rollcat

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by rollcat 1y ago
I don't think "real" vs "fake" or "soulless" is what matters at all. Both issues should be discussed in terms of ethics and incentive structures. Who's profiting at whose expense.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> I'd say it's like AI music or art - something made by a machine, for some reason, just doesn't have any "soul" to it. Diamonds are a product of natural geological processes. (Or, are grown in a lab, by recreati
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by rollcat 1y ago
LLMs are a stochastic (as opposed to a deterministic) system, which can make them better at tasks that by nature are difficult to express formally, but still require a degree of certainty ("how can I make this CV better"). I belie
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by rollcat 1y ago
Well, when you consider what it actually is (statistics and weights), it makes total sense that it can inform a decision. The decision is yours though, a machine cannot be held responsible.
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by rollcat 1y ago
Makes total sense, execution time is bounded. The point is it's still a case you must consider (what if near-zero is distinct from zero and significant?)
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by rollcat 1y ago
So far nearly all of the kernel/driver code in the modern (~1990+?) history of osdev has been written in C/C++. However it appears that Rust can make you incredibly productive, at the very least in experimental/explorative de
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by rollcat 1y ago
When I was taught mathematics, the zero value was always considered the most important edge case. You prove something for N=0 (or N=1), then for N=M+1. It's even more important in audio DSP: processing near-zeroes can end up being extr
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by rollcat 1y ago
I'm quite certain there's a mod to manage your in-game playlists, and unlike in e.g. Factorio, the server doesn't even need to know about it. As for c418, you're privileged as an artist when you get to keep your rights
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by rollcat 1y ago
Deciding to abandon meat is a lot like quitting cigarettes. Sometimes you need a long time to ease off, some artificial/processed replacement (e.g. nicotine patches), it won't feel the same or "good enough", there's
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by rollcat 1y ago
The later composers for Minecraft have also crafted some exceptional pieces. Lena Raine's work was an instant hit. Nothing better than playing a Pigstep music disc at the end of a speedrun (because memes are more important than PBs).
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by rollcat 1y ago
That "old" Internet is still here, alive and kicking, just evolved. It's easier to follow people's blogs and websites thanks to ubiquitous RSS (even YouTube continues to support it). It tends to be more accessible, becau
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by rollcat 1y ago
> The actual core of OTP was the supervisor tree but that's too complicated so Golang is basically just more concise Java. Which is ironic, maybe kinda funny. The first "larger" project I've tackled in Go was a chat s
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by rollcat 1y ago
Yes, thanks to the heroic efforts of Alyssa Rosenzweig < https://rosenzweig.io/ >, Asahi Lina < https://www.youtube.com/c/AsahiLina >, and others. Unfortunately, a lot of this effort seems stal
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by rollcat 1y ago
Is it also insane to have access to a CLI in a graphical user interface? It just gives you a different level of abstraction to work with. If you want a simple GUI, just grab UTM < https://mac.getutm.app >. Also: check out th
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by rollcat 1y ago
Somewhat related: https://strandbergguitars.com/true-temperament/
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by rollcat 1y ago
I've been using it for ~10 years at work and at home. Fantastic software.
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by rollcat 1y ago
Interesting! So this is kinda like whole-program static analysis, but the "program" is like eBPF - no loops, no halting problem, etc. This is great for defence in depth (stops the agent from doing the wrong thing), but IMO the pro
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by rollcat 1y ago
Here's my shot: - curl sees that the standard output is a tty, consults $TERM, termcap, etc - curl crafts an "Accept:" header, format to be specified - server sees Accept and responds with appropriately encoded response; e.g.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> How exactly do you propose that wttr.in, which is not actually a process running on your machine (but a remote server), call isatty() on your machine? That's exactly my point. You can't do that. $ curl --head -s wttr.in
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by rollcat 1y ago
Popular science for you. To be able to explain something, is to have a good understanding of it. To explain something in simple terms, takes much more.
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by rollcat 1y ago
curl wttr.in/London > london.txt open -a TextEdit london.txt Witness the control code garbage. IMHO you should not emit ANSII escape sequences until you at least call isatty, preferably also consult termcap. But also I
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by rollcat 1y ago
Language models and actors are powerful tools, but I'm kinda terrified with how irresponsibly are they being integrated. "Prompt injection" is way more scary than "SQL injection"; the latter will just f.up your data
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by rollcat 1y ago
As colejohnson66 noted. I would use typedef table, typedef page, etc. A void* is a pointer to the void. A page table is a table of pages.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> Again, I get it, but I can live with visiting only the websites or gopherholes I want. [...] Even if we consider just the minimalist and well designed websites, this means hoards of content when compared to all gemini capsules. I agree
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by rollcat 1y ago
I do recognise and respect his past work. But he's come to a point where he'd rather hinder the progress of free software than help it. That's not extremist, that's short-sighted and spiteful. That, and the uh, "it&
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by rollcat 1y ago
I honestly can't think up a reasonable case for a triple "naked" pointer. Nevermind performance, it's a level of implicit indirection that you simply can't reason about. Think of what a pointer is. Picture a struct;
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by rollcat 1y ago
> I also do not understand why anyone would drop the GPL because Stallman does not like their licensing. Stallman is said to be notoriously difficult to work with, and IMHO he's quite an extremist. He tried to veto emoji support in
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by rollcat 1y ago
What would it take to test it in court? Plenty of projects choose AGPL for whatever philosophical / moral reasons, perhaps even out of fear of competition. Is it just that it's "radioactive" enough to scare away anyone w
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by rollcat 1y ago
It's not just the junior devs. A client once came to me with something that looked like 99.9% is just ModelForm, some CSS, and money. I should've taken 25% upfront and said no to the increasingly absurd change requests, but oh wel
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by rollcat 1y ago
eZ80 looks cool. Indeed looks like an interesting mcu to build a tiny general-purpose computer from scratch. (Somehow I always found bank-switching kinda ugly, address space is better when there's more of it.) I find it fascinating how

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