moomin

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by moomin 6mo ago
Pretty sure if I had to bet on incentives or expertise, I'd bet on incentives every time.
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by moomin 6mo ago
As if the job of NASA wasn’t to get some select people as high as possible.
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by moomin 6mo ago
It’s a real statistical outlier, nearly every language people have moved on from gets negative reviews. Me, it was fun but it wasn’t for me and eventually I concluded a number of the fundamental design decisions were wrong.
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by moomin 6mo ago
Wait, did they just send out a press release boasting that they’re bundling Jesse Vincent’s Superpowers?!
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by moomin 6mo ago
Read some of his earlier stuff. He’s a very informal writer, but he’s a damn good one with good ideas.
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by moomin 6mo ago
C# has indeed finally gained sum types this year… in preview. We’ll see if anything makes it into C#15 but they’re closer than they’ve ever been.
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by moomin 6mo ago
There’s a context to that you’re missing. The people saying that are usually using the formulation that racism = prejudice + power. So can black people in the U.K. be prejudiced? Yes, definitely. Racist? They’d need to be in a position of a
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by moomin 6mo ago
Yeah, I’m not okay with this. Doxxing is a term with an extremely negative connotation and is often done to people who, bluntly, weren’t hiding or doing anything wrong. The correct term for the same act here is either “accuse” or “unmask”.
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by moomin 6mo ago
Right now it suits them down to the ground. You pay for the product and you don’t cost their servers anything.
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by moomin 7mo ago
But that’s the point the article’s making. At the C level you’ve got a fully functional system. Above that level (even at the C++ level), feature support is a mess.
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by moomin 7mo ago
There’s two versions of .NET. One is “legacy”, which is stable as anything and bundled with the OS. The other is “Core”, that only has support for three years and isn’t 100% compatible. The reason the latest .NET runtime isn’t bundled is th
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by moomin 7mo ago
“We saw huge speed-ups when changing technology.” Looks inside “The old implementation had some really inappropriate choices.” Every time.
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by moomin 7mo ago
What I learned is that I am no good at building computers.
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by moomin 7mo ago
I’m doing a bunch of deeply horrible ops stuff at the moment, and the ability for Claude to write the worst python script in the world and tell me which machines aren’t configured the way I think is invaluable.
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by moomin 8mo ago
There’s a conflict here that’s nothing to do with the ethical dimension: Claude is regarded as a high quality model at least in part because its critical about what it’s doing. The military, on the other hand, doesn’t really encourage intro
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by moomin 8mo ago
A lot of people’s problems with H1B visas has nothing to do with protecting American jobs. The truth is H1B visa are a method of exploiting foreign workers. Make H1B run for a fixed time period and not be tied to a specific job and you’ll s
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by moomin 8mo ago
One of the things I’ve noticed is that when leftists say “capitalism” they often mean “the ability of capital to set the rules of markets” rather than just “markets”. This causes people who use the latter interpretation and leftists to talk
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by moomin 8mo ago
I see a very funny fight on our hands.
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by moomin 8mo ago
.NET has a _huge_ platform library and you know what? It’s a pleasure. So many things are just the standard way of doing things. When things are done weirdly, you can usually get a majority in favour of standardising it. Yes, there’s always
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by moomin 8mo ago
My prediction is that this strategy will work out better for the companies than the article expects. Why? Because firms are actually often absolutely lousy at recognising which of their employees are high performers in the first place.
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by moomin 8mo ago
It’s been true for some time. That moat has been getting shallower and shallower everywhere it isn’t inherited wealth. Not entirely shocking, large amounts of human history have been organised that way.
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by moomin 8mo ago
Ironically, if you actually know what you’re doing with an LLM, getting a separate process to check the quotations are accurate isn’t even that hard. Not 100% foolproof, because LLM, but way better than the current process of asking ChatGPT
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by moomin 8mo ago
Doesn’t seem to be free in the UK
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by moomin 8mo ago
It’s partly that JMS favoured stage actors. Partly that he grabbed a number of his favourite actors from “Murder She Wrote”. Honestly brilliant, taking a couple of murderers of the week and giving them lead roles in a show.
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by moomin 8mo ago
"average bass steals all the love interests" factoid actually just statistical error. average bass steals 0 love interests per year. John Tomlinson, who steals 10,000 paramours per year, is an outlier and should not have been coun
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by moomin 8mo ago
I can't really recommend joining a choir as a strategy for meeting women but... when I did choir I did alright.
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by moomin 8mo ago
I suspect it's become a problem the moment it became a primarily amateur endeavor. There's enough tenors when you can pay.
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by moomin 8mo ago
Given that it's the economist, it could have been about illiquidity in the bond markets.
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by moomin 8mo ago
Charlie Stross gives a great talk about Slow AI in which he argues that you don’t actually need a computer to build a paperclip oprimiser, and money is already a great paperclip.
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by moomin 8mo ago
It’s not a matter of “quite as convenient”, it’s a matter of figuring where you are, find a nearby town, finding a petrol station in it and getting back to the motorway. This can take well over half an hour. Time that you really need to be

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