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by lvncelot 3y ago
Solaris (in Houdini 18 I think?) was my introduction to USD and a pretty deep rabbit hole for a few weeks. Although its functionality is way beyond a solo hobbyist's needs, the whole time I was thinking about how cool it is to have a s
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by lvncelot 3y ago
When I got cachix set up in Github CI with my custom emacs package that pre-builds and compiles my configuration including packges, I was as giddy as when I started programming. It's over-the-top, unnecessary, overkill, and an absolute
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by lvncelot 3y ago
See also EXWM[1] [1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Heh, it's the Earpiece Conversation trope[1] in real life. [1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarpieceConversa...
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by lvncelot 3y ago
How does Bayesian reasoning fit into this? To go with the introductory example, having seen the sun go up ~ 11000 times in my lifetime can never prove that it will go up tomorrow, but every time it does go up, I adjust my priors for expecti
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Love the name
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I have a feeling that these ad-hoc bars for AI to clear are extremely similar to Plato's definition of a human ("a featherless biped"), in that they look for what features a human/intelligence has, but don't incorpo
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I just stend to stay clear of certain topics on HN. It's not that I'm not open to different viewpoints on the internet, it's that these comment sections are filled with bad-faith arguing and are just bound to make me angry. I
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I'd even argue that the burden of proof is reversed. There might be billion dollar companies which bring good, but I'll be skeptical of that fact at first.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
This point in the blog post saddens me. Chrome's market share is huge, but Chrome is not ubiquitous. There was public outcry when Google was suspected of making youtube have "bugs" on non-Chromium browsers - having them just
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I hate that trend as well, especially if the post is meant to be instructional. Bonus points if they don't include version numbers as well. I think it's so that your blog does not run into the risk of looking inactive when you mig
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by lvncelot 3y ago
This together with cool-retro-term[1] is an absolute must on my machines for real hacker hours. [1] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
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by lvncelot 3y ago
A combination of the second, third and a client who insisted on using it for a project where a headless CMS + custom code would have worked a lot better did the trick for me. Still not really WP's fault, but it doesn't change th
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by lvncelot 3y ago
We need an LLM layer for this to truly be web-scale.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
That's not what I was trying to imply, sorry. It's the singularity at the center where GR entirely breaks down, but there's also weird stuff going on below the event horizon (space becoming time-like and vice versa), that are
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Specifically, GR is a model that breaks down at singularities. That time "begins" at the Big Bang is a prediction of GR, but until we have a model of quantum gravity there's no telling whether that's actually true or whe
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by lvncelot 3y ago
If you like the idea of Nix but are "meh" about the language, you could check out Guix, which does the same thing as Nix but with Guile (Scheme) as the configuration language. (Disclaimer: Still stuck on NixOS, am myself "meh
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by lvncelot 3y ago
The JSON endpoints are pretty neat, you can just take any reddit page, be it subreddit, submission comments or username, and append `/.json` to the URL and tadaa , JSON data. Although like you said, I'm pretty sure they will axe
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I guess what's tangentially related is the tendency of AlphaGo (and friends) to favor an extremely likely 1 point win over a still likely (but not as much) 10 point win, making the endgame seem very non-human like. They still absolutel
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I haven't hear of Itinerary before, and it seems to be a really swell app. Especially the Openstreetmap integration for showing indoor maps with platforms seems like a killer feature, and the KDE connect integration sounds very nice, t
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Absolutely agree with your list and would add Karl Popper to it.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
> I guess I have to figure out how to tuck a $50 bill into an email if I really want to get off that list... You could title your mail to spamhaus: "You're today's lucky winner of $50!!!". That might get you on their
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Prettier also came to mind, and I'm usually pretty happy with the "it's formatted this way, deal with it" approach - but I also would like the tool to behave predictably with updates. Prettier had some changes in 2.5 rel
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by lvncelot 3y ago
I never fail to re-read the entire series when it's brought up and will do so right now.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Also, after a few years, the metaphorical ice cream looks exactly like the real ice cream would.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Convert to F and also buy measuring cups/spoons and glare angrily from the recipe to my trusty scale, which stands unused in the corner, I guess. Measuring by weight is the one cooking-related hill that I will die on. (Recently, I had
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by lvncelot 3y ago
> I always put "rationalist" in quotes when referring to this group of people, because based on the things these people believe I always found it amusing that Roko's Basilisk[1], which was incepted in the LessWrong forum,
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Seriously, once you understand the ui as a superposition of entangled complex-valued eigenstates that only collapse into place once an observer visits your page, frontend development becomes so much easier.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
Similarily, I'm pretty sure that I heard of that name first in Eve Online.
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by lvncelot 3y ago
It's honestly doubly annoying when there's multiple times per month where I run into some issue / straight up bug which I then find an ongoing bug ticket from like 2018 for, that's still open but apparently not being wor

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