orthoxerox

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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
I've been thinking about this recently as well. Market economy is simply a way for the humans to efficiently produce (via specialization) and redistribute (via trading) goods and services. There were other economies that lost to it (pa
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
How many of these top 10% of households will have their breadwinners be replaced with AI? The LLM boom is aimed at them, professionals, knowledge workers, not at landscapers and plumbers.
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
In my school we had a Logo-like PL where you controlled a kangaroo and a more complex one where you сontrolled a robot arm with an internal stack that worked on a rectangular array of items. I remember the robot blowing up when you triggere
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
I know VB used -1 as the truth value, not sure about other languages.
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
-1 means every single bit is 1, the truest possible value.
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
At the very least Python could quit on `quit` instead of saying that it knows what I want, but won't do it.
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
> I hate the red light and speeding cameras because they catch normal people who don’t bother hiding their license plates (or have license plates at all). The same cameras could also alert the police down the road about a car with unread
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
I wasn't in this class myself, but one prof at my alma mater started his "Programming 201" class with the simplest assignment: write a C program that accepts two integers from the user and prints their sum. It actually was th
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
Why pay for Plex when Jellyfin exists?
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
AI can amplify your intelligence just as easily as it can amplify your stupidity. All while telling you how smart and brilliant you are.
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
Sorry for all caps, but for some reasons OSS licenses think this is the proper way to style this paragraph MIT: THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
It's still the Lexus to Citroen's Toyota.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
Someone made a virtual car engine that was able to generate realistic sounds a few years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT-sKtR970
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
He's a valet, but if need arises, he can buttle with the best of them.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
You probably meant GenX.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
Which implementation do you use?
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
> Hitler was one of the chief organizers of the Spartacist rebellion in Berlin in January, 1919, and has since been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Yeah, it's not very good.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
It's always great to experience completely new qualia.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
That was my reaction as well. Either they have decided than LLMs have this "house style" for stylized 2D art and we should deal with it, or no amount of prompting can get rid of it.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
But that's a single use case. I also can put a Postgres DB in front of Iceberg, add some views in Trino to consume the data and get faster streaming ingestion. I know this sounds like that Dropbox is just rsync+cron post, but as soon a
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
It's drop dead easy to grok a basic one together until you get to hairy stuff like overloading, lambdas and generics. The reasonable baseline would be something like Java 1. Scalars, arrays and classes. If I remember correctly, Lox eve
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
I've read Pierce. It's not a bad book, but less grounded than CI, which has an explicit "workmanlike" approach.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
Crafting Interpreters is great, I wish it had a companion book that covered: - types and typing - optimization passes - object files, executables, libraries and linking Then two of them would be sufficient for writing a compiler.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
Where did you find these numbers? The way I see it, it's basically Iceberg, but with all metadata and small data changes stored in an RDBMS.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
I would say that C# is "less colored" than Rust. Handling a moved argument, a borrowed argument, a copied argument is different in Rust, you have to think upfront about memory lifetimes. If you are wrong the first time, changing t
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
Well, Anthropic should let Aphyr try Mythos 5 for his Jepsen business, then.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
Two big ways in which human intelligence is different from LLM intelligence are: 1) human intelligence makes no sharp distinction between training and generation. Every time you ask a human a question it modifies its neural structure a litt
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
And the brain is just a complicated chemical reaction.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
I mean that Cat, Dog and Bird don't have to inherit from the union, you can declare a union of completely random types, as opposed to saying "Animal has three subtypes, no more, no less", which is what F# does more or less.
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by orthoxerox 6mo ago
Third paragraph from the top: > unions enable designs that traditional hierarchies can’t express, composing any combination of existing types into a single, compiler-verified contract.

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