saghm

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by saghm 5d ago
About whether the brain is a neural network? No, I'm saying that's what the parent comment said. I'm just pointing it out more directly.
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by saghm 5d ago
> And you sir, appear to have taken my view rather personally. Yes, I find it somewhat offensive when people act smug about their specific form of language because it's so heavily tainted by attempts to claim cultural superiority (n
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by saghm 5d ago
The original comment that I responded to said this: > On a practical matter, it seems like a bad idea to have codepoints that can take up to an arbitrary number of bytes - this just screams buffer overflow problems. My response was that
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by saghm 5d ago
> standards compliant C code should (in theory) compile and run for the foreseeable future Yes, but the problem is that we have decades of examples of showing that even the best programmers in the world in practice will write code that i
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by saghm 5d ago
You said "it should be stated". I don't think it's wrong to state it, but I don't think it's particularly wrong not to state it either because it seems fairly obvious and doesn't detract from the original
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by saghm 5d ago
No, I think the confusion on your part is around what it sounds like when you say "in relation to human timelines". Humans have been here for around a million years. We've been living in cities for several thousand. It sounds
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by saghm 5d ago
I don't see the difference. The idea that every task ends up in a state with an urgent problem to solve during its lifecycle is crazy to me.
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by saghm 5d ago
I've never worked in adtech (and hopefully never will), but the first idea that would pop into my head for trying to track people who sequestered their cookies like this would be to have the sites who put in the third-party cookies inc
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by saghm 5d ago
Yeah, this is just standard third-party cookie functionality, which has always been sketchy. It honestly seems like it was only possible by accident; browsers have long prevented sites from reading cookies from other domains, but it seems l
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by saghm 5d ago
I worked for AWS for several years, eventually leaving during the big "return" to office push because my geographically distributed team working on a product that didn't exist back before the remote period was told we had a m
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by saghm 5d ago
If someone literally publishes on the internet that they require their employees to act like every problem is urgent, it's not clear why you think we shouldn't take them at their word. It's a pretty common thing for bad manag
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by saghm 5d ago
I mean, in relation to human timelines, so are computers in general. It's not close why you think that this is unique to LLMs.
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by saghm 5d ago
I don't think it's necessary to state that something isn't perfect when pointing out that it's still strictly better than something else.
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by saghm 6d ago
I just double checked and it's exactly what I remembered; the detective was interviewing someone explicitly described as being English (who in the same conversation said they had never been to America): https://esl-bits.eu&
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by saghm 6d ago
I'm failing to see why an embedded environment would have any need for a new encoding format, which is kind of my point: the types of things that are going to be written in C are not the ones going to be adopting completely new backwar
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by saghm 6d ago
> this just screams buffer overflow problems Without endorsing this specific idea, I think maybe after over half a century of C that this argument shouldn't get in the way of a new standard. Pretty much every other language has mana
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by saghm 6d ago
Unless I'm misremembering, even UTF-16 is variable. You need to bump up to UTF-32 to get fixed-width.
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by saghm 6d ago
I always thought that "some" was technically an article (the plural form of "a"/"an") but I hadn't considered how plurals weren't used in phrases like that. One thing I did notice about strangene
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by saghm 6d ago
> It's going to be very upsetting to a lot of people when we figure out the brain is just a neural network. You're assuming it's inevitable that the truth is what you expect while simultaneously stating that you have no pr
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by saghm 6d ago
Oh, definitely agreed. It's still not great, but it's a lot better than before.
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by saghm 7d ago
Yeah, my slightly more verbose take is that a language that requires you to not ever make any mistakes in order to have a program behave in a predictable way is not a particularly good choice of language if you the ability to pick something
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by saghm 7d ago
I'd argue that assuming something is obvious without any empirical validation is the root of a huge number of misconceptions that humanity has historically had. There's a reason science suddenly started moving a lot faster after w
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by saghm 7d ago
Fable didn't want you to blame it for the limitations its creators gave it
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by saghm 7d ago
Probably worked because the cats grew up with it too!
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by saghm 7d ago
I thought you were going to talk about the difference between D&D wizards and sorcerers: the former are the same as you describe, whereas the latter are born with some sort of innate talent for casting spells without needing to learn it
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by saghm 7d ago
I don't totally agree with this. To me, UB is an order of magnitude worse than pretty much anything else, so this is more than "slightly less" horrible. I don't necessarily disagree that this is still horrible, but I als
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by saghm 7d ago
I've heard that my whole life in the US. I think my dad taught it to me when I was really young, because he loves cats and our neighbors across the street had some outdoor cats.
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by saghm 7d ago
I'm reading your comment on Firefox. You can probably read mine and write a reply on it too!
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by saghm 7d ago
> But they won't learn that on their own I think they're fully aware of this. They just don't care, because the goal of "get market share super high" has been reached, so now they have no need for it to continue
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by saghm 8d ago
Mild correction, but unless you're talking about something in Columbia or maybe Panama, I think what you're referring to is between North American countries.

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