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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
> We lack a theory of consciousness [...] Nitpick: off course we don't really lack a theory of consciousness. It's just that Alan Turing choose to ignore all the existing prior discourse in humanities and philosophy.
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
Watts and sustainability were never part of the Turing test, of course. It was conceived as more of a philosophical argument than a practical test. For instance, consider Searle's Chinese Room counter argument [1]: Millions of humans
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
The article mentions that California no longer is. Due to closures it is now a net importer of oil.
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
There are already news articles kind-of implying that the crew knew better when they told passengers that the disease was not transmissible.
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
Exactly. And I guess that is also the gist of the article: async Rust needs additional TLC.
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
Sorry for posting a n00b question, but could you share etymology on this term golfing ?
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
Not saying synergy is a dirty word, always . It's the assumption that there is a lot of overlap (which rarely materializes) and that assimilation or merging has no cost. In practice, company cultures are rarely aligned (the merger was
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
> I somehow miss noticing that in C++ and I have no idea how it is working in other domains. There seems to be some consensus even within the C++ ISO committee that the evolution process of that language is somewhat broken, mostly due to
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
Beware, they are different concepts. Threads offer concurrent execution , async (futures) offer concurrent waiting . Loosely speaking, threads make sense for CPU bound problems, while async makes sense for IO bound problems.
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
> [...] That's not a big problem [...] Depends somewhat on your expectations, I suppose. Compared to Python, Java, sure, but Rust off course strives to offer "zero-cost" high level concepts. I think the critique is in the
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
> Well, his argument is that he can remove inefficiencies in the combined company. Sigh. The synergy argument, once again. While historically most mergers don't work out particularly well, I'm absolutely sure this time will
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
> Are you sure you're not an LLM? Hard to tell, but I don't think so ;-) I suppose using Txx instructions rather than LDx is more of an idiom than intended to conserve space. Also, could an LDx #0 potentially be 3 cycles in the
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
You're absolutely right, I stand corrected. The 6502 gets by doing immediate load: 2 clock cycles, 2 bytes (frequently followed by single byte register transfer instruction). Out of curiosity I did a quick scan of the MOS 1.20 rom of t
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
Yep. The XOR trick - relying on special use of opcode rather than special register - is probably related to limited number of (general purpose) registers in typical '70 era CPU design (8080, 6502, Z80, 8086).
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
Interesting take. Hadn't thought of it in terms of entropy, but it's true. Almost by definition as the training proces doesn't introduce anything novel beyond scraped inputs and a randomly initialized network. From there, the
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
One could argue that the discussion is once again about tech debt . Both OpenClaw and MSDOS gaining a lot a traction by taking short cuts, ignoring decades of lessons learned and delivering now what might have been ready next year. MSDOS
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€5 gadget tracks down Dutch Navy's stealth warship while on mission(nltimes.nl)
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
I'm tempted to (bitterly) point out that feeling responsible for future generations was already off the table decades ago when we decided to ignore our ecological footprints.
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
* Censorship friendly, and * Surveillance friendly. What more do you want?!
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
Such a pity that this is an online-only conference. Does anyone know of an IRL conference or meetup on Nim, preferably in EU?
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
We programers have been depending on a centralized compute resources for much longer than LLMs. For one, imagine having to discover StackExchange without Google search. Sure, those were gratis , but I'm not so sure programming was eve
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
UBI, at best, will only fix one aspect of disruption. Income is not the only reason why people want to be employed.
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
From what I heard about NGI-zero, another government sponsorship project (1), the problem so far is primarily finding the projects that need sponsorship. (1) https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
> For every unicorn there are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands dead horses... Nicely put!
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
After a decade of negative interest, there is still a lot of excess capital looking for high-risk-high-gain investments. Perceived future economic value is unfortunately not in the stuff we know and understand to be useful, essential. Use v
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
Not sure, but I think C++ actually does allow std::variant with multiple choices using the same type. You might not be able to distinguish between them by type (using get<Type>()), but you can by position (get<0>(), get<1
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
+1 An unsigned hash is plenty guard to against tampering. The supply chain and any secret sauce that went into that firmware is just trust . Trust that the blob is well intentioned, trust that you downloaded from the right URL, checked t
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
I don't know why I thought the ASF did not accept ear marked donations.
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
For one: Most if not all virus scanners. A signature is a signal, not an absolute. Although, to be fair, if Microsoft (or most other CAs) had done a better job, then that trust would have carried more weight than it does currently.
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by repelsteeltje 6mo ago
Off course not, but there is infinitely more vulnerable software escaping Anthropic's scrutiny. And when AI-powered discovery becomes a necessity, that will lead to concentration of power to these kinds of companies. Bruce Scheier made

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