omnicognate

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by omnicognate 15d ago
The title text on that one is gold.
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by omnicognate 16d ago
> You can both be an asshole and be right. "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole." - The Dude
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by omnicognate 16d ago
Not unticking a box in settings doesn't constitute consent in my opinion. I'd never put anything I value into ChatGPT anyway, though.
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by omnicognate 18d ago
I was clear on what I was responding to, and quoted it: "is doing math at the level of the best mathematics". This is misinformation and a public perception that will harm maths as it continues to spread. For some actual insight o
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by omnicognate 18d ago
I quoted Terence Tao. Are you suggesting he hasn't solved any open problems?
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by omnicognate 18d ago
> is doing math at the level of the best mathematics Terence Tao a few days ago [1]: > When we point the AIs at really difficult problems where none of the standard techniques apply, they are still very, very bad, I mean they're
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by omnicognate 18d ago
Nobody's claiming it is.
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by omnicognate 20d ago
I think this (from 2000) describes exactly these rules: https://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submiss... There are many, many other such games with all sorts of variations on the rules.
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by omnicognate 20d ago
https://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submiss...
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
What point have we reached? All I see is HN drowning in insufferable, identical-sounding posts about how everything has changed forever. Meanwhile at work, in a high stakes environment where software not working as intended has actual conse
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
> using complementary overhangs and toehold sequences to generate a 3-way heteroduplex, ligate knick, and then remove barcode duplex At first I thought this was about olympic figure skating, but after a bit of googling I think : Complem
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
This accepts the idea that the flickering problem (which is what that comment was about) is to do with slow rendering. It isn't. The solution to the flickering is almost certainly trivial and it's in the open source Ink library th
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
Great, so probably a pretty straightforward fix, albeit in a dependency. Ink does indeed write ansiEscapes.clearTerminal [1], which does indeed "Clear the whole terminal, including scrollback buffer. (Not just the visible part of it)&q
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
I figured they were doing something like Ink, but interesting to know that they're actually using Ink. Do you have any evidence that's the case? It doesn't answer the question, though. Ink throttles to at most 30fps (not
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
That's what they said, but as far as I can see it makes no sense at all. It's a console app. It's outputing to stdout, not a GPU buffer. The whole point of react is to update the real browser DOM (or rather their custom ASCII
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
Idempotence of an operation means that if you perform it a second (or third, etc) time it won't do anything. The "action" all happens the first time and further goes at it do nothing. Eg. switching a light switch on could be
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
I didn't say it did. I just pointed out that learning effectively isn't only a concern for "inexperienced developers still gaining knowledge".
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
I agree the title should be changed, but as I commented on the dupe of this submission learning is not something that happens as a beginner, student or "junior" programmer and then stops. The job is learning, and after 25 years of
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
An important aspect of this for professional programmers is that learning is not something that happens as a beginner, student or "junior" and then stops. The job is learning, and after 25 years of doing it I learn more per day
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
> AI can code as well as Torvalds He used it to generate a little visualiser script in python, a language he doesn't know and doesn't care to learn, for a hobby project. It didn't suddenly take over as lead kernel dev.
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
It's like watching the standards-based web commit suicide.
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
As the immediate responder to this comment, I claim to be the next guy. I love systemd.
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
Like a couple of others here I tried checking out this project [1] and running these 2.3 million random battles. The README says everything needs to be run in docker, and indeed the test script uses docker and fails without it, but there a
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
It also says "Passed: 0". I probably got wooshed here. Anyway, the tests definitely aren't run. I checked it out and tried myself. The test script [1] outputs "ALL SEEDS PASSED!" when the number of failures is zero,
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
> Average people have never heard of them because they aren’t in popular lore. Everything I know about liquid explosives I learned from Die Hard 3.
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
Sounds like you want a time travel debugger, eg. rr. Sophisticated live debuggers are great when you can use them but you have to be able to reproduce the bug under the debugger. Particularly in distributed systems, the hardest bugs aren&#x
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
Half an hour into a 2hr 47m video and I really must go to bed and resume tomorrow, probably in more than one instalment. This is wonderful stuff so far, and I'm glad I caught its brief appearance on the front page. Thank you for postin
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
I want car ownership to end. I want the road network to eventually become a giant, fully automated public transport system. I don't want it to be owned by silicon valley, though.
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
I've been using this for a couple of years in my home now, with the same German Gigacopper devices. It's rock solid, very much unlike my attempts at power-line ethernet in the past. I used ethernet over coax in my last house too,
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by omnicognate 8mo ago
> Coordinates human operators "Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone, using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone."

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