mkoubaa

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   by mkoubaa 2y ago

   PSA: If you don't like Bitcoin you might want to read the article before you post your knee-jerk reaction to avoid embarrassment.
2. 302.▲
   by mkoubaa 2y ago

   The original comment was about the divergence of the complexity of a language and the complexity of programs implemented in the language. I think the comment you replied to with all its keywords and jargon beautifully illustrated the point
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   by mkoubaa 2y ago

   C++ is such a narrow skillset that I'd rather not roll the dice on translators knowing what to do
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   by mkoubaa 2y ago

   This is also true about #pragma once But it became a de facto standard at some point. thank you for the clarification. You are 100% right about the general difference. I didn't consider the level of "confidence" python has in
5. 305.▲
   by mkoubaa 2y ago

   That could be the case. I read it on vacation so I was more willing to indulge in a slower story
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   by mkoubaa 2y ago

   It's not about assumed breaking, it's that when you upgrade libc++ you can become incompatible at runtime with your distro or any other number of libraries outside your control in ways that are difficult to detect
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   by mkoubaa 2y ago

   I'm skeptical that people would want to do this in a single expression.
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   by mkoubaa 2y ago

   This is the sort of change that adds complexity to the language but reduces complexity in the code written in the language. We take those
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   by mkoubaa 2y ago

   Tangent: this sort of thing can be implemented without any change to libc++ (the runtime). Updates to compiler versions are sometimes postponed by users with big codebases that treat a libc++ change as something major. Why don't we se
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    Why? I found that story fantastic
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    I read the Exhalation collection last year and plan to read it once every two or three years for the rest of my life
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    I'm so annoyed at how popular rationalism is. Human rationality (along with symbolic creativity) is only useful at generating testable hypothesis, not for direct knowledge of reality. Once someone grant the axioms of rationality they b
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    It harms them politically, if they were accountable to voters.
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    If your money is in dollars they can take your money any given Tuesday by devaluing the currency.
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    Part of the teaching was physical. Hard to do it with words alone
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    Try explaining in words how to raise a single eyebrow to someone who can't. Tactile intelligence and semantic intelligence do not overlap
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    OpenAI made a lot of contributions to LLMs obviously but the amount of fraud, deception, and dark patterns coming out of that organization make me root against it.
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    Could this thing take a polar route from New York to Hong Kong?
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    The most evil pattern is when application developers force users to install Docker to use their applications.
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    Can we wait until our political systems aren't putting 80+ year olds in charge BEFORE we cure aging?
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    I don't assign intent to the creation of the platform. I'm observing a change that happened to it at a point in time around when Jack left it, in the context of what else was happening
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    I can't train your intuition for you.
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    I also thought the Oppenheimer movie was stupid
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    Cancer research anywhere is cancer research everywhere
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    You make a great point. It was a good intention that led to a bad outcome. Many such cases
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    Suppose c++ is around for 100 more years (i'll take the over). Sacrificing a couple decades in order to get the syntax just right is worth it. Just look at... Javascript.
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    The idea always starts as a mess. Putting it to paper is a sort of gradient descent to make it less messy. Like many optimization algorithms it's an iterative process Source: am a fiction writer
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    This reminds me of dreaming. Either there's a similarity between dreaming and what this AI is doing or my human brain is stereotypically finding patterns where there are none.
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    Software has gotten so slow we've forgotten how fast computers are
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    by mkoubaa 2y ago

    I learned cursive in elementary school in the US. But I went to a private Islamic school