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by ur-whale 1y ago
> It would be too wordy, or offer too many comments Wholeheartedly agree. Both when chatting in text mode or when asking it to produce code. The verbosity of the code is the worse. Comments often longer than the actual code, every nook a
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> Maybe this is a hint on who could be its main audience. Or a hint about the background of the folks who built the tool.
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> and doesn't require you to install a runtime like Node. My exact same reaction when I read the install notes. Even python would have been better. Having to install that Javascript cancer on my laptop just to be able to try this, i
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> Delightful! You clearly have never had the "pleasure" to work with a Google product manager. Especially the kind that were hired in the last 15-ish years. This type of situation is absolutely typical, and probably one of the
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by ur-whale 1y ago
>the trade-off is not so clear. Assuming very basic knowledge of CLI on Linux for i in *.pdf; do convert "$i" "$i".png; done 10 seconds flat If you've never heard of convert (part of imagemagick) then:
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> We still do horses, but hardly anyone is favouring them for travelling around the continent delivering mail. Except that if you've ever seen someone who truly knows how to use a terminal, you'd be surprised how many times fas
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> Hi everyone, I developed an interesting library Polystate A short blurb on the github explaining what applications this may have and how you would use it to solve problems would be very helpful.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
The claim "This makes the cipher aperiodic" should be justified. As an immediate counter, I would say that if your code runs on a physically finite machine (an however large, yet finite number of bits to store state), this strikes
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Anything claiming that AGI is impossible and wants to be taken seriously should first and foremost answer: what makes a human brain any different than a device belonging to the class under investigation. He does touch upon this in section 3
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Hey, sorry to hear about the predicament, when business collides with insane regulations, it's a very frustrating thing to be caught in. number 2, btc mining environmental impact, I generally disagree,but I can understand the argument,
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by ur-whale 1y ago
If the interconnection costs were such a headache, why didn't he convert the solar farm to produce electricity consumed only locally to mine Bitcoin?
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by ur-whale 1y ago
I most certainly hear you, but : you have a completely idealistic point of view. Which is a quasi-synonym for unrealistic. As much as we'd all love the real world to be simple, rational and just, it simply ain't, and on a very vas
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by ur-whale 1y ago
If there ever was an example of a terrible personality getting in the way of career, Schmidhuber is most definitely it. You may have had many brilliant ideas, but everyone makes an abrupt 180 when they see the tip your beard turn the corner
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> It's just too little. The X11 ecosystem might be very rich, but it's been 17 years since the Wayland project inception. Just saying.
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> I think overall it's a niche feature See my comments about Wayland team not listening to their users. It is probably a niche feature FOR THEM . Now, I most certainly agree that X over network is horribly inefficient. However:
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by ur-whale 1y ago
So the guys responsible for the giant wreckage that is X11 are now in charge of wreckage 2.0 No wonder.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> Sure, which are completely solved by Xwayland. Does Xwayland support running firefox on a remote server and opening it on my local wayland machine ? I'm hoping the answer is yes, because every single time I've tried in the la
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> he real problem with Wayland is that its authors and/or maintainers are *nix geeks They also, in typical Unix geek style, don't give two fucks about what the market wants / needs.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Very apt analogy. Wayland is indeed the subversion of window systems, can't wait for it to die and be replaced by a window system equivalent of git.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Over the many years Wayland has been promising to be a better toaster, I have tried to use it. Every single time, I had to go back to X11 because shit simply don't work. At this point, I am dead convinced that Wayland is simply broken
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by ur-whale 1y ago
110k now officially broken.
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Bitcoin hits new all time high near $110K(thestreet.com)
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> in response to the need to improve military mobility lol, I guess that this is only half of the equation, the other being to fairly obviously reduce military mobility for another class of vehicles.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Your kids go to a school where phones are still allowed on campus? Wow, time to move them.
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All this point to is the fact that there needs to be a better testing system for student's progress. Lock them in a room for 4 hours to 6 hours with a list of carefully crafted questions to answer in writing (rather than ticking boxes)
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https://archive.is/D97iG
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> there are rules for 2/3 of cases LOL. And are they rules to remember which word falls in the 2/3rd ?
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> everything Twain rants about here we attribute to French The part where you have to have the equivalent of a LIFO stack in your brain, piling stuff up and praying you won't overflow, until the effing verb finally shows up and deig
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> I envy Chinese and Japanese; Up until the point you have to read and write them. Especially written Japanese, which is a giant mess of stuff they borrowed from the west, china as well as native stuff.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> simplification Have you maybe considered the idea that a simplification might actually be an improvement? As in: a language's first and foremost role is to communicate ideas and feelings as efficiently and clearly as possible, and

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