theSherwood

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by theSherwood 2mo ago
Interesting concept. But you might want to ditch the pronunciation audio. At least for Welsh and Spanish, the pronunciation audio is pretty far from the mark. I would guess that is the same for many other languages.
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by theSherwood 4mo ago
FYI, there appear to be several typos where occurrences of "h" seem to have been replaced with "d", such as in "tde".
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by theSherwood 5mo ago
This article seems unreasonably optimistic. If AI can truly replace human labor at a lower price point, then that's more or less the end for your median human. The economy will work by much the same principles as ever: those who can pr
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by theSherwood 6mo ago
It's great apart from the nested list syntax. It's quite noisy. I'd prefer if it supported indentation.
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by theSherwood 7mo ago
What stops the llm from writing a malicious program and executing it? No offense meant, but this solution feels a bit like bolting the door and leaving all the windows open.
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by theSherwood 10mo ago
I don't know about good vs evil. That seems impossible. But I'd be interested in a license that prevented use by any company owned by one of the top 1% most valuable companies in the world. I have no idea if that's enforceabl
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by theSherwood 1y ago
I'm really skeptical of the idea that the blame for the lack of water infrastructure ought to be put at the feet of the water companies. The UK's planning system has strangled just about every infrastructure project in every domai
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by theSherwood 1y ago
This site is an absolute gem. Thank you.
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by theSherwood 1y ago
The current situation is that we have limited uptake of WASM. This is due, in part, to lack of DOM access. We could solve that but we would have to complicate WASM or complicate the DOM. Complicating WASM would seem to undermine its purpose
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by theSherwood 1y ago
100%. If we could get a DomString8 (8-bit encoded) interface in addition to the existing DomString (16-bit encoded) and a way to wrap a buffer in a DomString8, we could have convenient and reasonably performant interfaces between WASM and t
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by theSherwood 1y ago
I want DOM access from WASM, but I don't want WASM to have to rely on UTF-16 to do it (DOMString is a 16-bit encoding). We already have the js-string-builtins proposal which ties WASM a little closer to 16-bit string encodings and I&#x
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by theSherwood 1y ago
The advantages of Tailwind are: - the styling is colocated with the markup - sensible defaults - avoids rule hierarchy/inheritance - minimal JS at runtime Disadvantages: - build step and configuration - dynamic styling complexity I don
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by theSherwood 1y ago
I'm not pretending to any novel insights. Most of us who don't have much use for theology are generally unimpressed by its discourse. Not novel at all. And the "centuries of work" without concrete developments that exist
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by theSherwood 1y ago
You are, of course, entitled to your religious convictions. But to most people outside of your religious community, the evidence for some specific theological claim (such as predestination) looks an awful lot like "nothing". In co
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by theSherwood 1y ago
I agree that "very likely" is not "inevitable". It is possible for the advance of AI to stop, but difficult. I agree that doesn't absolve people of responsibility for what they do. But I disagree with the comparison
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by theSherwood 1y ago
I think this is a case of bad pattern matching, to be frank. Two cosmetically similar things don't necessarily have a shared cause. When you see billions in investment to make something happen (AI) because of obvious incentives, it&#x2
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by theSherwood 1y ago
What's the current regulatory status for mass timber? My understanding was that one of the main hurdles for uptake in the US has been regulation. Is that no longer the case?
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by theSherwood 1y ago
Our lives are already nearly fully dependent on technology. Some of the projections for casualties in the months following a high-altitude EMP (or solar flare) are pretty staggering. Just losing computers means that most people die of starv
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by theSherwood 1y ago
LLMs have only really been around a handful of years and what they are capable of is shocking. Maybe LLMs hit a wall and plateau. Maybe it's a few years before there's another breakthrough that results in another step-change in ca
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by theSherwood 1y ago
This matches my expectations for the near term pretty closely.
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by theSherwood 1y ago
The analogies to previous technologies always seem misguided to me. Maybe it allows us to make some predictions about the next few years, but not more than that. We do not know when/where we will hit the limits on AI capabilities. I th
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by theSherwood 2y ago
This is a very interesting approach. Using pages as the basic sync unit seems to simplify a lot. It also makes the sync of arbitrary bytes possible. But it does seem that if your sync is this coarse-grained that there would be lots of confl
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by theSherwood 3y ago
I like the typeface. The website navigation is really fun. A little confusing until you are used to it, but I like the logic of it. Still unclear which widgets can receive input other than navigation. It would be nice to have some clear vis