klibertp

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by klibertp 3mo ago
> Have you seen Zardoz? Oh, yes! Just once, but Connery, in just underpants and boots, battling some surreal head-shaped apparitions, is something I won't ever forget. I have no idea what the plot was about - but that's OK, bec
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by klibertp 3mo ago
> How pessimistic you are on this subject depends on how much you believe in domain transfer for these tools. I tried to force various LLMs to generate many strange languages for the past 3 years. From Raku to Smalltalk, to Common Lisp a
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by klibertp 3mo ago
That other post is just plain wrong. LLMs are just about the only thing that can meaningfully benefit from having access to almost all the code your environment is built from. If you're on Linux, the agents not only have all that code
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by klibertp 3mo ago
You're probably not paying nearly enough? IDK, but pricing in tech is stretched on both ends (either way too cheap, or incredibly expensive) so much that it's hard to say anything for sure just because one is a "paying custom
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by klibertp 3mo ago
Too late to edit, I watched the talk. Really well-researched and entertainingly told story. I'd say games are a bit special, though. Smalltalk works pretty well in interactive applications - while it's true that encapsulation is a
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by klibertp 3mo ago
This comment was dead for some reason; I vouched for it. Casey Muratori is a well-known developer with a GUI/game engine background, which gives him a valuable perspective on OOP. In both domains, OOP is both popular and problematic ,
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by klibertp 4mo ago
> Lua as implemented by LuaJIT is a fork of the language at this point. Lua is strange. Lua 5.2 was more of a "fork of the language" than LuaJIT, at the time. 5.3 and 5.4 (especially the latter) changed even more. Lua looks lik
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by klibertp 4mo ago
This: var ary = [1,2,3,4]; //Array style declaration, syntax sugar for {} Is not a good idea. I tried using Haxe with Lua target at some point - the mismatch between what you think you get with [], and what you actually g
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by klibertp 4mo ago
> but then that means other companies would appear in those other countries offering the AI inference service. That might actually be the goal. A more fragmented market would mean each participant has less money, so they would try to wat
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by klibertp 4mo ago
It happens; sometimes it's a misclick, sometimes some automated filter. You can 'vouch' for such comments if you go into that comment's details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671561 - in this ca
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by klibertp 4mo ago
> how do you handle that It looks like (please correct me, OP, if I'm wrong) it works the other way around: you use sized int types in Nimic code, and their semantics are emulated on the Python side. See here: https://git
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by klibertp 4mo ago
> That, or maybe you could adjust your worldview, and realise that religious fanatism has been a pretty strong motivator for atrocities throughout history But I do agree! I'm not trying to say that religion (and culture, more broadl
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by klibertp 4mo ago
> By historical standard, over the last 10000 years prosperity, democracy and peace have hardly been the norm, don't you think? Agreed! From my own reading (not a specialist), for example, in Europe, there were only a handful of yea
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by klibertp 4mo ago
> The typical "They hate us because our bad policies" does not explain why every empire (western or not) has had to contend with dissenters It's interesting that you actually wrote down in this sentence the very explanatio
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by klibertp 4mo ago
About as many as bad terrorist groups that began due to catastrophically bad decisions of leaders in the West. I'm sorry to break it to you - the plural you - but all the terrorists that are not traditionally domestic (local leftist&#x
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by klibertp 4mo ago
A singular human does (or tends to). Humans as a group, where members join and leave a group with time, also do learn, but at a much slower pace - over the years to decades timeframe. "X things programmers should know about Y" i
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by klibertp 4mo ago
When I first tried to get a job, I listed three categories of skills: the ones I'm very confident in, the ones I have some experience with, and the niche ones I only dabbled in. The overwhelming advice, from everyone around me, was to
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by klibertp 4mo ago
You're either sarcastic or you missed all of: a) this being in italics, b) this being in quotes, c) this being the only LLM pattern in the post, d) this being quoted explicitly as an LLM marker. Good job in both cases, I guess.
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by klibertp 4mo ago
He's the guy from FOOF[1]! I didn't immediately make the connection, thanks. Yeah, that series was kind of fun, even if it kind of reinforced my layman understanding that all chemists are explosion nerds :D [1] https://
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by klibertp 4mo ago
The fact that politics controls businesses there might lead to, but doesn't necessarily ensure, a "brighter future". It's pretty common knowledge that authoritarian regimes can, especially in extreme, disastrous situatio
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by klibertp 4mo ago
Well, it's the kind of "meditative" you get when training martial arts forms. It gets good after a few years of preparation; before that, it's not as fun as spars and way less useful than general conditioning. Coming fro
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by klibertp 4mo ago
> Because it's really limited and not expressive? It's neither of those unless you limit yourself to a lowest-common-denominator feature set. GNU Make, for example, is a Turing-complete, dynamic programming language and a CLI t
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by klibertp 4mo ago
I'm sorry for your relative, and of course you should always do things like driving (diving, cycling, sailing, climbing - or even cooking and cleaning) as if a tiny mistake could cost you everything: that's because it's act
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by klibertp 4mo ago
> Maybe I don't remember how to stitch something together, but i know it can be done. That's how I use the current AI, too. I never ask them to do something without specifying how it should be done. I ask questions first, use &
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by klibertp 4mo ago
Ok, but given that there are no license terms anywhere (not in the .zip with the code, and I don't think there is one on the web page), you also can't say that this particular license disallows modification. The terms are simply n
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by klibertp 4mo ago
> Some US highways I'm sorry, but from a European perspective, this is the problem, not bikes. If your roads and driving culture encourage driving a tank for safety, that's a bit less than ideal. I commuted to work for 5 year
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by klibertp 4mo ago
Probably depends on the locale. In Europe, riding a moped in a big city is a way to drastically cut your commute compared to driving a car. It's not exactly dangerous when all the other road users are moving at 5m/min, and being a
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by klibertp 4mo ago
I'm not going to blame you _too_ much, since I had similar suspicion, but you could have (as I did) just downloaded the .zip file and examined the contents. In the shareware version, some things are probably missing (I think not all th
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by klibertp 4mo ago
> Errors are often simply swallowed. That's a bit of a misrepresentation. Error handling on the BEAM has a few more layers than in other environments; specifically, the supervision tree can be used to "let things fail". Th
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by klibertp 4mo ago
> Elixir is having to handle (possibly) hundreds of thousands of processes OMG, why? Why would you ever have so many processes? All of them at the same time? Are you going to animate a 3D scene and run a process for each vertex, or som

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