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by bandrami 4d ago
Ken Lay would like a word
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by bandrami 4d ago
The fact that Ellison just backed out of a massive stock sale makes me think everybody is reading the same bond market numbers
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by bandrami 4d ago
That's "rude" but allowed; that capability is one of the reasons Wayland was developed (though their solution removed some capabilities people wanted with the result that the compositors now replicate the original flaw).
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by bandrami 4d ago
Everybody's out of money and they need a way to calmly unwind this. Same reason Ellison just backed out of the stock sale.
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by bandrami 12d ago
A chimpanzee could turn the nuclear keys if he were given access to them. The solution is not to remove chimpanzees' thumbs; it's just to not give them the nuclear keys. This is a very basic lesson that the labs are somehow missin
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by bandrami 12d ago
Every one of those posts costs money, and OpenAI is apparently willing to pay that. This really is a problem with a simple solution.
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by bandrami 13d ago
iPython was famous for a while but I think its popularity has waned, but yes as you point out really any dynamic language can do a repl; it's just that it's mostly the lisp/scheme and forth families that have leaned so heavil
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by bandrami 13d ago
It's the same reason people like symbolic debuggers: you can run your program as many lines at a time as you want and stop and inspect the state whenever you need to. I haven't really used jupyter but I understand the workflow the
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by bandrami 13d ago
As a guy who started in lisp I always find LSP to be a weird uncanny valley situation. It's like 99% of a REPL, but it will always have corner cases where that 1% difference is important.
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by bandrami 15d ago
Commodification of inference means the death of capital spending on buildouts, which would mean the end of both Softbank and probably Oracle.
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by bandrami 15d ago
Aren't the "thinking" chains always just reconstructed anyways? It would be like using a debugger that just looks at the source code rather than the actual binary.
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by bandrami 15d ago
There are whole industries that still don't let LLM-generated code touch production
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by bandrami 17d ago
I gave up on gun control as a political question when I realized you can buy a flamethrower at Home Depot
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by bandrami 17d ago
To what extent is OpenClaw still alive to be killed?
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by bandrami 17d ago
Or, I mean, reading and responding to emails on your phone directly
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by bandrami 1mo ago
The only job application process I've ever walked out on in the middle of was 25 years ago, when I was taking a proctored computer skills test and it dinged me for pressing the Windows key rather than moving the cursor to the Start but
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by bandrami 1mo ago
IDK, it's the same problem I had with OpenClaw: I can't think of anything I need done that I want it to do for me.
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by bandrami 1mo ago
A year ago everybody in San Francisco was saying the entire world was about to be blindsided by the fundamental changes that would happen in the next 8-12 months and, well, that just hasn't happened.
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by bandrami 1mo ago
Hard disagree, as someone whose main job is telling developers "no". If it's everybody's responsibility it is in fact nobody's responsibility.
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by bandrami 1mo ago
It has eval but it lacks reader macros (or at least it did thirty years ago) which is what makes eval useful on lisp2 systems.
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by bandrami 1mo ago
Somebody's got to actually operate those robots, after all
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by bandrami 1mo ago
Particularly since one of their flagship products is a CMS that solves that problem and lets you move documents around without breaking links
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by bandrami 1mo ago
Meta (née Facebook) hired addiction medicine specialists to work on their platform engagement. It wasn't to make teens use their platforms less .
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by bandrami 1mo ago
Smart speakers are a mature market and seem to have topped out at about 1/3rd of US households at a lower price point than this. This is going to be a very hard sell.
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by bandrami 1mo ago
I still think this question is a future minefield, as well as the question of what happens if an LLM outputs a patented algorithm
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by bandrami 1mo ago
Anything with a probability mass or distribution function has entropy; the state space of Markov chains just tends to get combinatorially big as the chain's memory increases.
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by bandrami 1mo ago
There was for a brief period a Middle Path, called libiberty (now mostly subsumed into gnulib). It generated GNU-compatible shim functions for whatever system you happened to be on that translated those calls into the native calls. So you w
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by bandrami 2mo ago
As an aside, back in the days of Stack Exchange I would always type out manually whatever answer I found to make sure I understood WTF I was adding to the system.
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by bandrami 2mo ago
They moved the functionality from Firefox to Thunderbird IIRC, which seemed like a desperate attempt to get anyone to use Thunderbird.
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by bandrami 2mo ago
Buzz was weird because its main impact was killing another Google product, Orkut

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