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by patrec 3y ago
Rust macros are partially hygienic, but even scheme's macros turned out to have unintended hygiene violations ( https://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/Dirty-Macros.pdf ). > And I wouldn't say 'many', I
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by patrec 3y ago
Just in case anyone who isn't familiar with Markus's work gets a slightly w3schools vibe when clicking the above link: his book SQL Performance explained[1] is probably the single most useful book a backend developer can read. [1]
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by patrec 3y ago
Hygienic macros and a strict phase separation are not distinctive to scheme, many languages have this now, most importantly Rust. And just like Rust macros scheme macros are not really an organic part of the language but some extra edifice
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by patrec 3y ago
So you mean if after 30 or so such subscriptions you only increase your productivity by 0.1% you still come out ahead?
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by patrec 3y ago
> Arguments like yours are very subjective. What is "rapid". What is "surprising". https://twitter.com/heyBarsee/status/1654825921746989057 2/3 deep learning Turing Price winners (Hinto
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by patrec 3y ago
Not only is the Non proliferation treaty possible, it's been evidently effective in slowing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The only country that ratified or acceded to it and went on to develop nuclear weapons is North Korea, an
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by patrec 3y ago
The default assumption ought to be that anything that's very fast, very smart, goal-directed, self-improving, and self-replicating spells trouble, no?
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by patrec 3y ago
> Like, no one is wondering why this computer is placing a bunch of orders to DNA factories? I'm not that confident that if we put you in a box, tron-style, where you basically continued to enjoy your existing level of intelligence,
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by patrec 3y ago
OK, I completely agree that if you feel that I invoked "obviousness" in an attempt of browbeating you and the GP with what in fact is a social taboo, you should be extra skeptical (I'm not sure that was the point the GP was t
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by patrec 3y ago
OK, which of the following propositions do you disagree with? 1. AIs have made rapid progress in approaching and often surpassing human abilities in many areas. 2. The fact that AIs have some inherent scalability, speed, cost, reliability a
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by patrec 3y ago
Are you willing to make existential bets that no one does and no one will? Personally, I wouldn't even bet substantial money against it.
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by patrec 3y ago
I agree. But as you can see yourself, there are countless people even here, in a technical forum, who claim that AI poses no plausible threat whatsoever. I fail to see how one can reasonably believe that.
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by patrec 3y ago
> We should be very suspicious of policy that is based on propositions so obvious that it's borderline offensive to question them. Mostly if the "obviousness" just masks a social taboo, which I don't see being the cas
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by patrec 3y ago
Effective dystopian mass-manipulation and monitoring are a real concern and we're closer to it[1] than to super intelligence. But super-intelligence going wrong is almost incomparably worse. So we should very much worry about it as wel
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by patrec 3y ago
I'm glad to learn that Hitler and Stalin were both "implementation details" and not in any way threatening to anyone.
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by patrec 3y ago
> It's not clear at all that we have an avenue to super intelligence AI already beats the average human on pretty much any task people have put time into, often by a very wide margin and we are still seeing exponential progress that
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by patrec 3y ago
> It’s hard to take these safety concerns seriously I don't get this mindset at all. How can it not be obvious to you that AI is an uniquely powerful and thus uniquely dangerous technology? It's like saying nuclear missiles can
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by patrec 3y ago
Here's what Assange had to say about the Afghan war in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. Th
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by patrec 3y ago
It is not. But since you seem to tacitly agree that most of Wikipedia's enormous wealth is funneled into putting people into positions of power who are not predominantly motivated by furthering Wikimedia's core mission, I'm c
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by patrec 3y ago
Are the universities fine after the decades long algae bloom of administrators? Has admission become more merit based, tuition more affordable, inquiry freer, and the pace of scientific breakthroughs faster?
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by patrec 3y ago
Telling yourself that no matter how many parasitic grifters the surplus gazillions attract, wikipedia will be "fine" won't make it so.
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by patrec 3y ago
> Redis is a database Do you have an example of an use case for which using Redis as a database works significantly better than using say Postgres or MySQL?
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by patrec 4y ago
Sorry, I edited my comment to add some context. It seems very likely to me that if we could increase pay of politicians by a factor of 10 (say), we'd get much much better performance at lower effective cost than we already pay for the
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by patrec 4y ago
People like you are exactly the reason why we can't have competent politicians. Who apart from crazy ideologues, the crooked and those that can't hack it as anything else than demagogues do you expect to sign up for a job where yo
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by patrec 4y ago
Practically speaking, probably nothing that would make up for the loss in functionality. The main practical reasons might be slightly better git support (magit) and the ability to run in a remote terminal -- as well as being generally more
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by patrec 4y ago
It can be convenient to be able to just sort as an opaque byte string.
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by patrec 4y ago
Ah hackernews -- where someone confidently decries a timestamp format designed by the world's most accomplished applied cryptographer as "bizarre" and "big-endian(!)". Did sorting ever occur to you?
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by patrec 4y ago
Here you are, "gradle build" works with this cleaned up and faster version (and the diff looks plausible on first sight): javas=$(find . -regex '.*\.java$') sed -i -E "$(printf 's/\\<(%s)\\>&
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by patrec 4y ago
Wouldn't something like the following shell one-liner rename get you quite close? export javas=$(find . -regex '.*\.java$'); for old in $(grep -hrPo 'class (?!Kt)\K[A-Z]\w+'); do echo $old; sed -i "s/
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by patrec 4y ago
> Finding and fixing bugs is a lot of fun. Incidence response is a lot of fun. > What are some good jobs for a person like this? SRE/Devops person at a FAANG.

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