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by mietek 1y ago
Just because most of the free software ecosystem relies on unpaid volunteer work does not mean it is a desirable state of affairs, especially with billion dollar companies building on top of said work while hardly contributing anything back
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by mietek 1y ago
Great analogy! Look up Dasani some time.
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by mietek 1y ago
Pre-print: https://preprints.opticaopen.org/articles/preprint/Computer-...
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by mietek 1y ago
Microvision Nomad was indeed two decades ago, but Microsoft Hololens 2 also used laser retinal projection.
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by mietek 1y ago
Old Microvision Nomad units from around 2004 pop up on eBay from time to time. I have one; it's a monocular red laser retinal projection display, with a permanently attached computing unit running an ancient version of Windows CE. It&#
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by mietek 1y ago
Seconding. Voron 2.4r2 350mm here.
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by mietek 1y ago
A graphic designer should be capable of designing an avatar for themselves instead of using AI slop that rips off Studio Ghibli. I closed the page as soon as I saw that.
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by mietek 1y ago
Replying here because I managed to catch your comment on 996 before you deleted it, and I thought it was possibly the least offensive use of generative “AI” I’ve seen so far. Maybe turn the generator into a webpage?
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by mietek 1y ago
Can we maybe have fewer bugs in the OS instead of more barely functional AI slop?
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by mietek 1y ago
Ah, I do agree with this perspective. I think we must ensure that any such tools emit proofs that are not only valid but also readable. On the other hand, humans do also occasionally emit unreadable proofs, and perhaps some troubles could
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by mietek 1y ago
A proof written in a formal language can absolutely be illuminating to a human, but you have to pick the correct formal language and ecosystem. Writing proofs in Agda is like writing programs in a more expressive variant of Haskell. Abelso
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by mietek 1y ago
I used my nose.
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by mietek 1y ago
Thanks! The source code is set in Fabrizio Schiavi’s amazing PragmataPro. https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/ https://github.com/fabrizioschiavi/pragmatapro
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by mietek 1y ago
Author of the mechanization here. Feel free to suggest materials from the history of intuitionistic mathematics and type theory that ought to be mechanized and made available to a wider audience — the less well-known, the better.
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by mietek 1y ago
> ADHD medication also does nothing to help me. I found that the usual ADHD medication (methylphenidate) does not work for me. However, modafinil does. YMMV. https://gwern.net/Modafinil
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by mietek 1y ago
> …especially when you get past low level algorithms and into domain logic (your point exactly). They also don't serialize well, so a database or API call with a "proof" field would be susceptible to fudging… Nonsense. P
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by mietek 1y ago
One of the best modern resources is "Programming language foundations in Agda", co-authored by Wen Kokke and the same Philip Wadler, and used for teaching at multiple universities. https://plfa.github.io/
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by mietek 1y ago
I would like to hear what you have to say about forever.
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by mietek 2y ago
Are LLMs having subjective experiences? Surely not. But if you claim that human subjective experiences are not the result of electrical signals in the brain, then what exactly is your position? Dualism? Personally, I think the Chinese ro
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by mietek 2y ago
That’s some strong claims, given that philosophers (e.g. Chalmers vs Dennett) can’t even agree whether subjective experiences exist or not.
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by mietek 2y ago
Your charitable reading is too charitable. One of the benefits of using types to help guarantee properties of programs (e.g. invariants) is that types do not get out of sync with the code, because they are part of the code, unlike docume
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by mietek 2y ago
The Apple “Lemmings” ad came out in 1985. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(advertisement)
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by mietek 2y ago
I've been playing FPS games since "Wolfenstein 3D", and "Return of the Obra Dinn" is the only one that has ever given me motion sickness. Still finished it.
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by mietek 2y ago
Big millipedes are still around! Although not quite as big as before. https://youtu.be/oY32HPQrhYg?si=z0QO821u3-E5sJ6l&t=480 (about millipedes from 8:00)
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by mietek 2y ago
Having just finished “Conventions of War”, I must say I am highly impressed with Walter Jon Williams. I wonder what he did before becoming a writer.
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by mietek 2y ago
Thank you. When I think of completely different takes, I think of “The Golden Oecumene” trilogy by John C. Wright: “The Golden Age”, “The Phoenix Exultant”, and “The Golden Transcendence”. Also, these are not to be missed: - “The Fall Revol
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by mietek 2y ago
Once again, many thanks. I am enjoying “The Praxis” immensely.
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by mietek 2y ago
Try Adrian Tchaikovsky’s SF series; particularly “Children of Time” and “Bioforms”.
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by mietek 2y ago
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Final Architecture” series is lots of fun. I also highly recommend the two “Bioforms” books. For standalone novels, I liked “Alien Clay” and “Doors of Eden” the most. For novellas, “Walking to Aldebaran” and “Elder Rac
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by mietek 2y ago
Many thanks for linking to these excellent stories by David Langford. I would like to recommend pretty much every single SF story and novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Czajkowski). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Tchaik

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