merlincorey

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by merlincorey 3y ago
How does this compare to Jepsen?
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by merlincorey 3y ago
I don't have much more context than you, but one bit I did catch is that this resignation is for "R7RS-large" and not "R7RS-small" (which might even be complete already). Traditionally, Scheme is as minimalist as po
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by merlincorey 3y ago
> I would have said d. XXX. My reasoning being that in sets 1 and 2, the third tile has an X in every space where the first or second tile has an X. This is of course the correct reasoning, but ChatGPT was way off, as we'll explore
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by merlincorey 3y ago
> In other words, by forcing it to predict the next token, but giving it the flexibility to do so in any way it deems helpful, LLMs have learned higher order concepts such as abstract reasoning and "general intelligence". To my
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by merlincorey 3y ago
Invisible characters in a specific bit-pattern. Pretty common steganographic technique, really.
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by merlincorey 3y ago
After reviewing the Basics Tutorial[0] I have a few reasons I don't like it, but others may: - It is not purely Flat File based, but rather a specific Folder structure with specifically named and marked up Files in them - URL Routing i
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by merlincorey 3y ago
With org-mode capture templates[0], the OP could make a single command where they implement their 13 steps for each task as a template that expands to a task with the thirteen subtasks predefined. With further plumbing they could even have
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by merlincorey 3y ago
> When I have the option of choosing meat from a cow raised and slaughtered ethically I'll take that one every time, but usually I have no idea of the provenance of a particular hamburger patty and that likely does wonders for my pe
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by merlincorey 3y ago
Here's a Youtube video about an emergency goalie helping win a game a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBsR1WIT0U > Feb 22, 2020 Zamboni driver for the Toronto Marlies and emergency backup goalie Davi
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by merlincorey 3y ago
So how many times is that on average? Naively searching seems to mostly get well SEO'd results from LASIK related companies making claims like "In general, there is no limit on how many LASIK procedures you can get in your lifetim
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by merlincorey 3y ago
Apparently (according to this article[0]), a spotted salamander is capable of photosynthesis. [0] https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/can-any-animals-photosyn...
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by merlincorey 4y ago
But that's not true since you CAN buy a Spectre brand non-smart TV (which the only qualm listed in this thread is audio quality, not picture importantly) and you can buy commercial TV's meant for Hospitals and Office displays, etc
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by merlincorey 4y ago
I'm surprised in a discussion of when to quote or not quote with YAML the dreaded "yes", "no", "true", "false", "on", and "off" booleans didn't come up. Quoting the artic
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by merlincorey 4y ago
I think people may be downvoting you because technically, neither does the AI.
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by merlincorey 4y ago
I've only seen them recently in things like the IOCCC. [0] https://www.ioccc.org
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by merlincorey 4y ago
Yeah, there is nothing complicated about returning a static array in C. C is a much simpler language than many people assume -- of course, it can get really hairy and complicated especially when you need to do dynamic memory management, but
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by merlincorey 4y ago
Lisp has a rich history in games and graphics that you are not apparently aware of yet -- here's a few mostly Common Lisp Game Engines and resources to get you started (though GOAL was a Scheme variant): 1. https://en.wikipe
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by merlincorey 4y ago
> On the other hand, if the server has 100s of accounts, each of which follows a large number of people off-server - yet somehow no one follows anyone else on the server and no one ever talks a single word, that would probably raise some
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by merlincorey 4y ago
Can you perhaps detail some of the issues you encountered for those of us who might be considering a change?
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by merlincorey 4y ago
You missed a nuance in the GP's problem set: > dd if=random-linux-image.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 count=62499 seek=1 skip=1 is not the same as: > sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/boot.1 bs=512 count=1 Yo
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by merlincorey 4y ago
This is brilliant work and I think their soft-body model is pretty simple and understandable why it "works": > The basic principles in short: TPE uses soft body physics, bodies are modelled as spheres connected by springs but t
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by merlincorey 4y ago
So are you a wordcel or a shape rotator, apparently aka mathcel? [0] [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/wordcel-shape-rotato...
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by merlincorey 4y ago
Thanks for checking into that... doesn't look like the AI is even close to ready for prime time right now as this is not the correct translation: #include <algorithm> #include <iostream> #include <map>
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by merlincorey 4y ago
What is the trivial solution?
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by merlincorey 4y ago
Seems completely broken now; like others, I tried to test something, found I had to sign up, signed up, and found I have "0 free credits". I really wanted to see what it was gonna do for Python -> C++ converting some nested dic
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by merlincorey 4y ago
The phone number at the bottom of the page seems to be a legitimate phone number for "Berg Consulting and Technology Leadership" in Wisconsin, US. Hopefully that is actually the site owner's number and not someone else's
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by merlincorey 4y ago
`org-mode` has the ability to evaluate code blocks and store the output in a following results block[0]. You can configure it to run just about everything in various ways and therefore you can do Literate Programming in nearly the full Knut
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by merlincorey 4y ago
Every end is a new beginning, according to an old aphorism. This would imply that a Weekend and a Weekbegin could easily coincide.
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by merlincorey 4y ago
It is probably down to ensuring hardware acceleration is turned on as I am certain that I have done that for a different web issue.
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by merlincorey 4y ago
Worked on Firefox for me -- maybe you need an update, or maybe you have an extension that is fighting it?

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