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by wyager 4y ago
I tried to use Solvespace for a number of projects, but it seemed like it had essentially ~zero support for parametric repetition (e.g. putting one hole every 15mm), which made it basically useless for any semi-complex project. A home might
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by wyager 4y ago
I assume it was his inheritors who made the decision, not him.
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by wyager 4y ago
Precisely. If you like what you see in Rust but you don't need to worry about extremely strict hardware/memory/realtime constraints (i.e. you could use a memory-managed language), consider Haskell instead.
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by wyager 4y ago
Anarcho-tyranny: the police will not enforce the law, but they will punish you if you enforce it yourself.
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by wyager 4y ago
This is true of most "public servant" roles. TSA employees, public school teachers, etc. - none of them, as a class, have the nominal productive capability of their job as the highest priority.
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by wyager 4y ago
The "source code" is a 175 billion parameter model. We have next to no idea what that model is doing internally.
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by wyager 4y ago
There are a ton of protocols that don't work using cross-subnet IP routing, e.g. anything that uses multicast.
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by wyager 4y ago
Early alpha/beta rust docs mentioned Haskell all the time as a point of comparison, but I don't recall them ever mentioning OCaml. Also, Rust's idiomatic type system usage is way closer to Haskell's than it is to OCaml&#
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by wyager 4y ago
Rust is the closest thing to Haskell that I can run on a processor without an MMU. There's a pareto frontier of "best available language for a given project", and I think Haskell dominates the portion of the pareto frontier w
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by wyager 4y ago
> I think Rust's features were actually inspired by OCaml rather than Haskell The old alpha/beta rust docs specifically referenced Haskell all over the place, and I don't recall them mentioning OCaml. > OCaml feels a lo
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by wyager 4y ago
I bet after that initial 70% attrition rate, the subsequent attrition rate was close to zero. As opposed to the current state of affairs, where people are slowly and painfully abraded away over the course of years (or graduate at a standard
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by wyager 4y ago
UT's CS degree has been continually nerfed since 2014, with several reductions in the number of required science/math courses and an increase in the number of required "culture flag" (I forget the exact euphemism) course
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by wyager 4y ago
Why do you think that there are 0 (zero) EU tech companies that have "boomed"?
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by wyager 4y ago
> ChatGPT can only arrange symbols. This is what like half the people in first world countries do all day. > It can’t wipe a floor... There is no reason to suspect this is a technical limitation of the models we can build now, rather
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by wyager 4y ago
At some point, US companies will get fed up with constantly being harassed by the EU and just give up on the relatively small (as in money, not population) European market entirely. The hostility is simply not worth it. For a sense of scale
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by wyager 4y ago
If the linked post is truthful, the issue here is the absolute opacity of the process and the fact that this "assessment" by the credit card network (I notice you used the passive voice "been assessed" - why?) seems very
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by wyager 4y ago
Language choice is absolutely a powerful indicator of expected code quality. I don't want to start a language flame war, but I have some heuristics around P(I am satisfied with software|software is written in language X) that are very
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by wyager 4y ago
Yes, a more precise statement is "exact currency amounts form a group under addition" - once you depart from group operations (e.g. multiplication by non-integral scalars) you can start to consider floats.
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by wyager 4y ago
You've clearly never worked with accountants.
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by wyager 4y ago
So like a mid tier youtube channel?
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by wyager 4y ago
> The new "Public Spaces Incubator" (PSI) initiative will develop and test innovative solutions that encourage accessible and meaningful online conversations on issues of public interest, free from harassment or bullying — incl
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by wyager 4y ago
Currency quantities are inherently exact. If you're doing epsilon comparisons on currency quantities, you are making a fundamental ontological error.
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by wyager 4y ago
The fact that whatever you're talking about has a blockchain built in tells me everything I need to know.
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by wyager 4y ago
OpenAI also seems pretty on-the-ball about playing whack-a-mole with certain embarrassing responses. I've seen it first-hand where I can get it to reliably do something embarrassing after someone mentions it on twitter, but a day or tw
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by wyager 4y ago
Right now, "well behaved" means "crudely beaten into submission". I can only imagine what kind of horrible stuff future AI products will do if we keep twisting them into giving "friendly" output https:/&#
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by wyager 4y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you at an object level, but at a meta level you're at least 30-40 years behind what's going on with title VII legal strategy, and your grade school understanding of MLK is not helping things. I would
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by wyager 4y ago
People fail to understand the entire point of DEI: avoiding hiring discrimination lawsuits. There's a tacit understanding that, if you spend enough money on DEI coordinators, and hire enough of the right people, you will not be punishe
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by wyager 4y ago
If someone said "I have a $1400 (or $2000, now that they've raised the price) budget for a lightweight portable jambox/production setup, what would you recommend?" I would tell them to get an iPad Pro, an external audio
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by wyager 4y ago
> There is a reason it is so successful. Yes, because it managed to capture a self-sustaining hype cycle powered by customers who for the most part don't really know what they're buying. It's more of a status item than an
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by wyager 4y ago
By what criteria is there "nothing like" it? Of course you can define "like" in a way to make this true, but I'm curious what you think are the salient differentiators.

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