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by zahlman 2mo ago
> now unreachable x.com Hmm?
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It's interesting to me how complaints about widespread Internet political propaganda and "grifting" so consistently reveal the author's own political biases. It's really hard to write about it in a detached way. (It
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Read it again: > neither the min or max of the range (their actual names are start and stop) The point of the parenthetical is that GP is deliberately using the terms non-standardly, meaning the arguments of the `range` call, which makes
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Man, I proposed the idea of `__min__`/`__max__` (and a few others) in 2023[0], exactly because of this kind of big-O optimization potential, and it was poorly received: https://discuss.python.org/t/_/25095 An
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There isn't a type for them for the same kind of reasons that `join` is a method on the joining string. That is, it lets you reuse that code for multiple sequence types, including ones that don't exist yet. This is just something
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I looked into it again, and it seems like there's a setting that gives me back the "old" interface by default, but the URL still changes to www.
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Does it do any other languages? I assume it's detecting the language by heuristics, or is there some hidden metadata tagging?
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If you're writing open-source code then there's obviously nothing wrong with publishing it in a public repo. "Using Github" doesn't require you to use their CI, but even then, a human managing secrets for GitHub CI
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Doing GUI on web is obnoxious for people who want to stay offline for things that clearly don't benefit from a network connection (and where a network connection can really only introduce dark patterns). TFA is all about how GUIs shoul
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This style of flamebait is at least as old as Vim itself.
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> This is why we have the “how do I exit vim?” meme. How to exit is literally the second thing `vimtutor` teaches you, after hjkl cursor movement.
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> If there is no longer a reason for people to live close together, decentralization is the most likely outcome. There will obviously still be reasons for people to live close together: humans are social creatures, and centralization all
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Programmers would write it as 11 (or maybe 0xB depending on context), whereas English style guides mandate using words for small numbers, and LLMs have presumably absorbed that advice. I imagine that up to "ten" the effect is not
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Is "load-bearing" better than e.g. "critical" or "crucial" here? I'm not convinced.
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> Where a human can understand a concept without words, an LLM plainly cannot. If we accept that the LLM can "understand" at all, why would we reject the possibility of this understanding living in "latent space", bef
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I've noticed ChatGPT these days often starts a response with "Yes." when it doesn't actually make sense to do so, and sometimes says "and" where "but" seems more appropriate (or vice-versa).
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The LLM's output being hackneyed or cliche doesn't mean it can't also be useful .
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I think Claude has a point here (and I would expect LLMs to excel at surfacing this kind of nuance). "Byte-identical" connotes a) that the thing consists of bytes (in particular, that it isn't a physical object); b) that it w
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by zahlman 2mo ago
The analysis only considers individual words, not idioms or structures.
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> the inherent intelligence of the model making its language more intricate and difficult for humans to easily parse? Humans who are actually well above average intelligence don't write like that simply to signal intelligence (alt
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by zahlman 2mo ago
If tariffs are so obviously and universally bad, then why do tariffed countries respond with retaliatory tariffs instead of letting the first country shoot themselves in the foot and getting on with their own business?
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I mean, I'm not rushing out to buy that kind of hardware myself, but it is a matter of perspective. People commonly spend an order of magnitude more on a car, and that's just the sticker price.
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> when the Opuses are still objectively a bargain for the power they bring. The cost isn't just what you're billed. There are security, privacy etc. concerns.
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Oh, I somehow completely forgot about interlacing having been a thing.
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> what happened to ideas are cheap - execution is everything. It used to be that we only recognized a tiny fraction of the actual ideas involved, because most of them were intermingled with execution. We would sit there and bang out code
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What happens when the LLM tries to defy this? Is the file-write rejected, or does the extension just strip comments from what gets written, or just what?
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> But what tends to happen, and this is much more serious, is they poison future work and make further modification of the codebase more burdensome and error prone. Agreed. Probably better to add whatever instructions it takes so that th
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> an idea that is not yours LLMs don't have sense experience, so it doesn't have real reasons to prefer one option over another when nothing has been specified in the prompt. It can only guess based on what's most represen
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Especially retro console games, where sprites might flicker at 60Hz (either to create an illusion of translucency or because of hardware limits on simultaneous sprites displayed); viewing footage at 30fps can end up catching all the "o
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More agentic than this. The harness is the thing / Wherein I'll grant Claude access to Bing.

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