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by cbondurant 6d ago
I was hoping to see if by "21st-Century" it meant "music theory that is applicable to the way modern music is generally written and interacted with". With details on things like microtonal music, increased focus on rhyth
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by cbondurant 7d ago
I'd much rather all of the resources that are going into autonomous cars was instead going into proper public transit infrastructure. Cars are so hopelessly space and energy inefficient, and I hate driving them. If I could get around b
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by cbondurant 21d ago
The self-modifying executable that can modify itself on disk is kinda horrifying to me. In that kind of "ok yes, you have proven you can, but I really think you shouldn't" kind of way. Incredibly impressive on a conceptual le
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by cbondurant 22d ago
I think I can tell just how good a design this is by the fact that the moment I interacted with the demo it just felt right . To the extent that I had to focus harder to really recognize that it was doing exactly as described. Truly, good
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by cbondurant 23d ago
Had to reread this a few times to properly parse what the hypothetical was. My first read was "if you could redo your life from age 17 what would you do". To which "figure out how to make an LLM" would be an insane answe
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by cbondurant 23d ago
I feel like (as is usual with nontechnical reporting on cutting edge science) this article isn't doing a great job at communicating the underlying tech well here. Had to independently look up some descriptions of what super absorption
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by cbondurant 27d ago
My gut instinct was that operations like sin, cos, tan, etc, were the kind that would get aggressively inlined by any modern compiler, and then after inlining the redundant conversions between radian/turns would be canceled out by opti
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by cbondurant 29d ago
I can only hope that the hard github dependency can be chalked up to just "this was the easiest way to get this out the door". Its not a good solution in the long term, (single point of failure, github is increasingly unreliable a
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by cbondurant 1mo ago
I think 14 exists as a test case for having a larger search space that needs to be efficiently ignored. Its not difficult solution wise, but if it is particularly slow that means you're doing a bad job at pruning potential steps. Makin
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by cbondurant 1mo ago
While impressive that the optimal can be proven, I feel like the example puzzles here aren't ones that are particularly hard to find solutions for (when move count doesnt matter). I'd be interested to see at least one example that
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by cbondurant 1mo ago
> I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point. Oh! If you want that, you should run your own model and set the generation temperature to 0 :) Because that's not what any commercial
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by cbondurant 1mo ago
my immediate first thought is that I've never heard of the consecutive constraint before, or that if I have I have forgotten about it. I've only ever heard of a uniqueness constraint, that no number can be used twice, which still
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by cbondurant 3mo ago
ironic, given the title, that I can't read this article on my main desktop, because cloudflare's bot detection has had me as a false positive for years now. I'm just forever stuck on the cloudflare captcha. No space for this
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by cbondurant 3mo ago
I feel like a lot of documentation falls into this kind of style, where the motivation behind design is not communicated, just the design itself. Sometimes it's because the documentation writer doesn't want to leak internal detail
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by cbondurant 3mo ago
The trash heap event gave me the same relic the first 3 times in a row that I got it before it gave me anything else. I wonder that's another example of this correlation? I hope the StS team is made aware of this and is able to make th
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by cbondurant 4mo ago
A reason I suspect (though, truly it is only a guess) is as a way to force people to spend money. Something akin to "either buy something or leave" to try and capture just that tiny bit of additional revenue.
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by cbondurant 4mo ago
My context is that I was born in the late 90s: The main thing that lead to me prioritizing using the computer and playing with people online over in person was one of convenience. My parents did a really good job at making it a massive pain
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by cbondurant 4mo ago
I remember being young when "kids don't play in the yard anymore, they just play on their phone/consoles/computer" started to be a big talking point. Even then I recognized that the reason I was on the computer so m
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by cbondurant 4mo ago
I already use Rust and don't have experience with Go, so this article maybe isn't super for me. I do have one nitpick though: Stating that data races are "caught at compile time" in Rust feels like it is overstating the
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by cbondurant 4mo ago
I like the idea mentioned of a source code escrow, and it feels like that would be a great place for national governments to step in. It reminds me of how the British Library requires that any published book have a copy sent to them for arc
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by cbondurant 5mo ago
What an interesting article that definitely isn't pulling incredibly obvious red scare tactics. I'd be quite interested to know what damn article it was that was apparently so out of touch with reality that it left this author
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by cbondurant 5mo ago
Personally, I don't think I have much benefit in a new generation TI-84. I still own a TI-85, a model that was discontinued before I was born, and it is still an objectively superior tool for doing small calculations than any other alt
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by cbondurant 5mo ago
So if I've got the right idea, the clearances harder to achieve for a fan vs a lego piece because you're not just concerned with the static tolerances of the shape of the fan, but also the dynamic forces that will make the blades
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by cbondurant 5mo ago
Another part of the issue, as I can see it, is that paying your workers better is a prisoners dilemma: If nobody pays their workers well: All companies suffer from a disaffected, burnt out workforce that is unable to consistently perform at
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by cbondurant 7mo ago
Based on the origins of Rust as a tool for writing the really thorny, defensive parsers of potentially actively hostile code for firefox, I have to imagine that another web browser is the most at-home place the language could ever be.
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by cbondurant 7mo ago
I feel like the lag-time of communication was an important component of older forms of communication that has been lost. That's not to say that fast communication isn't a boon to society, of course. Only that slower communication
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by cbondurant 7mo ago
A really mindset-altering read for me, I've carried this way of thinking ever since I'd first read it a few years ago.
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by cbondurant 7mo ago
If imposition was something for this site to add, I'd recommend doing it through LaTeX with the pdfpages package[1]. You generate the pdf normally, then re-lay it out using a second latex file dedicated to just doing the imposition. It
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by cbondurant 7mo ago
at first I thought library OS might have meant an OS meant for use at a library. Honestly far less interesting to know I was wrong.
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by cbondurant 8mo ago
I was in the market for a vinyl cutter/knife plotter a while back, and the fact I use linux on everything was my main reason for avoiding Cricut. Ended up finding out theres an open source inkscape plugin that interfaces with the silho

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