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421.
by petters 6y ago
I felt the same way as you until my laptop was destroyed by a third-party charger.
422.
by petters 6y ago
IMO types in Python mostly pay for themselves when you develop in a team. They greatly improve the developer experience by providing automatically enforced documentation. Allows IDEs to provide code completions etc.
423.
by petters 6y ago
pyflakes finds these. It has virtually 0% false positives and runs extremely quickly. Run it on save or in a git commit hook. (I agree that they should be a syntax error though)
424.
by petters 6y ago
Update: This is no longer the case. I can not reproduce this any more. Great!
425.
by petters 6y ago
This is how I use the fullscreen expandable images: 1: Go to a page. 2: Click on an image. 3: Close the image. 4: Click the browser back button. I am now at the image again. This is surprising and I cannot seem to learn this.
426.
by petters 6y ago
That's interesting! Never thought that the meaning of the two dots should affect the sort order and that it is not possible to represent with Unicode. If there are previous examples of the two rendered differently, I think that makes a
427.
by petters 6y ago
Hmm, so you're saying that this library is not really needed? I'll look into this.
428.
by petters 6y ago
I think something like this should be in the standard library.
429.
by petters 6y ago
Does not work perfectly though: "Fisk" would be a very strange name in Swedish (means "fish") and I've never heard it in English, I think.
430.
by petters 6y ago
What would a "true" brutalist font look like? Brutalism is about exposing the materials used in construction (i.e. the raw concrete is visible). So maybe a font that also shows its own spline control points?
431.
by petters 6y ago
Google's releases are always so anticlimactic, since they are rolling out over a relatively long period of time. It is, of course, the correct way of doing things, but readers will be disappointed when they try it themselves. (I still
432.
by petters 6y ago
> The butterfly effect only works when a physical system is on the knife's edge, that it is prone to unstable/chaotic behavior. I am not sure exactly what you mean, but that does not sound right to me. The weather, for example,
433.
by petters 6y ago
Ironically, this is the sort of probability theory Nassim Taleb hates. :-)
434.
by petters 6y ago
At least that's how I remember it. Tabs were a huge improvement to the web browsing experience.
435.
by petters 6y ago
Completely agree. But the creator of AI dungeon has gotten 10k Twitter followers and will likely get a good job/career out of it, if nothing else.
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by petters 6y ago
> Mozilla rose to the top because of the promise of an open web and always making sure their users would come first, generating near endless goodwill and advocacy, and it was free software to boot. No, they had a free browser with tabs.
437.
by petters 6y ago
> Fees can go as high as 20 million yen (£145,000) if a client is a politician or a celebrity, requiring the highest level of secrecy. Still seems very cheap?
438.
by petters 6y ago
It looks like this is exactly what the linked software does?
439.
by petters 6y ago
I don`t know much about physics engines, but I do know that there are much more sophisticated integrators than x = x + v*dt. For example schemes for gravity that keeps energy invariant. Are any used in physics engines? I assume yes.
440.
by petters 6y ago
I certainly would not want to bet on it, but adding the ability to perform computation and access storage could take 10 years. Right now, GPT-3 "sees" 2048 tokens, does a forward pass, and outputs the next word. We would like to t
441.
by petters 6y ago
The article isn't wrong, but it also depends on how much (time, money) you invest in your business. For example, creating AI Dungeon (first with GPT-2, now with 3) will probably be profitable for its founder, one way or another. So tha
442.
by petters 6y ago
This is a really annoying Gmail+Gsuite bug that has affected us as well. Surprising that it seems to happen this often.
443.
by petters 6y ago
I am not sure the manned/unmanned distinction is applicable to life evolved on other planets… especially since it must be much more advanced than us.
444.
by petters 6y ago
Definitely personalized. I stopped using FB a couple of years ago, but when I did, its ads were amazingly good (I almost miss them sometimes). FB would show me an ad for the perfect obscure Kickstarter project that I was happy to back. Win-
445.
by petters 6y ago
It seems that they still don't know what caused the June 29 outage, though.
446.
by petters 6y ago
nitpy.com could be a new Python linter.
447.
by petters 6y ago
The C++ standard is famously complicated about atomics and memory order (for a good reason): https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/memory_order But on x86, many of these things don't matter, if I unde
448.
by petters 6y ago
In Sweden, you can pay in most online stores (that I visit) with Klarna. They use direct back transfers.
449.
by petters 6y ago
Sure, but I think the most important reason people have in mind when they argue for dynamic linking is that they will receive upstream bugfixes. I don't think your eight cases are equally important. You are of course right, though, and
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by petters 6y ago
Thanks, that was unfortunate.

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