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by kqr 6mo ago
It does not. Even if different teams write software in different languages, they end up creating very similar bugs because the bugs crop up in the complexities of the domain and insufficiencies of the specification. N-version programming do
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by kqr 6mo ago
For issues that have never occurred before, probabilities are the wrong tool. The right thing to do is list all the behaviour the vehicle must never exhibit and think of ways it still might, despite all redundancies -- maybe even despite ev
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by kqr 6mo ago
Those are called tifo. Tifosi are the people doing the holding.
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by kqr 6mo ago
Yes. That's what the author means by > There is a closed-form solution, but only if you extend “closed-form” to mean more than the elementary functions a student would see in a calculus class.
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by kqr 6mo ago
I know this is the joke, and I know Evil is the jokey reply, but ... both sides of the joke carry a grain of truth, as good jokes do. I know a lot of people become comfortable with the default editing tools in Emacs, and many of them are go
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by kqr 6mo ago
How do you nixify your Emacs configuration? I've looked into it but at the time the advice was to specify dependencies both in Nix and in .emacs.d, which seemed redundant to me. Is there something like callCabal2Nix for Emacs? Edit: Or
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by kqr 6mo ago
Is this your site? I cannot find an RSS feed for it. I'd like to subscribe.
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by kqr 6mo ago
Emacs is primarily a platform for developing Lisp applications. Lisp applications are immensely hackable, meaning an Emacs configuration can be tailored in detail to specific desires. There is also an ecosystem of applications for Emacs tha
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by kqr 6mo ago
My advice is to use a base, vanilla Emacs for a little while to learn where its boundaries go, before installing a bunch of modes. That makes it easier to troubleshoot problems later.
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by kqr 6mo ago
Evil is a tried-and-true Vim implementation that doesn't use Vimscript!
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by kqr 6mo ago
Why not both? Evil is a reimplementation of Vim in Emacs and it is great.
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by kqr 6mo ago
You can type /phrase and then press ctrl-F for the full search bar. A more annoying problem is that some websites capture / presses, making it harder to initiate a page search. Then you have to shift-esc ctrl-f to search.
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by kqr 6mo ago
The previous post alludes to Evil being the long term plan. That seems sensible: it ought to be easier to use an implementation of Vim in Emacs rather than port much of Emacs to independent applications. Yet the author ended up doing the la
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by kqr 6mo ago
It was never that great, it seems. For all of 2025 there was virtually no improvement in the rate at which models produced quality code. They only got better at passing automated tests. https://entropicthoughts.com/no-swe-be
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by kqr 6mo ago
I have worked on similar problems. See e.g. [1]. The LLMs I have tested have terrible world models and intuitions for how actions change the environment. They're also not great at discerning and pursuing the right goals. They're l
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by kqr 6mo ago
I didn't explicitly ask but interpreting my comment as a question was the right thing to do. Thanks, I'll see what my local second hand market says about your suggestions.
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by kqr 6mo ago
Inside information is not the same as causing the outcome. I knew my previous employer was getting acquired before the markets did -- I had inside information -- but I had no way to make the deal go through. Revealing inside information thr
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by kqr 6mo ago
Ah. My wife isn't very interested and my children are just at the age where they can accept a slightly more complicated snakes and ladders[1] but they would not be able to do anything meaningful in Ticket to Ride yet. Looking forward t
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by kqr 6mo ago
If only playing board games didn't require colocating several friends for a non-trivial span of time... Everyone around me (including myself!) is busy with work, children, partner, running their household, and exercising. How do people
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by kqr 6mo ago
The author uses hexyl as an example of trying, but not doing it right.
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by kqr 6mo ago
As a child and adolescent I always imagined that something would click when I became an adult and I would become good at things and understand the world. That never happened, and then I realised it never happens for anyone. We're all j
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by kqr 6mo ago
In the 1970s computer systems spanned fewer orders of magnitude. Operations generally took somewhere between maybe 1 and 10^8 CPU cycles. Today, the range is closer to 10^-1 to 10^13.
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by kqr 6mo ago
The conspiratory reason would be that copy-paste errors give plausible deniability of ill intent.
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by kqr 6mo ago
On the other hand, any time a hypothesis appears significant, the first reaction should be to verify that all the data going into the calculation is correct, rather than just assume it is. In my day-to-day industry experience, significant
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by kqr 6mo ago
I actually did that recently, but only at low sample rate so I don't qualify for bonus points. (My purpose was filtering to get at underlying patterns. Found what I expected but not much more.)
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by kqr 6mo ago
What's their spectrum?
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Snakes and Ladders(entropicthoughts.com)
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by kqr 6mo ago
The ESS package in Emacs has also had several of these features for R for a long time. The difference here is portability and generality. Tree-sitter is a partial solution to the n×m problem, and now R has been invited to participate in tha
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by kqr 6mo ago
I only dabble in data analysis. I scratch the surface of what R can do, and my most complicated analysis fits in 100 or so lines of code I manage manually rather than with the help of tools like targets. What sort of work do you do where yo
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by kqr 6mo ago
> A product gets good reviews in Consumer Reports or the Wire Cutter or reddit, and the company making it knows they're gonna sell a ton of them, so they start cutting corners I think this is true, but for far less malicious reasons

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