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by kzrdude 4mo ago
That's a perfect use case for an LLM: grammar-aware find and replace (spicy find and replace.)
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by kzrdude 4mo ago
Yeah I think it's very immature and borderline, at least in rearview mirror. After going through I came back to this tame comic which was the one I remember I actually got a kick out of as really funny back then: https://www
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by kzrdude 4mo ago
Greenspan was also the subject in the weird comics "h4x0r economist"/"haxor economist", which thankfully still live on since its early internet days https://www.rdwarf.com/users/kioh/ (NS
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by kzrdude 4mo ago
There are 5 different levels and 20 words per level. I think it was ok, just hold out for it if you think it is fun.
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by kzrdude 4mo ago
It is fun how in computer science terms, TeX and Typst are so incredibly far apart. TeX is a macro language that could be implemented in very little memory, while Typst literally memoizes every typst function's result; to the point whe
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by kzrdude 4mo ago
If the rest of the tweet is ai-generated, why not the picture? In fact, if you ask me, I think the tweet's picture is semi-real; I trust the computer history museum to have the original and the tweet has an AI-upscaled photo with artif
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by kzrdude 4mo ago
I like good quality coffee. But I also need my coffee: I'll drink whatever quality coffee is being offered, as long as it's the best I can get that morning.
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by kzrdude 4mo ago
The picture appears to be real, if we trust this source: https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/january/6/
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by kzrdude 4mo ago
I fear that the availability of e-books will lead to more libraries getting rid of their last copy, not just the penultimate one.
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by kzrdude 4mo ago
I picked up a fun university library discard the other day (month). This one is about Lunar geology. The concept of the book is so inspiring to me: "it's 1975, we brought home a lot of samples from the moon now; so what did we lea
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by kzrdude 4mo ago
Much of the mundane world - tv, bus stops, and so on seems to have ads. While in my nerd domain, my computer, I don't see ads at all. So it would seem that open source software is letting me live without ads on the internet, from home.
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
That's a better score than I'd give my own thinking.
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
A 'lede' is just an intentionally differentiated spelling of 'lead'; the origin of the word is just lead . Collins dictionary defines lede: a variant spelling of lead
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
I think Karpathy's microgpt blogpost is the best in this genre in a long time, and it also includes a multi layer perceptron. It's a step up in the hierarchy, so reading both is helpful, of course. https://karpathy.gith
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
The short answer is that CPython didn't want to break compatibility with lots and lots and lots of Python modules implemented in C, so it was never viable to let PyPy seamlessly replace CPython.
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
It has a bad reputation but judging books by their cover is increasingly useful.
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
I think that's why pen and paper is such a good tool for thinking. :)
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
The JIT project already lost a lot of momentum when the people working on it lost their jobs (at Microsoft)..
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
We could tell, if someone did independent work of reviewing a sample of the contributions and recent changes (and published in a blog post for example).
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
I'm a programmer and even I like writing in a non-programmable environment. Programming in the document system just stimulates the more primitive parts of my brain that love the processing and programming more than the writing itself.
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
Claude models are usable through certain github copilot plans, so that's a counterexample, isn't it?
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
Good point but this forum leans heavily towards software, so we are used to the latter! I have worked close to IC development so had to learn and tangle with the former idea too, was interesting.
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
Ah, thanks for the update. My only check before asking was to check if the future feature for annotations had been enabled by default yet. It has then effectively been abandoned instead, I guess.
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
There's a massive wave of stuff, at least. Sorting it, is not easy.
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
What benefit does the lazy import have here - if we use the value in a type hint at module scope anyway? Would that require Deferred evaluation of annotations -- which I don't think are enabled by default?
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
yes but it is a 'picture' that makes you think about it in a different way.
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
After the rise of Rust, it has gained more visibility? But some people were interested in C in this way long ago too, I used to hang out in some godforsaken irc channel where people competed in out-pedanticing each other over the C standard
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
AI is getting really useful, might be why
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
My go-to example of "UB is everywhere" is this one: int increment(int x) { return x + 1; } Which is UB for certain values of x.
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by kzrdude 5mo ago
As mentioned in another recent thread, that time is now.

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