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by pdpi 2mo ago
The SBC in question here is the Raspberry Pi — Sonic Pi was one of the early pieces of educational that made up the RPi ecosystem, and Sam Aaron was sponsored by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to write it.
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by pdpi 2mo ago
It doesn't have to be Shakespeare, but hopefully everybody agrees that writing at Shakespeare's level is indeed hard. I agree that writing good (but not great) or even just ok literature is still hard, but that invites a bunch of
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by pdpi 2mo ago
Speaking/writing English is easy. Writing literature at the level of Shakespeare is hard. Writing educational content that makes hard concepts accessible like Grant Sanderson is hard. Likewise, coding is easy. It's just writing, a
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by pdpi 2mo ago
No, the concept the author is talking about is the Jevons paradox, just like the title says. The law of demand frames demand as a function of price and utility — demand is monotonically non-decreasing with utility (the more useful it is, th
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by pdpi 2mo ago
Yes, him.
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by pdpi 2mo ago
I had a G502 that lasted years, but the last two I bought lasted me 6 months each (the wheel got completely gummed up somehow). I acknowledge that cat hair and sweaty hands are a bad combination for a mouse wheel, but that's insanely p
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by pdpi 2mo ago
This is Laziness in Larry Wall's "Three Virtues" sense. It's exactly the sort of labour-saving automation that belongs in a script/extension.
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by pdpi 2mo ago
On the other hand, decimal floating point would fail with 1/3 + 1/3 != 2/3. The general rule is that, in base b, you have finite positional ("decimal") representations of numbers p/q where q is a divisor of bˆn
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by pdpi 2mo ago
> Are we just using OOP as a term for anything bad now? Different paradigms come with different pathological cases. I've had to deal with Scala programmers whose notion of FP is making everything generic on the Monad it abstracts ov
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by pdpi 2mo ago
It's not by accident that tabs vs spaces is one of the stereotypical great debates in programming.
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by pdpi 2mo ago
No site is important until it is, but by then it's too late to overhaul your security architecture.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
There's multiple ways to program using LLMs, so using different words for different styles is a useful distinction. Of course, you absolutely can build a No True Scotsman argument on top of that distinction, but I don't think that
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by pdpi 3mo ago
What do you mean? The whole point is that these APUs present a pretty unique value proposition (lowish performance GPUs with massive amounts of RAM attached), and framework is afaik the only vendor shipping them on standard mini-ITX boards
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by pdpi 3mo ago
TigerBeetle is the other canonical example.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
"OpenAI's internal team solves famous maths problem" is technically impressive but dispiriting. Non-experts solving a problem by just throwing resources at it is kind of the worst possible optics for knowledge workers. It&#x2
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by pdpi 3mo ago
> If CEOs are going to start claiming that a core role of their job is emotional inspiration as a result of all those all hands meetings Oh hell no. That's not where the value lies. You can't send an AI CEO as part of a trade d
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by pdpi 3mo ago
AI can’t replace genuine 1:1 human interaction. We’re social animals, and a machine pretending to be a human can’t engender the same emotional response as another human.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Keyword typosquatting I guess?
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Mostly the latter. There's another aspect to it, though — parent was in a navy ship, surrounded by sailors. That's a very specific population, in a very specific situation, and it's not necessarily true that that's the r
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Spelling used to be a big one. E.g. in the opening sentence of the article, the word "otimização" would've been an obvious sign it was Brazilian, because the usual European Portuguese spelling was "optimização" — we
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Brazilian Portuguese. Funnily enough, it took me a while to determine it was definitely Brazilian Portuguese, given I'm a native Portuguese speaker, because the whole thing is written in a stiff academic-ish style that hides some the d
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by pdpi 3mo ago
> Today I learned about the Bortle scale When I first learned about the "clouds are noticeably brighter than the sky" part of Bortle 5, it was like it flipped a switch in my brain. I can't avoid noticing it now.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
> Most people didn't care about dark skys in the first place and still don't. Most people were never given the opportunity to care.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
An RC justifies the "merges" title (compare "releases")
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Or you can use a hardware U2F key.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
You’re missing the O(1) space complexity.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Doesn’t seem like these two guys were vegan for Instagram internet points or for following a trend. They’re not trying to game the system for steak, medium rare. Their dietary restrictions are part of a larger belief system — they’re vegan
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by pdpi 3mo ago
"Port done with binary patches" has a bit of the same energy as the N64Recomp project[0], which converts N64 ROMs into C programs that can be built for modern PCs. 0. https://github.com/N64Recomp/N64Recomp
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Looking at that chart, AI seems to have not done much of anything at all to Stack Overflow. They were already in sharp decline before LLMs became widely available.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
`2>&1` redirects FD2 to the current contents of FD1 (stdout), then `> /dev/null` redirects FD1 to /dev/null. That results in your errors going into stdout, and discarding regular output altogether: 0: std

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