zelphirkalt

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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
You seem to understand the meaning of "to some degree" differently than I. To me it implies that subsidies can happen at different amounts, not that they are all the same. What is an equivalence here is, that the binary flag of &q
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
That's the point I guess, it is not binary, but proponents of absolute free markets see it as binary when they are against regulations, and as non-binary, when it is about competition from abroad. They want to have it both ways.
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
Not only a few people in and from Taiwan use every chance they get to shit talk the mainland. Be it snark about using simplified characters, or be it trying to prevent their own citizens from taking part in celebrations of victory over fasc
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
Could do. I have a website in my profile. : )
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
A faster Fable -- So you mean a model that's smaller, yet delivers the same quality of responses, ergo a better model?
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
"Doing things the right way" lol ... I mean, I am fine with it, if for now and ever after we are all free to "do it the right way with torrents". But some are more equal than others in this world, so naturally even if th
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
No, how would they get caught? Even if their LLM outputs verbatim copies of the code, they can simply claim some victim company's employees bypassed the victim company's restrictions and must have used the code as input with an LL
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
Why are they then even setting up vanilla Emacs in particular? Not impossible, of course, but it seems like a strange choice to make when not wanting to engage with its configuration. Or maybe another question would be who set them up with
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
Fairly new, I think there will not be much Rhombus around yet.
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
It is not due to deployment options. People put all sorts of stuff in docker containers every day. It is rather that few people make an effort to learn a lisp, and fewer still who choose to learn Racket. The few universities teaching good c
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
Still doubt, that they are unaware of Elisp. Bare bones vanilla Emacs is maybe a bit much to get used to these days, so anyone wanting to configure their Emacs will have opened their init.el or so file and will have put some Elisp snippets
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
I think in this case it is probably justified, as the claim of "no special syntax" is unfortunately not true. To convey the amount of special syntax, it got crammed into one brief example snippet. Still, far less than most other p
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
Would need some imports: import cmath from fractions import Fraction And then have to write numbers as strings to input them. From their examples: >>> Fraction('1.414213 \t\n') Fraction(1414213, 100
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
How does this freezing version and new version and so on differ from having the code in a version controlled repo?
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
OK that "treats them with respect" is certainly an important aspect though. It does not seem like GH is especially great on that one, including listening to its users.
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
This is part of how I judge how well made or how shitty a website is. If it requires scripts from a dozen third parties, then it usually sucks and one can easily recognize when not much effort has been put into making it.
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
Agreed, and it is easy to have a Postgres container for local tests or in CI as well. I don't really see much need to avoid Postgres in testing. Also if production runs in containers, testing can and probably should just run in contain
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
I can't recommend this "switch". If you are not testing locally with the same relational database as in production, you can miss mistakes and bugs. This is not just theoretical. One example where I thought I will be fine usin
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
Yeah, right ... green behind the ears account tries to defend Israeli crimes, haha. Why don't you comment with your real? And seriously, such an obvious and thinly veiled attempt ... Just in case you are really that uninformed, you sho
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
> The amount of selective outrage directed at Jews, Israel and "Zionists" is proof to me that the fake information campaigns are super duper effective and I'd say dangerously effective. I have friends who are generally psy
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
SQLite is fast, but it won't be faster than a hot loop in C. Having the loop construct dictated by the file format seems bad. For images it seems more reasonable to have them in-memory, except for huge image edge cases.
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
A great scientist once said, that the scientific method also includes stating, why what one "found out" could be wrong, and that one might need to retry experiments, whose results one relies upon. I think it was in "Cargo Cul
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
Any web dev reading these comments and understanding what the comments express, should know: If you have built any of these dark patterns and anti-features, the annoyance and loathing expressed here is what you are responsible for, and this
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
I think it's all a huge make-believe. They have a big name and marketing falls for it. If push comes to shove, they can just simulate click through and views and such, to "convince" people that it all works. They have all the
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
It could be made a question of legislation. If it was forbidden, and the "cost of business" too high for them to dare, then it can work. We would need to do more than touch them with the satin gloves we are using now though.
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
Same here. I will add though, that the freemium model does not necessarily have to cease existing. Some platform for written articles can have articles available at no cost, and then put a paywall in front of other articles. I don't se
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
This is probably a good decision, because it will free up time and resources to do more productive things than saving the lost souls, that are still on Facebook. Maybe this will contribute to the downfall of Facebook, due to more people see
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
Until today I didn't consider, that countries can be compound/consist of countries. That countries can be recursive. I always thought, that any lower level would be called differently. TIL.
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
OK, so now we have the following terms: State, nation, country, sovereign country. For example in Germany one would say there are 16 states, but one wouldn't say that there are 16 countries. Never heard anyone claim that. So state seem
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by zelphirkalt 2mo ago
However, with Schemes the SRFI implementations usually (?) come with the standard library, so you don't actually "have to install" them. Still gotta know the usual suspects, like SRFI for tests, SRFI for vectors, hash tables,

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