xigoi

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by xigoi 9mo ago
Alright, if you want to be pedantic abuot the definition, then ban compensated advertising.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
> Church (if that's your bag, it's not mine), climbing gyms, dinner clubs, dog parks, adult education classes, martial arts, etc. Such places will quickly ban you if you start hitting on women.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
It doesn’t matter which one because they’re all owned by a single company and converging toward each other.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
> This assumes that dating sites are able to give everyone great matches, but are somehow holding them back. From what I’ve heard, OkCupid used to be really good at finding compatible people, then it got deliberately nerfed when sold to
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by xigoi 9mo ago
I love calculating the mean of discrete categories, as in the relationship status chart.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
> Anthropic, your actual moat is goodwill. You mean the company that DDoSed websites to train their model?
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by xigoi 9mo ago
> The fact that C# is becoming the GC language in game dev is proving my point. Popularity is not proof of anything. C# is popular because it’s made by Microsoft and rode the OOP hype.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
The problem is that OpenAI and Claude don’t care if their tools produce good code, as long as people pay for them.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
By “usable”, I mean “there is a website where I can sign up and chat with the model”.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
SourceHut.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
GitLab is slow as fuck and the UI is cluttered with corporate nonsense.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
The performance of any software is compiler-dependent.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
That’s the equivalent of getting less than 50% on a quiz consisting entirely of yes/no questions.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
Given that GCC is in the training data, it should not take much research to create an equally good compiler.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
If your problem is a very small deviation from an existing problem, you should be able to take an existing open-source solution and make a very small modification to adapt it to your use case. No need for “vibe-coding” a lower-quality imple
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by xigoi 9mo ago
In 2030, an AI model that I can run on my computer, without having to trust an evil megacorporation, will not be able to write a compiler for my markup language [0] based on a corpus of examples, without seeing the original implementation,
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by xigoi 9mo ago
> And my fingers were hurting (and are hurting when I use websites without infinite scroll, like Hacker News). https://hckrnews.com/
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by xigoi 9mo ago
The goalposts have been moved so many times that they’re not even on the playing field.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
Breaking down a problem in simpler terms that a computer can understand is called coding. I don’t need a layer of unpredictability in between.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
> there are many models to choose from. There don’t seem to be any usable open-source models.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
You mean the one that can’t compile hello world?
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by xigoi 9mo ago
> I have a level of test coverage that would be infeasible for a one man show. When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
I, for one, prefer to use software where the person who wrote it understands how it works.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
> can build the thing but it needs to be told exactly what to build by someone who knows how software works. How do you tell a computer exactly what you want it to do, without using code?
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by xigoi 9mo ago
Is a cashier, for example, not supposed to tell their boss when the cash register jams?
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by xigoi 9mo ago
If you’re not in control of the OS, then you’re not responsible for problems caused by the choice of OS. Tell your boss that Windows is not allowing you to use basic features and let them choke on it.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
I recently started using COSMIC and I would definitely call it good, even if it has a few rough edges due to just recently coming out of beta.
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by xigoi 9mo ago
Which “the” Linux desktop? GNOME? KDE? xfce? Cinnamon? COSMIC?
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by xigoi 9mo ago
> C hit a perfect balance of being a small enough language to grok, being indepedent of the system manufacturers, reflecting the computer architecture of 80s, actually small in syntax C is a complex language with complex syntax. The C sp
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by xigoi 9mo ago
While they’re technically deterministic, they’re still chaotic, in the sense that changing irrelevant details in the input (such as writing “color” versus “colour”) can make the output completely different.

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