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by pavlov 2y ago
You could ask the LLM to first work out the solution in pseudocode, then translate to Pascal (or whatever). That way the variables are known after the initial pseudocode pass. Human programmers also did this more frequently in those days th
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by pavlov 2y ago
Somehow the sequences of small words and ample syntax make this sentence quite difficult to parse. Maybe just go full pidgin: “Tool to suck dust, make tidy for walk in home.”
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by pavlov 2y ago
They come through it wiser and more in touch with themselves. A family is a place where you should be able to also be something else than the ideal version of yourself that you’d like to show the rest of the world, something less perfect an
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s a lovely piece, but maybe goes a bit too far in trying to paint Lem as some kind of human-form planet Solaris himself, failing to communicate with ordinary people. For example: “These essays are the work of a lonely man. We can judge
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by pavlov 2y ago
But in fact the candidate who pretends to be the alternative is supported by the very same vested interests that the voters hate. Wall Street and healthcare CEOs spent big on Trump. This is a great achievement of the American media environm
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by pavlov 2y ago
The “for Dummies” branding is a trademark of the publishing company Wiley, so you need a contract with them to use it.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I remember trying to learn Cell programming in 2006 using IBM’s own SDK (possibly different and less polished compared to whatever Sony shipped to licensed PS3 developers). I had already spent a few years writing fragment shaders, OpenGL, a
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by pavlov 2y ago
It now feels quaint that, not long ago, people used to speculate what Gödel's loophole was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_Loophole We're witnessing that there doesn't need to be any single clev
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by pavlov 2y ago
There are lots of JKR-adjacent industries that employ working class people. The Harry Potter World theme park in London has over two million visitors annually. That tourism must be more economically significant than fishing for cod.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Ok, so your list of “normal” frontend doesn’t support your original point: ”you want to push as much logic to the client” React and Next have been moving in the opposite direction with SSR. As I said, there isn’t a single right answer. Cl
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by pavlov 2y ago
What defines normal? It’s a strange idea when the typical stack for web front-end keeps changing. There isn’t even a single answer to the client/server split. Is JQuery normal? What about the Google Closure compiler? ColdFusion? Silver
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by pavlov 2y ago
Htmx is “frontend tech”.
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by pavlov 2y ago
To my knowledge there was a long lockout period in CUC Sierra acquisition. When Sierra employees were finally able to sell their CUC stock, it had already tanked as the massive fraud was exposed. (Spoiler for Part II of this article, I gues
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by pavlov 2y ago
I also learned English mostly by Space Quest. I remember being nine years old, sitting in front of SQ1 with my best friend, and trying to survive the escape pod early in the game. How do you avoid dying when it crashes on an alien world? Ou
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by pavlov 2y ago
What do you mean? In my opinion this library does a very good job of representing the image’s color palette considering it’s encoded into a single integer. (Even smaller than usual because of CSS limitations, only 20 bits!) You don’t even n
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by pavlov 2y ago
Eliminate due process and you don't need evidence. Vibes-based justice is back. AI-driven deportations next?
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by pavlov 2y ago
The president nowadays has immunity for official acts, so he can ship the gold to Russia anyway if he signs an executive order saying it’s necessary for world peace.
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by pavlov 2y ago
This is missing the subscription feature? Multiple independent listeners should be able to attach a callback that fires when “hello” is called.
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by pavlov 2y ago
EU has laws that give back control to users. But for this to be effective, the browser should be cooperating and working on the user’s behalf to limit tracking. (You know, the whole reason why WWW calls it “user agent” — it should be on the
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by pavlov 2y ago
When you know and remember it exists. Most people never find the feature.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I really wish browsers would default to Reader mode for documents like this. It would make "web 1.0" content much more usable, and would encourage people to create simple HTML because the default styling wouldn't look like cr
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by pavlov 2y ago
Pre-Brexit Britain was the driver for big chunks of EU legislation like the financial services framework. Obviously you don’t get to write every law to your liking, but Britain certainly wasn’t lacking in influence. They mostly did a good j
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by pavlov 2y ago
Norway+ never made any sense because Norway is a pure rule-taker. To gain access to the EU market, it adopts all EU legislation but gets no say in how it’s written. So the plus sign was always doing an awful lot of work. Presumably it meant
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s kind of crazy that I pay 429 € / year for a subscription to FT but it doesn’t include all the content, so I still have to go to archive.is for this “Premium” stuff. Why don’t we Standard edition proles get access to this article a
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by pavlov 2y ago
You’re free to believe whatever you saw on Fox News, but whataboutism isn’t terribly interesting.
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by pavlov 2y ago
The thing about fascism is that you don’t actually have to be guilty of the things they claim because they’ll just deport you or jail you regardless. Europeans are getting interrogated in US airport detention rooms over liking tweets critic
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by pavlov 2y ago
Today it’s primarily porn site where you can also discuss sports and post Nazi memes while getting flooded with crypto scams. There’s also a dwindling number of Silicon Valley influencers who still maintain the old pretense that it’s a glob
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by pavlov 2y ago
Maybe the guy is pretty good at basketball and sincerely thinks he’s going to be the best player in the world next year? That would make his arms and legs awfully valuable. Musk’s xAI is in a similar place. It’s an also-ran in a crowded spa
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by pavlov 2y ago
He's not moving any money around. The acquisition is entirely in stock. Shareholders of X are receiving xAI stock in exchange for their X shares. They don't get any cash. Musk says the new combined entity is worth $80B, but that&#
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s largely the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. You’ve started noticing it because you just learned about it.

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