aldousd666

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by aldousd666 3mo ago
Copyright doesn't cover the results of code, nor the methods used in the code, techniques and algorithms aren't covered by copyright. Period. Copyright applies to 'the work'. If you don't copy the source code, it&#x
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by aldousd666 4mo ago
They aren't 10x gains. They're more like 3.5x gains. But still worth it. By a lot.
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by aldousd666 4mo ago
you are never going to get away from reading the code every time. at least I haven't seen how you could possibly. That being said, it is considerably less work to read and check the code than it is to have to build it all, even if you
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by aldousd666 5mo ago
Parsing is the front end to a compiler. Can't get semantics without first recognizing syntax. I have a hard time thinking about programming languages without seeing them as a parsing exercise first, every time.
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by aldousd666 5mo ago
I learned from the Dragon Book, decades ago. I already knew a lot of programming at that point, but I think most people writing compilers do. I'm curious if there really is an audience of people whose first introduction to programming
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by aldousd666 6mo ago
And they say you can't learn anything about computers from these bots... I had to learn this lesson from giving a shell account to one of my compatriots. I worked with him on group projects so I trusted him. He installed a fork bomb in
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by aldousd666 6mo ago
To be clear, I mean AI is going to be the downfall of ad supported content. But let's face it. We have link farms and spam factories as a result of the ad supported content market. I think this is going to eventually do justice for use
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by aldousd666 6mo ago
This is ultimately just going to give them training material for how to avoid this crap. They'll have to up their game to get good code. The arms race just took another step, and if you're spending money creating or hosting this k
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by aldousd666 6mo ago
It's super expensive for them to run this hardware. And they need the compute for other things. Everyone who's cursed open AI for going down in the middle of the day whenever they're using it to write code or do some other th
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by aldousd666 6mo ago
Some advice I follow, and give to others: Refuse notifications by default. Only enable them when you're getting paid to see them. (slack and work email, for example count as getting paid to see them)
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by aldousd666 6mo ago
I could do that, but then I'd have to maintain it. I used to hostfile hack my devices. but the vpn is just easier.
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by aldousd666 6mo ago
Transaction costs make it inefficient. Costs more to effect the transfer than they would be able to charge for the articles.
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by aldousd666 6mo ago
The web is the enemy. I have an ad blocking VPN and I use GroundNews to filter out sites that have paywalls. Between those two things, I lead a relatively sane life. But I tried looking at some of the same places on an unflitered device an
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by aldousd666 6mo ago
Hypercard is really kind of like the first implementation of HTML5. With applescript instead of javascript.
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by aldousd666 6mo ago
I don't disagree, but neither does the article. It's just talking about the fact that we previously considered anything that can't be easily and tersely written down as nearly or entirely intractable. But, as we have seen, th
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by aldousd666 7mo ago
Word and wordpad are terrible for editing code snippets tho, markdown solves this problem.
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by aldousd666 7mo ago
This would be a huge bonus for me if I ever had to use windows for anything.
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by aldousd666 7mo ago
I'm 46 but same. I'm not quite as melancholy about it, but I do feel a lot of this.
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by aldousd666 8mo ago
I never saw Atari software for sale in the same magazines, but I'm sure it was available somewhere.
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by aldousd666 8mo ago
In the 1980's, computer software was sold in catalogs and magazines. Users had either of three platforms: A Macintosh, a PC-Compatible (probably x86), or a Commodore/Amiga. So these are the three categories were there to help you
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by aldousd666 8mo ago
fun thing about this page: i have gemini in the browser and when I asked it 'why is the entire Wall Family naming these things?' it said it couldn't engage. Turns out 'goatse' is a forbidden word to Gemini.
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by aldousd666 8mo ago
I recently read about 'in thread' ads, like on Twitter, as being not as effective unless they are 'brand recognition' ads. Like, they will help you decide which one to pick when you are staring at two fungible brands on
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by aldousd666 8mo ago
AdGuard as a local VPN also bans unskippable Ads without the pesky legal enforcement baggage.
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by aldousd666 8mo ago
seems like blaming the users is the appropriate thing to do. just like blaming users for how they misuse guns and or photoshop.
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by aldousd666 9mo ago
it was a PR stunt. I think it was probably largely well-received except by a few like this.
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by aldousd666 9mo ago
I am unmoved by his little diatribe. What sort of compensation was he looking for, exactly, and under what auspices? Is there some language creator payout somewhere for people who invent them?
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by aldousd666 9mo ago
I love projects like this. finally someone found a new use for those dot matrix printers.
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by aldousd666 9mo ago
'defect' only applies to prisoners dilemma type problems. that is just one, very limited class of problem, and I would argue not very relevant to discussing AI inevitability.
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by aldousd666 10mo ago
qualia may not exist as such. they could just be essentially 'names' for states of neurons that we mix and match (like chords on a keyboard. arguing over the 'redness' of a percept is like arguing about the C-sharpness o
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by aldousd666 10mo ago
I discovered this a few years ago when someone who didn't understand what semver is was trying to do a rails version upgrade for us. They were practically throwing stuff when I got there and explained that lexicographical comparison of

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