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by pvillano 7mo ago
An accessibility feature helps more people if is it is on by default.
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by pvillano 7mo ago
IMO, the holy grail of 3d dithering is yet to be achieved. runevision's method does not handle surfaces viewed at sharp angles very well. I've thought a lot about a method with fractal adaptive blue noise and analytic anisotropic
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by pvillano 7mo ago
I think the research Eon is citing will be seen as a much more important step on the path to AGI than language models.
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by pvillano 7mo ago
Unicode is "designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized" Unicode needs tab, space, form feed, and carriage return. Unicode needs U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK and U+200F RIGHT-T
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by pvillano 7mo ago
"just"
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by pvillano 8mo ago
It's like supercharged fuzzing.
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by pvillano 8mo ago
I put 50% of the blame on GitHub, and 50% of the blame on postinstall. A cache is expected to have no observable effects other than increased storage usage and decreased download time. A package cache must not be able to inject malware. Git
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by pvillano 8mo ago
If the literal meaning doesn't make sense, derive the meaning from the way it is used. "To be honest" typically means "Here is an opinion that I'm embarrassed to share, and would rather lie about" They're
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by pvillano 8mo ago
Here are a few more scrutiny-deflecting phrases * just: "Just rewrite it in Rust" * simply: "To win at Jenga, simply remove one block from the bottom and put it on top." * should: "We shouldn't have to wait&quo
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by pvillano 8mo ago
Does water flowing through a maze solve it by 'thinking'? No. The rules of physics eventually result in the water flowing out the exit. Water also hits every dead end along the way. The power of LLMs is that by only selecting sequ
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by pvillano 8mo ago
I am trying to think of it like hand tools vs power tools. As long as I work in construction, I'll have to use power tools. Maybe one day I'll support myself by making fine furniture. I'd like that.
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by pvillano 8mo ago
Finally, someone who actually thought about where to draw the line instead of rejecting words with spaces entirely.
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by pvillano 8mo ago
"Each other" is like that for me, and according to search results, a lot of other people. I pronounce it ee-chother. "Eachother" feels as natural as "somebody", "nobody", "anybody" to me
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by pvillano 8mo ago
A mixture of melting ice and water suitable for drinking has a word: ice water. It's not a adjective noun phrase. It has a more specific meaning than just the two words together. You can order an ice water at a restaurant
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by pvillano 8mo ago
Great visualizations
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by pvillano 8mo ago
Do lean poofs need to be manually reviewed? Or is it as long as you formalize your theorem correctly, a valid lean program is an academically useful proof? Are there any minimal examples of programs which claim to prove the thing without ac
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by pvillano 8mo ago
It's very much a hobby, like audiophiles, but also like tricking out your car. It can be expensive. It's more than the average person needs. It's fun picking out parts and being part of a community. There's also a perspe
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by pvillano 8mo ago
One of the split keyboards pictured has only 46 keys. I use a bfo9000, a split keyboard with 54 keys per side. My layout is very similar to a standard layout, sacrificing some ergonomics for transferrable muscle memory.
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by pvillano 8mo ago
Search feels like fishing in an ocean of floating plastic. Social media feels like parks smothered with smog. It makes you stupid like leaded gas. We'll probably be stuck with it forever, like PFAS
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by pvillano 8mo ago
AI training is information theft. AI slop is information pollution.
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by pvillano 8mo ago
Oh yeah, the question is "can I use the knife and the glass again?" Although, now that I look closely at them, the butter knife got eaten away in spots and it's already pretty cheap, so I'll toss it.
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by pvillano 8mo ago
"Stupid Pencil Maker" by Shel Silverstein Some dummy built this pencil wrong, The eraser's down here where the point belongs, And the point's at the top - so it's no good to me, It's amazing how stupid some peo
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by pvillano 8mo ago
Yeah but I might ask a malformed question about a domain I know nothing about and not know it was malformed. An expert would ask for clarification
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by pvillano 8mo ago
If you're curious or actually knowledgeable about chemistry, here's what happened. My apartment's dishwasher has gaps in the enamel from which rust can drip onto plates and silverware. I tried soaking but I presume to be a st
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by pvillano 8mo ago
I recently asked an AI a chemistry question which may have an extremely obvious answer. I never studied chemistry so I can't tell you if it was. I included as much information about the situation I found myself in as I could in the pro
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by pvillano 8mo ago
To be pedantic, median is cheaper than sorting. O(n) with a quicksort-like algorithm. Also, if you're taking an average of floating point numbers, you might want to sort it first and add from smallest to largest, to better preserve pre
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by pvillano 9mo ago
Columbia also makes an infinitely adjustable belt https://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Mens-Boys-Military-Belt/dp/B...
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by pvillano 9mo ago
But like, of all the expressive power vs analyzability trade-offs you can make, there's a huge leap in expressive power when you give away decidability. Undecidability is not a sign that the foundation has cracks (not well founded)
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by pvillano 9mo ago
My [interpretation? fanfic?] is that Julia is like a carnivore, and humanity is not it's first prey. Every creature that eats, eats to steal the disentropy of it's meal. Plants can steal order from sunlight, and certain microbes c
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by pvillano 9mo ago
This stack exchange answer talks about the importance of decidability in type checking https://langdev.stackexchange.com/a/2072 My interpretation Decidability is of academic interest, and might be a hint if something i

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