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by wk_end 1y ago
Not as little as you'd think, not as widely as it once was. But the reasons for that have little to do with the "but why?"s thrown at it when it was first promoted.
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by wk_end 1y ago
Quick and very fussy question I'm hoping someone with native-level Japanese could comment on. My inclination (as a non-native learner) would be to translate 美味しくいただきました as "the staff enjoyed it later". It's both slight
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by wk_end 1y ago
Technically. The king here has as much power as he has in the UK. And, likewise, if ever exercised it’d probably lead to the end of the monarchy. In practice Taylor Swift might have more.
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by wk_end 1y ago
They might mean “retaliate to the violation of the treaty they signed”. Hong Kong was supposed to get fifty years of autonomy; the National Security Law ended that prematurely.
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by wk_end 1y ago
Is there some reason why we can’t either extract those anticoagulants from the leeches or otherwise synthesize them?
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by wk_end 1y ago
There’s a few orders of magnitude between “human-speed trading” and the absolute bleeding edge of HFT. A company like Jane Street still does automated trading far faster than any human could. Sure, Jane Street probably isn’t the fastest in
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by wk_end 1y ago
Designers, engineers, and/or pilots aren't tools, so that's a strange rhetorical question. At any rate, it depends on the crash. The NTSB will investigate and release findings that very well may assign fault to the design of
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by wk_end 1y ago
Blameless culture is important for a lot of reasons, but many of them are human . LLMs are just tools. If one of the issues identified in a post-mortem is "using this particular tool is causing us problems", there's not a bl
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by wk_end 1y ago
Yes, but also they don't believe in the pseudo-democratic and ultra-bureaucratic mechanisms NIMBYs use to hamstring development.
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by wk_end 1y ago
Well, I see no way to set it in Chrome. A good reason to be a little suspicious of Reddit or HN posts with em-dashes IMO.
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by wk_end 1y ago
No, it's on (by default I assume). In certain places it does seem to do the substitution - Notes for example - but in comment boxes on here and (old) Reddit at least it doesn't.
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by wk_end 1y ago
My Mac doesn't -- at least not as far as I can tell.
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by wk_end 1y ago
The example that the article gives relies on the borrow checker, which is not part of the usual Standard ML type system.
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by wk_end 1y ago
I don't follow him closely, but I'd always thought that John Gruber - while often a very good writer - got a little too much exposure to the Reality Distortion Field. So I'm a little surprised to see him come down so hard on
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by wk_end 1y ago
Don’t forget “soft urban yupsters who don’t know adversity” and “pin-dick contrarians”. Over-the-top machismo from a Karen crying about an incident ten years ago when his computer was too pointy and now he’ll never shop here again and he’ll
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by wk_end 1y ago
I kind of agree, but in the interest of discussion: even if CL isn't necessarily a more functional language in practice, culturally it's got a long history of being more functional. It took something like a decade at least for p
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by wk_end 1y ago
It's possible we never found the one he had, but it's pretty unlikely given how many brilliant people have beaten their head against this. "Wrong or joking" is much more likely.
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by wk_end 1y ago
Kind of amusing and maybe telling that this article about implementing an algorithm functionally begins by explaining it in an iterative, mutational fashion.
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by wk_end 1y ago
Not sure, their comment history doesn't look like it. If I had to guess, they got a fair amount of karma from the old comment and thought they could get away with reusing it and harvesting some more.
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by wk_end 1y ago
Slightly out of my depth, but per Diaconescu's theorem [0] axiom of choice implies the law of the excluded middle. Does that make Lean non-constructive? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaconescu%27s_theorem
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by wk_end 1y ago
One concern I’d have is that any type errors would be reported on the macro expanded code and thus be pretty much inscrutable outside of toy examples.
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by wk_end 1y ago
> Social media can be fixed, its just the incentives are not aligned. So social media can't be fixed. Incentives are what matter.
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by wk_end 1y ago
Well, the article says: Trade history is too often a sideline reserved for economic historians, yet any effective study of the past four hundred years ought to move it to centre stage, as a prime generator of war and peace, stability and c
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by wk_end 1y ago
I very strongly do suspect that the author(s?) isn't a native English speaker; based on the particular grammatical errors, like slip-ups around the definite article, "Russian hacker" was an educated guess and not pulled out o
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by wk_end 1y ago
Oh, hey, that's my comment. As mentioned in my reply to you downthread, the issue with all of the spelling and grammar mistakes - as is clear from the comment itself - is that it belies the authors' claims of being actual "jo
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by wk_end 1y ago
The issue with the typos or grammatical errors aren't the typos per se - it's that it strongly implies that their claims of being "independent journalists" is misleading or dishonest. At which point, a critical reader
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by wk_end 1y ago
...is that weird? Is the implication that everything anti-Israel - regardless of its merit or truth - should be upvoted and praised, or at least never in any way criticized? That, to me, feels a lot weirder.
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by wk_end 1y ago
Have you used Facebook recently? 99% of my posts are from random meme pages and groups; one's own social networks produce very little of the content you see.
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by wk_end 1y ago
The nature of the censorship is that it isn't targeted at who's seeing posts, but rather at the posts themselves. So it's not necessarily the case that the Israelis are treating different countries differently; it could simpl
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by wk_end 1y ago
I say this not in defence of the Israelis (ab)use of Meta's takedown system, nor in defence of the Israelis conduct towards Palestinians: this is low-quality, sensationalist work. ICW claims to be an "organization of independent j

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