zanderwohl

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by zanderwohl 2y ago
IDK, I feel that if you're doing 5000 HTTP calls to another website it's kind of good manners to fix that. But OpenAI has never cared about the public commons.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
Advanced lithography is like if a mystery cult were real: Secret knowledge only understood by the most learned initiates, tightly-guarded process, etching symbols that do things...
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
I found it extremely odd that he specifically pointed out professors being sexist as a thing that's perfectly fine to let them get away with.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
This is a significantly better article than the wandering drivel of the original post
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
What makes it ugly? It's very functional, straightforward, and minimal. No huge padded tailwind components or anything.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
Yeah, that's on purpose. It's meant to overstimulate you quickly
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
I find the X-Card most useful at conventions. When I sit down at a table I have no idea where strangers' lines are. It provides a more frictionless way to let people tell you how to be courteous, without knowing them very well.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
It's nice to have a better core game. D&D is perhaps the only TTRPG known to have such sparse content that players have to fix the rules themselves to make the game playable.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
And the notable exception that they cost 1.5x as much for the same capabilities.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
I enjoy that you learned how to use Swift in some new ways, including the MacOS menu bar. This is a perfect practice project, it seems.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
I agree. Looking at this, it seems to be exactly how I want to use LLMs. Describe a small transformation of data I don't want to work out now, connect it to other components. As the needs become more-defined, replace each part with a f
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
My grandfather died a few years ago. By all accounts, he was opinionated, mean, and yelled at people a lot -- until a stroke humbled him. When it was time to speak, nobody got up to say anything, until I did. I mentioned so many of us had n
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
He must have had a very interesting educational path to write functional Java code without knowing about println. I marvel at that. I almost admire it. Because I think pretty much every tutorial in the world for every language starts with p
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
In the English language "America" typically refers to the US because Anglos don't pretend North and South America are a single continent while separating Europe and Asia. There's no ambiguity when someone says "Amer
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
> I'm arguing against calling these photos art. It's not that the photos are the art, it's the whole project to get people to change these images, posing for them, etc.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
If the title doesn't tell you differently you can assume it's WEIRD.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
I agree. I don't know much about Erlang but what I've heard seems to indicate it's used for high-uptime systems that handle errors well.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
Not everyone has the same use case.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
People "demake" games all the time. Nobody complains if those games are missing most of the features of the original because the core gameplay loop (the essence) is the same. That's the point here -- you can make a small-scal
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
Yeah, it actually started out as a hardware device. You'd buy a small box with an HDMI port to connect your PC to your TV. It wasn't terribly successful, but it did work well, if on wired LAN.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
The people who would fall for that would probably also fall for `dell.computerdealshop.com` though
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
The history of domestic cat coats is really fascinating. It wasn't until photography and cartoon artists like Louis Wain that breeding cats for coat color and pattern really took off. Then pedigree cat shows emerged and cats exploded i
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
I think I'm going to be using MicroSoft QuickBasic for System 7 this year. I might regret this pretty quickly.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
> This is the #1 problem I see with people trying to learn a new language (not just Rust). Definitely! I've also noticed people will learn a group of similar languages, like Java, C#/.Net, then Kotlin as the most distant relati
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
It seems like you follow it closely enough to have a strongly-biased opinion.
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
When software projects fork for petty ideological reasons, they fail. None of the skilled developers moved over to Redot. Godot continues to get support and features. Redot still can't figure out how to refactor the code to remove refe
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by zanderwohl 2y ago
IMO chuck generation is a great candidate for mutlithreading. Keeping it off the main thread would already be a huge improvement.
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by zanderwohl 3y ago
Sorry, what does being Norwegian have to do with it? Going to the physical bank with a physical check seems like too many steps no matter what country you're from.
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by zanderwohl 3y ago
The Zig compiler does this on purpose in some cases, iirc. Free can be a waste of time if the program is going to die in half a second from now.
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by zanderwohl 3y ago
This is some pretty poor philosophy... or philosophy of science. This kind of seems like the common mistake where people confuse the stories about science as the science itself. It seems to be fitting a lot of metaphors together as its evid

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