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by tgbugs 4y ago
The problem with object oriented languages is that they are fundamentally compositional in their use. You have to know all the relevant pieces (objects) for solving your problem and how they all fit together. They are very powerful for solv
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by tgbugs 4y ago
I prefer waux, as in faux.
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by tgbugs 4y ago
When I was a child I was at a Duke graduation event, and was sitting around waiting for it to end so I could go play, and a old guy sat down next to me and said "Hi! I'm Jimmy. Who are you?" and proceeded to talk with me for
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by tgbugs 4y ago
I had a similar thought a while back [0]. Developing a sane ontology of error types and their implications is a hard problem, but I think it could be done. The subset of errors that is the most frustrating and hard to deal with are ones whe
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by tgbugs 4y ago
If this has good enough performance it could be a big deal for org-babel. We've struggle to implement good/sane editing of blocks in the same buffer, and popping out to another buffer is a hacked workaround most of the time. Will
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by tgbugs 4y ago
My distaste for yaml led me to attempt just that. The first piece that was missing for me was a python parser that could produce reasonable error messages and could be transformed into the desired internal representation in python. So I wro
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by tgbugs 4y ago
The key problem with trying to use LLMs as a proxy for ontologies is that you have to figure out what ontology the LLM is actually using if that is even possible in the first place, because LLMs should in principle be encoding multiple pers
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by tgbugs 4y ago
I had to review a number of developer resumes from a similar site back in 2020. Reading through them absolutely set off my "this is a fake person" detector. The resumes had similar formats, they all seemed to point to a real perso
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by tgbugs 4y ago
When doing this for scientific protocols I found that you basically have to give up any hope of specializing types of things. The domain ontology for documenting processes, be they making cupcakes or electron micrographs, has to be matched
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by tgbugs 4y ago
I think there is an additional possibility, which is that the software quality is bad enough, but there is no where else for users to go. Since proving that directly would require a viable competitor to already exist we are in a bind. Howev
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by tgbugs 4y ago
I'm oversimplifying a bit here, but I think the strategy that most major software firms are following right now would match the "adaptive radiation" phase of ecosystem evolution. There are so many empty niches as a result of
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by tgbugs 4y ago
If this is the case then it means that there is no competition in the ecosystem and that the regulators need to start busting monopolies and other anticompetitive behavior. In a competitive market where there is actually free entry and free
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by tgbugs 4y ago
One use case that I think is not sufficiently considered in this is related to two comments I made about a year ago [0, 1]. If you can _actually_ delete something, then that means that a malicious actor can fabricate data an claim that you
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by tgbugs 4y ago
This thought crossed my mind, but I couldn't figure out quite how to get it to work. I think the fundamental flaw with using a deterministic process to create the state is that an adversary can immediately reproduce a matching system i
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by tgbugs 4y ago
I wonder whether it would be possible to use isotopic ratios of gases in negative pressure containers or something like that to ensure that any puncture will disrupt the mixture before it can be measured. Hardly foolproof, but anything that
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by tgbugs 4y ago
As a giant identifier nerd, this is incredibly cool. Any insights/thoughts on tamper resistance/non-duplication? I realize that this is a bit outside the original use case/threat model, but would it be possible to ensure that
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by tgbugs 4y ago
The NIH has mandated that starting in 2023 all grants that it funds must include a plan for data sharing. A serious lingering question is whether there is actually going to be any enforcement, given that it is already a monumental challenge
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by tgbugs 4y ago
For this to work academic science would have to start paying significantly more, which many labs simply cannot do, and other labs will refuse to do. My PI flat out said when we were trying to hire a python developer that they simply could n
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by tgbugs 4y ago
One big challenge for multi-threaded Emacs is that there are many elisp libraries and common patterns around buffer modification that make implicit assumptions about sequential and exclusive execution. The various race conditions that would
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by tgbugs 4y ago
Thanks for the pointer.
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by tgbugs 4y ago
I've had `OnWindow Mod1 Mouse1 :MacroCmd {Raise} {Focus} {StartMoving}` in my fluxbox keys config for a decade or so? My brain will automatically issue and alt-click on a window in some other OS and I'm always jolted back to the r
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by tgbugs 5y ago
We're in the middle of updating the org syntax document. I've been preoccupied and haven't gotten a chance to take another pass, but there should be a new version out in the next month or so. See also [0]. 0. https:/&#x
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by tgbugs 5y ago
I've been coming around to the idea that the threat models that are often used for website identity are not the ones we want. The ssh threat model related to changes in host keys seems to me to be a better one. The first time you conne
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by tgbugs 5y ago
In case you are unaware there is https://hypothes.is which might fit the bill. It has the same issue with sparseness of annotations that you mention for epiverse, but I don't see any way to avoid that.
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by tgbugs 5y ago
You have it backward. This is installing a red light in the middle of a road where there is no intersection because 10 years from now there is a plan to build a crossroad and then wondering why people are angry about a traffic jam in the mi
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by tgbugs 5y ago
There is one school of software engineering which upgrades all warnings to be errors and thus fatal because "warning culture" leads complacency. Thus emitting a new warning as part of default behavior will break builds.
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by tgbugs 5y ago
Not quite. The analogy is present explicitly in the gist but the comparison isn't particularly useful for understanding the social dynamics of the situation here.
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by tgbugs 5y ago
Another TLDR would be; ASDF-stable is good enough that there isn't an incentive to update to a version of ASDF-devel that breaks backward compatibility.
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by tgbugs 5y ago
For (way) more context see https://gist.github.com/phoe/7d24bdb1f2be76a02fecba8cfecbef3...
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by tgbugs 5y ago
It looks like there was another eruption in a volcano north east of there the day before?

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