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by xpe 1y ago
I’m not seeing how this is a response to my comment. It comes across as evangelism and thread hijacking.
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by xpe 1y ago
“Resilience” conveys your meaning better than “security”, and it calls to mind more relevant interventions.
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by xpe 1y ago
> I read a paper yesterday where someone had used an LLM to read other papers and was claiming that this was doing science. I'm not trying to be facetious or eye-poking here, I promise... But I have to ask: What was the result; did
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by xpe 1y ago
Me like teh grammarz 2. Plays 4 author someday could put at https://github.com/huml-lang then it slay
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by xpe 1y ago
The comment above gives explanations defending subjective preferences about what "human oriented" means. That's fine as long as you remember that is what is happening: justification of subjective preferences. Other people can
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by xpe 1y ago
Language design often involves subjective tradeoffs. The author gives their rationale here: https://huml.io/specifications/v0-1-0/#why
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by xpe 1y ago
> Provide as few ways as possible—preferably one—of representing something. TRUTH! Or, expressed in YAML 1.1 [1] y Y yes Yes YES true True TRUE on On ON As expressed in YAML 1.2 [2]:
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by xpe 1y ago
Seems to me like people have to push back more directly with a collective effort; otherwise the incentives are all wrong.
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by xpe 1y ago
> ... I know this sounds melodramatic, but I think we've witnessed something unprecedented in our shared culture: the wholesale abandonment of progress as a governing narrative. Where we used to tell ourselves stories about systems
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by xpe 1y ago
I’m not trying to hurt your pride; I’m trying to communicate a minimum comment quality. A not-uncommon reply at this point might be: “Why don’t you tell me my mistakes?” That would be a rather shallow criticism. If you don’t see them, run y
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by xpe 1y ago
Bad logic on at least two counts. Try again.
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by xpe 1y ago
I agree. Corporations excel at finding ways to disperse authority and accountability to do illegal things, sometimes intentionally, sometimes simply by letting the natural corporate incentives play out -- "oh, look, this department did
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by xpe 1y ago
> I can't imagine Softbank or Microsoft is happy about their money being funneled into something like this Imagining one negative spin doesn’t an imagination make. Imagine harder.
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by xpe 1y ago
They undermined their not-for-profit mission by changing their governance structure. This changed their very DNA.
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by xpe 1y ago
open weights != open source
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by xpe 1y ago
I don’t think one can validly draw any such conclusion.
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by xpe 1y ago
Spot on. There are cases of companies providing something very close to a full OS for the focused use cases such as the Bloomberg Terminal. But imagine if such a thing existed purely for marketing and informational purposes. "Curious a
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by xpe 1y ago
Reminds me of some often-repeated suggestions that take the form of "every developer should build their own X" where X might be: blog, ORM, key-value store, database, OS, distributed computation framework, neural network, decentra
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by xpe 1y ago
If one witnesses the spiciness first-hand, one will understand the comment above is fitting and appropriate.
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by xpe 1y ago
Well, it does look a lot like Windows, macOS, and many Linux desktop environments. Yes, it might feel unfamiliar to people who have only used tablets or phones.
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by xpe 1y ago
Is the above comment a genuine question? I’m concerned it’s a rhetorical question that isn’t really getting to the heart of the matter; namely, what is the empirical performance? One’s ability to explain said performance doesn’t always keep
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by xpe 1y ago
“Moving the goalposts” is a phrase with a particular meaning. I’m not doing that here. I’ve explained myself at length, above.
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by xpe 1y ago
> Tesla is already behind most of its competitors, and does not seem to have anything new the pipeline, so the gap is likely to expand. Behind? In what way? Please don't leave your fundamental criteria and assumptions unstated. You
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by xpe 1y ago
> Yeah in theory people can do a better job than auto-formatters. In practice they absolutely do not, so that argument is moot. Status quo fallacy alert. Arguments are not forever mired in a current state of affairs. People can learn and
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by xpe 1y ago
I suggest rephrasing as a series of question: 1. Assuming at least one person who cares about linter settings isn't utterly confused or moronic, what are their self-described reasons why they care? People's work styles, brains, an
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by xpe 1y ago
I will charitably interpret “heavy research” as a joke. It is hard to interpret the smugness above in a positive light. It is unhelpful to you and to everyone here. If you want to compare an electric car against combustion-engine vehicle, g
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by xpe 1y ago
This is not a heavily researched comment, but it seems to me that the Model 3 is relatively affordable, at least compared to available options at the time. It depends on your point of comparison: there is a lot of competition for sure. The
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by xpe 1y ago
>10? >33? >100? >333? Just informal conversations? Or surveys of some kind? I’m genuinely curious. After studying statistics and research design, I have learned to be very cautious at what I conclude. I often talk with various p
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by xpe 1y ago
>>>> different commenter above: It is all fake and made up, and the numbers are detached from the real world, but it's not like the market doesn't know that. >>> me: Perhaps there are salient differences betwe
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by xpe 1y ago
> But in the consumer market segment, for most cases, its all about who is cheapest (free preferably) - aside from the few loonies who care about personality. On what basis do you know this? Or more like your personal impression — based

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