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by tines 3y ago
You can make this case for anything though, as with every advantage comes a downside. "Horse-drawn carriages have a big advantage in that they force you to not go as fast, and so they make crashes less fatal. Crashing a car is bad for
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by tines 3y ago
Did you ever work at IBM by chance? I ask because it's the only place I've ever heard the word "enablement" used.
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by tines 3y ago
The problem is that the dumb guy me usually recruits the smart guy me to help him in the moment. So the smart guy has to outsmart both the dumb and the smart guy together in advance, which is pretty hard!
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by tines 3y ago
Key words being "medieval and later," because it didn't start that way. The wiki on Morgan le Fey begins > Early appearances of Morgan in Arthurian literature do not elaborate her character beyond her role as a goddess, a
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by tines 3y ago
On the contrary, the oblivious "chaotic neutral" wizard is a modern invention that subverts the classic conception of what a wizard is, and that's why it's funny. Historically and in most modern media, wizards are strong
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by tines 3y ago
Is there a name for when someone bends over backwards to paint a disadvantage as an advantage? I guess it's the same as the old "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" trope.
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by tines 3y ago
If you'll allow me to converse with my tongue half-way in my cheek, I'd argue that Clarke's law is false: technology is distinguishable from magic, because magic knows right from wrong, but technology doesn't :)
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by tines 3y ago
Super cool! How is memory managed? Does it do lifetimes like Rust as well?
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by tines 3y ago
This looks awesome! Couple of questions: 1. Does it support any type inference? 2. It looks like objects have to explicitly declare what protocols (interfaces?) they implement when the object itself is declared. Is that true? If so, why did
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by tines 3y ago
Like what exactly?
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by tines 3y ago
The answers sometimes refer to other answers (e.g. "A and D are true") but it's not clear which answers correspond to which letters.
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by tines 3y ago
You're still stuck in the mindset that the comment is about what the code is doing. Good comments are orthogonal to the code they're attached to.
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by tines 3y ago
It's not about the clarity of the code though. It's about things that are uncheckable by compilers, linters, etc. That is to say, when I'm reading code I may perfectly comprehend what the code does. But knowing what it does d
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by tines 3y ago
I know it's not the point of the article, but, as a code reviewer, this: > Well written ruby code can often read like natural language. Features like predicate methods even give up punctuation. [...] This is often why ruby programme
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by tines 3y ago
> He very publically put us through the wringer for not citing him as the inventor of the concept were were examining He put you through the wringer for not citing him in the announcement of the title ?
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by tines 3y ago
The title of the post: using memory-safe languages.
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by tines 3y ago
To be clear, the C++ `std::string` class can contain NUL bytes just fine. It's the C standard library that can't handle them in strings.
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by tines 3y ago
Anyone have any experience with Onyx that would care to comment?
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by tines 3y ago
There are problems with human moderators. There are so many more problems with AI moderators.
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by tines 3y ago
> they then ask "well if not the rich, then who?" indicating that they think rich folks were the most likely to get in. If not them, then who? > Jesus then says "no mortal person," Except this isn't what Jesus
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by tines 3y ago
Because it was thought that being rich meant you were close to God. If the people they thought were closest to God could scarcely be saved, then how could anyone else be? So the thinking goes. It's an argument a fortiori. Of course Jes
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by tines 3y ago
This is said in the abstract as well: > recent attempts to self-correct logical or reasoning errors often cause correct answers to become incorrect, resulting in worse performances overall (Huang et al., 2023)
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by tines 3y ago
Can anyone comment on Gleam's type system? Is it similar to Haskell's?
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by tines 3y ago
But then their playtime projects may turn into your next big product :)
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by tines 3y ago
Sure, but we're speaking English, not Old English. In English, the (archaic) word sooth is a noun, and soothe is a verb.
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by tines 3y ago
> to sooth a family dispute I think you want the word "soothe" which means to calm. "Sooth" means "truth" as in "sooth-sayer."
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by tines 3y ago
Isn't this the same argument that says that we should all write assembly, because you should have to think harder and really know what you're doing?
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by tines 3y ago
No, you're correct, media is also a homogenizing force. Regional accents have disappeared, for example. But I would argue that even the political polarization is homogenization, not evidence of heterogeneity, because the variety of the
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by tines 3y ago
> again that's up to who's training the models and/or the user. True, but training is expensive, I imagine that only a few actors will train the popular LLMs, exactly as we are seeing today. > LLM probabilities are dyna
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by tines 3y ago
Sure, but the probabilities of those beliefs won't be the same as each other, and they will be the same between all users, so that doesn't address my point.

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