b3morales

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by b3morales 11mo ago
As one who was interested by Nim and tried it out for some personal projects, I found that this was the biggest problem with the project. There's several options for any given need (including internal tools like LSP or installing the c
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by b3morales 1y ago
The stakes of changing the way so many people work can't be seen in a short term. Could be good or bad. Probably it will be both, in different ways. Margarine instead of butter seemed like a good idea until we noticed that hydrogenatio
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by b3morales 1y ago
Because it's rules for us and not for them. If I take Microsoft's code and "transform" it I get sued. If Microsoft takes everyone else's code and "transforms" it (and sells it back to us) well, that's
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by b3morales 3y ago
You are probably thinking of this by Chris Lattner: https://forums.swift.org/t/core-team-to-form-language-workgr... (on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30416070 ) Swift has always been dev
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by b3morales 3y ago
There can be no clearer example than iTunes's downgrade into the awful Music and somehow even worse Podcasts. On the plus it has invogorated the 3rd party space.
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by b3morales 3y ago
> Perhaps biggest of all Swift doesn’t need a runtime like Obj-C Swift most certainly has a runtime: https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/main/stdlib/public/runti... And most or all of it is
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by b3morales 3y ago
That was almost seven years ago now. It has been the String API twice as long as it has not been the API.
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by b3morales 3y ago
> There's no reason to privilege any one of these, and Swift doesn't do this. Strange thing to say: Swift String count property is the count of extended grapheme clusters. The documentation is explicit: > A string is a colle
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Checked Error types in Swift, preliminary implementation(forums.swift.org)
3 points by b3morales 3y ago|0 comments
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by b3morales 3y ago
Without a source code license somewhere on site (I don't see any after looking around) you had better not copy-paste these into a next project. The default state if there's no explicit permission granted is that it's not u
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by b3morales 3y ago
Also he's got to approaching retirement age at this point, and there is no backbench corps of other DTS who do what he does. Maybe another decade we'll have his help, then what?
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by b3morales 3y ago
I'm still not sure how I feel about the actual copyright issue, but this was a bad test case. Thaler is trying to have his cake and eat it too; his position is inconsistent (this similar to a previous comment I've made: https:&#x
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by b3morales 3y ago
Assuming that the linked post is accurate and that the "approval from senior leadership" to turn the dump back on does not come...then yes, I would say so. Actually there is already Codidact, although if I recall correctly they ex
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by b3morales 3y ago
This was one of the promises originally of Stack Overflow: all the content is Creative Commons licensed so that if they "turned evil" (I believe it was Joel that put it this way) the community could, in a way, create a fork. http
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by b3morales 3y ago
Is it really necessary to defend your language preference by ridiculing the alternative and those who wish to use it?
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by b3morales 3y ago
A citation is needed for the number of iOS projects that have more than a minuscule amount of code at the application level that risks memory unsafety.¹ The value proposition becomes stronger for the system frameworks that the app consume
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by b3morales 3y ago
GP was most likely thinking not of large roundabouts that take the place of major intersections, but the smaller traffic-calming type where the center can be as minimal as a 3 foot wide concrete block. They can be fit into pretty much any i
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by b3morales 3y ago
This idea ("make a stronger license") has come up in previous discussions of Copilot as well[0]. The problem is that the Copilot project doesn't claim to be abiding by the license(s) of the ingested code. The reply to licen
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by b3morales 3y ago
Some core designers of Swift, at least Doug Gregor, John McCall, Dave Abrahams, were very much part of the C++ world. Abrahams mentions Gregor's proposals for C++ here: https://youtu.be/6JYAXADQmNQ?t=1157
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by b3morales 3y ago
You do have to remember to use it, but the thing to keep in mind is that you can pipe a list of ANYTHING into it. Any list of text items you can search through with a text query is fair game. git log --oneline | fzf for example is
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by b3morales 4y ago
> monitoring that many cameras is impractical Regardless of how many there are, I believe the point is not to monitor them live but to have recordings if the store wants to bring charges for something.
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by b3morales 4y ago
Plagiarism and copyright infringement have some overlap but they're distinct. You can be guilty of plagiarism by taking something in the public domain and presenting it as your own work.
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by b3morales 4y ago
Why would you expect the AI to not be a paid service like a human tutor is? ChatGPT has a $0 tier, but it's also in a publicity phase, and they already have a "pro" subscription tier. Microsoft/GitHub likewise are chargi
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by b3morales 4y ago
No, the goalposts are different according to the task . For example, Microsoft themselves set the goalposts for Bing at "helpfully responds to web search queries".
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by b3morales 4y ago
I think you're mixing up concerns from different contexts. AI as a generalized goal, where there are entities that we recognize as "like us" in quality of experience, yes, we would expect them to have something like our emoti
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by b3morales 4y ago
The point of that one, to me, isn't that it was wrong about a fact, not even that the fact was so basic. It's that it doubled and tripled down on being wrong, as parent said, trying to gaslight the user. Imagine if the topic wasn&
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by b3morales 4y ago
Yes, they aren't different; they have exactly the same problem, which is why StableDiffusion is also the subject of a lawsuit, like Copilot.
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by b3morales 4y ago
Thaler's assertion seems very short-sighted. If the program/system owns the copyright, who administers that? Is his software capable of granting licenses to allow the art to be published? How did he get permission from it to rep
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by b3morales 4y ago
In theory at least your tarpit won't be prevalent enough to have much effect. Since you're making it all up, no one else will have written about the same ideas (as they might if you were writing true things), and your mischief wil
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by b3morales 4y ago
That's how it should work, but it's not how it does work. I'm willing to give up my copyright on my stuff as soon as Microsoft, Google, MGM, Atlantic, etc. give up theirs. Until then, nope: I get the same rights and prote

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