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by skulk 4mo ago
These are very interesting anecdotes. The feeling I've been getting is that the inherent complexity in software hits people at prompt-time because they simply don't have the words to express what is needed. (edit: or don't ha
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by skulk 4mo ago
this statement is equivalent to "pi is a normal number." While most real numbers are normal and pi is suspected to be so, it isn't known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
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by skulk 4mo ago
> Your audience, or whoever you aim your work at, should be treated with respect. I just want to amplify this point. As I was reading this, the LLMisms kept jumping out at me and each one felt like the author looking at me and deciding t
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by skulk 4mo ago
I've studied how pre-NNUE stockfish worked and the principles of static position evaluation are accessible to a 500 rated player. The rest is writing an efficient search algorithm, which is purely an endeavor in computer science, not c
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by skulk 4mo ago
what does actually playing chess have to do with writing an efficient game tree search algorithm beyond a few simple principles? You challenged him to a programming contest and won, as the vastly more experienced programmer. Even though he
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by skulk 5mo ago
Haven't looked into this in depth but sub-nanosecond sync for systems up to 10km apart is interesting since 10km is about 33 light microseconds. There is some trickery going on.
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by skulk 5mo ago
Complaining about 2:1 immigrant to local birth rate has absolutely nothing to do with long-time permanent residents (who are locals). It's clearly a fear that white culture is being overrun by brown/chinese people. Your comments d
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by skulk 5mo ago
it is sad, X11 had a suite of tools like xrandr that worked regardless of your wm/compositor but now with Wayland these tools are compositor-specific (or have to agree to a standard).
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by skulk 5mo ago
Demanding proof of systemic racism every time it's brought up is kind of gauche and just tiring. You don't have to believe that it exists, but it very much does. I know you're going to clap back at me and say "so you hav
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by skulk 5mo ago
Huh? So more nonwhite people is a net negative for Australia? How isn't this just bald faced racism?
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by skulk 5mo ago
This chiding from you would be better received if there was a shred of evidence that the other tribe is even slightly receptive to this kind of discourse. Unfortunately, the norms of discourse are pretty much gone. This is terrifying in the
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by skulk 5mo ago
I'm having trouble taking your comment seriously if you think that one number is enough to disprove systemic racism.
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by skulk 5mo ago
I've started using ewm to get this kind of unification between emacs window management and non-emacs window management. https://codeberg.org/ezemtsov/ewm
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by skulk 5mo ago
It's not clear what purpose this serves, as it just emits C code: https://github.com/alonsovm44/tc-lang/blob/9cb8af37cadc9221c... . Why someone would choose to write this and not C is therefore beyond me
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by skulk 5mo ago
> computers do not help human education in the slightest I had no access to anyone who could teach me calculus as a kid except Khan Academy, so I think this is a gross exaggeration. But I agree in the end, that all my "real" le
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by skulk 5mo ago
So if I wanted to actually use this and I write some rust-but-lisp code and there's a compile error, will it show me a nice error message with an arrow pointing to where the error happened in my lisp code? Can I use the amazing `rust-a
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by skulk 6mo ago
Your GitHub link 404s. I wonder, why not just get ECA to run `emacsclient -e <elisp>` instead? Does that not work as well?
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by skulk 6mo ago
I've always had a dream of creating an infinite braid maze algorithm: The requirements I've come up with are: 1. Distribution of path length for any two points of a fixed taxicab distance should be some kind of long-tail distribut
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by skulk 6mo ago
It's not really what you asked but the article does mention infinite recursive mazes in the fractal section and you might be able to do interesting transformations on those to make them more interesting for your purpose (such as block
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by skulk 7mo ago
zsh doesn't add commands that start with a space to stored history. So you can up arrow recall them but once you exit the session they're gone.
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by skulk 7mo ago
Maybe you'd like Niri? https://github.com/niri-wm/niri
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by skulk 7mo ago
OpenTTD has the `cargodist` option which simulates reality more closely. Passengers enter stations with a destination in mind and will transfer at other stations.
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by skulk 7mo ago
JJ works on top of git, so you can still use magit for hunk selection. I tried this approach and once I grokked JJ, I stopped needing to fuss over hunks and parts of hunks. Magit is good because git is clunky. As someone who said exactly th
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by skulk 8mo ago
that is the best use of non canonical domain name capitalization I've ever seen.
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by skulk 8mo ago
> Hyperbolic growth is what happens when the thing that's growing accelerates its own growth. Eh? No, that's literally the definition of exponential growth. d/dx e^x = e^x
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by skulk 8mo ago
> No, it's broken because we've allowed millions of foreigners to come in and raise said healthcare and housing costs. The idea that deporting every undocumented person will reduce the bloat and profit extraction in our health
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by skulk 8mo ago
right. kind of obvious in hindsight.
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by skulk 8mo ago
For Phoenix[0] it shows $44 for 1 adult 1 child, but $42 for 2 adults 1 child with 1 adult working. Is this because of a child tax credit or something? [0]: https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/38060
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by skulk 8mo ago
> government overreach How would you avoid the same problem that discord ran into that made them require ID verification? I doubt they're doing this for fun. Incorporate in the Bahamas?
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by skulk 8mo ago
This is the stupidest nitpick, but it's not really Pavlovian conditioning (as mentioned in the last paragraph) but rather operant conditioning. Pavlovian, or classical conditioning is the triggering of a biological response after a neu

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