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by xyproto 3y ago
Julia is the only programming language that makes me annoyed when I think of it, because it was so troublesome to package for Arch Linux and because of how little they care about increasing the safety in the language (like Rust or Ada).
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by xyproto 3y ago
Zig provides a smooth transition from C and has a built-in C compiler and also is excellent at cross compilation. D is much older and is more like a C++ alternative. Zig is more like a C alternative.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Here's also a GPT for learning D (might require a ChatGPT subscription): https://chat.openai.com/g/g-QHX6wnuyX-d-teacher
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by xyproto 3y ago
It depends on what you are planning to do. Stable diffusion works great locally on both the dell+linux and the mac laptop I tried it on. This one was easy to use while exploring models from huggingface: https://diffusionbee.com&#
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by xyproto 3y ago
Yet another reason to use local LLMs.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Excellent!
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by xyproto 3y ago
In relation to UNUX time; the 20000th UNIX day is at 2024-10-04 (the 4th of October). It's a special day, since the next round UNIX day is 30000, at 2052-02-20. https://github.com/xyproto/ud/
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by xyproto 3y ago
If enough relatives shares their DNA, then your DNA is not in the dark anymore either. Over time, I think protecting ones DNA is an uphill battle.
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by xyproto 3y ago
I think the distinction matters not only in mathematics and logic but in security too. Companies with "proven security" are often proven wrong.
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by xyproto 3y ago
You can substanciate a claim that a cardboard box is insecure without proving it. And you can substanciate a claim that an an online service is secure without proving it.
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by xyproto 3y ago
The only proof of security is the lack of counter-evidence, though. One can prove that a vault has been secure for the N last years, but not that it will be secure for eternity.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Sure, but I have yet to see LLMs actually innovate and not just pretend to be innovative.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Absolutely! And good science is sometimes just about organizing existing information too, which I believe LLMs can excel at.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Are LLMs capable of any form of innovation or discovery that is not a simple mix of existing concepts? (It could be argued that all innovation or discovery is a simple mix of existing concepts, but I don't believe this to be true).
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by xyproto 3y ago
This is mixing "energy" with "smarter" with "bursting with ideas", but these are all separate things, and to some degree personality traits.
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by xyproto 3y ago
AI models are essentialy knowledge and information, but in a different file format. Books should not be burned, nobody should be shielded from knowledge that they are old enough to seek and information should be free.
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by xyproto 3y ago
And cause health care costs for others, in countries that have national healthcare.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Brorbror and brorbrorbror could be any of the brothers, including yourself.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Great! Here's a timeline of web browsers, both open source and closed, btw: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Timeline...
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by xyproto 3y ago
Yeah, what's next, to tell people to stop smoking, remove asbestos from houses and not let kids play with mercury any more? /s
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by xyproto 3y ago
Those two projects looks excellent, thanks for the tip!
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by xyproto 3y ago
I agree that "bits" needs to be digital, but the "bitcrusher effect" can apparently also be implemented in an analog way: https://www.peterzimon.com/analog-bitcrusher/
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by xyproto 3y ago
Open source software can be forked, that's how open source works. To me, as an outsider to these projects, making the 32-bit version open source and the 64-bit version proprietary feels hostile. How many years should pass until it does
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by xyproto 3y ago
It's such a pity that the 32bit version is open source and the 64-bit version proprietary. The open source alternative is KolibriOS.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Agreed, but this does not invalidate my comment?
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by xyproto 3y ago
I assume this is already being used for spying on people, since the military has the incentive and resources to stay a few years ahead of what is publicly known.
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by xyproto 3y ago
I wish there was a small and affordable guitar pedal that had shimmer and bitcrush, and only that, with two potmeters and a passthrough button. I think the combination of those two effects is underused. Could it be done only with analog cir
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by xyproto 3y ago
The webpage says: ASP.NET - Create web projects with full code completion support and test on XSP, the Mono web server. But the XSP project is archived: https://github.com/mono/xsp So I wonder for how long XSP will be
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by xyproto 3y ago
* ^J is not very useful, it combines a block of lines into a single line. * ^T requires a spell checker to be installed. I get: Error invoking "spell", even though I have aspell, gspell, hspell, huspell, hunspell and also nuspell
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by xyproto 3y ago
Cave Story+, Rogue Legacy 1, Spelunky, Broforce, Spiritfarer and/or Fez may be to your liking.

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