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by tpoacher 2y ago
unironically, the info manual. It's great. the philosophical "c" centredness is true, but doesn't get in the way of using other languages. (there's things like indirect rules for compiling .c files auromatically for
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by tpoacher 2y ago
You might be interested to give Comic Code [0] a try instead. Unlike Comic Mono it is a paid font, but I find it a lot nicer to use/read. [0] https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Just donated a small amount. I think this is a nice service, and can think of a couple of friends who struggle with programming (professionally!) but are too embarrassed to ask and progress, and could make use of this service. I hear the pa
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I was not aware of zipapp ... but it's interesting to see it exists as a method for enabling python to run 'zipped packages' ... since python can already do that by default with normal zipfiles, as long as the zipfile appears
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by tpoacher 2y ago
also more_itertools ! even less known than itertools, but equally useful.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I seriously challenge this mentality / interpretation of a retraction signalling fraud. This is absurd, and actively harmful. Quite the contrary, a retraction is often a signal of good scientific citizenship and due diligence, which ma
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by tpoacher 2y ago
This! I would be in favour of this proposal, if only simply so that I can make the llms.txt file my next point of call for actual information when the human-facing page sucks.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Not a bad question in principle, though I have to say there's something quite disconcerting about it's phrasing/tone, which I can't quite put my finger on. It almost comes across as a pessimist's "what's t
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I mean, if you want secret group chats, you should probably use Signal. I don't see how this is a "Telegram problem", or how this relates to the macdonalds analogy. Telegram serves one set of goals, Signal serves another. E.g
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Nothing wrong with "encryption? check" if the encryption part works as intended. None of the typical criticism against Telegram is directed at whether this is the case or not; usually people start by assuming Telegram is something
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by tpoacher 2y ago
It is to me :) (though obviously it depends what kind of user you are and what you're looking for in your OS). As a 'personal' user (rather than sysadmin), I tried more distributions than I can count before settling on linu
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by tpoacher 2y ago
out of curiosity, why do you call the expect script in string form from a bash shebang, rather than make the script itself an expect script directly with an explicit expect shebang?
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by tpoacher 2y ago
This is one of those questions where it's hard to answer but it's obvious once you use it. What's the difference between a fiat and a ferrari? What's the difference between CentOS and Linux Mint? What's the differen
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by tpoacher 2y ago
yes. in that if you want it it's there, but nobody's forcing it on you if you just want a burger.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I 100% agree with you. Whenever I see artists buy their brushes I cringe. Real artists don't draw anything until they've grown a tree and raised horses to obtain the raw materials (wood and horse hair) to make their first brush. U
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Same, but for academic documents. It used to be that a 'bad' document had things 'missing', which were easy to spot and rephrase / suggest improvements. Now a 'bad' document is 50 pages of confusing waffle
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I think academia is one of those special places where a lot of people who enter it are altruistic and idealistic, and consider it a part of their identity to make a change in the world in a larger sense. You are literally taking a pay-cut,
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Not OP, but in general to be hirable in academia you need to demonstrate a constant flow of papers and grant proposals. Being 'out of the game' for a couple of years means you have not published or applied to grants within that ti
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Reminds me of my (far less exciting) story when I opened a php forum for a small community I was in charge with, way back, only to come the next day and find it full of botspam. Forum didn't last too long after that.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
CSV's aren't really readable either though. They're "inspectable", but that's different. So if you want to read them you'll need to either use specific software, or do some preprocessing to align things pr
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by tpoacher 2y ago
People here complaining this guy is suggesting a "new" standard: it's ASCII. It is already a standard, and probably a lot more sensible than others that followed. I too have wondered why the hell aren't we using those sp
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by tpoacher 2y ago
you mean to say that vim can't handle simple character substitution? /s
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I get the point of the article, but I think it makes a bit of a strawman to drive the point across. Yes, RLHF is barely RL, but you wouldn't use human feedback to drive a Go game unless there was no better alternative; and in RL, findi
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by tpoacher 2y ago
if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it lacks strong typing.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
s / AI / Marketing|Ads|Consultants|Experts|Media|Politicians|...
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by tpoacher 2y ago
This is top-down design presented as slapdashery-as-a-virtue. Except you can also do top down design without the slapdashery, and it will usually be equally fast and a lot better. I agree about top-down design vs "progress-bar" de
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by tpoacher 2y ago
There is a famous experiment where faces are alternated very quickly, and after a while they all start to look grotesque until you pause the effect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashed_face_distortion_effe...
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by tpoacher 2y ago
It's not "a" programmimg language ... ... it's "the" programming language. </smug>
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Insightful blogpost, thank you for sharing!
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Is this part of the ongoing debate about farmers wanting to be able to fix their own TRACTORs? /s

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