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by xen0 2y ago
It seems the voucher codes they 'find' are not the result of them searching the Web. They are simply codes provided by partnered businesses and may be beaten by codes you can get by searching yourself. If true, then this is them o
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by xen0 2y ago
Huh, don't know how I missed that. I was hoping for them to have done some analysis themselves. Glancing through the code for some of the 'easier' problems Claude (his best performer), it seems to have broadly correct (if a l
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by xen0 2y ago
I'm a bit curious to see how close the solutions were. When it couldn't solve it within the constraints, was it 'broadly correct' with some bugs? Was it on the right track or completely off?
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by xen0 2y ago
RIP Spadge. I spent a lot of time on the Team 17 forum when I was young, and it was nice that he engaged with the community as much as he did.
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by xen0 2y ago
I think 'bit' risks confusing storage with the type (a Boolean is often stored using at least a byte, not a single bit).
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by xen0 2y ago
I too can invent numbers. My invented numbers say there's no meaningful difference in line counts between statically typed and dynamically typed languages. So how will we prove any of us wrong?
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by xen0 2y ago
I'm reminded of one of my Maths lecturers. He argued that most proofs really only involve one insightful step. Really difficult ones might require two. The rest is just 'turning the wheel'; each step is just doing the only th
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by xen0 2y ago
Wouldn't want your root kit to introduce an unwanted security vulnerability.
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by xen0 2y ago
Sometimes I start to feel like I'm pretty good at what I do. Then I read one Raymond's investigations like this and realise I'm still not that good.
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by xen0 2y ago
> It is yet inevitable The cool thing for you is that this statement is unfalsifiable. But what I really took issue with was your timeframe in the original comment. Your statements imply you fully expect AGI to be a thing within a couple
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by xen0 2y ago
What makes you think AGI is either here or imminent? For me the current systems still clearly fall short of that goal.
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by xen0 2y ago
I really do wonder who these engineers are, that the current 'AI' tools are able to write so much of their code. Maybe my situation is unusual; I haven't written all that much code at Google lately, but what I do write is pre
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by xen0 2y ago
Smoking, in many countries, is no longer aggressively advertised (if it's advertised at all). Gambling in some of those same countries is now very aggressively advertised.
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by xen0 2y ago
The intersection of paths taken by pedestrians and trains is much more limited than that for pedestrians and cars. And notably, trains don't stop for pedestrians. Or another way: Roads are a shared resource. Train tracks are not.
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by xen0 2y ago
You need the increased space, which means you have the traffic waves. You need the space because of variations in cars; some have better brakes than others, some may be heavier so need more time to slow down, others may be on wetter patch o
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by xen0 2y ago
We already have systems that permit pedestrians to cross with priority over cars; they don't need lights. They don't scale to really busy streets, and one of the failure modes would be perpetually blocked vehicles. And this still
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by xen0 2y ago
If you want to avoid traffic 'waves', so all vehicles accelerate and decelerate at the same time, you must remove _everything_ that might introduce unexpected variance. Which basically removes people. A simple fact is that faster
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by xen0 2y ago
This is a terrible world for pedestrians, bicycles, or anything other than an autonomous vehicle.
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by xen0 2y ago
Sometimes when writing 'fiddly' code, I'll have a bug. But I can't find the bug. I get the wrong answers but can't trace it through the logic. Maybe it's a dumb thing like a missing index increment? Or a missin
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by xen0 2y ago
And here I am using QWES. I find it much more ergonomic to have the three fingers on the same row. And L Ctrl is not a stretch at all. Although for some reason I usually bind L Alt to crouch...
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by xen0 2y ago
On the other hand, an advantage with using a valid 'zero' value as a default state is that nothing will break when given it. It's a perfectly valid location whereas 'sentinel' values are not.
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by xen0 2y ago
Given US presidential elections have, twice in my lifetime, been won by person with fewer votes than another, this would not be a concerning change.
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by xen0 2y ago
Going to bed early and waking up early (relative to my schedule today) is something I _can_ do. I had to do it for several years. I felt like absolute shit every morning. I felt sick and couldn't eat before 10. Every Day. I don't
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by xen0 2y ago
So what are you for?
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by xen0 2y ago
The largest forms of tax revenue in the UK are, in order: * Income Tax * National Insurance * VAT * Corporation Tax In terms of amounts received, the first is by far the largest and is overwhelmingly paid by 'higher earners'. The
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by xen0 2y ago
Ok, so who is paying for health care? Because it isn't the 'disadvantaged', many of whom are going to need it.
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by xen0 2y ago
How else does a state apply pressure? The health implications are real; this stuff was cheap and available and market forces kept them there. Cigarettes and alcohol are heavily taxed. A similar racket?
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by xen0 2y ago
Would you prefer an outright ban?
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by xen0 2y ago
Lactase persistence is somewhat focused in Europe, being the norm in the more northern countries.
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by xen0 2y ago
That doesn't sound right... https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... The most industrialised countries in the dataset correlate with the lowest belief. But the population in those areas

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