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by lisper 10mo ago
Literally! :-)
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by lisper 10mo ago
I don't think AI is comparable to cars. The problem with cars is that they necessarily use the commons. The more roads you build, the less space you have for trains, parks, housing, etc. AI isn't like that. I can continue to t
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by lisper 10mo ago
It's much worse than "designed for cars." It's more like "not survivable without a car." It's the same with apps on my phone. I don't want to use them, but sometimes there simply is no alternative
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by lisper 10mo ago
> who of those same people will stop using ChatGPT to write their work e-mails and assignments for them Me. I never use AI to write content that I put my name to. I use AI in the same way that I use a search engine. In fact, that is p
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by lisper 10mo ago
I have not had anything explode, but I have had Macbook batteries expand on me on two separate occasions to the point where the case was visibly warped. Both times I was away from home, so it was extremely inconvenient.
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by lisper 11mo ago
Which of course is 0 mod 2.
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Why Don't Jet Engines Melt? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by lisper 11mo ago|0 comments
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by lisper 11mo ago
Ron's second law: the hardest part of getting what you want is figuring out what it is.
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by lisper 11mo ago
Fair point.
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by lisper 11mo ago
Yes, but then they also said: > hopefully design your language semantics to discourage cycles thus expanding the scope of their comment beyond that specific use case.
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by lisper 11mo ago
A general graph is not exactly "narrowly tailored". Graphs are pretty common.
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by lisper 11mo ago
OK, then I'll pick a different example: a general graph.
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by lisper 11mo ago
A fair point, but then you're still putting the burden on the programmer to figure out where a weak reference is appropriate. But then I'll just choose a different example, like a general graph.
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by lisper 11mo ago
> you only trace when you hit cycles How do you tell when you've hit a cycle? > hopefully design your language semantics to discourage cycles Why? Cyclical structures can be very useful. For example, it can be very handy in man
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by lisper 11mo ago
> anticipating mistakes before I get into a conversation How is that not thinking before speaking?
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by lisper 11mo ago
That is an excellent point. Recognizing and accepting things you can't control is a critical life skill. But either way, "Maybe you're not trying" is not a helpful framing.
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by lisper 11mo ago
I think the "maybe you're not actually trying" framing is not very constructive. The author did try, making decisions and taking actions that seemed appropriate for her situation at the time. The problem was that because
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by lisper 11mo ago
Do you really need me to explain the distinction between "circular" and "recursive", and the nature of HN comments as an informal medium with an audience that generally does understand these things and does not need to h
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by lisper 11mo ago
> "your parents and your parents' ancestors" That's recursive, not circular. These are not the same thing despite being closely related. Recursive definitions are useful. Circular ones are not.
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by lisper 11mo ago
I don't understand them. None of the introductory materials I've read on them ever made any sense to me. I kinda sorta understand "state" and "maybe" but the general idea that links these two things together
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by lisper 11mo ago
I thought of that. I'm on a Macbook Air and initially I had Night Shift on but even after I disabled it I still couldn't tell the difference.
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by lisper 11mo ago
> I decided to use colors rather than numbers or letters to identify each basic set, though I didn't use the same colors Newton did; mine are equidistant in the hue circle. "Lawn green" and "medium spring green"
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by lisper 11mo ago
I often tell people without irony that laziness is my super power. Laziness motivates me to put my efforts into finding ways of getting things done with less effort, to the endless annoyance of those around me who work a lot harder than I
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by lisper 11mo ago
> That's just incorrect though Quite possible. But that's in no small measure because I have yet to find an actual cogent definition of "tensor" that distinguishes a tensor from an array. (I have a similar problem w
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by lisper 11mo ago
But it's not possible to fill in the shorthand unless you already know what it stands for. Hence: the shorthand is not useful for communicating information, only for social signaling.
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by lisper 11mo ago
> a convenient shorthand for the bit that I put in angle brackets above. Yes, but the "convenient shorthand" only makes sense if you already know what a tensor is. That renders the "definition" useless as an explanat
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by lisper 11mo ago
> You might find it circular reasoning but it is not Um, yes it is. "A foo is an object that transforms as a foo" is a circular definition because it refers to the thing being defined in the definition. That is what "cir
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by lisper 11mo ago
> can compilers really execute general code at compile-time? Cue the smug Lisp weenies laughing quietly in the background.
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by lisper 11mo ago
For a counterpoint see: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.13338 And my own personal take on it: https://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-a...
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Mother describes the dark side of Apple's Family Sharing feature(9to5mac.com)
12 points by lisper 11mo ago|2 comments

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