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by skissane 1y ago
My (limited) knowledge of him was mainly from reading the traditional US media, not from social media… I swear I’d read some article about him in the NY Times or the Atlantic or something like that. My brain files him next to Ben Shapiro
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by skissane 1y ago
> Am I wrong in thinking this guy isn't/wasn't a very influential person, outside of Twitter and the people that stay on there 24/7? I’d heard of him-I’ve lived my whole life in Australia, and although I have a Twitt
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by skissane 1y ago
At the level of its C API-which is the level at which it integrates with sqlite-it indeed has multiple data types, it even has a structure to represent them, Tcl_ObjType: https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl8.4/TclLib&
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by skissane 1y ago
> I wrote about how the arrival of dark skinned options in a 'default yellow' world repeatedly reveals that 'default yellow' is, in Western culture, actually 'default white'. And that that repeated lesson ex
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by skissane 1y ago
Historically the colour “yellow” was associated with East Asian people, not people of European descent-who for whatever reason got associated with the colour “white”, despite the fact European skin colour is more pinky/peachy (but gett
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by skissane 1y ago
> I can think of like 3 institutions that have reporters who would ask that kind of question (The Register, Ars Technica and 404media) and I don't think Musk is going to be sitting across the table from any of them, ever. Ars Techni
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by skissane 1y ago
Junior high principal in Hyogo fired for stealing seven half cups of coffee [Feb. 3, 2024] https://japantoday.com/category/national/junior-high-princip...
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by skissane 1y ago
AFAIK it has always had typed values. Don’t confuse column types (which constrain a column to containing only values of a specified type) with value types (which enable it to treat the string “12” and the integer 12 and the floating point 1
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by skissane 1y ago
It actually does have typed values, it is just the schema didn’t constrain the value types stored in each column, until relatively recently the column type was mostly just documentation. However, now it has STRICT tables which do constrain
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by skissane 1y ago
LLM backtracking is an active area of research, see e.g. https://arxiv.org/html/2502.04404v1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05426 And I was wrong that nobody has implemented it, as these papers prove
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by skissane 1y ago
> but none of the LLMs (open source or not) are capable of backtracking even though there is plenty of room for a basic Prolog interpreter. This seems like a very obvious shortcoming to me that no amount of smooth approximation can overc
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by skissane 1y ago
> Yeah, because nobody has ever posted a bare comment here about drop bears You'd be surprised how many Australians have never heard of "drop bears". Because it is just an old joke about pranking foreigners, yes many peopl
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by skissane 1y ago
The way I’ve been coding recently: I often ask the AI to write the function for me, because lazy. And then I don’t like the code it wrote, so I rewrite it. But still it is less mental effort to rewrite “mostly correct but slightly ugly code
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by skissane 1y ago
> Principle 1: Share context, and share full agent traces, not just individual messages I was playing around with this task: give a prompt to a low-end model, get the response, and then get the higher-end model to evaluate the quality of
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by skissane 1y ago
> Part of the problem is that sarcasm relies heavily on shared group values (common wisdom), to make it clear that a given statement is meant in the opposite sense. Our shared group values have been fragmented pretty hard (eg half the co
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by skissane 1y ago
> Tibet was a theocracy with a religious leader for a while until recent times. Yes, but it was still like contemporary Iran - a country which happened to have a theocratic system of government, not a country whose sole raison d'êtr
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by skissane 1y ago
> It isn't a country and nobody says that it is. Well, the CIA says it is: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/holy-see-va... > The Holy See is sovereign entity with unique status under int
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by skissane 1y ago
I am wondering if the Albanian government’s plan to give independence to the Tirana HQ of the Bektashi Sufi Order is ever actually going to happen. If it does, then they’ll be the world’s second country dedicated to a religion… well, curren
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by skissane 1y ago
I think as another commenter pointed out, interval arithmetic’s problem is that while it acknowledges the reality of uncertainty, its model of uncertainty is so simplistic, in many applications it is unusable. So making it the standard prim
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by skissane 1y ago
Correcting myself: IBM Network Station used PPC And although its OS was called “NCOS”, it was completely different from Oracle’s NCOS. It was apparently a closed source derivative of NetBSD
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by skissane 1y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected about the CPU So Sun Network Computers were JavaOS on SPARC, Oracle were NCOS (Acorn RiscOS derivative) on ARM – and I think IBM's had a similar tech stack to Oracle's... were there any others?
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by skissane 1y ago
CMD in this case being California Micro Devices, who bought GTE’s microprocessor business in the mid-to-late 1980s, and then was acquired by onsemi in 2009. The BBC Master used their CPUs There is another CMD, Creative Micro Designs, who so
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by skissane 1y ago
It was part of the Oracle-led Network Computer project, the main thing ported to it was the JVM, to run Java business apps. IBM also sold them (IBM Network Station), and Sun - although I believe Sun Network Computers ran JavaOS not NCOS, bu
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by skissane 1y ago
In the 1990s, Acorn had a big deal with Oracle... Oracle NCOS was rebadged Acorn RiscOS But I just don't think Oracle were able to sell it – and Oracle's sales people are really good, if they can't sell your product, the prob
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by skissane 1y ago
> In many ways, the tuple (BBC Micro, Acorn Computers, arm) is analogous to (IBM PC, Intel, x86). There was a radical difference in the relationship between the two corporations in each tuple. In the BBC-Acorn relationship, Acorn designe
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by skissane 1y ago
> There's just not a global quota, There is no global quota. There are national quotas set by every country's government. US law nominates the DEA as the agency which does that for the US. Each country's government reports
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by skissane 1y ago
Since last year, lisdexamfetamine sold in Australia has been manufactured in Germany (API) and Ireland (packaging). The DEA has zero jurisdiction over a drug manufactured in Germany/Ireland and then exported from there to Australia–US
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by skissane 1y ago
> and that crackdown is - depending on who you ask - partially/fully responsible for the stimulant shortages the past few years. Australia has been experiencing psychostimulant shortages in recent years, but they haven’t been due to
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by skissane 1y ago
Mussolini forced businesses to join fascist-controlled employer groups, and workers to join fascist-controlled labour unions - Trump appears completely disinterested in doing such a thing. Hitler banned all youth groups except for the Nazi
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by skissane 1y ago
> There is nothing wrong with using this calling convention, except for those specific functions that need to have a variable number of arguments I think it is a big pity that contemporary mainstream x86[-64] calling conventions (both Wi

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