MyOutfitIsVague

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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
Green is in the center of the visible spectrum of light (notice the G in the middle of ROYGBIV), so evolution should theoretically optimize for green light absorption. An interesting article on why plants typically reflect that wavelength a
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
You do need to turn off strict aliasing for that, because mruby uses `struct RObject { RB_OBJECT_HEADER; ... }` and `struct RHash { MRB_OBJECT_HEADER; ... }` (where MRB_OBJECT_HEADER begins with `RClass `). You can alias objects of both t
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
There is plenty of room in science for research that is just to examine and collect data. I don't understand your argument that science should only be to demonstrate claims and "completing" theories. Is science not about expe
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
The MRuby embedding API isn't a whole lot like Lua's. Lua is a fantastic experience to embed. You might have to futz with the registry to store Lua objects in a C struct, but the abstraction allows you to almost never have to actu
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
I think it's fatigue. His stuff appears on the front page very often, and there's often tons of LLM stuff on the front page, too. Even as an LLM user, it's getting tedious and repetitive.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
I don't think it's implying that at all. Especially with the accompanying sentence. The implication is that hyper focusing on news is distorting our perception of normal.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
If your friend then believes that work, sleep, and hygiene are not things you did at all because you don't talk about them, then your analogy would be comparable. People believe homicide and terrorism are significantly more common than
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
Many cancer and heart disease deaths are preventable. There's no direct correlation with preventability. The correlation is with fear and spectacle.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
I didn't imply that all web developers care about it, but that most of the people who care about it are web developers. I won't deny that it's still a minority.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
It's a common philosophy for developers with standards of robustness and accessibility to not hard depend on js for things that don't need js to function. > Why the target audience of the ruby, probably primary web developers,
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
Fair enough, I meant in terms of what rules and restrictions exist around aliasing, which are different between the two, but my wording was indeed off.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
Octopuses or octopodes. Octopi is incorrect.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
It's worth noting that "aliasing" in Rust and C typically mean completely unrelated things. Strict aliasing in C roughly means that if you initialize memory as a particular type, you can only access it as that type or one of
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
The accusations aren't "towards anyone who dares question her", they're towards people who assume that she had come in after the fact and unfairly got into somebody else's role, which is ignorant (and easily cleared
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
Do you have a better word that describes "things that look correct without definitely being so"? I think "plausible" is the perfect word for that. It's not a sleight of hand to use a word that is exactly defined a
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
Yeah, SQLite doesn't have any true array datatype. I think you could probably do it with a virtual table, but that would be adding a native extension, and it would have to pack its own index.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
I'm certain it wouldn't, and you're certain it would, and we have the same amount of evidence (and probably roughly the same means for running such an expensive experiment). I think they're more likely to go slowly mad,
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
These discussions often end up resembling religious arguments. "We don't know how any of this works, but we can fathom an intelligent god doing it, therefore an intelligent god did it." "We don't really know how hu
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
Could an LLM trained on nothing and looped upon itself eventually develop language, more complex concepts, and everything else, based on nothing? If you loop LLMs on each other, training them so they "learn" over time, will they
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by MyOutfitIsVague 9mo ago
> Everyone is out here acting like "predicting the next thing" is somehow fundamentally irrelevant to "human thinking" and it is simply not the case. Nobody is. What people are doing is claiming that "predicting
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by MyOutfitIsVague 10mo ago
> In our advent-style calendar below, find our top pick of what lies in store for 2026. Each day, as we move through December, we’ll open a new window to reveal our highlights! By public domain day on January 1st they will all be unveile
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by MyOutfitIsVague 10mo ago
I make my code public, and keep my inputs in a private submodule.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 10mo ago
It's not forced if you were getting it all for free anyway and can walk away at any time. "They've stopped giving away old thing for free and are now only doing new thing" doesn't put you in the position of a captiv
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by MyOutfitIsVague 10mo ago
For the record, it's a Malcolm in the Middle reference: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CzBi5tIfzK4
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by MyOutfitIsVague 10mo ago
RustDesk might do the job, but I haven't used it on Linux, so I can't tell you for sure.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 10mo ago
X11 is not really fixable, architecturally. This wasn't some authority saying "X11 is over, stop working on it." It was the X11 developers and DE and WM developers who work directly with the protocol deciding that it's
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by MyOutfitIsVague 10mo ago
C++ is far better than C in very many ways. It's also far worse than C in very many other ways. Given a choice between the two, I'd still choose C++ every day just for RAII. There's only so much that we can blame programmer
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by MyOutfitIsVague 10mo ago
When you already work 40+ hours a week and big companies suddenly start an AI snowblower that shoots a dozen extra hours of work every week at you without doing anything to balance that (like, for instance, also opening PRs with patches tha
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by MyOutfitIsVague 10mo ago
I mentioned in a sibling comment, there's a crate that does this in a pretty simple and obvious way: https://docs.rs/ordered-float/latest/ordered_float/
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by MyOutfitIsVague 10mo ago
There's a helpful crate that abstracts that away: https://docs.rs/ordered-float/latest/ordered_float/ You have a strongly ordered `NotNan` struct that wraps a float that's guaranteed to not be NaN,

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