OrderlyTiamat

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by OrderlyTiamat 7d ago
Thank you, I understand the example better now. Squashing the class of problems of using non-initialized variables by using zero-initialization causes potentially worse bugs since 0 could inadvertently be a correct value. That makes sense!
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by OrderlyTiamat 7d ago
I'm not following your example very well. Why is it that this makes the new vulnerabilities potentially worse? You can initialise a UID to 0 whether or not you're using a compiler or checks for initialisation. Do you have another
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by OrderlyTiamat 19d ago
This is a enjoyable read and a fantastic blog post! I wonder whether it's easy to discern the activity of changing your role (or mask) from the activity of changing your "authentic self". I'm not sure I'm very good
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by OrderlyTiamat 25d ago
It's also not true, mathematicians are already saying that current AI is changing the field of mathematical research profoundly.
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by OrderlyTiamat 27d ago
> Both tend to be outmoded, hostile, and constrained relative to graphical interfaces. "Outmoded", yes, and "constrained": absolutely. But "hostile"? TUI's and CLI's are some of the most power user
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by OrderlyTiamat 1mo ago
> almost 100% accuracy I think it's annoying that this gets repeated without revealing the actual stats: this is for the BFI test, it's 99.5% ± 0.38, where 40 samples per person were split 80-20 in training and testset. paper:
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by OrderlyTiamat 1mo ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the obvious parallels to Nietzsche's idea of the "superman", a person who will not bow to incentives but make their own value structure. To me the analogy of the monstrous fish is also
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by OrderlyTiamat 3mo ago
relatedly, foraminifera are single cellular organisms that can grow up to 20 cm! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophorea
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Against the METR Graph(transformernews.ai)
2 points by OrderlyTiamat 4mo ago|0 comments
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by OrderlyTiamat 5mo ago
Not necessarily. I rent my house, and the housing corporation who I rent from are not rent seekers, they provide a service to me which I'm happy with, and which they invest in. They could've bought up the land and house and not im
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by OrderlyTiamat 5mo ago
That's hackertyper in that screenshot, god that takes me back.
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by OrderlyTiamat 6mo ago
> The most creative people are those who measure both high intelligence and low neuroticism You did claim this. > self identify as autistic. (...) then software employment is full of self-indulgent and highly neurotic people This is h
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by OrderlyTiamat 6mo ago
This feels like it's conflating a couple of different things. Firstly, in the Big five model, which you seem to be referencing, openness and neuroticism are separate factors- Low neuroticism isn't correlated with high openness. Ye
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by OrderlyTiamat 7mo ago
> (And why would you have a password for a ssh key on your personal machine?) You're presumably joking? If not, could you elaborate?
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by OrderlyTiamat 7mo ago
If it's a mesh network your peers are tech savvy enough for a mesh vpn like wireguard, which also doesn't get ai-ddos'ed.
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by OrderlyTiamat 7mo ago
> You think you know it, but only after you've spent some time iterating in the space of solutions, you'll see the path forward. I'd turn it around- this is the reason asking questions does work! When you don't kno
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by OrderlyTiamat 8mo ago
This looks cool! But I guess it doesn't work with GitHub itself? Github's cli tool `gh` is great for interacting with github in the terminal, e.g. opening PRs, checking workflows, PR status, etc). I do PR reviews on the site, but
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by OrderlyTiamat 8mo ago
You can't ask people about their personal experience and then deny them the right to answer.
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by OrderlyTiamat 8mo ago
TFA has a clear example.
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by OrderlyTiamat 8mo ago
Do you have any basis for that which I could refer to in discussion?
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by OrderlyTiamat 8mo ago
This is already taken into account: Shagie's table is based on [1], which is per kilogram-kilometer [1] https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/freight-transportation
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by OrderlyTiamat 8mo ago
The distance the boat has to cover is 11800 kilometers, and the truck covers only 54 kilometers. Taking that average of 12 times more usage from the table of sibling comment means the ship is still 20x worse.
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by OrderlyTiamat 9mo ago
Useful pointers, which match my experience well when trying this out. The one big question that springs to my mind is: when you've done all these steps, how much time did you really save? You've chosen a strategy, broke down the s
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by OrderlyTiamat 9mo ago
To my mind, the interjector is just playing a nitpick game: refocus the question (" I coudn't see it's back") to another ("did you circle the squirrel"), and then acting as though the original question is off t
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by OrderlyTiamat 9mo ago
This was a great read. I think the twin concepts of rising expectations and rising requirements go a long way to explaining the complaints expressed by that popular 140k post. I also really liked the game designer rule; > People are very
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Thinking fast, slow, and super slow(davidbessis.substack.com)
3 points by OrderlyTiamat 9mo ago|0 comments
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by OrderlyTiamat 9mo ago
> The former is the boring, linear prediction. Surely you meant the latter? The boring option follows previous experience. No technology has ever not reached a plateau, except for evolution itself I suppose, till we nuke the planet.
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by OrderlyTiamat 10mo ago
My first part time dev job as a student featured me walking in on our CEO who showed me he was recompiling his kernel to enable some features. I'm quite sure he was just doing that to impress the students, but at least he knew how to!
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by OrderlyTiamat 10mo ago
It's at 1.16, that's fairly typical I believe, a bit low even?
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by OrderlyTiamat 10mo ago
Why did you repeat this comment all over this post?

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