AmalgatedAmoeba

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by AmalgatedAmoeba 9mo ago
As someone with non-ascii and non-latin-1 characters in my surname, I can tell you that the ascii->utf8 migration still hasn’t finished.
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 11mo ago
Naturally. And the editors, typesetters, designers, proof readers, etc. should get paid for their work. It is just a question of ownership and power imbalance. The problem with the current mainstream system (both in books and music) is that
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 1y ago
Sure and the incremental compiler work is genuinely amazing. I was objecting purely to the notion that this new crop of systems languages is “designed from day one” around LSP, which doesn’t seem to be quite true
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 1y ago
Are they though? * Rust was designed before even vscode was released * Zig, Odin, JAI are all designed by people that don’t use LSP and don’t like it * Don’t know about Carbon, but it currently doesn’t look like it’s gonna kill anything It
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 1y ago
ngl, a lot of the times, an in-memory “database” that gets backed up to a file is perfectly reasonable. Even consumer devices have dozens of gigabytes of RAM. What percentile of applications needs more? Just because a technology works well
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 1y ago
Isn’t that basically emacs with evil mode?
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 2y ago
Fair enough :) It was very much an exaggeration. But, I do wonder how far would “dumb” text editing go in this scenario. And, more importantly, whether it wouldn’t be faster overall than writing a tool that still requires humans to go throu
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 2y ago
Yes, the 80% claim comes from comparing 9 tests converted by both the conversion tool and humans and comparing the quality - “80% of the content within these files was accurately converted, while the remaining 20% required manual interventi
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 2y ago
The conversion is between two testing libraries for React. Not to be too cynical (this sort of works seems to me like a pretty good niche for llms), but I don’t think I’d be that far off of 80% with just vim macros…
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 2y ago
You can file a suit against anybody for anything. If it’s obviously without merit, it’s likely to get dismissed pretty quickly. But there’s nothing stopping you from filing it.
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 2y ago
I don’t think the specifics of the placement matter all that much. I’m a happy nvim user with a dvorak layout. Only ‘h’ is on the home row, but it’s not a problem. The issue with normal arrow keys is that you have to lift your whole hand to
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 2y ago
Incredibly enough, you can also talk to people in person. Does wonders.
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 2y ago
From my experience, the best performing companies foster a culture of ownership. Owning the features/products you work on, the team you work with, and, to some extent, the company as a whole. The other limit is a completely detached an
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 3y ago
I think it’s pretty clear the comment was referring to the partition of the sudetenland, which Poland was absolutely a (albeit minor) participant in. But thank you for linking the article. I’ve always kinda assumed that Poland was given the
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 3y ago
I don’t know how much this is bias on my part, but sending weapons to Gaza feels more equivalent to arming anti-russian partisans in the alternate reality where the march on Kyiv wasn’t a failure and the Ukrainian government collapsed.
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 3y ago
Perhaps, but recognizing clickbait should be within the grasp of everybody, even if they aren’t experts on the subject matter. Maybe that’s where an LLM would fit - evaluating the likelihood of an article offering something of substance.
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 3y ago
It’s not a disorder if it’s not sufficiently disruptive :-) There are no absolutes in psychology.
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 3y ago
Unless the GPT would be responsible for setting up the incentive structures, you’d end up with the same monotonous clickbait. The problem are people who give bad (science) reporting their attention and therefore money. PopSci journals are j
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 3y ago
Why not? What’s the point of the state paying for higher education? I’d say encouraging social mobility and making more people into high value creators.
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 3y ago
Wouldn’t consider it a real alternative, but you increase/decrease indentation in insert mode with ^t/^d
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 3y ago
This is potentially a false equivalency. If storing passwords in a notebook is a common enough pattern, they become something a thief might start looking for. I don’t have the statistics, but would imagine that since “junkies” skew younger
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 3y ago
As is usually the case, it depends. Macros for “reducing boilerplate” or other syntactic reasons are poorly justified. While the resulting code might look cleaner, it’s often much harder to decipher (JS “decorators” suffer from the same iss
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 4y ago
This is a genuinely terrifying vision of the future. Already things like prices may differ based one’s location. Adding content writing AI to the mix is positively dystopian.
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 4y ago
Would that I could. Not many 4+k 32” screens around (even 5k 27” is a tough ask)
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 4y ago
I have a 32” 4k monitor and on macOS fonts are blurry. Readable, but notably worse than on linux with X and the basic hiDPI settings from ArchWiki (with fractional scaling in both cases).
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 4y ago
Not all the contents of the databases were encrypted.
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 4y ago
Nix is effectively transforming dynamic binaries to static ones. Might as well skip the step, stop pretending that drive space is expensive, and link everything statically.
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 4y ago
IIRC WebAssembly is at least partially inspired by Forth — both in syntax and being stack-based.
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 4y ago
So… aren’t the first two paragraphs of your comment mutually exclusive? As in, given the timeline, either the EU are attacking Musk but can move pretty fast, or this has nothing to do with Musk?
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by AmalgatedAmoeba 4y ago
Yes, and I have never voted for my premier or any of the ministers who come up with all these laws… It’s called representative democracy. I’ll grant you that due to the generally low turn out for EU parliamentary elections, the commission’s

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