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by xigoi 10mo ago
I imagine that having to write for (int index = 0; index < size; ++index) instead of for index in 0...size eats up a lot of tokens, especially in C where you also need this construct for iterating over arrays.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
The government already knows whether you have a car. What more information would they need?
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by xigoi 10mo ago
If the tool that allows you to have a “noticeably better life” is heavily subsidized by venture capital, you have turned yourself into a ticking bomb.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
I have certainly seen LLMs generate broken Markdown, so it’s presumably a “hope it works” thing.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
“LLM generated Markdown” is not a coherent description of a language. LLMs can generate anything they have seen in their training data, which includes many incompatible dialects of Markdown.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
That’s a reference, not a specification. I would expect something like a formal grammar or a description of a parsing algorithm.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
I would certainly not consider package management to be a good part of JavaScript (or Rust, for that matter).
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by xigoi 10mo ago
From his posts, it’s unclear who actually did the experiment. He seems to only be commenting on the results? Or am I missing something?
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by xigoi 10mo ago
Even these basics are not consistent. See my Markdown Monster: https://git.sr.ht/~xigoi/markdown-monster/blob/master/monste...
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by xigoi 10mo ago
There is no such thing as a common subset of Markdown. Even basic things are rendered inconsistently by different implementations. If browsers decided to add Markdown support, this would lead to another “works only in Internet Explorer” sit
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by xigoi 10mo ago
I like it, but it doesn’t seem to have a specification, making it hard to create a new implementation.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
However, there is no way to switch back to Markdown inside HTML, so if, say, you want to have an <article> tag around your article, you need to write it entirely in HTML.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
> That’s just an accident of whatever editor you might be using, not of others. And that’s the main issue with Markdown.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
I’m pretty sure many Markdown implementations would turn this into a code block. Unfortunately Babelmark seems to currently be broken so I can’t test it.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
> What it can't do (as far as I understand): complex layouts, precise typography, embedded binary content, anything that needs pixel-perfect rendering. Am I missing anything? What are the other limitations I should know about? Off t
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by xigoi 10mo ago
That would require Markdown to be standardized. (There is the CommonMark standard, but it’s extremely complex and still ambiguous.)
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by xigoi 10mo ago
The goalposts are still the same. We want to be able to independently verify that an AI can do something instead of just hearing such a claim from a corporation that is absolutely willing to lie through their teeth if it gets them money.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
GIMP doesn’t have AI features, but you can still use it to create nasty stuff and there are no safeguards against that.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
> Sensory disabilities like deafness and blindness are disabling because the world is not oriented to people with sensory disabilities. Implying that they wouldn’t be detrimental if the world was “oriented” differently.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
Ah, that’s a terrible implementation then.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
It’s not a CSAM generation button, it’s a general content generation button that someone used to generate CSAM, and it’s that someone who is responsible for it.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
Posting such images is illegal, i.e. it’s the user who has violated the law.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
There’s no “create child porn” button. The user has to explicitly ask for child porn. If someone uses GIMP to create child porn, do you blame GIMP?
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by xigoi 10mo ago
Someone who is a grandparent may also have other children who do not have children.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
ConvertTo-Json? What kind of naming convention is that, especially with all the other commands being lowercase?
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by xigoi 10mo ago
> By direction, I mean that if you define "a grandparent is the parent of a parent", you can now use that rule not just to evaluate whether one person is a parent (or to find all grandparents) but also to conclude that if you k
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by xigoi 10mo ago
What’s the point of switching if you’re going to leave in the worst part?
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by xigoi 10mo ago
The quotation marks having been stripped from the title changes the meaning quite a bit…
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by xigoi 10mo ago
It’s not an ad if you’re not paying someone to forcibly show it to other people.
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by xigoi 10mo ago
> OT overhead 200MB (ensuring app loads fast) Yet there is a positive correlation between size and startup time…

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