Tainnor

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by Tainnor 1y ago
> Rayiner takes a lot of arrows on HN because he is (particularly these days) one of a tiny few who is notable for advocating conservative/libertarian positions. Those words in his comment weren't great but they were more of a
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> the way you are engaging with others in this thread The only person I engaged with negatively here was a person who called me "marinated in liberal propaganda", something that notably you didn't take issue with. I will a
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I didn't call anyone a Nazi because I don't like the inflationary use of that term. But the "Nazi bar problem" is, unfortunately, an established metaphor. It doesn't have to be about literal Nazis, it could be about
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I hate criminals and social disorder too. You're part of the problem that I'm talking about. Instead of engaging with the issue at hand, you jump to wild assumptions about my positions, as if there were no alternatives between abs
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by Tainnor 1y ago
It's frustrating precisely because even a small amount of bad faith actors can serve to poison the well. It's a problem that ultimately every online community has to deal with in some way.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
And when called out on it reply that the comments are often more interesting than the article which is a) trivially true when you don't read the article and b) probably because bickering in comments is more emotionally satisfying and
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by Tainnor 1y ago
Apart from the fact that this was pure self-promotion, it was also spamming the Wikipedias of small language communities with low-effort autotranslated garbage, which I think is rather insulting.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
The UK left the EU and is pushing very similar sorts of dangerous nonsense legislation when it comes to the internet, so this is clearly not just a EU thing.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
Users definitely care about things like reliability when they're using actually important software (which probably excludes a lot of startup junk). They may not be able to point to what causes issues, but they obviously do complain whe
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I didn't say complex, I said long. If you have complex objects and you're doing complex operations on them, then setup code can get rather long.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
As someone who leans more towards the side of LLM-sceptiscism, I find Sonnet 4 quite useful for generating tests, provided I describe in enough detail how I want the tests to be structured and which cases should be tested. There's a lo
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by Tainnor 1y ago
It may not be perfect, but IntelliJ beats VS Code on so many other levels that I don't understand why everyone keeps creating clones of the latter.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
There have been so many "advances" in software development in the last decades - powerful type systems, null safety, sane error handling, Erlang-style fault tolerance, property testing, model checking, etc. - and yet people contin
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> What appears when you search for it in German? If you search for "indogermanisch" you're going to get the Wikipedia article canonically named "indogermanische Sprachen" first. The second result I see is the Eng
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by Tainnor 1y ago
If it had been initially called Indo-Celtic or Indo-Romance and those names had stuck, it would be equally fine, but that's not what happened historically. You're fighting against windmills, there are no perfect names for huge lan
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> I think most people in the reproducible build space would consider Maven an external uncontrolled input In an academic sense, you're probably right. In practice it turns out that this isn't an issue in 99% of cases. Yes, I ha
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by Tainnor 1y ago
Yes, you can, if you manually interact with it. Most people don't do that because why would you? You generally use it as a proxy for maven central and similar and to upload your own internal artifacts through maven-publish. I'm no
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by Tainnor 1y ago
In a statically-typed language like Java, every class is a type - though not vice-versa, since things like interfaces and records (in Java) are also types. Non-OOP statically typed languages are basically just saying "ok that's fi
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by Tainnor 1y ago
Historically, the term Indo-Germanic was used first, and it's still used prominently used e.g. in German. From Wikipedia : > Thomas Young first used the term Indo-European in 1813, deriving it from the geographical extremes of the l
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by Tainnor 1y ago
Maven artifacts are immutable, so the whole resolution is deterministic (even if hard to understand), unless you're using snapshot versions (which are mutable) or you use version ranges (which is rare in the Maven world).
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by Tainnor 1y ago
The effort from going to a paper proof, even one that everyone agrees is correct, to a formally verified one is still gigantic. Requiring all submissions in maths papers to come with a verified Lean proof would be a complete non-starter - m
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by Tainnor 1y ago
We won't know if Israel would or wouldn't have been created if the Holocaust hadn't happened, but Jewish immigration to Palestine started much earlier in response to renewed pogroms and rising antisemitism in the late 19th &#
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> who's opinion on the security of modern cryptographic protocols would you be more willing to follow I'll follow the people who have actually done work in cryptography. I'm neither under the impression that Wiles himself
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by Tainnor 1y ago
Dually, sometimes you'll have something like 1 < 0 as an assumption, which means you can close any goal.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> No more "motive not type correct" That's exciting to hear!
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I have no idea how these things are related. In any case, to my knowledge, no cipher has ever unconditionally been proven secure except the one time pad. We just have a bunch of conditional security proof that are correct if the underlying
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> how can cryptography experts expound the security of such and such cryptographic primitives involving discrete numbers, exponentiation, ... but be unable to come up with alternative proofs of FLT? ... but be unable to individually form
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I understand what you mean, but I shudder to think at how complicated it would be to write certain proofs without tactics, e.g. simp, ring, omega, linarith and friends all really do a lot of work.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
Yes. I've seen proofs fail after a mathlib update because the behaviour of simp changed. I've never seen it do less after an update (so far), but sometimes it'll simplify more and then the next steps may fail to work. I&#
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I would maybe rephrase it as: there are certain axioms that absolutely nobody reasonable takes issue with and then there are others that are more controversial, although it's still important to note that the vast majority of mathematic

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