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by 4ad 6mo ago
> Austria is quite far ahead Yeah, quite ahead in terms of making anonymous phone numbers illegal and requiring the government to know your phone number. And if you don't want to use a smartphone, ID Austria does not work with regul
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by 4ad 6mo ago
It also makes you sound like a conspiracy theory nutjob, and the current political climate in Europe is such that people are really sensitive to this sort of alarmist messaging (which they erroneously perceive as fascist rhetoric) and will
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by 4ad 1y ago
Yes, that's true. And there are various logical systems which hint at mutability (apart from linear logic itself). I already mentioned how we can find shared-memory futures in semi-axiomatic sequent calculus. Those futures are mutable,
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by 4ad 1y ago
They are very different books. TAPL is a book about programming language semantics, TTAFP is a programmer-oriented book about Martin-Löf type theory. There is very little overlap. TAPL is definitely the book to pick up if you are interested
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by 4ad 1y ago
It's very simple, it's because pure , typed functional programming is not arbitrary but rather fundamental. Natural deduction from logic corresponds to various typed lambda calculi, and functional programming is but a practical
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by 4ad 1y ago
I don't play video games but I invert the trackpad scroll direction on macOS. I cannot understand people who use the default "natural" scrolling, it's anything but natural, and it's baffling that it's the defau
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by 4ad 1y ago
It would also be a useless article. It's fine to write for an audience, if you're not in the target audience, move on.
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by 4ad 1y ago
It appears that Bear does not accept contributions[1] and the very few contributors it had in the past only contributed a trivial amount of code[2]. But you're right, relicensing requires the approval of all copyright holders, and in g
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by 4ad 1y ago
The copyright holder (the author) is solely responsible for choosing how they want their work to be distributed, and is not bound by any other sort of constraint. They can choose any license at any time, and change their mind however often,
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by 4ad 1y ago
> While scientists have considered accessing the liquid to further analyze the content, as of 2024, the bottle has remained unopened because of concerns about how the liquid would react when exposed to air. ...This seems like a trivial n
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by 4ad 1y ago
I have 40k. Works fine.
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by 4ad 1y ago
Did you disable Memory[1]? [1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8590148-memory-faq
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by 4ad 1y ago
I call BS on that, as Macbooks somehow always kept being 16:10. In fact you could easily buy 16:10 panels, I know because for many years I upgraded old 16:10 Thinkpads with modern displays.
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Computational Tyranny(happyfellow.bearblog.dev)
24 points by 4ad 1y ago|6 comments
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by 4ad 1y ago
Never used Pocket, but I moved to Raindrop.io (from Pinboard) for my bookmarks. I believe it can import Pocket.
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Introduction to the Par Language(faiface.github.io)
5 points by 4ad 1y ago|0 comments
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by 4ad 1y ago
It's hard to say who will fare best, but it's evident who'll do the worst. The European Union will regulate AGI out of existence. Most citizens would not want to use it because of climate change, or something. I think poor co
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by 4ad 1y ago
Learning category theory to the level of understanding monads should take half an hour at most, and would constitute real understanding of what a monad is, versus this C++ explanation which is handwavy even in terms of C++. C++ can't e
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by 4ad 1y ago
So you think that a monad which is an object with a simple definition in category theory is better explained in terms of C++? I would agree that most of these articles about monads are bad. Just study the definition, then study what you can
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by 4ad 1y ago
Great article, two minor nitpicks: > To avoid Russell's Paradox, there isn't a type of all types. Instead, we have universes. This is an oversimplification, and Lean-specific (to be fair, the author claims to explore these conc
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by 4ad 1y ago
HDR is about, well, high dynamic range images, usually expressed with at least 10 bits of precision (although it can also be float, etc), and often, but not always encoding scene-referred data instead of image-referred data (originally it w
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by 4ad 1y ago
> This post is mostly AI generated, of course with significant guidance, feedback, iteration and some edits from me. I can tell, because it is garbage. AI's notion of PK is useless because of Blum's speedup theorem. Because the
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by 4ad 1y ago
I want the opposite, an extension that will redirect all crappy frontends to the canonical sources (which work better and I am logged-into, I can comment, etc).
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by 4ad 1y ago
Indeed, KDE is like Windows, which is sad, because I don't like the desktop metaphor, yet KDE is the only group that is concerned with usability and improves the system with every release. I actually don't mind the GNOME metaphor.
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by 4ad 1y ago
Unless you use a language designed for formal verification (Lean/Idris/Agda/F*/ATS/etc), no, it is not possible. You can get pretty far in Haskell (with various extensions) and Scala. But for Go/TypeScript&#x2F
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by 4ad 1y ago
Comparison with TLA+ doesn't make any sense as TLA+ implements a very different sort of logic, but the property that it is a real programming language is shared by virtually everything in this space. Lean/Adga are real programming
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by 4ad 1y ago
Dafny is great, and has some advantages compared to its competitors, but unequivocally calling it "the best" is quite bullish. For example, languages using dependent types (F*, ATS, Coq/Adga/Lean) are more expressive. An
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by 4ad 1y ago
It not only prevents innovation, but it also enables fake industries, such as companies that harass and "fine" you (not legally binding) for not having an imprint even when not required, or otherwise coming up with irrelevant &quo
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by 4ad 1y ago
Code bounties are unethical. I will absolutely die on this hill. You benefit from everyone's work, yet only one (or a select few) maybe get paid (in this case a pitiful amount, considering the required expertise). Almost universally,
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by 4ad 1y ago
No. HDR can encode high dynamic range because (typically) it uses floating point encoding. From a technical point of view, HDR is just a set of standards and formats for encoding absolute-luminance scene-referred images and video, along wit

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