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by thwarted 8mo ago
Joanne probably had to field some "sorry, this can't be expensed" situations, and/or those were reduced because people knew another human was doing the work and they'd get called out, trying to game/abuse the s
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by thwarted 8mo ago
It's not about the consumption of raw materials or repurposing of the raw materials used for chips. peterlk said: > How many hospitals, roads, houses, machine shops, biomanufacturing facilities, parks, forests, laboratories, etc. c
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by thwarted 8mo ago
And not just the definition, but the assumption that a specific toil is necessarily universal. I've had more than one conversation that started with someone else saying "using the LLM saves me soooo much time typing, think of ho
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by thwarted 8mo ago
Maybe it comes down to the definition of "toil". Some people find typing to be toiling, so they latch on to not having to type as much when using LLMs. Other people see "chores" as toiling, and so dream of household robo
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by thwarted 8mo ago
It sure is myopic to think that the debate over if the ends justifies the means is solely a moral consideration, and then literally list cases where the value of the means compared to the ends is a judgment call results in "it depend
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by thwarted 8mo ago
At first I thought you were referring to the debates over using vim or using emacs, but I think you mean to refer to the discussions about learning to use/switching to powerful editors like vim or emacs. If you learn and use a sharp, p
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by thwarted 8mo ago
I tend to believe that, in all things, the quality of the output and how it is received is what matters and not the process that leads to producing the output. If the ends justifies the means is a well-worn disagreement/debate, and
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by thwarted 8mo ago
Given the same inputs, the desire for search-based optimization, superoptimization, or diversification should still be predictable and deterministic, even if it produces something that is initially unanticipated. It makes no sense that that
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by thwarted 8mo ago
No, deterministic means that given the same inputs—source code, target architecture, optimization level, memory and runtime limits (because if the optimizer has more space/time it might find better optimizations), etc—a compiler will p
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by thwarted 9mo ago
If this is the case is discoverable, for at least one direction. Reproducability is known to be a problem in some of the sciences, for various reasons. Find a paper that includes its data and software/methodology used for analysis, a
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by thwarted 9mo ago
LD_PRELOAD has nothing to do with the kernel, it's entirely resolved in user space; in this context, it would be used to replace libc functions. > I think I would literally recompile libc to patch fopen/open/openat That&#
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by thwarted 9mo ago
The most interesting part is that you can say you're doing/using something entirely independent of if you actually are. Sure, that's a lie, but so is only using something so you can say you're using it (sure, they admitt
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by thwarted 9mo ago
> You're a grad student who's been reading page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page of lack and white text. What an interesting way to describe reading a book. It
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by thwarted 9mo ago
Is there a way to tell if people are seeking out the same video or or if they are watch it because it was suggested? Especially when 90% of the recommendations are repeats? There isn't even an "I've watched this" or &quo
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by thwarted 9mo ago
YouTube could use AI to not recommend videos I've already watched, which is apparently a really hard problem.
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by thwarted 10mo ago
It's odd that searching for "section" finds U+2E39 (Top Half Section Sign) but not U+00A7 (Section Sign). The directions for input on on each operating system are all the same, use an app? On Windows there's a key sequen
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by thwarted 10mo ago
My understanding of what you say is true, and NASA is a common example of high value cultural and economic outcomes for the pittance the US government budgets/allocates for it. O'Rourke's take is an interesting read; it is co
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by thwarted 10mo ago
PJ O'Rourke had a line in his book "Parliament of Whores" when he, as a layman, ham-fistedly cuts a bunch of stuff from the federal budget, and then just subtracts 10% from it at the end. Probably not the originator, but a qu
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by thwarted 10mo ago
Except when it doesn't because of browser or platform differences/incompatibilities.
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by thwarted 10mo ago
A Google search for vitamin d results in ads, ahem "sponsored results", for 180 servings for $27, which is about $55 for a full year assuming it's one serving per day, which is the same decimal order of magnitude as $10 (but,
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by thwarted 10mo ago
> It won't scan cards with AI - you manually enter the barcode, which I think makes it less prone to error. This is a very interesting sentence. I interpret this sentence as saying that manually entering a barcode is less error pr
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by thwarted 10mo ago
What's missing in this writeup is if/how capsudod can be configured to drop/acquire capabilities (in the capabilities(7) sense, in a namespace sense, or using openbsd's pledge(2)) before executing the command. From look
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by thwarted 11mo ago
And there's another group, grifters, who are neither living to work nor working to live. They are the parasites, and our current society rewards grifters by not putting them in check. Probably because so many want a piece of the grifti
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by thwarted 11mo ago
You need conditionals and loops. Recursion counts as looping.
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by thwarted 11mo ago
> Or you have a leader above who has no idea and goes with the quickest/cheapest option. This leader is not going with the quickest or cheapest option. Doing so would probably be laudable. They are going with the claims made by
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by thwarted 11mo ago
We can blame von Neumann (et al) and his infernal architecture, where memory stores both instructions and data.
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by thwarted 11mo ago
Sometimes achievements speak for themselves and provide the marketing for the actor. But that requires both the achievement to be extremely outsized, so as not to get lost in the noise, and very obviously the result of a singular actor. On
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by thwarted 11mo ago
> When I open a PR without discussing it at all beforehand with anyone, I expect the default to be that it gets rejected. TNG S2E8, "A Matter Of Honor" is about this topic. The submitter introduced risk on the maintainers (t
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by thwarted 11mo ago
The compose key on Linux makes deliberate use much easier (rather than automatic replacement which often triggers when I don't want it). There's a compose key utility for Windows, but has some minor annoyances like many input (mou
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by thwarted 11mo ago
Emdashes are useful for an embedded appositive phrase, which a colon can't handle the same way.

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