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by woolion 4y ago
In one case we had a setup close to that. But the case I'm talking about is when you'd have something too complex to encode simply in a standard type system (even with dependent types...). So you have some subtle relationships be
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It's not so much about having another language to learn, it is about sharing code. Suppose you need a meaningful data structure to encode something very domain-specific (for example a dynamic filter you could build with arbitrary boole
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It's the third time this month I see a mention of this book, and every time it seems interesting. I'll try to read it soon!
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The Cuckoo's egg is part of 'history of hackers' literature that fascinated me when I got into computer science. At the time I was spending my time with algorithms, so computers were paper theoretical devices on one side, and
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That style has became ubiquitous for TED-style talks and most American non-fiction books (even technical ones). The chapter uses an anecdote, if possible name-dropping a known case or famous person, then shortly expands supporting research
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I agree the parent comment is making a great point, but I disagree with its conclusion that "curating the past is wasted effort", because it is tremendously useful if done right, whereas thinking that way creates the problem --a b
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by woolion 4y ago
>Curating the past is 99% wasted effort since looking back is rare. This is the worst kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. It is exactly the same as 'tidying your home is not worth it because you will need to search for things anyway&#
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by woolion 4y ago
Just a thought, reading your comment. A 'writer' is someone who 'writes' so there is no issue with identifying as such; you can write silly or profound things. However in French there is a specific word for a book writer
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The logic here is absolutely astounding. People _killing themselves_ is not an indicator that life is worse? What is it an indicator of, Mr Levitz? Are they unable to tolerate so much happiness? Are these people dumb? Defective? Arguing tha
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by woolion 4y ago
Great summary. I feel there could be a second one post detailing the finances of the political actors. They are not purely failing to do the job to represent the interest of their constituents by chance or by mistake. A simple start is just
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Looks interesting! I'm working on a novella (human-written) and there are many things where I thought about how the graph of different relations is useful to keep in mind, and the lack of recursive outline makes (collaborative) editing
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by woolion 4y ago
In what part am I telling anyone how to live their life? What do you even think "people like you" is? I would return the question but you seem to have already answered that in the 'about' of your profile.
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I assure you, people do. It's certainly not the case for lower-class people who are just scrambling to survive economically, but if you asked around people who are more affluent, they could definitely afford to reduce their workload to
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by woolion 4y ago
>You probably know this, but you fail to acknowledge it. I don't think my comment was really aggressive to justify assuming bad faith in such a way. For all my normal usage (conversion, montage) I never have to specify anything. Th
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by woolion 4y ago
Is there a diagrammatic description (UML-like) of the different modelling approaches that are in use, so that you could pick a standard one for your use case? It would also help knowing what conversions from one model to the other would be
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by woolion 4y ago
Could you expand? I've used ImageMagick to do some fairly advanced color management, and I really don't see how that can be true. You have basic keyword arguments for common use-cases, and you can get down to matrix operations on
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by woolion 4y ago
Fake news was very bad, but it doesn't seem to matter anymore. Having a 'truth' benchmark seems an almost impossible task given the size of the problem space, but it is quite troubling to have statements like "most is us
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Well, it would be a good analogy to think of it as genius colleague with very strong mental issues. That colleague can answer most of your questions well, but sometimes you get something that is completely insane, even if it makes some sens
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by woolion 4y ago
For anyone else wondering about this DIY ethanol production, it is aptly named "Auto-brewery Syndrome". The production of endogenous ethanol occurs in minute quantities as part of normal digestion, but when fermenting yeast or bac
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Journalism under attack: turning a scam from the New Yorker into DIY opportunity(woolion.art)
2 points by woolion 4y ago|0 comments
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by woolion 4y ago
There was much debate around ChatGPT "solving search" by providing a top reply. Some invoked the danger being that the answer might be completely wrong, yet look legit. This is something quite basic that I think can be surprisingl
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A question mark (?) is the same as a regular expression dot (.)(google.com)
1 points by woolion 4y ago|2 comments
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TV shows are addressed in a later part of the series, for exactly the reason you give. It seems to give a good starting point for a bildungsroman/shonen manga/... (depending on the medium) type of story. The guide does seem unawar
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SoundHelix: Algorithmic Random Music Composer(soundhelix.com)
1 points by woolion 4y ago|0 comments
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Nowadays I just use bash because alternative shells often won't be available in dev environments, CI, etc, so bash cannot be avoided anyway. But in the past I've used Python to generate bash script to avoid having to do tricky pro
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by woolion 4y ago
Why do you strawman my argument? The issue with combining sounds in the mix is the issues add up in a super-linear way. Because of that you could even say that modern music producers tend to care too much about perfect sounds. The Beatles d
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by woolion 4y ago
The difference is that for images almost everything is done with raster graphics, vector is the niche exception. And for most uses where it makes sense (e.g. a logo) you can easily convert a raster to SVG automatically generally without req
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by woolion 4y ago
You sure _can_, but that's not how a music producer works. I meant it as how you could actually use the output into a professional workflow. For images it's definitely easy since it integrates in a meaningful way into the pipeline
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I believe that to be mostly true for Lisp or ML-family (OCaml, ...) languages, but not for Haskell. Reasons would be: - lazy evaluation can be tricky if you work with files, you have to profile and force strict evaluation at key points to a
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by woolion 4y ago
I don't really understand why this approached is pushed for music. You can overpaint an image, but you can't do that with a song. Cutting an image to reintroduce coherence is easy too. For a song you need midi, or another symbolic

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