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by wiz21c 1y ago
> I don't see what the problem is. The problem is most people don't know. In my country you can't change the price for a given person. So if you don't know it's done, you can't change your behaviour (like do
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by wiz21c 1y ago
FTA: > Strange, isn't it? The AI hasn’t crashed. It’s still running. As a human I answer a question because my time to do so is finite. Why can't we just ask an AI to give its best answer in due time ? As a human I can do that
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by wiz21c 1y ago
'cos COBOL was designed to be human readable (writable ?).
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by wiz21c 1y ago
Now let's ask our not-yet-AGI robots to fold origami and we will see how far they go...
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by wiz21c 1y ago
Non official builds for Windows: https://github.com/deevus/zed-windows-builds/releases The opengl one fails on my PC but the "regular one" (?) zed.exe seems to work. Didn't test much as I have disco
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by wiz21c 1y ago
FTA: > Why bother working on this algorithm from the 90s that sees very little use today? What's in use nowadays ? zstd ? ahh saw this: https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/
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by wiz21c 1y ago
Ah yeah, I forgot the BBS'es but I only had a modem in 1989 or so, so I discovered that world very late...
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by wiz21c 1y ago
FTA: > And people find themselves in impossible situations where the main choices are 1) make poor decisions under extreme pressure, 2) comply under extreme pressure, or 3) get routed around. It doesn't sound like a work place :-(
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by wiz21c 1y ago
> I am sitting here behind my Ryzen monster but still yearn for those days. That so true... At that time computers were new and the media didn't get them at all. You went to the movies and saw Tron and Wargames. For the younger her
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by wiz21c 1y ago
cool, never heard of windbg, looks real good
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by wiz21c 1y ago
I've used debuggers now and then. What's the state of the art nowadays (in terms of cool functionalities) ? (too lazy to ggl or gpt it)
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by wiz21c 1y ago
Several DNS... Strange names... Protective Resolution - IP address 86.54.11.1 Protective + Child Protection - IP address 86.54.11.12 Protective + Ad blocking - IP address 86.54.11.13 Protective + Child Protection + Ad b
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by wiz21c 1y ago
What about the GIL ?
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by wiz21c 1y ago
??? https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/rhel-10-plans-wayland-and-xor...
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by wiz21c 1y ago
"When Chuck Norris codes, AI develops self-awareness just to avoid being roundhouse kicked."
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by wiz21c 1y ago
I guess it doesn't include linking ? (which takes quite some time)
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by wiz21c 1y ago
A debugger doesn't show you the evolution of your program over time. A few well placed prints give you that. I use my debugger often, but sometimes you need to track the value of something over time (say, over 1000 iterations) and a de
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by wiz21c 1y ago
Definitely. It always amazes me that in many situations, I'm applying some stats algorithm just to conclude: let's look at these data some more...
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by wiz21c 1y ago
If success is not a function of quality (in general), then producers have an incentive to produce a lot of cheap stuff. It's like playing lottery more often. In the end, there will still be quality content but it will be much more expe
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by wiz21c 1y ago
I'd much prefer Carmack to think about optimizing for energy consumption.
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by wiz21c 1y ago
Not quite related, but do the mamba models gain ground ? Answering my own question: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1hpg91o/d_...
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by wiz21c 1y ago
I concur: participating in household stuff (being men or women) is a huge thing. When you have kids, you have sometimes to meet the teachers, go to a doctor, do some adminsitrative work. Having a day for that (even if working a bit more the
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by wiz21c 1y ago
yep, calling that "persuasion" is seriously wrong.
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by wiz21c 1y ago
do you actually needs recursivity for that ?
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by wiz21c 1y ago
I should read a comment like yours every morning.
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by wiz21c 1y ago
> "sophisticated reasoning skills" Does it mean that it uses the data it has to the maximum possible level to produce new reasoning (that add to those produced by less algorithms). IOW, are we still in the realm of: with a give
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by wiz21c 1y ago
They should have done it with lego mindstorm :-)
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by wiz21c 1y ago
Once again, a rust rewrite ends up with a weaker licence (bash is GPL, brush is MIT). I love rust, but please, keep free software free. If only because you most likely benefited from past free software.
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by wiz21c 1y ago
and maths shortcuts are really easy
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by wiz21c 1y ago
> rewritten graphics rendering code (running 5-10 times as fast as the previous code while sacrificing some compatibility) argh, too bad. If one goes the cycle-accurate way, then not doing everything accurate is a bit strange... I wonder

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