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by leoc 5mo ago
(I am not an expert on anything.) One happy circumstance here is that while the RAM cartel is chasing Big AI's money today, in the medium term its self-interest probably makes it a supporter of local AI. A new, compelling reason to
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by leoc 5mo ago
To be fair, there actually is an exception specifically for just this kind of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BLPSELF... .
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by leoc 5mo ago
But remember: once again, don't simply get angry at Google the institution. Get angry at Page and Brin personally. They have the power to prevent this, a power they were careful to preserve when they gave Google its IPO. They are fully
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by leoc 5mo ago
As it so happens 'cara' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cara#Irish is the Irish [Gaelic] word for 'friend' (probably related to words like Italian 'caro' etc.) so CARA is not a bad name for
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by leoc 5mo ago
I think you have misunderstood what I was saying. I didn't compare total productivity with high-touch manual work from a recruiting agency in the actually-existing 2026 to total productivity without that same manual work in the actuall
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by leoc 5mo ago
All else being equal, the return of high-touch recruiting work is of course a reduction in industrial productivity and a negative contribution to economic growth. But it does generate more jobs! Put that in your predictions of AI’s economic
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by leoc 5mo ago
Some pages with more PostScript book recommendations and sometimes links (I'm no authority myself): https://luc.devroye.org/lucbps.html https://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~adye/psdocs/Books.html https:
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by leoc 5mo ago
For anyone who wants to type or paste into the Code textarea: * https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~hayward/papers/BLUEBOOK.pdf The PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook (the "Blue Book") (principally)
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by leoc 5mo ago
> I'd say all of those people have significantly different styles so I think Opus is relying heavily on topic and skewing towards very prolific writers in its guesses In other words, that there's a bit of Akinator to how Claude
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by leoc 5mo ago
Thank you. So it's more or less running (certain specified) function calls in parallel? Sounds nice, but what happens to upward funargs? I assume first-class continuations are right out ...
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by leoc 6mo ago
The Apache Foundation used to step in in this kind of situation, didn't it? Thugh maybe pgbackrest isn't quite big and official enough to be the kind of software which Apache takes on, and one certainly hears (increasing?) grumble
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by leoc 6mo ago
The Apache Foundation used to help with this sort of governance problem didn't it? Thugh maybe pgbackrest isn't quite big and official enough to be the kind of software which Apache takes on, and one certainly hears (increasing?)
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by leoc 6mo ago
What should people read to learn about structured concurrency?
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by leoc 6mo ago
(‘Minimum’ is the singular of ‘minima’.)
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by leoc 6mo ago
Mind you, that suggests that the sentence is at least half-true even if "much more complex" is a big overstatement, since Rust, "modern" C++ and the later evolutions of C# are all relatively recent. (What would have comp
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by leoc 6mo ago
> First, what he calls "the desktop era" wasn't so much a desktop era as a Windows era - Windows ran the vast majority of desktops (and furthermore, there were plenty of inconsistencies between Windows and Mac). That'
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by leoc 6mo ago
Tired: particle accelerator which crosses the border between France and Switzerland. Wired: particle accelerator which crosses the border between Quebec and Ontario.
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by leoc 6mo ago
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/30/what-are-ukraines-new-gu... > Zelenskyy also said that Ukraine is willing to share its expertise in unblocking maritime trade routes with the naval drones. > “We shar
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by leoc 6mo ago
To be fair, it was bright Chinese minds at ByteDance which worked on getting US teenagers addicted to TikTok videos.
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by leoc 6mo ago
A recent blog post from Christoper Drum on running Lotus 1-2-3 on MS-DOS in a 286 emulator https://stonetools.ghost.io/lotus123-dos/ .
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by leoc 6mo ago
There is even a successful competitive scene: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/06/experie... https://excel-esports.com/ https://www.bbc.com/news/art
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by leoc 6mo ago
Yhe initiator of the scheme, Edward O. Thorp, was also a father of modern blackjack card counting, and wrote the definitive book about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_counting#History_of_blackj... . "The Inv
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by leoc 6mo ago
I don't get it tbh. What market participants were speculating here? There aren't futures markets in RAM as far I know, though I certainly don't know much. And the supply constraints appear to have been pretty real (though may
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by leoc 6mo ago
And apparently the most efficient training and inference thanks to their TPUs, IIUC?
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by leoc 6mo ago
Also, an out-of-date model which doesn't know about last year's world events, hit songs and new JS libraries is a depreciating asset even before you consider low-cost competitors catching up. So you'd presumably have to do so
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by leoc 6mo ago
More SAIL emphemera: a short film of the regular SAIL volleyball game, starring John McCarthy, Les Earnest and special guest, Xerox PARC's Bob Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaoBt_yBXg0 .
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by leoc 7mo ago
'PCRE' never really caught on broadly, unfortunately. It seems that Boost actually uses 'perlex' https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_31_0/libs/regex/doc/syntax_... .
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by leoc 7mo ago
In my head a regex-like thing of Perl origin is known as a 'perlex'.
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by leoc 7mo ago
> 3. Better type errors. With currying, writing (f 1 2) instead of (f 1 2 3) silently produces a partial application. The compiler happily infers a function type like :s -> :t and moves on. The real error only surfaces later, when t
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by leoc 7mo ago
Right. Currying as the default means of passing arguments in functional languages is a gimmick, a hack in the derogatory sense. It's low-level and anti-declarative.

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