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by nerdponx 2y ago
Feels nice to know that I am literally a paying customer and at least in theory incentives should be somewhat aligned.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
FP has design patterns too, just different ones, and they don't all have tidy names. Also some GoF design patterns map pretty closely to FP equivalents... pattern-matching on ADTs + traverse/fold + ReaderT ends up looking a lot li
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Debian Sid is surprisingly usable.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
You can also get true tiling window management with Amethyst, or Hammerspoon if you love customizing things in Lua and starting from an absolutely empty configuration.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
They aren't overplaying their hand, or at least they aren't according to anything presented in that article. The author frets about some balance of power, but does not make a convincing case that the EU position is threatened in a
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I admit I didn't cross check every detail here, but this article reads a lot like American "pro business" literature that cries about regulation stifling innovation, hurting American international competitiveness, etc. The co
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This product seems primarily like a solution looking for a problem to solve. The rare team that actually needs this will probably only need it on a one-off basis, and so will probably hack it together ad-hoc or hire a consultant to do it. P
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is pretty much the core principle underlying modern machine learning. More parameters means more faithful fit for the data, at the cost of over-fitting and generalizing poorly on unseen data from outside the range of data that was used
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by nerdponx 2y ago
When money is at stake, never attribute to incompetence what can be attributed to greed. Yes, maybe some dingdong did this because they were stupid, and nobody bothered to check their work. But then you have to ask yourself: Why was a dingd
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Is it really a bad idea? Is getting caught a bad outcome? Will this hurt their revenue at all? This is somewhat conspiratorial, but I think it's a deliberate enshittification strategy. Do something that's currently considered beyo
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I think there's a certain level of denial involved in this as well. There is a category of person who really wants AI to become a Big Life-Changing Thing. Maybe they are older and remember the early iPhone or the heady days of home com
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Just for completeness, you might be interested in the Holoviz ecosystem (core library Holoviews + additional libraries like hvPlot), which uses either Bokeh or Matplotlib as its backend.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Now that I know this is possible, it seems like it would be a fun addition to the Hy, Hissp, and Coconut projects: https://hylang.org/ https://github.com/gilch/hissp http://coconut-lang.org&
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> For the second approach, called Detector, they use the LLM as a forecaster to predict the next value from a time series. The researchers compare the predicted value to the actual value. A large discrepancy suggests that the real value
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Meanwhile Mega is actually a really good Dropbox alternative. Stable, fast transfers, desktop sync works very well, lots of sharing options, decent pricing. I've been a happy customer for years instead of Dropbox and iCloud.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
"LLMs" are really general-purpose sequence models. No reason it can't work, but so far results have been mixed in practice.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I agree that there's probably more to it than meets the eye. But a lot of companies are basically just holding companies that don't actually do anything economically useful on their own, eg IAC (the CEO of which is now lobbying fo
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by nerdponx 2y ago
There are surprisingly few languages in this category, especially if you limit consideration to statically typed. Go, C#, Swift? Nim, Crystal? F#? Kotlin? Go is not my favorite language, but it really is exceptional in terms of its effectiv
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I was being sarcastic. The mere act of a government giving people money or otherwise interfering with contracts does not make that government "socialist" any more than walking to the grocery store makes you a triathlete. A hardcor
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It depends on which "modern" astrology you have in mind. For example the "Shamanic Astrology" system by Daniel Giamario is the product of a lot of thought, effort, and research.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
There are several different astrology systems in use that draw on various world spiritual/astrological traditions, make different astronomical assumptions and adjustments, etc. There are also lots of different things that could facto
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Got an example?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
With the caveat that the broadened perspective you obtain by learning a variety of languages will make you better at your primary language.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
GNU solved this problem a long time ago by distinguishing -v and -V.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Sorry but that would be socialism. Instead here in God's America we allow lopsided unfree markets to produce adverse outcomes, and then spend multiple nation-states' GDPs worth every year to try to make those problems less bad, wh
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is the avocado toast fallacy. Millennials were encouraged to take on these loans on the principle that their high-paying jobs would make the debt service affordable, and that if they didn't take on these loans they'd end up a
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That's fine, as long as we actually use the opportunity to fix the underlying problems that will take longer to heal. Which of course we won't do, especially if a certain former president gets re-elected. But at least it's he
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is essentially the concept of a "text object" from Vim. Historically, it was somewhat challenging to actually define text objects with the richness of behavior one might want, but now with Tree Sitter and LSP you can have thi
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Been using it for months on MacOS without a single crash.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Because the ugly truth is that you can't actually feed the world population any other way. Once your money is in the Ponzi scheme, the only way to get anything back is to ride it out and hope you're at the bottom of the pyramid.

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