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by sevensor 1y ago
I’m still a bit unclear about how an IX is situated relative to the internet and to end users. Per the article, it’s not meant to have desktops or print queues plugged into it, but it’s also a LAN. What sort of computer is meant to particip
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by sevensor 1y ago
Was it ever alive? I never understood the premise. It’s for, what, people who feel they don’t spend enough money and are looking for new things to subscribe to? Is that a big market?
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by sevensor 1y ago
“The meaning of YAML is implementation-defined” is a big reason I stay far away whenever I can.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Bonus points if you do half the calculation in the parent class and the other half in a child class. Double bonus points if one or both of them also hits a database.
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by sevensor 1y ago
That’s far from accurate. Augustus positioned himself as the restorer of the Republic after a horrific period of civil war, and cobbled together his authority from existing Republican magistracies, especially the Tribune of the Plebs. The J
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by sevensor 1y ago
What a liberty! Straight through the lights, of course!
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by sevensor 1y ago
I canceled my subscription to the local daily over this. Not only were they presenting advertisement as if they were editorial content, they weren’t even reading it themselves. If they were, they would have noticed that they’d printed, on a
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by sevensor 1y ago
What I find fascinating about the site is my own emotional reactions to the various collections. The message is, “this is how they manipulate you, and it works.” > Color Association of the United States, which at one time determined what
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by sevensor 1y ago
Good tip! I’ve been to Zingerman’s, it’s a cool place. Funny how what used to be a deli staple has become a special-order luxury.
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by sevensor 1y ago
I have been unable to find a deli in my town that sells liverwurst. Which saddens me, but maybe it’s for the best, given its prominence in the outbreak. Had no idea Boar’s Head was such a garbage fire. I won’t be buying their meats again.
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by sevensor 1y ago
If you do want to start with SMT though, z3 has quite good bindings. I found it intuitive to use, and its ability to give you answers to very hard problems is like owning a magic wand.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Friend, I remember doing horrible things to my config files to get XFree86 working. My first distro was Red Hat (not RHEL) 5. The /usr merge was last week.
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by sevensor 1y ago
I was really impressed that the author was able to upgrade from i686 to PAE to AMD64, all on the same Debian install. The crossgrade tool for the latter is particularly impressive. Also, I must be getting old, because in my mind systemd and
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by sevensor 1y ago
Agreed, and it’s all the more surprising because one of my favorite short stories is a collaboration between the two of them: “Red Star, Winter Orbit.” The Difference Engine just doesn’t work for me though.
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by sevensor 1y ago
I stand corrected !
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by sevensor 1y ago
Do you, does anybody, actually eat Campbell’s concentrated Cream of Mushroom Soup? It’s nominally a soup, but it’s designed to be an ingredient. It’s the foundation of all our favorite gloppy casseroles.
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by sevensor 1y ago
I read the abstract and skim the intro before committing to a read. The authors have to convince me that they know the field, they think they’ve done something interesting, and I think what they’ve done is plausible. If it passes that bar,
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by sevensor 1y ago
The critique is somewhat misplaced. There have always been terrible, ignorant newspaper articles. There sometimes used to be good, informative ones, but this is getting scarcer and scarcer.
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by sevensor 1y ago
> if you haven’t done any work before you’re better off joining a gym I also find it really helpful to do classes where the instructor helps you understand the right form. Lifting heavy things can lead to injury if you do it wrong.
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by sevensor 1y ago
What I described is precisely the reception of early compilers. How is the LLM different? It’s slower? Its input looks more like natural language? Its output is less reliable? It runs on somebody else’s computer? What’s the essential differ
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by sevensor 1y ago
What the article describes is: 1. Learn how to describe what you want in an unambiguous dialect of natural language. 2. Submit it to a program that takes a long time to transform that input into a computer language. 3. Review the output for
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by sevensor 1y ago
I think the article picks the wrong pure / impure dichotomy. Much more interesting to me is the split between people who want to abstract the application domain and people who want to engage with it. To the former, a CRUD app is a CRUD
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by sevensor 1y ago
My favorite physics crank was the guy who convinced himself that curves don’t exist; they’re merely lots of line segments pasted together. He proceeded to derive a whole lot of remarkable nonsense about astrodynamics, and maybe relativity?
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by sevensor 1y ago
Huh, that is cleaner than a giant pattern match. It would be nice to have this at work, I know exactly how I’d use it... Oh no, this is how lisp ruins people, isn’t it.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Anecdote: 12 years with Arch, including a laptop with 9 years on one install. Zero issues. But yeah, there’s a low volume mailing list. Get on it. Read it, it’s very short and to the point, and it’s only a few times per year.
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by sevensor 1y ago
My municipality runs a household hazardous waste collection twice a year. I’ve talked to the folks who run it and their hearts at least are in the right place. No guarantee it won’t end up being tossed in a fire in Bangladesh to recover met
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by sevensor 1y ago
The thing I like about recorded music is that the listener’s equipment is part of the performance; in a sense, it’s the actual instrument, being played remotely over time and space by an engineer who’s never seen it and musicians who made a
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by sevensor 1y ago
I was writing a program a little while ago that put data on the clipboard for you to paste into Excel. I tried all manner of delimiters before I figured out that Excel really loves HTML tables. If you wrap everything in <tr> and <t
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by sevensor 1y ago
My first thought was, “thinner and lighter? Apple has totally run out of ideas.”
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by sevensor 1y ago
Indeed. “The bad standard is the result of negligence rather than malice” is a total nonsequitur. It in no way excuses pushing a bad standard on everybody to say, “they didn’t mean to make it bad.” It was still bad in obvious ways, and they

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