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by username223 9mo ago
And if you write novels mostly because you enjoy watching them sell, as opposed to sharing ideas with people, you don't care. To scientists, the purpose of science is to learn more about the world; to certain others, it's about ma
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by username223 10mo ago
That's not a solution, either. See William Mulholland buying up the water rights in the Owens Valley to feed Los Angles, thus turning Owens Lake into toxic dust that is costing $1 billion and counting to manage. Mulholland is long dead
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by username223 10mo ago
Imagine SUBPROGRAMs that implement well-specified sequences of operations in a COmmon Business-Oriented Language, which can CALL each other. We are truly sipping rocket fuel.
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by username223 10mo ago
> I wonder if, for instance, optimizing for speed may produce code that is faster but harder to understand and extend. Superoptimizers have been around since 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization The
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by username223 10mo ago
Same. I hope this was written by hardened greybeards who have dedicated their lives to weather prediction and atmospheric modeling, and have "weathered" a few funding cycles.
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by username223 10mo ago
Whatever it is, it seems like it might be roughly competitive with ECMWF, the state of the art when it comes to global weather models: https://www.epic.noaa.gov/ai/eagle-verification/ A quick search didn't tu
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by username223 10mo ago
> But the final bit in this post is really where I'm at: I have no idea where to go from here. That's a good question. Mozilla has something like a half-billion dollars of assets, which is more than twice what the Linux Foundat
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by username223 10mo ago
> Things that have fallen out of fashion isn't the same thing as eradicating a technology. That's true. Ruby still exists, for example, though it's sitting down below COBOL on the Tiobe index. There's probably a commu
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by username223 10mo ago
> Which technology did we successfully roll back? Quite a few come to mind: chemical and biological weapons, beanie babies, NFTs, garbage pail kids... Some take real effort to eradicate, some die out when people get bored and move on. To
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by username223 10mo ago
> Wee knead two fine-d Moore Waze too Poisson there date... uh. Yes. Revel in your creativity mocking and blocking the slop machines. The "remote refactor" command, "rm -rf", is the best way to reduce the cyclomatic c
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by username223 10mo ago
> Imagine you have an AI button. That pretty much sums up the problem: an "AI" button is about as useful to me as a "do stuff" button, or one of those red "that was easy" buttons they sell at Home Depot. Goo
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by username223 10mo ago
The more ways people mess with scrapers, the better -- let a thousand flowers bloom! You as an individual can't compete with VC-funded looters, but there aren't enough of them to defeat a thousand people resisting in different way
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by username223 10mo ago
It's wild how often we rediscover that executing untrusted code leads to decades of whack-a-mole security. Excel/Word plus macros, HTML plus JavaScript, SVG plus JavaScript, ...
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by username223 10mo ago
It's a great reminder that while room-temperature-IQ AI pumpers like Sam Altman talk about "solving physics" or whatever, the actual value of large language models is generating spam marginally cheaper than Filipinos.
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by username223 10mo ago
> Browsers are practically full scale operating systems these days with tens of millions of lines of code, distributed for free. Well there's your problem! Google owns the server, the client, and the standards body, so ever-increasi
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by username223 10mo ago
> take your time, it's hard running around all day This. I've asked grocery checkers why they sprint through scanning my things, then relax as I bag them, and learned that they're subject to some dumb system that grades th
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by username223 10mo ago
Rodney Brooks? https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2025-january-...
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by username223 10mo ago
(star-eyes emoji) You are absolutely correct, Jim! (check-mark emoji) Add more emoji — humans love them! (red x emoji) Avoid negative words like "bullshit" and "scarier." (thumbs-up emoji) Before long you'll get pas
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by username223 10mo ago
It depends upon what you're trying to accomplish, and for whom. Are you trying to make money from casual language dabblers? Create a useful resource for people whose livelihoods depend upon learning a language? Teach yourself? I tried
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by username223 1y ago
I had forgotten about prog21, and I'm impressed how he wrapped up his blog: > I don't think of myself as a programmer. I write code, and I often enjoy it when I do, but that term programmer is both limiting and distracting. I d
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by username223 1y ago
That would be wild: a cash furnace merges with a pile of cash. I had forgotten just how late in the dot-com bubble AOL/TW happened. I think it's far more likely that Microsoft lets OpenAI hang, then pillages the corpse, while Appl
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by username223 1y ago
Fair enough. My gut sense is that C functions are simpler than shell commands, with a handful of parameters rather than a dozen or more flags, and this bug supports that -- they forgot to implement a flag in "date." But I haven&#x
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by username223 1y ago
Not enough Rust. The thought of rewriting anything as intricate, foundational, and battle-tested as GNU coreutils from scratch scares me. Maybe I'd try it with a mature automatic C-to-Rust translator, but I would still expect years of
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by username223 1y ago
This is the one most familiar to me. Usually the signs have flashing orange lights to indicate when they're active, but sometimes not. You generally know roughly when the kids are in school (maybe look at the school?), and follow what
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by username223 1y ago
You're right -- that's a bike! It would be completely serviceable without the motor (albeit heavy), which I guess is how I define it.
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by username223 1y ago
> https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/compiler/ioccc.html Good stuff -- thanks for sharing. IOCCC, like Perl Golf, is brilliantly absurd. https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=759963
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by username223 1y ago
It's a wall of text sprinkled with Halloween-colored AI slop images (look for the text artifacts). Which parts, if any, were produced by a human?
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by username223 1y ago
> The global average cost of solar panels is $90/kW. I don't remember where I read about it first, but the fact that Pakistan is installing gigawatts of solar panels per year made me smile. It's not a coordinated effort, e
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by username223 1y ago
"E-bikes" are much more efficient than electric cars, but they're just electric scooters with governors at this point, and only called "bikes" for regulatory reasons.
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by username223 1y ago
A skim of his Wikipedia bio suggests that he's smart, but mostly just interested in making money for himself. Since high school, he's spent time at: some fintech place, a Q-and-A site, MIT briefly, another fintech place, then data

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