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by lisper 1y ago
> Canonical S-expressions are not as easy to read and much harder to write by hand You don't do that, any more than you read or write machine code in binary. You read and write regular S-expressions (or assembly code) and you trans
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by lisper 1y ago
There are two problems with using LLMs for writing code. The first is that when the code they produce doesn't work (which is most of the time) I still have to debug it, and now I'm debugging someone else's (or someTHING else
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by lisper 1y ago
> No, because 99.9999% of the time, you explicitly do not want the compiler implicitly filling in a hole like that Who are you to tell me what I want? You are making all manner of tacit assumptions about the kind of work I do and what m
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by lisper 1y ago
I'm against anything that adds cognitive load without a compelling reason, anything makes me do unnecessary work. Typing "todo!()" is not a huge burden, but it's not zero, and if the Rust compiler is smart enough to fil
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by lisper 1y ago
> the compiler doesn't refuse to compile your code, it cannot compile your code "Can not" and "will not" are kind of the same thing in this context. It's not like compilers have free will and just decide to
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by lisper 1y ago
> Why does dynamic typing lead to lower development effort? Because you can run your program to see what it does without having to appease the type checker first. There is nothing wrong with presenting type hints or type errors as warnin
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by lisper 1y ago
> I would love to read the steel man case for dynamic typing It's very simple: sometimes lower development effort matters more than correctness. Not all software has to run in a hostile production environment to be useful.
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by lisper 1y ago
Reminds me of the Journal of Irreproducible Results and the Annals of Improbable Research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Irreproducible_Resu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_Im
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by lisper 1y ago
I recently got the California TEKWZRD plate :-)
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by lisper 1y ago
A new submission on HN typically has 20-30 minutes on the New page before it drops off the bottom. It is pretty much luck of the draw whether or not anyone notices it during that time window.
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The Stochastic-Quantum Correspondence (2023)(inspirehep.net)
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by lisper 1y ago
Heh. TIL.
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by lisper 1y ago
"Rain shadow" is a common idiom in English. "Wind shadow" is not because English has multiple dedicated words for this concept, including "lee" [2] as well as slipstream. [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by lisper 1y ago
Das blinkenlights. ;-)
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by lisper 1y ago
> the mass of ultralight bosonic dark matter must be more than 2 × 10^-21 electron volts (eV) To put this in perspective, the current upper bound on the mass of a neutrino is around 0.1 eV, so 20 orders of magnitude higher.
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by lisper 1y ago
See: https://paulstamatiou.com/review-att-3g-microcell "After giving the MicroCell some power and ethernet, it will start blinking the 3G and GPS LEDs. Wait, what.. GPS? Yep. To limit the MicroCell from working outside
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by lisper 1y ago
The one I had, an AT&T Microcell, which was the only model offered by my cell provider, refused to work without a GPS signal.
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by lisper 1y ago
> She just needs a microcell/femtocell. Those come with their own set of problems. In particular, they have to be able to receive a GPS signal, which is often not possible in mountainous terrain. I had a microcell for years and it
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by lisper 1y ago
It's not just people who live in the mountains that have this problem. People who do a lot of international travel see it too. There is absolutely no reliable way to predict the circumstances under which I will be able to receive an
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by lisper 1y ago
> anon SIM are no longer allowed in the EU Ah. That explains why they asked for my life history when I tried to buy a local SIM in Italy.
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by lisper 1y ago
This looks like a clue: "I even worked on translating Archivista’s interface into Italian, since it wasn’t yet localized, just to make it easier for users."
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by lisper 1y ago
Sure, but our interactions with chimp-like intelligence on another planet are unlikely to be substantially different from our interactions with chimp-like intelligence on this planet. It only gets interesting when both are more or less eve
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by lisper 1y ago
> a system with 2 planets with intelligent lifeforms That is an extremely unlikely scenario because both intelligent life forms would have had to evolve before either of them developed space flight. It took homo sapiens 4 Gyr to evolve
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by lisper 1y ago
OK, well, I stand corrected. Still, a dictation transcription failure was plausible.
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by lisper 1y ago
> Ask to play with a pear [sic] of the Meta glasses. Ironically, this typo is very likely a result of AI dictation making a mistake. There are a lot of common misspellings in English, like "their" and "there", but I&
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Everel single-blade propeller [1938, 2018](aopa.org)
1 points by lisper 1y ago|0 comments
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by lisper 1y ago
Speaking as someone who is actually getting old (just hit 60) this is a pretty click-baity title. Of course it's a gradual process that sneaks up on you, and of course you slow down and value quiet more, and of course you start wonder
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by lisper 1y ago
> those are the exact words I use when talking to people about networking Or the U.S. financial system. Or civilization in general.
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by lisper 1y ago
> Giordano Bruno ... was a crackpot Yeah. He though the earth revolved around the sun. Crazy, right?
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by lisper 2y ago
In my day, like (no exaggeration) 50 years ago, we were having the exact same conversation, but with pocket calculators playing the role of AI. Plus ca change...

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