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by peeters 2y ago
Also, merely them knowing you have a lawyer instantly reframes the problem in their eyes. The path of least resistance to dealing with a "problematic" student is making the student go away. The path of least resistance to dealing
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by peeters 2y ago
Both are valid ways of using "would have", in this case I'm using it as the past tense of "will have". But I appreciate the ambiguity it creates. > We use "would have" as the past tense form of will hav
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by peeters 2y ago
> Roman Empire’s use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds I'm not a fan of this phrasing. None of the findings had anything to do with measuring IQ levels in ancient Europe. They were about measuring historical level
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by peeters 2y ago
Interesting that this is making the rounds...maybe OP also had this recent video show up in their Youtube feed? It includes interview clips with John Norton, the author of this paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZB81jC
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by peeters 2y ago
An interesting countermetric would be to after each iteration ask a fresh LLM (unaware of the context that created the code) to summarize the purpose of the code, and then evaluate how close those summaries are to the original problem spec.
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by peeters 2y ago
They wasted an opportunity to get a third thing meaning "million" into the same number with 5.6 x 10^6 million megagrams.
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by peeters 2y ago
> There’s no reason why I need 20,000 items on the screen at the same time. Fewer but more legible items are better. I can scroll for more. I'm reasonably sure most spreadsheet power users would have the opposite preferences to you.
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by peeters 2y ago
To be fair that was quite a late addition to the language all things considered. It could be he learned Java before it existed, or had most of his experience in 1.4 (which survived quite long in some environments because 1.5 was such a huge
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by peeters 2y ago
> trivially parseable by JavaScript going back to when people just evaluated it Comments and all, ironically. I mean sure, "and all" would frequently include script injections etc, but you can't argue it wasn't more f
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by peeters 2y ago
oh not "yikes" at all I totally peaked at the code to try to find one for him. I feel like bug fixing at that age is a fun exercise; it gets you thinking more laterally about the program you're writing.
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by peeters 2y ago
Awesome job! If you want him to get some experience with bug fixing, I found one: ask him what happens if you click on an attack and then hit escape (it cancels the attack but still charges up your attacks, so you can get to full charge on
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by peeters 2y ago
It's astonishing how many rulebooks (and people) leave that for the "scoring" section as if it's an afterthought for when the game is over.
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by peeters 2y ago
Since you seem passionate about precise definitions for technical terms, maybe you could point us to third-party definitions which match your understanding? Start with sources for what "compilation" and "tokenization" me
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by peeters 2y ago
javac does produce machine code. You just don't like the machine.
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by peeters 2y ago
And how do you pronounce that?
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by peeters 2y ago
> The only real downside is data control (ie - the company has less control over how a developer manages assets like source code). I've worked in a remote, secured development environment and it sucked, but to their credit the compa
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by peeters 2y ago
My kettle decided to use capacitive resistance buttons (even though they're elevated so they could just be switches). Every time I splash water on them (which you know, can happen sometimes with kettles) I have to dry them off and powe
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by peeters 2y ago
Competitors compete in the same market. The market in this case is VS Code extensions, with the consumers in that market being the user base of VS Code, not the users of some fork of VS Code. You can't point your competitors to a diffe
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by peeters 2y ago
> Everyone is reading this as intentional anti-competitive practices. While that may be true, isn't another reasonable explanation that the Copilot development team is moving as fast as they can and these sorts of workarounds are be
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by peeters 2y ago
That would be an interesting contrast to 1984's dystopian Newspeak, which aimed to eliminate all individuality in language.
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by peeters 2y ago
To expand on this, the circumference is divided into four quadrants, and you must shoot from your own quadrant without rotating the board (although physical abilities considered, many people play with house rules where you can rotate it). S
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by peeters 2y ago
If you think of where the centre of mass of the population of Ontario is, it is insanely far north. But yeah in its official definition Northern Ontario is more of a political designation than a geographical one. https://www.re
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by peeters 2y ago
> I guess I'm a victim of this reporting to some extent, because I remember this situation going on for months, and I keep thinking every time it's mentioned (often) how terrible it must be for these astronauts and why somethin
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by peeters 2y ago
If you are required to fully prepay, instead of pay a recurring fee, then the license term should be fixed to eternity, meaning a refund is in order if the license is ever revoked. Otherwise, it should have to be phrased as a recurring paym
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by peeters 2y ago
Yeah GP is probably merging two things that happen in the movie. One, the villain (played by Samuel Jackson) implants all of his "inner circle" with exploding implants to guarantee compliance, and late in the movie they are hacked
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by peeters 2y ago
> The idea is that without copyright there is no benefit in keeping the source code secret. Why not? You can decompile a cookie to try to see what method was used to make it, but Nabisco or whoever still treats that method and the ingred
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by peeters 2y ago
I'm not sure I see how that's true. The GPL puts a legal onus on modifiers to publish their modifications to the source with distributions of the software. Without copyright, any other party might be legally entitled to use and re
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by peeters 2y ago
I can't quickly parse this in a way that makes 5.2 1 + (2 * 3) - (4 / 5) = 6.2 (PEMDAS) 1 + (2 * (3 - (4 / 5))) = 5.4 (greedy) (((1+2) * 3) - 4) / 5 = 0.4 (non-greedy) Was it a typo or is it using some o
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by peeters 2y ago
If I had to guess, the thing they would dislike the most about the situation is that two previously assigned astronauts scheduled to fly are getting bumped from their mission so that Crew Dragon can fly with two empty seats.
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by peeters 2y ago
> The input string and output are coupled. If you add string conditionals as the author did, you introduce the chance of a mismatch between the input and output. I think it depends on whether the repetition is accidental or intrinsic. Do

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