red_admiral

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by red_admiral 2mo ago
Someone is trying to recreate "the seven colors of the earthly rainbow and the three extra colors you only get in Heaven" (from Scott Alexander's UNSONG).
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
Indeed, seeing how slanted online discussion was, I suspect one side had many more bots, and I'm not sure if the other side had any.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
The best discussion I've seen so far is from Scott Aaronson: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6823 > To illustrate, in the special case that GPT had a bunch of possible tokens that it judged equally probable, you could
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
A joke on the goverment nationalising the railways and the debate around whether we should nationalise water companies.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
The history of ceefax is worth reading when you have a spare moment. If you want to go further down the rabbit hole, there's Prestel with its 1980s "electronic mailbox".
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
IBM briefly pulled ahead with the PC though, mainly by routing around their own bureaucracy. That was a hard innovation problem, especially without a crystal ball.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
Innovation or research, maybe. Keeping an enterprise system running and maintainable is the opposite problem.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
Golang was supposed to be boring by design ( https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article ) and you can use it in a boring way. Even learning golang is relatively boring.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
> the server sends the HTML already built and the client just places it where it belongs Mind blown. A much bigger pet peeve of mine is making a SPA when a bunch of HTML pages would do, and would give you sensible URLs and the ability to
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
There's news articles already about women realising they were recorded without their consent and are now on TikTok or something. Just waiting for the first lawsuit against Meta about that, hopefully it kills the idea.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
My setup: separate profile for Facebook. Targeted advertising turned off. FB domains blocked on main profile. Not perfect, but it works.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
Better than lowering grading standards, I guess.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
They are owned by the Crown, I think. That doesn't contradict your point.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
Wastewater analysis shows cocaine is consumed massively ... in the financial district of London.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
Even after taking a higher percentage of shoplifting into account.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
> Supermarkets in the UK point cameras at your face at self-checkout. I have some sympathy for this as shoplifting is getting worse. Also, an acquaintance of mine works as a security guard at a Tesco and was attacked and injured with a s
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
Employers do use it, among many other signals, in their hiring/shortlisting process. How much depends on state and sector.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
I'm trying the imagine the scenario where the government official reports that elves have been found. On what evidence?
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
It's the same principle as the age of consent. It'll always be arbitrary, but that's still better than not having a limit at all.
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
Politicians often have kids too, and what parent does not worry about their own kids? Is it that much worse if a politician genuinely cares about other people's kids too?
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
> Anyone who brings up kids is trying to manipulate you into giving up your freedom for security That argument loses you most of the population in a vote, myself included. Parents may disagree, for a start; I reckon most women (especiall
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
> You can write the application function by function ... and then use JUnit or TestNG in Java, or similar features in other languages. Which you can automatically run, including showing code coverage, both with a button in your IDE and a
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
> deal with avalanche conditions Swiss solution: chuck some explosives out of a helicopter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H519qhLnRtM (start at 1:20) (In the image at https://swisshelicopter.ch/de/a
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
Is that the "nuclear potato cannon" one?
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by red_admiral 2mo ago
That's actually really neat, even without advertising I can serve humans my full page and AI bots a version with some parts removed. Or added.
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by red_admiral 3mo ago
Just because we can, doesn't mean we have to. I'd prefer to have some more brain-cache free to concentrate on the problem I'm trying to debug rather than doing type resolution in my head.
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by red_admiral 3mo ago
Indeed, we're now one step away from monads. I know https://go.dev/doc/effective_go hasn't been updated for while, but it also seems to have been forgotten. "Go is an open-source programming language tha
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by red_admiral 3mo ago
This sounds a bit too metaphysical to me. I can see why bot chess is not the same thing as human chess and we carry on with human tournaments, but why does anyone care if the compiler they're using is _not the same thing_? Like, clang
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by red_admiral 3mo ago
2028: AI can generate a compiler suite to rival GCC overnight, but faster and with fewer bugs. That'll be fun. (Extra fun if the AI generated compiler is under BSD licence.)
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by red_admiral 3mo ago
For more on this topic, the book Fields of Blood ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_of_Blood ) has a couple of chapters on this. It's a fascinating history.

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