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Amazon Pharmacy(pharmacy.amazon.com)
22 points by yawboakye 2y ago|39 comments
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Biden imposes new taxes on Chinese products(twitter.com)
5 points by yawboakye 2y ago|0 comments
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Feature Request: Pluggable GC for Ruby(bugs.ruby-lang.org)
5 points by yawboakye 2y ago|1 comments
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by yawboakye 2y ago
next week: music studios must tame toxic lyrics to protect children.
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by yawboakye 2y ago
more generally, will developers be replaced? the answer if an affirmative yes. when? unclear at the moment. i think a big moment will be when we free ai/automated agents from the shackles of python/ruby/etc—ie programming lan
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by yawboakye 3y ago
still dubious. anyone who speaks multiple languages still thinks in one. and object recognition in the real world doesn’t require language. abstract concept recognition requires language, but it’s always in the language the concept was enco
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by yawboakye 3y ago
anecdotally, i find this statement quite dubious. i speak two languages natively but only think in one. two other languages i know proficiently, and they never come to mind naturally except when intentionally called into service. anything y
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by yawboakye 3y ago
you talk about something else. sometimes, in fact most times, this imaginary and large audience (who also happen to be great critics) can beat anyone into inaction and kill whatever little flame we were nursing. it’s all in our heads, which
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by yawboakye 3y ago
linguistically speaking, no method means the name isn’t even known, which isn’t the case here. the name exists and is known (after a successful declaration). what’s missing is the actual definition. if we lean heavily into language, perhaps
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by yawboakye 3y ago
`UndefinedMethodError` perhaps? that way we can restore the distinction between method declaration (which assigns a name, within some namespace) and method definition/implementation which gives the function its ability.
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by yawboakye 3y ago
that’s an accidental feature given that ruby’s own expectation, going by the description in the blog post, is that a required feature is missing on current platform. perhaps it’s badly named. because it leads to this faux ami . speaking as
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by yawboakye 3y ago
i’m extremely ill-qualified to advise here, and i think it will be even more reckless to assume i understand or appreciate the scope of your effort. it’s more difficult to even suggest what to do. what are your thoughts on genuinely being i
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by yawboakye 3y ago
i find this to be, unfortunately, the current western stance on responsibility towards anyone: irresponsibility. for some reason, leaving people to go their way, wherever it may lead them, has been interpreted to be the good and the moral d
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Models of Reproduction [pdf](cba.mit.edu)
1 points by yawboakye 3y ago|0 comments
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by yawboakye 3y ago
fwiw his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@securityengineering1350 .
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by yawboakye 3y ago
it’s fundamentally unscientific at this point. much of our current science lies in the realm of natural law. so far we haven’t found any laws that govern human behavior. what we know, with considerable certainty, is that behavior can be pos
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by yawboakye 3y ago
psychology isn’t science. it’s a grave mistake to read/interpret it a such. does that mean it’s useless? of course not: some of the findings (and i use findings very loosely) help us adjust our prior probabilities. if we’re right in th
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by yawboakye 3y ago
tv, computer, radio, social media, and more broadly the internet, are mediums of communication and distribution. what tv content/substance did you grow up with? is that in and way comparable to the content/substance kids these day
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The Expressive Power of Transformers with Chain of Thought (Revised)(arxiv.org)
20 points by yawboakye 3y ago|1 comments
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by yawboakye 3y ago
americans have beamed their culture to the rest of the world through all sorts of means. the moral debauchery and propensity to crime (hi hiphop) introduced by american entertainment in several regions of the world aren’t spoken about enoug
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by yawboakye 3y ago
graph databases win on actual data layouts in disk blocks. trying to make relational databases ‘understand’ graphs really happens only at the query language layer. the data on disk remains optimized for relational queries. i’m not aware of
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by yawboakye 3y ago
an aside: de programmaticā ipsā is the correct latin (macrons can be elided just fine). i wonder why people would reach for latin but don’t bother to do even the irreducible minimum amount of work to ensure that they got the expression ri
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by yawboakye 3y ago
while i agree that simple is better than complex, there is no absolute measurement nor definition for what simple is. and typically complex structures/foundations are what we build simple on top of. if our medium of expression isn’t al
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by yawboakye 3y ago
and ruby. go and ruby. oh and javascript. go and ruby and javascript.
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by yawboakye 3y ago
> will you also say that javascript semantics and gotchas are good because millions of developers use it? unrelated to your original argument and so i’ll treat it as diversionary and ignore. that said, it’s an important signal that you s
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by yawboakye 3y ago
fwiw you’d find more web services written in ‘the other two languages on the list’ than rust. if there’s soiling at all, then the shoe is on the wrong foot.
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by yawboakye 3y ago
because they haven’t been mentioned: stewart brand’s book, the clock of the long now[0] and the long now foundation[1] tackle the same problem. excellent exposition that doesn’t necessarily transmit despair amidst the shortening attention s
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by yawboakye 3y ago
at the core of this is language, which is both a lossy medium for transmitting thoughts and-appears to be designed to be-ambiguous. it doesn’t help too that we don’t study it anymore, and seem to be slowly gravitating towards a small core v
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by yawboakye 3y ago
previously on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38010267
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by yawboakye 3y ago
properly examined, this is another form of compilation, except slightly handicapped. i wonder if it would be possible to unroll/compile the function three-address code[0] style before execution, instead of the current model where you

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