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by zem 5mo ago
I would very much rather read frenchisms than LLMisms. I regard translated idioms from other languages as an actual positive, they lend the text additional charm and interest because they give me a fresh new look at how a thought can be exp
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by zem 5mo ago
oh absolutely, no argument there, the case for AGI is pretty weak. I was just saying that I am even more sceptical that any of this is a "first or nothing" scenario - that is one of my biggest pet peeves about the entire tech sect
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by zem 5mo ago
only if said galactic superintelligence takes immediate steps to kill all its potential competitors, or hoover up all the world's resources, or some other aggressively zero sum thing. otherwise I don't see what difference it makes
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by zem 5mo ago
quite literally kicking github while it's down!
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by zem 6mo ago
I would think the reason was to enjoy using their system as much as possible.
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by zem 6mo ago
it's more like "they are teaching my kid reading/maths/etc that they have already done a couple of years ahead on their own, just out of interest. more prevalent in the first 3-4 years of school than later on, but those
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by zem 6mo ago
depends on your goal. I agree that "push them to become the next Einstein" is humbug, but "learn things appropriate to their intellectual development while staying with their age cohort" seems like a better outcome than
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by zem 6mo ago
my (uninformed) speculation is that you want resilience and error correction, which implies some level of redundancy rather than pure density.
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by zem 6mo ago
follow up with "how long did the thirty years war last
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by zem 6mo ago
good luck! I will note that it's significantly harder filling a properly checked grid entirely with thematic words (I've done it but I certainly wouldn't want to do one a day), but in your case having a common letter in two o
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by zem 6mo ago
feedback as a crossword setter: published newspaper crosswords have rules around where you can have unchecked squares (where "checked" means "the same letter appears in two different words"). the most basic rule for new
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by zem 6mo ago
ugh, this is definitely a great thing to do but it's quite off-putting to see the "improve your focus and productivity" framing. that's uncomfortably target oriented for something that is fundamentally about appreciating
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by zem 6mo ago
"Writing Time". it was the first thing I thought of too - the story definitely made an impression on me at the time!
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by zem 6mo ago
I had a copy of scott joplin's "the entertainer", likewise randomly passed around. somehow it was more fun to listen to it on the computer than a tape would have been :)
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by zem 6mo ago
great game and very nice implementation!
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by zem 6mo ago
the bbc had an amazing command, ENVELOPE, which let you shape the amplitude envelope of a sound. you can read more about it here: https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/keeping-us-posted/3303 as a kid i didn't un
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by zem 6mo ago
"The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job." -- Cory Doctorow
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by zem 6mo ago
yes, definitely! the "-est" triggers decision paralysis but it's easy to think of several projects I'm proud of.
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by zem 6mo ago
I have been programming for most of my life, and am very engaged in the art and craft of it, but I have a very hard time answering superlative questions like "what is the weirdest bug you fixed" or "what project are you proud
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by zem 6mo ago
if spinel gets to where it can compile 100% of mruby there could be some nice synergies there.
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by zem 6mo ago
this is one reason i will not pay for extra usage - it is an incentive for them to be inefficient, or at least to not spend any effort on improving my token usage efficiency.
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by zem 6mo ago
mmap(2) and all its underlying machinery are open source and well documented besides.
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by zem 6mo ago
ugh, caching based on idle time is horrible for my usage anyway; since claude is both fairly slow and doesn't really have much of a daily quota anyway I often tell it to do something and then wander off and come back to check on it whe
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by zem 6mo ago
personally yes, i've considered them the bad guys from day one. they have always publicly portrayed themselves as enabling mass surveillance so i'm not even sure why this sudden crisis of conscience, unless the trump administratio
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by zem 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure a lot of commercial egg farming involves keeping the hens in bad conditions
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by zem 6mo ago
I've noticed that there are some people who feel that their claude instance could be working on churning out multiple apps, and therefore if it isn't they are in some sense falling behind. it's the illusion of productivity
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by zem 6mo ago
good reminder to me to stay in practice with manual coding for my side projects! claude is super convenient for them for now but if it goes it goes, I definitely don't want to get dependent on it. maybe the local models will improve in
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by zem 6mo ago
it's not fun to have to follow a bunch of finicky manual processes because no one in an actual software company could be bothered to automate them!
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by zem 6mo ago
"like ruby but you can ship a single native binary" is already huge.
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by zem 6mo ago
at the very least there's no excuse for not having a shell script to check everything out in the right places! I've been the new person in teams with this sort of fragile setup and it's no fun whatsoever.

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