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by lblume 1y ago
I also got used to it, but especially when writing short scripts that generate numbered files it gets annoying to have to pad with zeroes every time, and also precommit to a specific amount of digits you want to allow (finding a compromise
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by lblume 1y ago
I agree that the base functionality of just sorting character by character can be occasionally useful. However I would really be interested in seeing why you believe this to be the correct choice for user-facing graphical file managers, as
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by lblume 1y ago
I find the term "natural" to be inadequate here, there is nothing natural about sorting strings in this particular fashion compared to another. It should be given a more descriptive name, like "Number-aware alphabetic" o
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by lblume 1y ago
> It's not something that happens randomly, people choose to. In Bayesian analysis, probability does not refer to the long-term frequency but instead to the subjective credence given to the event. Otherwise the probability of any on
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by lblume 1y ago
The article itself states that this is not really a pattern of nature, but just a feature of log-normal distributions that sometimes do occur naturally.
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by lblume 1y ago
That doesn't really follow. NN models have been able to pick up on noisier and more subtle patterns than humans for a long time, so this type of research is definitely worth a short in my opinion. The pattern might also not be noticeab
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by lblume 1y ago
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter's_generic_strategies
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by lblume 1y ago
But surely humility is only one attribute of God, and not the most relevant one. Omnipotence and omniscience are typically listed as more important aspects of the divine.
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by lblume 1y ago
That really stretches the meaning of "syntactic". Humans have thoroughly evaluated LLMs and discovered many patterns that very cleanly map to what they would consider real-world concepts. Semantic properties do not require any hum
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by lblume 1y ago
Indeed, we should call all idempotent functions twice just in case the first incantation fails to succeed. In all seriousness, this is not at all how resilience to cosmic interference works in practice, and the probability of any executed i
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by lblume 1y ago
Same. I feel a strong urge to highlight a paper's section on Methodology now, but no idea why.
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by lblume 1y ago
When searching for it on DuckDuckGo, the search engine found your comment via a HN frontend while not finding the original site.
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by lblume 1y ago
Office does still support word art. [0] [0]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-wordart-c5...
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by lblume 1y ago
> The largest cause of early death in the past century was governments murdering their own citizens Sounds like an interesting claim, mind sharing your source / calculation?
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by lblume 1y ago
Sure. But the societal losses of a vast amount of people getting scammed might in general be more important your individual wish for freedom to run anything you want on your device. I think there are important tradeoffs to be made, and that
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by lblume 1y ago
> daily covid-like lateral flow tests for everyone How would you prevent people from abusing this system? Covid tests were simple to get to show a positive result, and I know some people who would make this instantly unsustainable.
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by lblume 1y ago
Historically, increases in total lifespan have always corresponded to increases in the length of healthy lives. People don't only live longer, they also live without being sick a whole lot longer.
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by lblume 1y ago
While not as capable as the suggested METAFOOD, current LLMs can surely take your ingredients, suggest recipes, present shopping lists, and allow incremental olfactory and gustatorial changes and improvements.
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by lblume 1y ago
The modern banking system is entirely built on the Internet. Every electronic transaction is verified by Internet calls, and in the past Internet outages have made payment in some cases literally impossible.
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by lblume 1y ago
> polynomial non-exponential code which isn't n^2 or related So, linearithmic code? The three parts (polynomial, non-exponential, not related to n^2) don't seem to fit together pretty well, unless this is some LLM quirk I'
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by lblume 1y ago
> For now, I'm still seeking a more satisfactory solution. Please contact me if you have a suggestion. Why not simply end each script with true, just as it is started with a shebang and strict mode? Doesn't sound like the worst
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by lblume 1y ago
Denormalization in order to improve performance like this does not seem like the right tradeoff to me. You are making the database much less robust, and anomalies much more likely, in what should be as simple as what the original post menti
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by lblume 1y ago
Are you sure the mice don't change?
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by lblume 1y ago
1. Of course they should be sterilized. 2. The most common causes of death for wild mice are predation, diseases, and starvation. Theoretically immortal mice have no chance in the real world if not very well-adapted to these conditions.
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by lblume 1y ago
But []byte, or a wrapper like Path, is enough, if strings are easily convertible into it. Rust does it that way via the AsRef<T> trait.
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by lblume 1y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Currently all my cards try to all follow the same pattern, making it necessary to really remember at based on differences between them. (For example, I would never ask "What happened in 1914?" but in
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by lblume 1y ago
Humanity has left many traces. An interesting example is a vast amount of chicken bones buried underground.
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by lblume 1y ago
Numbers are prime irrespective of base.
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by lblume 1y ago
> Cells are physical objects This might sound trivial, but in me sparks a much larger point: which kinds of experimental designs and tests might we miss when engaging in a special science? In establishing dedicated methods I think it&#x2
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by lblume 1y ago
> these companies are the equivalent of the asshole that dumps the whole bowl into their bag In most cases, they aren't? You can still access a website that is being crawled for the purpose of training LLMs. Sure, DOS exists, but se

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