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List of things named after Joe Biden(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by qsort 3y ago|0 comments
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by qsort 3y ago
Modern C is the best thing you can read about C short of the ISO standard.
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Connections(nytimes.com)
1 points by qsort 3y ago|0 comments
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by qsort 3y ago
I love dumbphones and I used to carry one until ~2 years ago, but it's increasingly untenable due to whatsapp. Couldn't care less about anything else. (perhaps an alarm clock? but even the dumbest of dumbphones has that)
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by qsort 3y ago
It's certainly less stable and ubiquitous than Perl. These days I'd rather be on Python (better libs, doesn't spook colleagues, very common on Linux boxes), but it's not an unreasonable position.
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The Mother of All Demos(archive.org)
2 points by qsort 3y ago|0 comments
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by qsort 3y ago
> what Databricks does It's an ancient African word that means "I am because I can't install Apache Spark".
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by qsort 3y ago
There's some interest in interpreted C++ in the scientific community (e.g. ROOT), but C and C++ are just about the worst possible languages to run interpreted. Ugly as it may be, the "interpreted shell, compiled core" approac
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by qsort 3y ago
> As a memorable warning sign says: "The machine has no brain. Use your own." First lesson of the first day of the first year in my CS degree -- the professor starts saying something to the effect of: "I want you to think
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by qsort 3y ago
The broader point is "game mechanics with permanent memory", which is interesting as a thought experiment. Imagine chess with "you may have your opponent retract a move, but only once in this 9-round swiss", or a Magic t
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by qsort 3y ago
(obligatory security patches aside) Major OSs are arguably almost exactly the same as they were 20 years ago, with some random nonsense baked in. Functionally speaking, there's no reason I couldn't be on OSX Tiger or Windows 2000.
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PlayOK(playok.com)
3 points by qsort 3y ago|0 comments
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by qsort 3y ago
Excel is harder to learn than 1970s-era Fortran? Excel is actually a good comparison. It's easy to learn, it works just fine for small stuff, it's easy to misuse, it's hard to catch mistakes, and more often than not at a cert
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by qsort 3y ago
My personal conspiracy theory: most "cloud services" are just... bad. VMs and disk space I understand completely, having machines on-prem is too much of an hassle and the price isn't that bad. But for stuff like this, managed
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by qsort 3y ago
It isn't any more or any less popular than it has always been. The same goes for stuff like racists, paleo-conservatives, people who read Ayn Rand, overt nazis and other amusing creatures. Our media diet has changed substantially, and
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by qsort 3y ago
I can't recommend Lichess enough. It's free (freedom & beer), it has no ads , and it's feature-complete. It even has stuff that other websites make you pay for, like post-game computer annotation. It offers a web interfa
647.
by qsort 3y ago
Access to high-quality internet resources is absolutely a luxury. You can pick and choose what resources you want, it's not TV. It's like saying that access to a well-stocked university library is not a privilege because most pop
648.
by qsort 3y ago
There's always rsync, you know...
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by qsort 3y ago
> There are loads of options and it's too easy to get something "wrong" if you inadvertently miss checking the right checkbox. This seems the exact opposite of what the current crop of AI is good at.
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by qsort 3y ago
- You can not be an effective software developer if you don't speak English (it's a second language to many of us). - If you are interested in literature, history, philosophy or adjacent fields, reading sources in their original l
651.
by qsort 3y ago
A Java developer becomes a better Java developer if they learn alternative concepts that Java doesn't empasize as much. Learning Lisp, Haskell or C is going to be useful, for example. But a Java developer won't become a better Jav
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by qsort 4y ago
I agree with your breakdown. The problem, however, is that your third point is where the vast majority of the potential usefulness of LLM lies, but simultaneously where integration with other systems is highly non-trivial, hence my "ca
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by qsort 4y ago
Given the type discipline, I assume it would type to the equivalent of void **
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by qsort 4y ago
I think this is answered by the "Misc Features & Quirks" bullet point: There is no type checking what-so-ever.
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by qsort 4y ago
"Human output" isn't automated nor connected to your production systems. Would you let any random user run arbitrary SQL against your production DB?
656.
by qsort 4y ago
The thing is that security is binary. One input out of a billion causes bad behavior and you're fucked, exactly like eval, execvpe, sql injections and all their relatives. The point isn't that you can't use LLM output, it&#x2
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by qsort 4y ago
Even if you're using C++ internally, you're likely exposing a C API behind extern C, so you don't have access to those features at the API boundary.
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by qsort 4y ago
Regardless of the current SOTA, this is a task where I'm fairly confident future LLMs can get very good at, unlike the "code in natural language" nonsense. I'm thinking something like a linter with access to the AST, tha
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Deal reached in 'Queen's Gambit' defamation suit against Netflix (2022)(france24.com)
3 points by qsort 4y ago|0 comments
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by qsort 4y ago
Why do you think this post is "negative"? "Negative" towards what? > 87% of statistics are made up. Yes, of course, I didn't mean "lower integer part of nine tenths of the total number of problems". Did

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