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by skissane 11mo ago
> It seems in the DSM 5 the definition was narrowed I think it may have been narrowed in theory, but often not in practice. Here in Australia, making DSM-5 ASD a shortcut to getting funded by our national disability insurance scheme (NDI
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by skissane 11mo ago
I’m not suggesting AIs can replace senior engineers (I don’t want to be replaced!) But, senior engineers can supervise the AI, notice when it makes suboptimal decisions, intervene to address that somehow (by editing prompts or providing new
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by skissane 11mo ago
Coding agents can edit their own output - because their output is tool calls to read and write files, and so it can write a file, run some check on it, modify the file to try to make it pass, run the check again, etc
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by skissane 11mo ago
> If you ask for an endpoint to a CRUD API, it'll make one. If you ask for 5, it'll repeat the same code 5 times and modify it for the use case. I don’t think this is an inherent issue to the technology. Duplicate code detector
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by skissane 11mo ago
> In 1977, Apple, a young fledgling company on the West Coast, invents the Apple II, the first personal computer as we know it today. IBM dismisses the personal computer as too small to do serious computing and unimportant to their busin
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by skissane 11mo ago
Google has been working on Fuchsia, a new open source OS which in theory can replace Linux as the base of ChromeOS and Android But it is unclear how committed they still are to this. Some suggest it was just a “keep our options open” projec
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by skissane 11mo ago
> I remember when A and B were commonly used drive letters. C was a luxury. D was outright bourgeois. Our first home computer (1989 or 1990?) was a 386SX with a 40MB hard disk (so maybe we were bourgeois). My dad had to partition it into
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by skissane 11mo ago
Your invocation of the “postmodern condition” appears to be conflating the culture of late capitalism with a specific philosophical school which purports to explain it - you can affirm the reality of that condition in the present without ag
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by skissane 11mo ago
Is authoritarianism actually susceptible to postmodern/poststructuralist critique? The philosophcial coherence of postmodernism and poststructuralism is very much open to question. But even if we grant that they do have something coher
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by skissane 11mo ago
I think Western models are also aligned to ideologically massage facts to suit certain narratives-so I’m not sure Western models really have that big an advantage here. I also think you overstate how resistant Beijing is to criticism. If yo
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by skissane 11mo ago
> As the model get's more powerful, you can't simply train the model on your narrative if it doesn't align with real data/world. > At some capacity, the model will notice and then it becomes a can of worms. I think
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by skissane 11mo ago
Also keep in mind that ISO’s official answer was UTF-1 not UTF-8, and UTF-8 wasn’t formally accepted as part of the Unicode and ISO standards until 1996. And early versions of UTF-8 still allowed the full 31 bit range of the original ISO 10
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by skissane 11mo ago
> They took a robust kernel, FreeBSD, and created a GUI and tools on top of that. I think they also essentially took over FreeBSD or at least forked it internally. They used NeXT’s XNU kernel which was a merger between CMU’s Mach and Ber
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by skissane 11mo ago
LMArena splits their leaderboard by language: maybe you should consider doing the same thing I assume to do that you’d need another model to do language detection on the inputs and/or outputs; but a language detection model can be a lo
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by skissane 11mo ago
> Making it a requirement is basically out of question Why? If there’s the political will, it is doable. There are Australian gun manufacturers (e.g. Lithgow Arms, owned by Thales)-and if none of them are willing to cooperate, the govern
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by skissane 11mo ago
> There's not a lot of "off the shelf" in terms of mainframes Not true-there’s still a huge amount of off-the-shelf software for IBM mainframes, and in the 1980s there was a lot more than there is now - see e.g. https:&#x
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by skissane 11mo ago
I think a country like Australia could be a good starting point for smart guns. Yes, not a very big market-around 8% of US population, with significantly lower rates of gun ownership-but culturally more open to gun control, with a much weak
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by skissane 11mo ago
> Regenerating the cell layout was very costly, taking many hours on an IBM mainframe computer. I would love to know more about this – how much info is publicly available on how Intel used mainframes to design the 386? Did they develop t
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by skissane 11mo ago
> You can't guarantee that with ai because who knows which training data was used There are no guarantees in life, but with macOS you can know it is rather unlikely any AI was trained on (recent) Apple proprietary source code – beca
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by skissane 11mo ago
> It's strange to me that Microsoft has taken this opportunity to clear up the rights to Zork 1-3 but not to the rest of the Infocom back catalog. Likely explanation: their lawyers are worried there may be third party rights or agre
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by skissane 11mo ago
One can only hope some journalist is reading this and decides to turn it into a news story Journalistic attention can be very helpful at getting companies to reform bad behaviour (at least temporarily)
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by skissane 11mo ago
The two topics have nothing to do with each other. I don’t have any issue with vaccines. And I don’t actually have any problem with democracy per se either - I just think some of the things you have been saying about the topic are overly si
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by skissane 11mo ago
Democracy-in the contemporary sense that you were defining it (near-universal adult suffrage)-is only a bit over a century old, in its widespread existence. Maybe too soon to judge what its long-term prospects will be? And I think if we loo
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by skissane 11mo ago
> Democracy is about a kind of equality among people, and yet too many people don't really believe in that. If you like meritocracy, that's not equality. If you like capitalism, well it strongly tends towards economic inequalit
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by skissane 1y ago
What I’d really like to see is an emulator for AS/400 on mainstream hardware. QEMU supports PPC emulation for AIX, but RISC OS/400 needs some extra features it doesn’t emulate, and I don’t know if anybody has ever built an emulato
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by skissane 1y ago
QUIC is being added to the Linux kernel: https://lwn.net/Articles/1029851/
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by skissane 1y ago
I wonder how that works? Speculation: there is some kind of genetic/epigenetic signalling which modulates DNA repair mechanisms, such that certain DNA regions can be marked as more mutation-prone than others. And there may be selective
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by skissane 1y ago
Programming languages are a bit like natural languages-they aren’t purely systems of formal rules, they are also usage patterns-there are lots of sentences which are formally correct English, but which few English speakers would ever constr
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by skissane 1y ago
We don’t expect 100% reliability from humans-humans will slack off, steal, defraud, harass each other, sell your source code to a foreign intelligence service, turn your business behind your back into a front for international drug cartels-
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by skissane 1y ago
Historically, COBOL lacked dynamic memory allocation-all data structures were fixed size and allocated at program startup. Although COBOL now has the equivalent of malloc/free, its long-time absence encouraged a coding style of using i

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