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by rvense 2y ago
OK. When talking about language I find it's always good to be explicit about what level you're talking about, especially when you're using terms as overloaded as "information". I'm not really sure how to connec
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by rvense 2y ago
How do you measure information density of English text?
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by rvense 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
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by rvense 2y ago
So this is OK? Selling somebody an $800 thing that might stop working is fine and people should just get over it? This "business model" should not exist.
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by rvense 2y ago
Racket and Scheme are full of these things that appear a little unhinged but then you realize that it's all built from a few very simple principles.
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by rvense 2y ago
> Most of the problems I see in production have nothing to do with the wrong type being used I think this depends on how you use the type system in your code. If you're just passing around strings and numbers, then sure. But if you&
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by rvense 2y ago
I don't understand how it is alive. I understand that there are emergent properties from the layering, but I think it's an open question if this includes anything like what we'd all motivation or intention. These things aren&
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by rvense 2y ago
"Please please please make AI safety legislation so we won't have real competitors."
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by rvense 2y ago
Means and opportunity, maybe, but motive?
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by rvense 2y ago
> The DX7 might be the best selling synth of all time They were, for a long time, but the figure I've seen is something like 100k for the original model. The market is so much bigger now I don't really believe it's true an
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by rvense 2y ago
FM/PM synthesis makes no "logical sense"... until you spend the twenty minutes required to understand it. Really people gave up on the DX7 because of the limited interface, somehow FM got the blame. A subtractive synth with a
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by rvense 2y ago
You will either do well or not, from the company's perspective. I don't think that's what's most important, really, it's just a job. My main advice would be to look out for yourself. This sounds like it could get ve
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by rvense 2y ago
Do you know how that adds up, what the ratio of business votes to residential votes is? I imagine many more people work in the city than live there.
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by rvense 2y ago
This is a good five years after Jobs left...
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by rvense 2y ago
I think the Quadra 700 (and one or two other models) has tantalums on the mainboard from the factory.
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by rvense 2y ago
If you go with x86 you've got a bunch of people doing it under the "homelab" banner, so you'll hardly be alone.
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by rvense 2y ago
Which enclosure? I've got an upgrade on the horizon and like this solution.
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by rvense 2y ago
This is a very common fault, yes. Power supply issues in general. It is also not uncommon for people to replace e.g. Wifi routers because the wall warts fail. It comes down to a few people don't knowing a lot about it - and I'm no
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by rvense 2y ago
But when it does, it will probably be the capacitors in the power supply that have dried out.
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by rvense 2y ago
My company has more microservices than paying customers.
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by rvense 2y ago
> It helps Can you elaborate on that? What does it do?
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by rvense 2y ago
> In languages that have it I've never used operator overloading to produce anything good or that was obviously better than just using methods. I used a Scala library for S3 once that overloaded + to mean upload. var bucket; v
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by rvense 2y ago
Because there's nothing else? 60% of Denmark is farmed land, most of the rest is cities, industry, or suburbs.
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by rvense 2y ago
Hi, I downvoted this remark because the only thing it added to the discussion was to display that you've not read anything about the subject (in which case you would known that cash transfers and similar help in many situations do in f
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by rvense 2y ago
Yeah, it's wild to think how much human effort is in each of these subsystems. And how fast-paced everything was at the time, how quickly it became obsolete.
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by rvense 2y ago
> Why not split Microsoft and Apple as well while we are at it? Indeed, why not?
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by rvense 2y ago
Monopoly is probably not the right word. "Trust" (as in "anti-trust") is maybe better, but I'm not sure the last gilded age really had a perfect analogy to what's been happening in the tech services sector. The
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by rvense 2y ago
How about this? https://www.checkmate1500plus.com/
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by rvense 2y ago
The judgment was not for an off-the-cuff remark or writing a few paragraphs online. He ran a smear campaign against people whose kids were shot, for almost a decade, even though he knew what he was saying was untrue. Jones's "spee
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by rvense 2y ago
What looks like turning things over to AI is really turning things over to the people who own the AI, which is another thing entirely.

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