Conlectus

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by Conlectus 5d ago
This is just how hacker news is now, huh? “I did this cool useful thing” “Great! Please describe how I can get a machine to replace you.”
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by Conlectus 14d ago
That’s the ideal, but if you have the person at the keyboard doing too much of the planning then it’s really easy for the other person to just check out mentally.
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by Conlectus 18d ago
For what it’s worth, the author would not consider this a bug. He does it (as I understand) because he distrusts the research on the impact of line length on readability.
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by Conlectus 5mo ago
The thing that everyone always misses in these conversations is that screens over buttons is a cost cutting measure, not a first-principles design decision. It means the UI can be designed and developed mostly independently of the physica
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by Conlectus 1y ago
The idea that Builder.ai was Indian workers being sold as AI wasn’t true, by the way. That was made up by a crypto influencer on twitter and copied by sloppy news sites. They were a consulting firm that also sold an AI product, with the two
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by Conlectus 1y ago
I’m not sure if this is the point you mean to make, but Michio Kanu is one of the bigger cranks in physics communication. He said ion an (maybe the Joe Rigan interview?) that quantum computers would be able to act as a truth detector for AI
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by Conlectus 1y ago
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
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by Conlectus 1y ago
DCOs only document that the contributor has the right to contribute the code, not the license under which they contribute it. CLAs do both.
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by Conlectus 1y ago
Good catch on the license in that file. I went by separate documents in the repo that said the source is available “under the licenses documented in the repository”, and took that to mean at-choice use of the license files that were include
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by Conlectus 1y ago
I’m not sure where this belief came from, or why the people who believe it feel so strongly about it, but this is not generally true. With the exception of GPL derivatives, most popular licenses such as MIT already include provisions allowi
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by Conlectus 1y ago
Don’t make tools for cheating at games against real people. It’s antisocial. —- Cheating at games is antisocial. This means it is a behaviour that leads to a worse experience for a community of people to the benefit of those breaking the no
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by Conlectus 2y ago
Lobste.rs
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by Conlectus 2y ago
At first I was a bit confused why this was a big deal given that Cosmogenic Radionuclide Dating[1] (which is based on cosmic rays) has been a thing for a while. But it turns out this uses an entirely different cosmogenic method based on atm
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by Conlectus 2y ago
Isn’t ReLU an element of neuroscience that was incorporated into machine learning to great success?
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by Conlectus 2y ago
Raw HTML: potentially. Big blocks of undifferentiated ASCII art: no.
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by Conlectus 3y ago
In my experience Wasmer is generally disliked by the rest of the WASM community. There’s a long list of reasons for this, including attempting to copyright the term WASM and pushing their own proprietary specs and calling them “standards” w
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by Conlectus 3y ago
As of a few hours ago, ModHeader started injecting a script into every page that tracks browsing activity. It also injects ads into Google Search and may be capable of remote tab capture and JS execution.
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ModHeader Is Now Spyware(chrome.google.com)
4 points by Conlectus 3y ago|2 comments
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by Conlectus 3y ago
Scaleable Vector Extension. A class of SIMD instructions.
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by Conlectus 3y ago
From what I can tell the issue here is that the author has produced a WASM module with minified dynamic dependencies. This is not an issue with the runtimes but with the earlier compilation toolchain. In another thread it was suggested that
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by Conlectus 3y ago
Perhaps because they include metrics for compression time, which could easily be gamed by doing significant precomputation in the compressor?
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by Conlectus 3y ago
If you’ve read any of the code you’ll also know that early Unix was full of security vulnerabilities. Eg. Statically allocating fixed buffers and not checking input sizes. I’m all for appreciating simplicity, but let’s not pretend we have
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by Conlectus 3y ago
Those are separate questions. Is Google forced on people by the US Govt?
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by Conlectus 3y ago
I note that with a vocabulary of 1,000 words it is roughly 10x the size of Toki Pona, a conlang which also aims for minimalism. That said, Toki Pona's goal is to help clarify thought, whereas this seems to intend to prioritize communic
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by Conlectus 3y ago
For what its worth, I used to say the same thing. Now I have glasses for astigmatism.
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by Conlectus 3y ago
Algebraic data types (more technically sum types) are very much not “PhD level concepts”, despite the name. They’re just what C developers would call “tagged unions”.
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by Conlectus 4y ago
Among others: "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't."
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by Conlectus 4y ago
What happens when the ASCII character for space is embedded within a multibyte UTF-8 codepoint?
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by Conlectus 4y ago
This is irresponsible reporting. The authors themselves have clarified that this is an _association_ study, whereas the above article claims that isolation is _causal_ to increased dementia risk. From the authors: > We agree with Dr. Kaw
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by Conlectus 4y ago
Yep, I'm aware ("ahead of its replacement"), but in the mean time it really helps to have something that just solves the "take these two modules and merge their functions" problem.

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