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by pxc 10mo ago
I don't think it would make much sense to hunt large predators prior to the invention of agriculture, even though early humans were probably plenty smart enough to build traps capable of holding animals like tigers. But after that (les
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by pxc 10mo ago
For one, some geometric proofs by construction can literally involve pictures rather than statements, right?
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by pxc 10mo ago
Club3D makes some dongles that will convert from DP 1.4 with DSC to HDMI 2.1, actually. The only ones I've used personally are physically USB-C (DP alt mode) on the DP end, though. But they make some that are mDP and have DSC support a
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by pxc 10mo ago
Declarative vs. imperative doesn't have anything to do with power or expressiveness. Some general purpose programming languages are declarative, and some declarative DSLs are Turing-complete. I worry that comments like this lead the av
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by pxc 10mo ago
Yes, literally: https://opensource.org/licenses
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by pxc 10mo ago
> AI always thinks and learns faster than us, this is undeniable now. Huh? The LLMs we're using today don't learn at all . I don't even mean that in a philosophical sense— I mean they come "pre-baked" with whate
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by pxc 10mo ago
> Toasts are also not accessible for folks with low vision To make this a little more concrete with one example: if you are using fullscreen magnification, odds are toasts will literally never appear on your monitor. By the time you pan
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by pxc 10mo ago
Scala 3 is sorta a new language, bringing a lot of improvements to the type system: https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/new-in-scala3.html It also looks like it has some improvements for dealing with `null` from Java co
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by pxc 10mo ago
I've never been able to get that to work. LLMs can't count; they don't actually know how long their output is.
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by pxc 10mo ago
> A problem I’ve found with LLMs for docs is that they are like ten times too wordy This is one of the problems I feel with LLM-generated code, as well. It's almost always between 5x and long and 20x (!) as long as it needs to be. T
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by pxc 10mo ago
> He now intends to place a series of bright strobe lights around his front plate to "bleach out" the sensors of these spy cameras. Isn't this a safety hazard?
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by pxc 10mo ago
It was also shittier than the version we had before it (human receptionists). This is what I always think of when I imagine how AI will change the world and daily life. Automation doesn't have to be better (for the customer, for the pe
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by pxc 10mo ago
If the wives want to cheat, won't they then just do it somewhere else? Or is that actually the point, they just don't want their memories of the house tainted, or to be traumatized by coming home to it?
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by pxc 11mo ago
Why/how is this faster than a depth first search? Isn't depth first better for shell pipelines since you want to start streaming results as soon as you find them, and you may have to go down several layers into a nested structure
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by pxc 11mo ago
> When was the last time you went to an actual physical library My eyesight is making paper books harder and harder to read, so I don't go to libraries and bookstores as much as I used to. But I think libraries are still relatively
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by pxc 11mo ago
> Since going remote I have come to wonder if a direct-message-first chat culture is harmful to collaboration. There's no question! It absolutely is.
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by pxc 11mo ago
> Wherever you think is the right effort/benefit threshold, it will turn out to be different in a few weeks. Very true. And experiencing this has absolutely been a useful lesson to me. I remember feeling pained over some code I want
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by pxc 11mo ago
I think, sadly, that's often "the job". My career has been good so far, all things considered, but I think it would probably be better if embracing that idea came more naturally to me. One of my first strange and unpleasant r
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by pxc 11mo ago
I feel that. I wish the same.
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by pxc 11mo ago
I also spend what feels to me like a lot of time here. I like it, despite its problems. But HN isn't good enough to deserve to be 70% of anyone's life. :(
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by pxc 11mo ago
There are multiple kinds of psychological counseling. Some "supportive therapy" really is more of an ongoing thing, like having a personal trainer. Some kinds of psychological therapy always aim to have a terminus, like physical t
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by pxc 11mo ago
> A more feminine point of view is that we should shield against experiences that lead to a trauma. I think that's true both for physical and psychological trauma! We should generally avoid preventable injuries and try to live and w
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by pxc 11mo ago
"Trauma" ultimately just means "severe injury" or something like that, doesn't it? We take it for granted that virtually no one will make it through life without ever sustaining a serious or enduring physical injury
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by pxc 11mo ago
Huh. I didn't know Ubuntu had replaced GNU coreutils. I'm not sure that alone counts as "the bulk of it", but it's definitely very significant.
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by pxc 11mo ago
ALSA, sysvinit, and Xorg weren't GNU projects, either.
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by pxc 11mo ago
If "Era of Scaling" means "era of rapid and predictable performance improvements that easily attract investors", it sounds a lot like "AI summer". So... is "Era of Research" a euphemism for "AI w
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by pxc 11mo ago
I don't remember all of the details so I can't remember if that came up in the episode I listened to. But I did listen to an episode where he talked to a (Chinese) guest about China. I discussed it with a Chinese friend at the tim
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by pxc 11mo ago
> I think its important to include that Lex is laundromat for whatever the guest is trying to sell. This is also Rogan's chief problem as a podcaster, isn't it?
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by pxc 11mo ago
Only semi-professional. There's no legal barrier to entry or licensing, no guild structure— no bar association, no medical board, no engineer licensing board, etc. It's privileged, high-wage work, but it's not a profession in
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by pxc 11mo ago
When I used it I was a computer science student. But I wasn't reading anyone else's code or trying to maintain anything complex, which is why I asked what I did. I'm sure there are quirks I never had to deal with. So is it ju

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