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by adambard 3y ago
So it turns out that the way ChatGPT plugins operate, any user can use unverified plugins from arbitrary urls, just by pasting in a URL: https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/introduction/plugin... With th
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by adambard 3y ago
That just generated an empty test function in a convenient place for me. I'm not just talking about boilerplate, it's definitely a more... organic-feeling sort of pattern matching. In fact, one of the things I find most interestin
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by adambard 3y ago
Oh shit, you're right, I forgot about loops. Guess I'll go uninstall copilot now.
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by adambard 3y ago
Copilot user here. Copilot (the existing gpt-3 one) definitely helps at writing unit tests. Yeah, sometimes it doesn't nail it, but one thing it can do reliably is to repeat a pattern, and I don't know about you, but my unit tests
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by adambard 3y ago
> So many people don't seem to realize that without suburbs you don't have farms. This strikes me as a bizarre take. What do you consider a "suburb"?
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by adambard 5y ago
Sure, it's the influencers pumping the oil, but it's social media networks running the pipelines, and they're splitting the profits. Unfortunately, toxic content is a lot harder to regulate than toxic chemicals, when one man&
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by adambard 5y ago
There's an intuitive model that makes some sense of this finding: Masks, air filters, and distancing are effective at preventing transmission by reducing -- not eliminating -- viral load. What suffices to prevent infection from a 15-se
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by adambard 5y ago
The essay [1] from which the hairdryer anecdote is quoted has the thesis that categories (in general) are instrumental, and don't have much value separated from their context. ADHD is a category of psychiatric diagnosis; psychiatric di
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by adambard 5y ago
I had the same experience cancelling my subscription. I was able to avoid the sales pitch the author received (I guess I was a little firmer), but I doubt I'll be subscribing again after I realized there was no unsubscribe button.
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by adambard 6y ago
The gameplay experience is extremely impressive. I expected input lag and streaming quality to be problematic, but I've been a frequent stadia player ever since my (free) premium bundle arrived around Christmas and issues have been rar
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by adambard 6y ago
The "object" syntax reminds me a lot of Clojure/script's Hiccup ( https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup ) style, which has become a de-facto standard across many popular libraries. In hiccup, this exa
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by adambard 6y ago
On July 11, 7-11 offers a free slurpee to all customers. The free slurpee cup is a fraction of the size of any of the already-very-cheap options available for sale. I have seen lineups out the door and around the block on this occasion. I t
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by adambard 7y ago
Why do people make mistakes at all? Everything would be much easier if people would just be less fallable.
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by adambard 7y ago
The incinerators used in this case (claim to) recapture the emissions from the incineration. However, they do leave some amount of toxic ash, which requires special disposal.
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by adambard 7y ago
"Better, for people!"
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by adambard 7y ago
The drive across India took place in a non-electric Kwid.
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by adambard 7y ago
For more details on Japanese zoning law, see https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.htm...
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by adambard 7y ago
I think it has less to do with the languages themselves, and more to do with the frameworks available, and the metaprogram-y things those frameworks are free to do without a type system stopping them. I've yet to see the equivalent of
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by adambard 7y ago
.NET-the-technology is pretty good, but for many developers, .NET is synonymous with expensive licensing and tooling (and you pretty much have to use Windows, ick). The JVM and .NET are presently about the same capability-wise, but Java is
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by adambard 8y ago
A few notes on why this is so: - Keywords (i.e. `:vehicles`) can be used as getter functions, as covered in the OP. - mapcat (like most collection functions in clojure) treats `nil` as an empty sequence
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by adambard 8y ago
> Unless OP means to imply that people can't mentally separate the machinations of the state from the rules of a game I think this is pretty much it. Behavior is learned. The participants were playing the game in a way that was irra
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by adambard 8y ago
I believe you can and have always been able to insert the bang anywhere in the query, as long as it has spaces between it and any words.
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by adambard 8y ago
Compared to popular open-source options like Python, Javascript, and Java: - Linq is great but less unique than it once was, and almost everyone has async and await (or some equivalent) now -- javascript & friends and python almost exac
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by adambard 8y ago
I'd love to see some docs/examples around supporting pluggable brokers; Faust looks like exactly what I want from a python stream processor, but for various technical and operational reasons it would be nice to be able to provide
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by adambard 8y ago
To be fair, the US isn't noted for being especially good at bicycle safety either.
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by adambard 8y ago
I think her pieces are informed by the essential character of the medium, no different than if she had used watercolors instead of oils.
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by adambard 9y ago
I run a Reddit post scheduler ( https://laterforreddit.com/ ), and I have noticed a substantial bias towards posting in various adult subreddits. I suspect in my case that this has a lot to do with how people who are browsing
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by adambard 9y ago
This is absolutely correct, and considerate Lisp writers make a point of using macros only when necessary for exactly this reason. That said, Lisp writers also use macros every day -- for example, in Clojure, only `if` is defined as a speci
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by adambard 9y ago
To this Canadian as well!
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by adambard 9y ago
In Scala, you can use `for`, although I think your point remains valid for languages without any sort of monad support: def func1(q: Option[Int], z: Option[Int]): Int = { (for { qval <- q zval <-

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