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by zem 9mo ago
no, i remembered it being a quote from some famous scientist, and googling a bit now I see it was stephen hawking: I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we
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by zem 9mo ago
my two favourite works of his are "night watch" and "going postal". it's honestly super impressive that they were written so long after he started to decline and were still so good. I'm currently in the middle
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by zem 9mo ago
I'm reminded of the quip that "mankind has already created life in their own likeness, and it's the computer virus"
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Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf](dspace.mit.edu)
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by zem 9mo ago
hilariously, the last time I had a new windows machine and opened up edge to download firefox I got some sort of message about giving edge a proper try first.
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by zem 9mo ago
no I didn't even notice till the child comment
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by zem 9mo ago
the fine nation of law enforcement, which has only colonised the united states for its own good and to bring civilisation to the heathen masses
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by zem 9mo ago
I've never used an AI in agent mode (and have no particular plans to), but I do think they're nice for things like "okay, I have moved five fields from this struct into a new struct which I construct in the global setup funct
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by zem 9mo ago
the pipe-equal operator is pretty neat, don't think I've seen any other language do that.
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by zem 9mo ago
this is the primary reason i've never even considered buying an iphone.
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by zem 9mo ago
I understood the OP to be saying "reach out to the CEO to express your interest in working for the company in order to get to the interview stage", not "email the CEO to make a case for being hired when you're already in
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by zem 9mo ago
mine too, because one of my favourite sff tropes is that the more you regiment society, the more you rely on outsiders and those pushed to the edges for any real innovation.
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by zem 9mo ago
it has added emoji to shell script status output for me (green ticks, red crosses, etc)
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by zem 9mo ago
on the other hand, having people you see regularly and exchange pleasantries with can change gymming from a lonely to a sociable experience.
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by zem 9mo ago
huh, as a 50something saying yes to a text message is absolutely a firm commitment. if anything, is firmer than doing it over voice, because now you have both put something in writing.
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by zem 9mo ago
i think the OP is sadly dead right - no one will remember you as the person who tried to save them from a mistake, they will remember you as a "source of negativity". the more senior they are they more likely this is, because they
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by zem 9mo ago
> When I write a blog post, I'm writing for an imagined reader who has arrived at this specific URL because they're interested in this specific topic to me, this is the key point. it often gets conflated with whether the blog h
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by zem 9mo ago
> this is because chicken's generated C code here doesn't really "return", I think. Not an expert. not an expert either, but you're right about that, it uses cps transformations so that functions never return. th
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by zem 9mo ago
chicken scheme compiles to c as well. it's a pretty convenient compilation target, you get to use all the compilers and tool chains out there and you don't add a dependency on llvm
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by zem 10mo ago
no dog in this fight, but do these really count as rugpulls if it was people hacking around api usage that anthropic hadn't actually been offering?
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by zem 10mo ago
it was indeed
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by zem 10mo ago
I don't think there is any correct incentive for "do unpaid labour for someone's proprietary model but please be diligent about it" edit: ugh. it's even worse, lmarena itself is a proprietary system, so the users pr
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by zem 10mo ago
lots of fun! the fact that the walls spill over the square boundaries is very annoying though, i would love to have an option to just make a wall a filled in square without the 3d effect.
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by zem 10mo ago
"mathematics can be fun" was one of my favourite books when I was a kid. I remember spending a lot of time on this particular puzzle, wrapping my head around the various rotational motions of something both rotating around its axi
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by zem 10mo ago
it's definitely a privilege to be able to find a fun job! but note that I'm not saying that everyone should hold out until they find one, I'm pushing back against the dour people who are convinced in their heart of hearts tha
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by zem 10mo ago
it's a trade-off; you need a job but you typically interview at several places, collect offers, and weigh them according to various criteria. all the pro-fun posters are saying is that "enjoy the job" is a very highly ranked
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by zem 10mo ago
fun work > tedious work > unemployment not sure why so many people feel like factoring fun into what job you want to take is so unthinkable, or that it's just a false dichotomy between the ideal job and unemployment
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by zem 10mo ago
it's your choice whose dime you work on. they can compete for your work by making it fun for you.
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by zem 10mo ago
one of my perpetual quests is more books like "dreamsnake", so I was definitely disappointed not to see it in there (it's an older book, but it did win both the hugo and the nebula)
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by zem 10mo ago
"fast, ephemeral, concurrent dev environments" seems like a superb idea to me. I wish more projects would do it, it lowers the barrier to contributions immensely.

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