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by xmonkee 3y ago
I have the same issue, but I blame the absence of good package management. If it had that, one of the thousands of these libraries would have won out and become quasi-standard.
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by xmonkee 3y ago
What a great and clear write-up. Thanks to the author.
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by xmonkee 3y ago
This is an extremely roundabout way of saying "Our database is better than mongo"
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by xmonkee 3y ago
Damn, just looking at this image for a minute can trigger an intense wave of nostalgia for my childhood.
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by xmonkee 3y ago
I'm sorry about that last quip. Don't know why I said that. Probably reminded me of some people I don't like IRL.
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by xmonkee 3y ago
Social dynamics are so much more complex than this childish analysis. Misses the most important reason for swearing completely: to fine-tune the tone of the conversation. And there’s nothing special about swearing here, all words and gestur
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by xmonkee 4y ago
Because my client knows how to display the data, and my server doesn't? I have a button in my app that, when clicked, sends a mutation to the server, and then changes it's display based on what the server returns. At this point, m
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by xmonkee 4y ago
How are you doing tailwind with static html? If you are looking for a solution check out twind with the “shim” as a cdn import.
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by xmonkee 4y ago
Thanks, very helpful. Are llama and chatGPT essentially the same “program”, just with different weights? And is one better than the other (for the same number of parameters) just because it has better weights?
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by xmonkee 4y ago
> SPA’s should be used web apps (think slack or Asana), and stick to sever rendered for web pages Everyone seems to agree on this, but if this is the case than i’m very confused why this is still a debate. The vast majority of developers
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by xmonkee 4y ago
what’s stopping a bank from making really risky loans, give super high yields? Everyone will go to that bank since there is no risk to them?
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by xmonkee 4y ago
Folding Ideas is the greatest youtuber
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by xmonkee 4y ago
As someone who grew up programming but always scared of bit fiddling and number theory, this was amazing to read.
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by xmonkee 4y ago
I think the point is that it's not a reconstruction. It's more like recognizing which letter of a thousand-letter alphabet is shown to the human after decoding their brain waves. Still impressive, but not really as impressive as v
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by xmonkee 4y ago
Again, you could ask the same question of a rock, "How can you know this rock doesn't experience anything?" Obviously I don't know. But there is no reason to think a rock would. Similarly there is no reason to think Chat
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by xmonkee 4y ago
The proof of my subjective experience is my subjective experience of it, not the fact that I can complete sentences. So saying chatgpt has consciousness because it can talk is a complete non-sequitor.
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by xmonkee 4y ago
what does that mean?
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by xmonkee 4y ago
He IS defining sentience, just in behavioral terms.
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by xmonkee 4y ago
Dr Searle isn’t making a mistake, behaviorists are just unbelievably stubborn. Just because you cannot measure internal experience doesn’t mean we cant talk about it. That’s just being dishonest. I also used to be a behaviorist but I grew u
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by xmonkee 4y ago
Please calm down. I am in your side wrt sentience here but you are just ranting. They’ve presented a compelling argument: if we don’t have anything other than behavior to go by to gauge sentience then there is no meaningful way to say we ha
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by xmonkee 4y ago
You cannot complain about points of failure and praise electronic shifting in the same breath. I have a bike with downtube friction shifters and 2x8 gearing on an old deore group. Its liberating.
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by xmonkee 4y ago
I think it's generally referred to as salting
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by xmonkee 4y ago
Solid tip, again.
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by xmonkee 4y ago
Huh, thanks for this. Will live in my head from now. Basically, in this situation, use (user_id, feature_name) for hashing, not just the user_id.
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by xmonkee 4y ago
God, this is such condescending nonsense. The older I get, the more left I lean, because the more of the world you see the more you see what chaos our current ideology has wreaked upon it. The only people I see going the way this quote does
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by xmonkee 4y ago
This is really really not true. Maybe 50% of coding is high-school level. A LOT of real-world coding is dealing with stuff like concurreny, cryptography, error-handling, infrastructure, synchronization, database optimizations, et etc etc. T
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by xmonkee 4y ago
I have a M1 mac. How frustrating is Asahi compared to macos? I love me some linux but hate the driver fiddling
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by xmonkee 4y ago
I always thought Cryptonomicon would be the go-to stephenson recommendation for nerds, but I guess it reads very dated now.
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by xmonkee 4y ago
Blindsight is amazing, if a little scary
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by xmonkee 4y ago
I can't imagine thinking this is a good idea if you've done any programming whatsoever. What happened here?

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