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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Sure. I needed to draw some parametric and smooth Bézier curves. LLMs are beasts at figuring out the appropriate equations. It would have taken me forever to work out where all the control points should go.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
...but the EU is one of the entities forcing Apple to allow other stores. It turns out that Apple is not, in fact, the government.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
> people are very annoyed with Apple pushing for signing off the resulting product. Apple is very much welcome to push for signing off of software that appears on their own store. That is nothing new. What people are annoyed about is App
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
The speedup from AI is in the exponent. Just the other day ChatGPT implemented something that would have taken me a week of research to figure out: in 10 minutes. What do you call that speedup? It's a lot more than 10x. On other days I
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
> There's a reason people use the NoScript addon To be snarky, do they? The average user doesn't even know what JS is. Users want websites that are fast and solve their problems, with a good UI. They don't care how it&#x27
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
A table of numbers is copyrightable if it represents some creative expression by a human being. For example, a BMP representing a sketch is a table of numbers and clearly copyrightable. Weights are numbers that come from an optimization pro
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
There's no reason to believe that weights are copyrightable. The only reason to pay attention to this "license" is because it's enforced by Apple, in that sense they can write whatever they want in it, "this model r
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
I feel like this aged like milk because it assumes a human mathematician writing the proof but many people are now generating Lean proofs with LLMs.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
> One of those predictions is that it's possible to build a large-scale fault tolerant quantum computer. Quantum theory doesn't predict that it's possible to build a large scale quantum computer. It merely says that a larg
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Quantum theory says that quantum computers are mathematically plausible. It doesn't say anything about whether it's possible to construct a quantum computer in the real world of a given configuration. It's entirely possible t
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
> I wouldn't read too much into the national security justification. It's a political argument to an economic policy. Have you seen what's been happening in Ukraine? OTC drones are critical military equipment now. Not havi
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
If he's anything like me (doubtful but roll with it), the commit history when prototyping is probably something like "commit", "commit", "fixed a bug", etc.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Wouldn't you want the opposite? Once domestic production ramps up you gradually lift import restrictions to create more competition. I guess that's if the intention is to improve the domestic market in the national interest, rathe
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
3.5-50M tokens a day? What are you doing with all those tokens? Yesterday I asked Claude to write one function. I didn't ask it to do anything else because it wouldn't have been helpful.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
It's all very well being more public, until a government decides to make 5 years of social media history an entry condition[0], and moreover imprisons those people who are denied entry instead of simply sending them home on the next fl
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Was Obama funding Aaron Swartz's efforts to scrape JSTOR? Some people have the personality trait of loving to build collections or archives. Either for idealistic reasons (knowledge deserves to be free) or just because it's fun. W
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
White noise isn't copyrightable.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
From my experience it's the opposite. On the old internet, forums, newsgroups, people willingly used their real names to communicate with strangers. They treated the internet as an extension of real life where of course you use your re
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
It's more like the genocide in Gaza is the uncommon case where western propaganda was openly rejected by the population, at least by younger people, despite a concerted top-down effort to try to convince people that genocide is actuall
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
> Type inference is usually reserved for more general algorithms that can inspect not only how a variable is initialized, but how the variable used, such as what functions it's passed into, etc... In a modern context, both would be
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
This isn't about whether Apple allows outside payment links or not. It's about whether Apple takes a percentage cut from outside payments. Is Apple actually checking outside payments for scams outside of review times? Do they chec
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
Presumably the richest people also don't want to risk their lives flying on some sketchy aircraft, just to shave a few hours off their journey.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
It's a good thing that children under the age of 12 don't know how to use checkboxes!
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
Sure, if you're content to stack shelves. AI isn't automation. It's thinking . It automates the brain out of human jobs. You can still get a job that requires a body. My job doesn't require a body, so I'm screwed.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
I'm not sure if you'd consider London to be a safe city but these things won't survive in London either. People are already pissed off about delivery ebike riders, who disobey laws and ride dangerously. But there's very
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
There are several languages that I could use and be economically successful with, but I refuse to use because I consider them to be poorly designed. Using a bad language for 8 hours a day makes me irritable and it's impossible to preve
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
I'm confused why drop() is a function that you have to import inside the closure instead of a method.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
The big performance sink in CSS is rule matching, or layout if you consider that to be part of CSS. Efficient evaluation of expressions is a solved problem. Having conditionals would actually improve performance because you can use fewer ru
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
Conditional expressions are declarative. For example, every template language worth its salt has conditionals. A programming (i.e Turing complete) language requires recursion or a construct of equal power.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
> An aspiring teen could set up an RPi that modifies headers for all traffic on the network that the parental units never even know about An aspiring teen could just have sex with another aspiring teen... You won't stop teenagers fr

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