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by riwsky 3y ago
You can still believe the Earth is flat, too—don’t let those ships disappearing over the horizon bully you into thinking otherwise
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by riwsky 3y ago
But “less than six figures” does mean less than $100,000
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by riwsky 3y ago
“Given my chosen definition of consciousness as XYZ, is it possible that consciousness is XYZ?”
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by riwsky 3y ago
One is reminded of the difference between proof-relevant and classical mathematics. The letter of the law is a mere proposition, whereas the spirit of the law is a program of a certain type, whose “computational content” describes the actio
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by riwsky 3y ago
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight“—Bill Gates
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by riwsky 3y ago
Favorite Jira feature: admins can’t stop you from using the REST API instead of its awful UI, because the UI depends on it: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-i-d...
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by riwsky 3y ago
And experience is the practical contact with and observation of facts, over an extended period. Most English dictionaries explicitly separate out “formal judgment by an expert” as a distinct meaning for “opinion” from the more common meanin
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by riwsky 3y ago
Even if the APIs for both were equally simple, modules for manipulating json are way more likely to be available in the stdlib of whatever language you’re using.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Blink was forked from Apple’s WebKit, 8 years after WebKit forked off of KHTML; Apple’s invested plenty in the web. Do they support new things as quickly as Chrome? No. But some of their most important investments have been in supporting l
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by riwsky 3y ago
isiselmdead.infodead.info
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by riwsky 3y ago
> We divide the available memory in two equal parts, use one half as a working copy which accumulates useful objects and garbage, and then at some point switch the halves, copying the live objects (but not the garbage) over So, generatio
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by riwsky 3y ago
Meh. You can keep the last few years of Meta VR “advances”; for the price, I’d much rather just buy 11 million Vision Pros.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Everything except the compiler, that is
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by riwsky 3y ago
I don’t understand the confusion. It’s all right there, on page 404 of the rust spec: > Parameters with a recursive lifetime can only be used in a tail-call position within a function. If a function with only recursive params compiles su
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by riwsky 3y ago
Except, say, nature. Can’t much legislate gravity out of existence, can we.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Ahhhhhh, legit, sorry. I’d read “whoever is responsible for this needs to go” as referring to only the malicious party—but “better leader s ” does indeed suggest the GP wants multiple heads to roll.
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by riwsky 3y ago
You’re missing the distinction here between incompetence and malice. One member of leadership acted maliciously; the fact that they were successful indicates that leadership as a whole was missing some controls (formal or otherwise). The la
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by riwsky 3y ago
Just need support for recursive lifetimes
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by riwsky 3y ago
they should consider doing this for a living
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by riwsky 3y ago
I.e. only to be used in exceptional cases.
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by riwsky 3y ago
My LLM is totally real! And she’s the best, way better than GPT-4. But you wouldn’t know her, she goes to another school. In Canada.
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by riwsky 3y ago
guns don't kill real estate markets, real estate markets kill real estate markets
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by riwsky 3y ago
can’t believe they’d censor ipv6 like that smh
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by riwsky 3y ago
My favorite GPT-powered tool is Todd, this guy at my work
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by riwsky 3y ago
The OP-1 (or the original, at least) has fans throughout the industry. You can find Thom Yorke performing with it, Tame Impala, can find Justin Vernon singing its praises. The rest of their lineup, not so much.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Huh? He’s not talking about creative choices, dude. The third note of a major scale is objectively the major third.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Please play a C major scale, but for every third note instead sing “Fizz”, every fifth note sing “Buzz”, and every 15th note instead sing “FizzBuzz”
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by riwsky 3y ago
Or rather: most people in everyday usage would describe prescriptivists as a real bummer
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by riwsky 3y ago
‘Of’ is not itself the problem. The problem is that the direction has flipped from the original usage. It’s like if instead of “my book collection includes all the classics of Russian literature” people started saying “my book collection is

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