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by rmunn 1mo ago
Have you also looked at Snap! ( https://snap.berkeley.edu/ ), by any chance? It's basically Scratch but with the artificial limitations removed, e.g. you can pass lists to functions, and blocks (functions) are treated as
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by rmunn 1mo ago
"Not available yet", at least to me, carries the implication that it will , not just might, become available at some point. Probably soon enough that it's worth asking the question again later. Whereas "don't know&
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by rmunn 1mo ago
I added labels (just a piece of paper under some clear tape) saying "CROSSOVER" at both ends of the cables, so that if I ever plugged a crossover cable into a place where I needed a straight-through, the label would be right there
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by rmunn 1mo ago
Back in my college days, 169.254.x.y addresses were the bane of my existence, because my job was getting students' computers set up with the brand-new Ethernet connection in their dorm room. This usually required a tech to come out to
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by rmunn 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-dependent_interface#Aut... is what allowed the switchover to happen automatically, and it got folded into the 1000BASE-T standard. So yes, crossover cables are no longer required be
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by rmunn 1mo ago
That used to require a crossover cable; I've done precisely that (with a crossover cable) back before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-dependent_interface#Aut... became widespread. With a straight-through cabl
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by rmunn 1mo ago
I must admit to occasionally rearranging words or choosing different synonyms to make a column of spaces line up in a monospaced paragraph, so that you could draw a straight line down one column the screen without passing through any letter
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by rmunn 1mo ago
I have been using the `git lb` alias suggested by https://ses4j.github.io/2020/04/01/git-alias-recent-branches... (post written April 1st but not a joke) and quite enjoying it. Shows me the last 10 branches I
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by rmunn 1mo ago
Let's settle the argument by all agreeing on mussels instead, and enjoy a nice seafood dish with garlic and a white wine sauce. Delicious.
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by rmunn 1mo ago
For the longest time, I had far more trouble getting printers to work in Windows (where I had to download a driver and hope that it worked right, and sometimes the only drivers offered were the ones for a different version of Windows than I
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by rmunn 1mo ago
Does that interfere with your being able to use Opt for typing key combos to produce Unicode codepoints that aren't usually found on a "standard" keyboard for your country? E.g., accented characters not found in your country&
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by rmunn 1mo ago
Not the author, but I've heard many people complain about elisp and wish they could have written (name of Emacs package) in Scheme. I mean, there's a reason why the https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhyDoesElisp
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by rmunn 1mo ago
Could you clarify what you mean by "human driven"? It's clear from the AGENTS.md and the AI-sounding vocabulary of the README that this is in part written with LLMs. But what exactly are you asking? Are you asking "Was t
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by rmunn 1mo ago
People mean different things when they use the word "conscious", and that's part of the problem that keeps cropping up in these debates. I was using it in the most basic meaning, the one that "unconscious" is the op
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by rmunn 1mo ago
Given the obvious AI vocabulary scattered through the README, I'm hoping it doesn't mean "self-aware" in the HAL sense. `C-x C-c` I'm afraid I can't let you do that, $USER
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by rmunn 1mo ago
For now. That won't last forever. Yes, it'll take quite some time to work through the current production backlog, which is why I'm predicting five years, not one or two. But the trajectory has always been "new video card
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by rmunn 1mo ago
And right now the demand for GPU is far outpacing the supply, even with factories at full production, which is keeping prices high and out of reach of most people. But unless something happens to shut down the factories (not impossible, but
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by rmunn 1mo ago
Even the word "care" can have multiple meanings, as you have kindly demonstrated for us. :-) It's no wonder that serious philosophers spend the first 2-3 chapters of a 20-chapter book carefully defining their terms, and only
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by rmunn 1mo ago
> I don't like arguments like this, because instead of attacking the core premise they attack defenders of the idea. There are different points of view, and picking one for a sake of an argument doesn't make a sociopath from an
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by rmunn 1mo ago
That's a good point. In many real-life scenarios, what matters is not what is actually true, but what large numbers of people believe to be true. That's why you can get a mob rioting over something that never actually happened
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by rmunn 1mo ago
Because pixl97 is operating in the real world where children often make exaggerated claims, not some hypothetical, abstract, ideal world where they can be trusted to always tell the truth at all times. Which reminds me of a funny "ki
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by rmunn 1mo ago
You're definitely right that it's important to be careful how we refer to terms like "consciousness", and your response actually illustrates part of the problem. Because people use the same term to mean two (or more) com
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by rmunn 1mo ago
I wouldn't put too much emphasis on the "I can't prove they aren't" part. Having taken a few philosophy classes in college, I quickly realized that you can't actually prove that solipsism is wrong. I can&#x
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by rmunn 1mo ago
Wow. I have rarely read anything that made me lose more respect for the author in a single article. And this guy is a VP at Google ? And he leads an AI research team ? His third paragraph, which is the core of his argument, is stupid . H
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by rmunn 1mo ago
The counterpoint article, which can be read at https://archive.ph/IeSZg , is also worth reading. (IMHO, the original article is completely wrongheaded and the counterpoint is far closer to correct, but I'll post my reas
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by rmunn 1mo ago
F# as well.
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by rmunn 1mo ago
Pattern matching? Nice, I'd managed to miss that one completely, as well as the fact that Python had introduced dictionary-merging (according to a quick search, Python 3.9 introduced the | (pipe) operator for dict unions). I did know a
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by rmunn 1mo ago
Please do toot your own horn. I assume you're referring to https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/oct — tell us why it's good.
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by rmunn 1mo ago
If I'm teaching you programming and you've learned Scratch, I'm going to hand you Snap! ( https://snap.berkeley.edu/ ) next. Because it's Scratch, but with the artificial limiters removed. Snap! (the excla
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by rmunn 1mo ago
It also helps prevent people from ever redefining them. I mean, if you try to redefine False (in a version of Python that allows it) then you deserve everything that's about to happen to your code... but at the same time, it could po

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