Soviet Union. One of his team mates wrote a postcard back to his mum with an address of: Mrs
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   by kitd 4y ago

   Template metaprogramming facilities have a reputation for being a very powerful tool if used judiciously. If overused, they can lead to over-complexity though. And a template system that is as easy to use as D's might encourage overuse
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    by kitd 4y ago

    D too. D templates are dangerously easy to use.
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    by kitd 4y ago

    Not an expert, but your comparisons need to be apples-to-apples. An expert-tuned C# impl v a naive Nim impl isn't a good benchmark.
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    by kitd 4y ago

    > Americksland This reminds me (a Welshman) of my favourite theory for the origin of the name "America": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Amerike
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    by kitd 4y ago

    I wonder if there's any connection with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34950465
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    by kitd 4y ago

    Thanks, looks like you're right. FWIW, there's a brief history here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32651557/golang-main-dif...
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    by kitd 4y ago

    FWIW, Go's channels were largely inspired by similar facilities in Occam.
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    by kitd 4y ago

    I don't think the suggestion is that they _never_ do big-picture thinking, only that they concentrate on the current task. The wider view can be addressed in retrospectives.
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    by kitd 4y ago

    Yes! When you lie on your deathbed, will you say "I wish I'd spent more time at the office"?
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    by kitd 4y ago

    OTOH, that input is messy because it is "only" humans dealing with it. If the imperative to enable AI in clerical work gets stronger, there will be an equally strong imperative to clean up the data.
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    by kitd 4y ago

    Predictions like this tend not to take into account societal or cultural responses. If AI-sourced information becomes devalued, media, both social and mainstream, might see appreciation among the public for human-sourced information, and re
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    by kitd 4y ago

    The guys who built that sand wall deserve a raise. Saved severe damage to property and possibly a few lives.
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    by kitd 4y ago

    They had to dredge Portsmouth Harbour to accommodate the new QE2-class aircraft carriers. Almost every week it seemed work had to stop and the area evacuated because they kept pulling up unexploded ordnance, Portsmouth being the home of the
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    by kitd 4y ago

    The "love fades" quote comes from the Adweek piece about Watson and is not directly attributable to Rubin or any IBMer. There's little reason to believe that was one of the main themes that Watson took from Dylan's work.
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    by kitd 4y ago

    Oops, apologies to her.
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    by kitd 4y ago

    I'd imagine it's the Berkeley Packet Filter which underpins tcpdump, but he got distracted half way through? Filter rules syntax is here: https://biot.com/capstats/bpf.html
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    by kitd 4y ago

    Yup, that's the guy.
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    by kitd 4y ago

    Reddit had fun with this story. One guy was posting daily images of a small metal capsule he'd found, wondering what it was. Everyday the image deteriorated a bit, and he described feeling sicker. Comments were along the lines of &quot
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    by kitd 4y ago

    This reminds of "Argue well by losing" [1]. The purpose of debate shouldn't be to win or lose, but to reach consensus. In addition, the ancients of the classical world regarded "Rhetoric" (ie the ability to debate)
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    by kitd 4y ago

    I have sometimes wondered whether a sufficiently advanced AI could measure a proposed piece of legislation against a constitution/bill of rights/"mission statement", and provide a score to show how likely it is to confor
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    by kitd 4y ago

    My parents watched this. It was a running joke in our family when I was young, about going out to the woods to get the spaghetti for lunch.
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    by kitd 4y ago

    Oh, the inhumanity