kragen

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by kragen 5d ago
I haven't used this radio, but I have definitely used a 2.4-kilobit-per-second internet connection productively. Raw TCP/IP with SLIP or PPP will work, and with VJ header compression it works reasonably well. What won't wor
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by kragen 5d ago
If you wouldn't call them “absolutely critical” I wouldn't call you a typographer.
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by kragen 5d ago
A lot of them are typographic in nature rather than manuscript.
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by kragen 6d ago
ASCII is, as people have pointed out, a 7-bit code, so it can hold only 128 characters. When they added _ and ^ to it in 01967, they had to remove the ← and ↑ characters from ASCII-1963⁂. So there was no space for any of the characters —–
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by kragen 6d ago
It's a brilliant hack. It means that when you're dealing with valid UTF-8 strings, various kinds of string relationships enjoy a homomorphism between byte strings and Unicode strings. Specifically, where S and T are Unicode st
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by kragen 6d ago
I like being right so much that, when I'm wrong, I change my mind , despite how embarrassing that is.
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by kragen 8d ago
It sounds like you aren't very familiar with the research on tobacco addiction. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002204260203200220 https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-3-heal
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by kragen 8d ago
Hacker News makes me so sad sometimes. What you perceive as naïveté is a kind of world-weariness that goes deeper than you can possibly imagine. It turns out that kindness is not in fact naïve. It is the only reasonable response to the hu
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by kragen 9d ago
I hope you do, because I'd love to read it!
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by kragen 9d ago
I do enjoy fucking, but I don't think I have the emotional bandwidth to fuck everyone . I think you have misunderstood my comment. I don't know very much about how other people are using AI, or what effect it's having on th
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by kragen 9d ago
Being on the front page means it's engaging. It doesn't mean it's valuable. The actual value of many front-page posts is negative.
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by kragen 9d ago
We're not just sliding towards environmental catastrophe — we're deep into it! Ocean acidification is killing corals, we just had the hottest month in recorded history, mass refugee movements from climate disasters are fueling xe
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by kragen 9d ago
One thing I may try this week is typing in all the code myself. With the level of back and forth that I've been happy with so far, Claude Pro seems to only be able to produce about 1000 lines of code a day in two or three five-hour se
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by kragen 9d ago
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole.
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by kragen 9d ago
Although I could be wrong about this, I suspect you still need them, for the reasons I've described in this thread.
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by kragen 9d ago
I mentioned the minimal proof assistant I elicited last night. When Fable 5.1 thought it was done, I asked how we knew the prover was sound (which means, in the jargon, that the theorems that it proves are actually true). It checked and i
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by kragen 9d ago
No, thank God.
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by kragen 9d ago
While we're talking about Americans using anything but the metric system ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746745 ), how many golf courses' worth of water is Google's 10.9 billion "gallons" a y
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by kragen 9d ago
I'm guessing you've written a well-thought-out, clearly expressed blog post about this that I would absolutely love to read, if only I knew where it was.
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by kragen 9d ago
It's definitely been a hobby project so far , but suddenly its quality has improved a great deal, which I think greatly improves its chances of graduating to being a daily driver.
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by kragen 9d ago
I don't know, maybe? I think it's opened the doors to a lot of people who don't really want to program, but do want, for example, a studio appointment booking management system. Which is good; people's needs matter j
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by kragen 9d ago
Oh, I definitely feel a strong pull toward the low-effort path of just letting the AI do everything. It's so much better than I am at writing code, after all! This code it wrote for me is beautiful! But it makes terrible mistakes
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by kragen 9d ago
Well, for example, in one afternoon, I have a parsing engine to understand, which is 9 pages of code. I thought I knew OCaml, having written a few interpreters in it, but I didn't know the {foo| |foo} multiline string syntax, I didn&#
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by kragen 9d ago
It just seems like a lot of hate resulting from dysfunctional responses to life circumstances — admittedly, probably pretty bad life circumstances, from the sound of it. Spreading hate online, especially accompanied by lies as in this case
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by kragen 9d ago
It's helpful to put this number in context, although if the people you're talking to will do anything to avoid using the metric system, that becomes much more difficult. Fortunately, now we have computers, which are great at unit
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by kragen 9d ago
This doesn't seem like a well-thought-out post. I mean, I probably could have told you that from the fact that it's either pro-AI or anti-AI (in this case the latter), but this is a particularly poorly thought out post. Others h
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by kragen 10d ago
I think the Wayback Machine offers an official API for bots to call.
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by kragen 10d ago
Ultramodernist glass-skinned skyscrapers have to cover their glass walls with mirror-reflective film to keep out the majority of the natural light. Otherwise, they are solar ovens. A 2.6 m × 3 m office outside wall facing east or west bec
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by kragen 10d ago
Apple hardware is glass-surfaced featureless rectangular parallelepipeds very similar to the glass-surfaced featureless rectangular parallelepiped skyscrapers that this article is decrying. The main difference is that Apple hardware has ro
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by kragen 10d ago
To set the scenario, we're talking about the orbits which ball bearings would end up in if you had a cardboard box full of ball bearings in a stable, circular low Earth orbit, and you set off an explosive in the middle of the box to sc

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