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by mo_42 3y ago
Seems like it learned the boilerplate from Java and transfered it to TypeScript. I don't know such jokes in JS ecosystem but in Java the one. Tried the same with Haskell and the Fibonacci series because there's a similar joke on t
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by mo_42 3y ago
I have some high end scanner (because I sometimes scan negatives from film photography). It has a built-in OCR that works pretty well. That's basically the only reason I need to boot MacOS because the Linux drivers are rather bland.
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by mo_42 3y ago
> The picture, however, looks a lot less clear when you talk with an actual young person. I guess most of these young persons are in Robert Kegan's socializing stage [1]. Parents and teachers etc. are mostly in one of the next stage
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by mo_42 3y ago
My approach is a flat date-based file structure with a markdown-based Zettelkasten on top: File are mostly in a flat structure. In ~/, I have directories like documents, photos, videos that directly contain all the files. For certain t
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by mo_42 3y ago
> IMO it'd be sensible to let the markets set the interest rate. Actually, markets do set most of the interest rates. The central bank only sets one (to be technically correct several) specific interest rate. Usually, this rate set
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by mo_42 3y ago
Einstein and Higgs predicted phenomena that were tested years resp. decades after their publication. A theory is also a contribution to a field as long as it tested (not necessarily in the same publication). Even an observation to a field c
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by mo_42 3y ago
Boeing is like most big companies part of the capitalist system where shareholders expect an annual rate of return of 5 to 8%. Every company that does not deliver this rate will fall out of the game. Some of the shareholders are completely
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by mo_42 3y ago
Thanks, I guess it would be the following extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/adsum-notabs/ For the custom chrome, I'm using in userChrome.css: #TabsToolbar { visibility: coll
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by mo_42 3y ago
> However, I hate using tabs in the browser, so thanks to a hacky extension, firefox opens a new window per tab, which means that i3 manages firefox' tabs as regular windows. Can you provide a bit more information about your setup?
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by mo_42 3y ago
Only if those two words appear in the same contexts with the same frequency. In natural language this is probably not the case. There are things typically considered beautiful and others as ugly.
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by mo_42 3y ago
I quickly read through the paper. One thing to note is that they use the Frobenius norm (at least I suppose this from the index F) for the matrix factorization. That is for their learning algorithm. Then, they use the cosine-similarity to e
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by mo_42 3y ago
I think the numbers we need here are GDPs adjusted for PPP per capita and per hour worked. Unfortunately, I didn't find any statistic quickly. Some years ago, I looked at such numbers and some of the Scandinavian countries were doing v
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by mo_42 3y ago
> Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why. And that's a problem. LLMs at least the most common ones can talk but they don't do things. But even if they could. Humans can do it too, even yo
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by mo_42 3y ago
I think the main difference is that digging out gold nuggets doesn't make society more wealthy just the lucky individual. Sure there are positive side effects from which we still benefit. However, I use LLMs every day to be more produc
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by mo_42 3y ago
I've been part of universities for 9 years from undergrad to PhD. I was only able to reflect on this system after I left. Universities always have been a system for selecting people who can keep it running in the future. So the first d
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by mo_42 3y ago
> Remember this anytime you watch CNBC & the like.. they can describe in hindsight the WHAT, but the WHY is generally made up on the fly. A classic smart sounding but meaningless joke answer to the above question is "More seller
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by mo_42 3y ago
First tactic of lawyers is to scare off people. Only resourceful and knowledgeable entities can challenge such claims.
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by mo_42 3y ago
I also use Firefox because it allows more customization. For example, every major browser nowadays not only supports tabbed browsing but enforces it. I think tabbed browsing is misdevelopment of UX because I need to handle window management
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by mo_42 3y ago
I tend to think differently. Coding is also a source of value. Why? Because people do what they enjoy. People do what makes them feel important. And people have an identity of being, for example, an assembler programmer. This will go on as
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by mo_42 3y ago
I guess every adjective we put in front of code will create an endless stream of opinions. I had comments in PRs where I should replace `str1 + str1` with `''.join([str1, str2])` (Python) because it's more "clean".
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by mo_42 3y ago
> It is interesting to note that all higher lifeforms have evolved to die (presumably to avoid out-competing their descendants). I think we need to substantiate this more. Where does "higher" lifeform begin? And is this stateme
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by mo_42 3y ago
I think this is a good example of how we mix up concepts: ADHD is just a phenotype. Then, our society classifies it as a condition because it does not go well with current circumstances. Although, both are separate things.
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by mo_42 3y ago
> The main point of that previous post is that although economists tend to dislike monopoly and extol the virtues of competition, there is surprisingly little criticism of central banks among these same economists. I think professional e
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by mo_42 3y ago
> I want to understand how things work. AI feels like a black box to me. The amount of papers I’d have to read and mathematics that I’d have to ingest to really understand why a certain prompt X results in a certain output Y feels overwh
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by mo_42 3y ago
I think the DMA is not the best legislation. Some parts don't require regulation whereas missing parts definitively require regulation. For example, I cannot publish my app in the app store. I don't need an alternative market. I&#
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by mo_42 3y ago
Feels like it's constantly improving. I'm running it since 1.5 years. Battery life is much better now. It even supports TLP (with the AUR version). Hard to tell what I'm missing currently. But I'm using rather basic tool
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by mo_42 3y ago
I'm a long-term Linux user and started buying Apple products long ago. I still keep my iPhone 4S around because I think it's a piece of art. I think the hardware and physical design of Apple products is really great. When I heard
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by mo_42 3y ago
New social networks are exciting until the business needs to make money. The first phase of a social network is funded by investors. So the developers make it super-interesting and easy to join. Then, it reaches a stage where the investors
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by mo_42 3y ago
When I was studying, I sometimes saw classmates typing the lecture directly in LaTeX. To me, they always seemed very busy and a little stressed. Also, it seemed that learning and understanding wasn't their primary goal rather than havi
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by mo_42 3y ago
This sounds a bit over-engineered. Wifi passwords change rarely so I think it’s totally acceptable to print a page every now and then.

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