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by munchler 1y ago
This happens with local files also, and was originally called “DLL hell”. The mismatch isn’t malicious, but the effect is the same.
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by munchler 1y ago
Paul McCartney deliberately avoided learning how to read music, but he understands music theory just fine. They are two different skills. It's quite clear from The Beatles' music that they know about keys, chords, etc. For example
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by munchler 1y ago
I'm fond of Slashdot, but I think it makes more sense to link directly to the source article: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/metas-reality-labs-posts-4po...
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by munchler 1y ago
How is that "fake"? There's no requirement that an open source project take contributions from outsiders at all.
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by munchler 1y ago
I think one can make a rational argument that the cost of the lockdowns was not worth the lives saved. I probably wouldn't agree with that argument, but I'd certainly hear it out, especially with regard to the impact on children&#
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by munchler 1y ago
I'll tell you what: I'll admit that one side has put too much emphasis on the freedom to choose one's sexual identity if you'll admit that the other side has put too much emphasis on resisting such choices.
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by munchler 1y ago
I'm happy to have this discussion, but I think you're making a false equivalence between the two sides. The examples you provided of liberal scientific overreach are either false or exaggerated. On the other side, you have an anti
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by munchler 1y ago
FWIW, I agree with you. It was an absurd comment, but it shouldn't have been flagged (and I wasn't the one who flagged it).
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by munchler 1y ago
Give me a freaking break. One side is carrying on the Enlightenment ideals of rationality and secular humanism, while the other is trying to drag us back to the dark ages of superstition and fear. It has nothing to do with political “left”
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by munchler 1y ago
Meanwhile DOGE has cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. The US is shooting itself in the foot when it should be competing at its best. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/nih-layoffs-budget-cuts-
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by munchler 1y ago
Agreed. It’s amusing to see procedural programmers slowly rediscovering what functional programmers have known for years. Paul Graham called this “The Blub Paradox”.
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by munchler 1y ago
> Wikipedia IS ideologically captured and a propaganda target. This is not up for debate. What an absurd claim to make without any evidence. Citation needed.
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by munchler 1y ago
If you provide the item yourself, you can let others play 20 Questions. This was done successfully once on Reddit back when GPT-4 was brand new: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/129j7ux/can_gpt4_
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by munchler 1y ago
Current LLM’s are based on multi-character tokens, which means they don’t know how to spell well. As a result, they are horrible at spelling games like this or, say, Hangman.
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by munchler 1y ago
Here's one from an episode of The Pitt: You meet a person who speaks a language you don't understand. How might you get an idea of what the language is called? In my experiment, only Claude came up with a good answer (along with a
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by munchler 1y ago
This is an excellent talk by Scott Aaronson, although it's not something that can be digested as quickly as the typical HN post. The summary slide at the end is perhaps a good introduction to the scope of the topic: * In math, we are f
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by munchler 1y ago
> flash card (smallish, lined cards for taking notes) These are called “index cards” in the US, although you can certainly use them to make flash cards if you want. Source: Am old enough to have used index cards unironically.
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by munchler 1y ago
Thanks. So the tools downloaded from GitHub were allegedly used to scrape personally-identifiable information (PII), details about ongoing legal cases, union-related data, and corporate secrets. The whistleblower observed large spikes in ou
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by munchler 1y ago
So what exactly is being alleged here? That these DOGE bros wrote and used “hacker” code from GitHub to bypass security limitations on NLRB data? Why would they even need to do that if they had superuser accounts in the system already?
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by munchler 1y ago
What if the teacher writes the test day on a piece of paper at the beginning of the week and hides it in his desk? That way "we won't have the test at all" is no longer a possibility.
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by munchler 1y ago
Given the use of the singular pronoun “I” in the readme, I suspect that this was a one-person project within Microsoft, and that person is no longer available.
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by munchler 1y ago
TIL that Microsoft has been maintaining the original Windows File Manager for the last 30+ years.
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by munchler 1y ago
Really? Kids show up on the last day and know with certainty that the test is coming that day.
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by munchler 1y ago
> So you need to restart your argument, with your new possibility as one of the premises. And now you don't get to a contradiction at all. It’s amusing that you stopped here without giving an actual solution. Please do tell us, whic
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by munchler 1y ago
Search engines don't speak English.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B...
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by munchler 1y ago
Other good nerd-sniping math questions: 0^0 = 1? Yes, it’s simpler that way. 0! = 1? Yes, it’s simpler that way. 0/0 = ∞? No, it’s undefined. 0.9999… = 1? Yes, it’s just two ways of expressing the same number. 1+2+3+… = -1/12? No
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by munchler 2y ago
That is a good question. I think the biggest difference is that humans have access to sensory data that grounds us in reality. If you put a human in complete sensory deprivation, I think we would hallucinate much more.
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PE = private equity?
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by munchler 2y ago
The point of this article is that the relationship between the author and his boss was irrelevant. A business doesn’t trust or distrust a line item. The business simply discards the line item in the safest way possible when it is no longer

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