samatman

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by samatman 2y ago
To back up the sibling comment, I've found ChatGPT quite capable where Julia is concerned. It does hallucinate the occasional standard library function, but a) it gets it right after it's told it was wrong about half the time and
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by samatman 2y ago
Yes. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joie%20de%20vivre https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/très_chic English is a very large language in terms of vocabulary, but I would expect educated peop
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by samatman 2y ago
That doesn't at all mean that the firmware can't be exposed through the filesystem. Is that a bad idea? Almost certainly. Is it possible? Absolutely yes.
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by samatman 2y ago
Great answer, thanks! I see the appeal.
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by samatman 2y ago
The point is that "foreign phrase" is a distinct form of English phrase . You can't just toss any bit of any other language into English and expect it to fly. "I like Sally, she's got that joie de vivre ", t
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by samatman 2y ago
I'd be interested in a compare-and-contrast with Terra: https://terralang.org The goals and broad approach are quite similar, and I'm sure that the Pallene authors are aware that Terra exists, so I'd love to hear
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by samatman 2y ago
You say here that you're not a native English speaker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41086473 Which is fine! Very common on Hacker News. My suggestion is that you approach this kind of question the way you did i
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by samatman 2y ago
That's a good contribution to the discussion, thanks. I didn't intend it as a complete statement. But it should be added that violent offenders are not the only category which harmed someone. Stealing from people harms them. Othe
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by samatman 2y ago
> I don't even believe that the majority of people incarcerated are there from doing harm to someone Would evidence change your belief? > Violent offenses account for over 3 in 5 people (62%) in state prisons. https:/&#
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by samatman 2y ago
'induct' and 'induce' are the same pairing, both are induction, and they mean different things. Saying someone was induced into the Army means something rather different from saying they were inducted.
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by samatman 2y ago
Yes, really. I can't recommend reading Mein Kampf , because it sucks, but it's essential to have an informed opinion on this subject.
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by samatman 2y ago
Paper, interestingly enough, is a good counterexample to this. Paper takes little more than a way to make fine cellulose strands, and a fine-mesh screen, both of which the Romans were more than capable of. The demand was there as well, Roma
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by samatman 2y ago
This is a good idea. I'm going to offer some unsolicited feedback here: The configuration thing is unclear to me. I think that "current directory" means "same directory as the binary", but it could mean pwd. Nei
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by samatman 2y ago
> In a series of books by David Brin [0] there is Is a spoiler alert. Also: > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by samatman 2y ago
It would have had a different name. Antisemitism was the central pillar of National Socialism.
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by samatman 2y ago
> We are even the cause of the US in the first place We appreciate the sweet deal on the Louisiana Purchase, but "cause of the US" is a bit much, don't you think?
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by samatman 2y ago
> But since “don’t count them” is a tad to vague for many people I don't know about how it works in the UK, but in many parts of the US, certainly California, it's also an objectively bad deal. If there is a stated amount of
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by samatman 2y ago
> Input and output are also obvious. Input is what you type, output is what you see. Input maybe, although realizing that instead of typing, you can pipe, is a major conceptual breakthrough when new users are learning to work the comma
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by samatman 2y ago
I also "embraced OS X as soon as it was available". My first Linux install was Yggdrasil, but I cut my teeth on SPARC stations. I respected two kinds of computer: Unix workstations, and the Macintosh. So when Apple started makin
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by samatman 2y ago
There's always Rhode Island. There is an island by that name, but the state itself is very much not (and it's usually called Aquidneck now, the island, I mean). Pine Island in New York State is both not an island, nor named after
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by samatman 2y ago
It definitely exists. It isn't an island, despite having Island in the name. But that's true of Coney Island as well, and it also exists.
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by samatman 2y ago
If it were my hash table, the arrays would just be unrolled linked lists. So a "twenty object" bucket would actually store 19 objects, and if the last one wasn't null it would contain a pointer to the next bucket. I'm wi
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by samatman 2y ago
Not to be confused (as I did initially) with Programming Pearls: Little Languages , by John Bentley. Which is about little languages per se , as this is not how the languages in Ritchie's talk are generally described. In fact, the
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by samatman 2y ago
> So how would we go about switching the entire software industry to use LISP more? There are two answers to this, depending on how broadly you interpret the "Lisp" part of the question. The fundamentalist, and worse, answer
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by samatman 2y ago
> It turns out you _could_ screw them over and they'd End up with a dollar in their pocket which they otherwise wouldn't have. The Ultimatum game is a useful insight into human psychology: for one thing, it tells us who think
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by samatman 2y ago
That isn't synthetic data in any reasonable or meaningful sense of the term. You could describe a textbook as a synthesis, sure, in a sense which absolutely does not track with the 'synthetic' in 'synthetic data'. U
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by samatman 2y ago
American taxes are low because Americans are anti-tax. That's not amazing, it's democracy.
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by samatman 2y ago
Not entirely, for a pretty obvious reason: breaking a bone at an advanced age is not infrequently the beginning of the end. Not enough to make it primary (in other words, your point about bone density as a correlate rather than a determinat
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by samatman 2y ago
A pellet gun is not taking down a delivery drone. The topic isn't shooting a BB at a DJI Mini, it's shooting a bullet/slug from some sort of long gun at a delivery drone, one of these: https://corporate.walmart.com
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by samatman 2y ago
I'm totally the other way around, I rely on colorized output heavily. But! There's supposed to be a solution to this, set $NO_COLOR to some value. https://no-color.org Totally reasonable to file a bug report against to

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