klyrs

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by klyrs 2y ago
Been there, done that. The real challenge is not implementing a non-trivial macro; it's coming back to that non-trivial macro a week later.
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by klyrs 2y ago
> Work that we're used to offloading to syntax is instead carried by your brain. Kinda like the challenge to eating salad is all the chewing. It's not just that the brain needs to parse a lot more language to express a simple
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by klyrs 2y ago
Oh, but we were talking about the selection of the President of the United States. If that clause is truly about the state and not the whole of the country, then it isn't about the President.
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by klyrs 2y ago
From your link, the definition of a Republican Form of Government is elaborated... > It is ESSENTIAL to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of
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by klyrs 2y ago
I see your organ trade study and raise you a billion dollar VC to turn kidneys into penis enlargement powder, buying at a rate that prices out the majority of dialysis patients.
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by klyrs 2y ago
He's literally The Rock. He's not gonna throw his fam
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by klyrs 2y ago
It's an interesting question. I'm reading article II of the constitution and I'm not finding text to directly support your claim. To the contrary, the "lazy justice" practice of textualism indicates that each Stat
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by klyrs 2y ago
I'm not sure I see a story without the pedantry. Or, perhaps, the only fun in this story is the pedantry? (Sorry, should have prefaced this, "well actually"
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by klyrs 2y ago
Your point rather misses the mark. Your vector<int*> is a red herring. The distinction I'm making is between passing a (vector<int>)* and a vector<int>, because those two objects have radically different sizes, and t
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by klyrs 2y ago
To elaborate on a point of 0xfaded's comment, the "12 of 13 possible pairs" is the crux of the solution. And when I solved this as a budding math student, I found two solutions -- I first, laboriously, worked top-down and ca
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by klyrs 2y ago
You're talking about pointers but calling them references. I'm sorry, but no, the terminology is not "dead" you're just contributing to confusion.
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by klyrs 2y ago
> I think the right mental model is pass-by-value for the first two. There is nothing different in the calling convention between sending a parameter of type int* vs a parameter of type int. You're talking about parameters of type i
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by klyrs 2y ago
Why do CEO salaries keep beating inflation while the rest of us aren't? See money, take money.
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by klyrs 2y ago
It's hard to take such a conspiracy theory credibly. Police are consistently conservative with a strong authoritarian bent. Even in so-called "blue" cities, cops vote Trump. Thin blue line, defund, all that. To suppose tha
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by klyrs 2y ago
Right. Passing pointers is much cheaper than passing values of large structures. And then references are an abstraction over pointers that allow further compile-time optimization in languages that support it. Pass-by-value, pass-by-point
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by klyrs 2y ago
They tried, it roused the snooze mob
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by klyrs 2y ago
Oh hey that's my mom-in-law!
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by klyrs 2y ago
Is copying huge blocks of data free in 2024? My benchmarks suggest otherwise, and the world still needs assembly programmers.
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by klyrs 2y ago
No, I get that. But that's the thing about LLMs, isn't it? They're good at filling in the next token to make a plausible-looking conversation. And if the machine doesn't expect you to be done talking, why would it not
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by klyrs 2y ago
I bet you could write that article, regardless of programming experience, and tell a compelling story. Different people share different parts of themselves online, and I think that's okay.
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by klyrs 2y ago
I'd characterize the original comment as a cynical accusation of shilling, so I'm quite curious what you read as "spite" in mine. Must I point out that I, too, use external resources whilst programming?
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by klyrs 2y ago
> Not to be negative or anything but [pure shade] I'm gonna bet that my mom has had a website since before you were born*. She was taking fortran classes in the 60s. Your ageist attitude is pretty gross. So what if she had help
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by klyrs 2y ago
Did anybody with a passing familiarity with the technology not know this? There's a reason people don't trust their IP to public chat assistants, ya know. It's because they're remorselessly siphoning our data for t
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by klyrs 2y ago
Were you there at the time? Because I was a big computer nerd at the time, huffing all the OS/OS fumes I could get my grubby little hands on. Windows 3 had already won the game -- and that was when non-computer-nerds were asking th
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by klyrs 2y ago
Do you hate capitalism and apple pie?
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by klyrs 2y ago
> Doing math on the internet is always dangerous. Only if you see correctness as a thing to be avoided. In my experience, being Wrong On The Internet is the fastest way to get something proofread.
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by klyrs 2y ago
My kid's into the old movies I show him but I only pick classics like Princess Bride and Neverending Story that are pretty much timeless, and also terrible B-movies where the oldness makes it even better.
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by klyrs 2y ago
Why stop at social science? I say we make a questionnaire, give it to the GPT over a broad range of sampling temperatures, and collect the resulting score:temperature data. From that dataset, we can take people's temperatures over th
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by klyrs 2y ago
To be fair these people are in the "rewrite it without rust" camp Edit: or dare I say, safer than rust?
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by klyrs 2y ago
> Ukrainians always insisted what they are fighting to protect the homeland. Sorry, what do you think Russia has been up to these last two years? Just playing tiddlywinks along the border? They invaded a country with their army. And n

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