bre1010

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by bre1010 21d ago
Agreed. LLMs are the Manhattan Project of the class war. It really looks like they're betting everything that this will "win" it for them
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by bre1010 2mo ago
This sounds depressing. Imagine going to work every day and your boss is a computer telling you to do rote nonsense so it can barely-better-than-brute-force search for breakthroughs in whatever field. Then when it finds one we get another b
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by bre1010 3mo ago
I also noticed this. I was working on my solver but my dictionary kept suggesting options that wordle didn't consider to be words at all (what the heck is usr/share/dict/words anyway??). So I looked through the source fo
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by bre1010 4mo ago
I wish the key word was instead dontawait and was used inversely to how await is used. 99% of the time I'm using an async function, despite however slow it is, there's nothing for my code to do but wait for it to finish. But if fo
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by bre1010 10mo ago
I discovered project euler as a novice programmer in high school around 15 years ago. I loved how solving a problem unlocks a secret forum only available to other solvers. I would spend hours reading through everyone's prior solutions
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by bre1010 11mo ago
Thank you for this feedback. Definitely a failure on my part to follow my personal guideline of if I don't have anything thoughtful to post then it's better not to post at all, not to mention the actual posting guidelines that I v
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by bre1010 11mo ago
This is a fair response. I googled "bosworth + terrorists will kill people" before I posted this to make sure I got the wording right but purposely didn't link to what I found because it's mostly clickbait stuff and anyw
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by bre1010 11mo ago
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by bre1010 1y ago
You would just say "improving efficiency". Whereas theirs is like: "Improving the efficiency [... of what?]"
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by bre1010 1y ago
I love C#, but have actually found LLMs to be quite bad a producing idiomatic code because the language is changing so fast and often they don't even know about the latest language(/blazor) features. I constantly have to undo my
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by bre1010 1y ago
Completely agree. People lament the death of the RTS genre for all kinds of reasons but I think the biggest one was the early-2000s switch to 3D. Performance considerations meant you have way fewer units. The only exception was that Supreme
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by bre1010 1y ago
I really enjoyed this essay. I'm just a cosmology bystander/hobbyist, but your takedown of the dark matter hypotheses was very appealing to me. I was shocked when I got to the section where you talk about all these macro-scale sim
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by bre1010 2y ago
In college Intro to CS was taught with Racket (a lisp) and we even had to write code with pen and paper during our exams. Got really good at quickly visually matching parentheses which is still helpful to me today in non-lisps. (But given t
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by bre1010 2y ago
automatic circumsizers when
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by bre1010 2y ago
I guess it depends whether you want your system to work, or whether you just want it to be not your fault when it breaks
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by bre1010 2y ago
Andrew Bosworth (FB's blathering sociopath-in-residence) said Trump ran “the best digital ad campaign I’ve ever seen” and they even had marketing people embedded with the campaign to help them run more effective ads. The final straw fo
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by bre1010 2y ago
Worked at Facebook from 2016 - 2020. I couldn't handle how flippant the leadership was about profiting off of genocides, Trump, and the degradation of everyone's mental health. Now I work for my county government as a computer pro
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by bre1010 3y ago
These things are all becoming more likely again
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by bre1010 3y ago
"bodycount"
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by bre1010 3y ago
I agree that this is what OP is saying. But it's funny that that didn't actually happen? All I saw was mainstream media outlets continuously chiding their own readers for not being sufficiently empathetic to poor, white, Trump vot
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by bre1010 3y ago
So you disagreed when other people were saying freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences, except now when it's consequences you like you are relishing it. So how are you different from the people you're sarcast
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by bre1010 3y ago
Why does it link to a scam website at the top of the post?
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by bre1010 3y ago
With all the usual caveats about first-past-the-post and the two-party system not offering a good range of choices in the US, this guy is pretty off the mark. Democrats and Republicans are meaningfully different choices and I tend to assume
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by bre1010 3y ago
Kissinger also helped Nixon sabotage the Vietnamese peace talks in 1968 to help him get elected -- Nixon promised the Vietnamese a better peace deal if they refused to participate until after he was elected. Literal treason.
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by bre1010 3y ago
but not if Coca Cola's continuing growth depends on their ensuring that many many people are drinking it to excess
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by bre1010 3y ago
I'm into the art style, but was tipped off that it's AI-generated because it's filled with almost-letters making up almost-words
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by bre1010 3y ago
Hah, apparently my adblocker is over-aggressive. Thanks
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by bre1010 3y ago
Looking at Wayback Machine snapshot from April 26, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230426020715/https://www.cia.g... This is tough because it seems like they're just using javascript to populate
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by bre1010 3y ago
I was very confused by this too and finally realized the mistake. The chain of logic went like this: > There are 2.4 standard hours in 1 metric hour > Therefore there are 240 standard minutes in 1 metric hour > Then divide by 100 t
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by bre1010 5y ago
The E.O. Wilson anecdote at the end amused me since he says if there are ants invading your kitchen you should lay out a piece of food and I thought he meant this to trap the ants somehow. But no he meant to just introduce yourself to your

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