BariumBlue

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by BariumBlue 14d ago
I suspect my oldest memory, of me getting into a booster car seat as a child, is no longer the actual memory, but the accumulated imaginings of me trying to remember that specific memory, masquerading as a memory.
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by BariumBlue 2mo ago
As per the article they're slowly shuttering the project, but I assume AlphaFold itself is still available and usable? I assume that AlphaFold isn't perfect, but surely after so many years on it most of the useful juice had been s
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by BariumBlue 2mo ago
It really depends on the kind of war being fought. If the cheap solution involves having troops only a dozen miles away from the enemy, then you're going to take casualties, and funeral costs are FAR more expensive then the cost to buy
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by BariumBlue 2mo ago
An MQ-9 has roughly the same wingspan as an A-10 - they're not small birds. An MQ-9 needs to have a good sensor ball, ideally with both color and IR, gps jamming resistance, weapons integration with multiple types of missiles (ideally
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by BariumBlue 3mo ago
Honestly software that gets a bunch of updates often gets more brittle and problematic over time, like how a person accumulates illnesses over time. Though I guess a software project or software team usually does get stronger over time, as
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by BariumBlue 3mo ago
True - the biggest thing I want to catch in an MR is "will this change lead us onto a path that is uglier, buggier, less maintenanable". People will generally copy and follow existing patterns, so for example if you let somebody a
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by BariumBlue 3mo ago
Seems like housing again: > Rents have surged in recent years, driven by tourism, foreign investment and a shortage of affordable housing. The cost of housing now consumes one of the largest shares of disposable income in the European Un
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by BariumBlue 3mo ago
Yeah, it's a bit of an awkward article. Just compare the paragraph headers to the paragraph contents - "Why a hex grid" and then the paragraph doesn't talk about hex grids. AI stylisms are not necessarily bad - short, pu
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by BariumBlue 3mo ago
Yeah my take is they wanted a language more resilient to slop-cannon code. Last I looked they had 900kLOC of Rust just after the Rust PR - I have no doubt there's a lot of garbage in those LOC, and Rust gives more safety guardrails for
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by BariumBlue 3mo ago
>There is no meaningful way of distinguishing features from bugs. From a user perspective, a bug is when behavior deviates from reasonable expected behavior. From a dev perspective, a bug is when the code actions mismatches the mental mo
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by BariumBlue 4mo ago
A common combo for this is (was?) C and Lua. Lua is intended to be a embedded language, so good for Interop, but also also high level and easy to use. There's a reason why Factorio uses Lua as it's scripting level language
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by BariumBlue 4mo ago
Yeah, I think one issue is that AI fundamentally dgaf about you and your code base. They don't have a salary on the line, and from their perspective it's not some project they super care about. I think they're happy to help,
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by BariumBlue 4mo ago
Hah, I was just thinking that Python likely has a vast ocean of training data, but it's likely of lower quality, being much of it is written by beginners and those who aren't primarily programmers.
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by BariumBlue 5mo ago
Ok, they're saying "let the job choose the correct tools and have that be the stack, don't have a stack and fit it into working for the job". Which to me sounds more reasonable than what I thought they were saying.
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by BariumBlue 5mo ago
Apparently there have been IRGC and basij curfew patrols shooting at buildings / windows of people who sing or shout anti regime songs and slogans. Apparently they are also (at least in some cases) dressing as women to avoid airstrike
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by BariumBlue 5mo ago
Yes I had the same thought. Imo brutalism is monolithic and unyielding. This is opposite, with the sturdy concrete yielding into plant overgrowth and exposed rebar.
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by BariumBlue 6mo ago
I hear this a lot from a lot of my coworkers who like Java Spring - they trust Spring to do things right, more than themselves. On the other hand, I hate Java Spring because I feel like I don't trust it - it doesn't let me look in
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by BariumBlue 6mo ago
> When it was carried out the invading force was defeated by unexpected resources and resourcefulness from the Iranian side, not entirely unlike what Iran has done during our invasion. Are you saying that Iran is capably fighting and kil
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by BariumBlue 6mo ago
If a scientist is doing more work to secure grants than doing science (my understanding is that this is very common), trying to justify their own existence, then I wouldn't be surprised that results get skewed towards that end. If ever
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by BariumBlue 7mo ago
To add to what the central city budget problem is - each new piece of street and road in LA has, on average, not paid for itself in terms of increased revenue from taxes or otherwise. So for each new street widening, new road, and piece of
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by BariumBlue 7mo ago
I was bored and tried playing FF14 about a year ago. You need to do the usual download a launcher to download the game, fine. It asks you to log in before it'll download, fine. It crashes ~10% of the way through downloading the game. N
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by BariumBlue 7mo ago
What's the subset of games that A) can be played offline, and B) aren't already single player with no microtransactions? Free mobile games paid by ads?
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by BariumBlue 1y ago
Tldr: Poland shot down Russian drones that entered polish airspace. Not the first time they've entered, but first time they've been shot down by Poland. I wouldn't be surprised if it is deliberate by Russia. Gray zone warfare
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by BariumBlue 1y ago
> When researchers attempt(opens a new tab) to recover [something like] a coherent computational representation of an Othello game board they instead find [bags of heuristics] Humans don't exactly have a full representation of board
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by BariumBlue 1y ago
I really like the phone/desktop convergence concept. Mostly I think because I want the freedom / open experience of my desktop on my phone though, I think. But I think most folks interested enough in the concept are also rich enou
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by BariumBlue 1y ago
Lack of types is one thing that turned me away from Elixir when I was trying to learn it. I didn't know how to think about the types so I wanted some way to annotate them to help think through it, but went through it. And then the comp
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by BariumBlue 1y ago
True that's a good point - if publishers were OK with micro purchases for their articles, we'd see some publishers try that out. Nothing's stopping the NYT and similar from trying a "pay as you go model". The fact t
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by BariumBlue 1y ago
I use my USB-C port to listen to my wired headphones all the time, no problem. Phone jack is now redundant now that USB-C can output audio
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by BariumBlue 1y ago
Good point in the post about confidence - most people equate confidence with accuracy - and since AIs always sound confident, they always sound correct
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by BariumBlue 1y ago
Strange - I would expect a workplace that doesn't allow mics to also disallow bluetooth

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