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by kubanczyk 7mo ago
> Everyone updates their belief Uh oh. How does frequentist model define "belief" and "updating a belief"?
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by kubanczyk 7mo ago
Companies (C-suites) do not actually want for their worker pool (humans + agents) to stay constant in time, there is no reason for it to stay constant in time. C-suites have very different worries. And "cost center" is a lie from
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by kubanczyk 7mo ago
I call out false dilemma. OP probably defines "code" as one of the languages precise enough to be suited for steering Turing machines. Thus, "code" is not the opposite of "prompt". They are apples and oranges.
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by kubanczyk 7mo ago
It's how a middle manager can improve its standing, so the Junior will be a thing in bigger orgs for quite a while.
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
Useful enough to justify registering on HN. Thank you!
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
Yeah. Maybe we only need: BATCH=yes (default is no) --batch (default is --no-batch) for the unusual case when you do want the `route print` on a BGP router to actually dump 8 gigabytes of text throughout next 2 minutes. May
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
It's a binary consideration if you think of it rather than hexadecimal. If you have to prominently represent 10 things in binary, then it's neat to allocate slot of size 16 and pad the remaining 6 items. Which is to say it's
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
> read online: https://www.readanybook.com/online/641149#458432 "Gitterton denied everything, claiming that the Computer was simply hallucinating—which does indeed on occasion happen to our senior automata.&quo
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
Yes, actually car rentals is the only reason why I still keep a credit card. I vastly prefer that to any kind of insurance. Probably merchants like Netflix would also love recurring payment functionality. Let's just hope they'll m
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
> In the US, when people hear Mastercard or Visa, they usually associate that with a credit card (virtual or physical), meaning the money is not taken directly from your bank account. You pay the balance later, which gives you credit and
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
Third party escrow, if you explicitly used one. There's no free lunch.
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
> Maybe this is a case of East, South, and West Europe being treated differently. Just my pet peeve, but say Central Europe here, not East. Unless of course you mean Ukraine or Kazachstan. Referring to old Iron Curtain is refueling the a
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
Interesting, even if tad too wordy. Shows a few details new to me.
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
> what's your take on "Parse, Don't Validate" Always aspire to that. Translating that to Go conventions, the constructor has to have signature like: func NewT() (T, error) { ... } Such signatures ex
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
Yes. But crackpots are still vital. Let me put it this way. Once upon a time people didn't know about solar eclipse. But then a day came when a certain somebody was instantly promoted to a Lead Staff Senior Astronomer, just because the
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by kubanczyk 8mo ago
> The thinkers of the day rightfully saw a conceptual shift with no apparent advantage and several additional costs. I'm holding a big fat Citation Needed banner. Seemingly none of these "thinkers of the day" took it far
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by kubanczyk 9mo ago
Nice. I love the sense of humor of the motivational quotes. Immediately after inscribing a circle in a square: " You can't fit a round peg into a square hole. (American proverb)"
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by kubanczyk 9mo ago
The page has been archived with a popup obscuring the main point of the text about Papua New Guinea. This rule in uBlock Origin cleans it up for me: ##article > div:nth-of-type(1) > div
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by kubanczyk 9mo ago
This lacks any middle ground. I mean, is world divided between adversaries and allies? Are assumptions either valid or invalid? Are humans either "fundamentally virtuous" or "without morality"? Such crude model doesn&#x2
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by kubanczyk 9mo ago
> Flying over a war zone with known anti aircraft missiles is quite different to flying over a low level conflict that is using small arms only. What was in the news at the time, and the news are still linked from https://en.w
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by kubanczyk 9mo ago
In abstract terms capitalism doesn't depend on scarcity? Capitalism as in centralisation of the means of production (even when there is no human labor anymore).
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by kubanczyk 9mo ago
"Convincing others" is a serious problem on its own, and it's okay to let someone else handle it full-time.
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by kubanczyk 9mo ago
Yeah, somehow Latin-based languages prefer the opposite direction of the activity of liking, so it's better to formulate it initially as: this book appeals to me, those books appeal to him, ... Opposite as in: "You borrow me X. I
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by kubanczyk 9mo ago
This threw me moderately off my chair.
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by kubanczyk 9mo ago
> imbued with a GPL style license GPL died. Licenses died. Exnation: LLMs were trained also on GPL code. The fact that all the previously-paranoid businesses that used to warn SWEs not to touch GPL code with a ten foot pole are now fearl
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by kubanczyk 9mo ago
It sounds as if you are filing a complaint, but I'm afraid chargebacks are out of question. You have been scammed and given a non-perfect generation to live in.
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by kubanczyk 10mo ago
Being able to read Stanisław Lem in original I'd consider possibly the biggest perk.
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by kubanczyk 10mo ago
> This is a clear non-sequitur. Whether or not the situation is zero-sum is dictated by the situation not by the actions of people Yes. But a first-line manager more often than not is just another human being caught in the system rather
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by kubanczyk 10mo ago
An LLM tool that can sit on a CI pipeline to propose what tests should be blocking. Instead of brute-force method of selecting the appropriate test suites by path or similar, have LLM analyze changes and propose the set of test suites that
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by kubanczyk 10mo ago
> Well that's the point of the exercises I suggest - to learn recursion :-/ Then we must have been talking past each other. We are considering this problem here: >> I never took affinity to computer science/math, but

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