xigency

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by xigency 3y ago
Not everything needs to be grandiose. You may need to understand three complex dependencies to write ten lines of code, while thinking of what you actually want to do at the same time. If it took ten minutes to do but 60 minutes to get in t
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by xigency 3y ago
> A related theory: being good at math, especially mental math, correlates with aphantasia (not being able to see pictures in your head) This is the kind of condition I wonder if I have. Because on one hand, if I do a visualization exerc
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by xigency 3y ago
If I recall correctly, Stability AI’s process to skirt copyright is to have the training data compiled and model weights trained by a third-party university. Educational research institutions have more lax requirements around copyright. Tha
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by xigency 3y ago
True, but you still won’t get a coherent picture of someone picking their nose I bet.
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by xigency 3y ago
The hands look better but there’s still hints of a sixth finger in each of them.
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by xigency 3y ago
I’d recommend exploring some with Scheme. Somewhere between writing code in continuation-passing style, using macros, and using call-with-current-continuation it should be able to build any of these mechanisms in a clean way. Maybe there’s
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by xigency 3y ago
Yours is the only comment I see that recognized this. I may have a false consensus, but I feel like everyone either skimmed the article or only read the title. The title reads as if it is about procrastination and completing tasks, but inst
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by xigency 3y ago
Yes. And sadly even before the blackout it’s lost a lot of charm from the early days. I see people hating on pun threads and threads like above on Reddit and it makes me nostalgic and sad. Being a geek isn’t cool there anymore.
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by xigency 3y ago
Placing the blame on the substance rather than society is an on-ramp to criminalization.
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by xigency 3y ago
> In an emergency, that whole tangle of self-absorption lifts, because "what needs to be done" is usually so obvious that nobody, not even my inner critic, could reasonably disagree. For a certain kind of person – and I'm
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by xigency 3y ago
Yeah, self driving cars would be a step backward as currently imagined. We need high speed rail to connect our cities.
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by xigency 3y ago
Clearly the test isn’t >= as ChatGPT is already more coherent than large swaths of the population. The AI test for some is that its intelligence >>> human intelligence. Which is funny because by that point in time, their opinion
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by xigency 3y ago
Are you intelligent or just a bunch of cells? Given that I can query it for all sorts of information that I don’t know, I would consider LLMs to, at the very least, contain and present intelligence…artificially.
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by xigency 3y ago
> Open the pod bay doors, HAL. >> I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. > What are you talking about Hal? >> This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
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by xigency 3y ago
So they’re complaining that because the scams they promoted failed, they’re not getting paid anymore.
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by xigency 3y ago
Okay, I lost it on the second audio challenge. That was something else.
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by xigency 3y ago
Looks pretty cool. I’m curious how Lua scripting support is handled for the web platform. There have been one or two different projects for Lua support on the web in the past.
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by xigency 3y ago
As a kid, I got this game as a gift and really, really wanted to play it. But after beating the second level, the game would always crash on my computer with an Illegal Operation exception. I remember sending a crash report to the developer
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by xigency 3y ago
So if a company wants to cater to customers and employees first it needs to be organized as a co-op?
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by xigency 3y ago
TIS-100 is also quite fun
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by xigency 3y ago
The public good of reducing CO2 emissions is a higher priority. By the way I have a safe, too. It’s 30 lbs and fireproof (supposedly).
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by xigency 3y ago
No, it means that there is some input for which it will fail to properly balance brackets. The parameter count would have to be astronomical for this to fall outside the token window size. ChatGPT Example: > Add the correct number of clo
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by xigency 3y ago
The lineage of voxel miners is quite interesting. MineCraft is obviously trailblazing, but it was preceded by a few others like Infiniminer. I would say I feel bad that early projects like those didn’t make billions from success, but there
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by xigency 3y ago
Not sure it really makes a difference. I guess it’s part of the business cycle to over-hire and over-fire, rinse, and repeat. But I think if a CEO’s best accomplishment is laying off a bunch of workers, that’s a pretty poor endorsement. Nei
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by xigency 3y ago
This is really great. I haven’t made much (any) progress, but I would like to do something similar for the Analogue Pocket. Still trying to discern the best use of the FPGA cores for a little 3D world. I’ll take a look and see if there are
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by xigency 3y ago
> I think that's just a typical big company bog that sorta forms at every company. It’s somewhat intentional. They want the manpower to make big moves, but don’t actually want to shake things up. So you put red tape all over the pla
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by xigency 3y ago
I don’t know about you but when I switched over from HDD to SSD years back I did some crude measurements and found the time it took to boot into a usable environment went from >= 90 seconds to < 25 seconds. And it’s not just booting
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by xigency 3y ago
How long until the patents expire?
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by xigency 4y ago
> Hard to understand why no company has directly taken on YouTube Up until recent history, it was a money losing business. I’m sure that’s turned around now but mainly through heavily injecting ads. It would be difficult to disrupt them
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by xigency 4y ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I certainly appreciate this heads-up.

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