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by codeflo 2y ago
Also, the abstract algebra definition is an actual generalization, because the (analysis) derivative acts as a linear operator in the vector space of (suitably smooth) funtions. It blew my mind when I first encountered this way of looking a
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by codeflo 2y ago
> Motte and bailey accusations only work if the statemnts in question are being made by the same person. I think it's perfectly justified in cases where debater self-identifies as part of the "bailey" community -- that is,
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by codeflo 2y ago
Do you know why said cryptocurrency would use such a bespoke proof-of-work function? I.e., was it just someone ignorant who had only a vague idea that cryptography somehow uses prime numbers and didn’t know when or why, or was there a deepe
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by codeflo 2y ago
You probably know that Figma is a UX design software. This means it’s basically a graphics program: you draw shapes, you scroll and zoom around. It does that extremely well. It’s unbelievably snappy even on a very large canvas with many com
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by codeflo 2y ago
This made me scratch my head: > Even in a language like Rust, which has not yet implemented mutable aliasing (an oft-requested feature stuck at the RFC stage) Disallowing mutable aliasing is in fact the whole point of Rust. Perhaps it’s
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by codeflo 2y ago
Why would you need to “see” it? Unlike the distribution of the RNG itself, this is trivial to solve analytically.
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by codeflo 2y ago
Yes. Nobody thinks that it’s magically floating. Was this written by AI? This reads like ChatGPT nonsense to me: “Many art historians think that Spitzweg wanted to depict a starving artist.”
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by codeflo 2y ago
The real question is why would you. This is an educational project that visually demonstrates how a CPU operates. It could clock at 0.5 Hz for that purpose.
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by codeflo 2y ago
Yes, LLVM has many bugs that Clang either doesn’t hit or has actively worked around, sometimes for years. There was never a huge push to fix that situation, which made using LLVM for other languages a disappointing experience. Rust has unco
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by codeflo 2y ago
It’s not the default, but it’s just a language feature. It’s also not just for interfacing with C. For example, you also use repr(C) for pointer tricks even if you never leave Rust. Lots of places in the standard library use it for that rea
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by codeflo 2y ago
Depending on the application, going for floats can be a huge mistake: you only exact integer math up to 2^52 or 10^15. That’s hardly infinite, and insufficient for many applications.
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by codeflo 2y ago
The actual constraint here is that every additional button costs 0.1 cents extra in production. Whatever great UI scheme you come up with, if there’s a ridiculously contrived way to do it with one button less, that’s what will be chosen.
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by codeflo 2y ago
I'm sorry, but as evidenced by literally the rest of the world, voting wait times are not a research-level mathematics problem, but purely one of resources. Census data and a tiny bit of queuing theory (or alternatively, historical dat
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by codeflo 2y ago
Wasn’t “Shellshock” the name for a very severe security bug? When I read “shell-shockingly good Kubernetes”, at first, I thought this was an article warning about container security.
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by codeflo 3y ago
All of this information is static, there's no need to sacrifice a whole CPU register only to store data that's already known. A simple lookup data structure that maps an instruction address range to the stack offset of the return
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by codeflo 3y ago
Google Chrome on a 13” MacBook Air almost fills the entire menu bar on its own for me — you don’t need that many notification icons before some start disappearing. (I also think Google Chrome has way too many menu entries, but that’s a diff
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by codeflo 3y ago
But note that at the end of that century, the CO2 is still there and will continue to heat the atmosphere indefinitely. We really need to stop adding carbon to the cycle; optimizing the form of that carbon can only ever be a secondary goal.
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by codeflo 3y ago
I just looked it up to be sure. It seems like the mean lifetime is 12 years, which is the figure one uses for calculations. The half life is shorter.
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by codeflo 3y ago
At this point, Linux is so integral to Microsoft's strategy that if anything, it's more likely that Microsoft would abandon the Windows kernel and rebuild the Windows UI on top of Linux. (To be clear, that's not going to happ
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by codeflo 3y ago
It only creates "more CO2" if the carbon atom wasn't part of the carbon cycle to begin with. That's the case for natural gas, but not for biological sources.
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by codeflo 3y ago
Sure, but the question is still whether that carbon came from a fossil source or was part of the cycle to begin with. Let's say a cow eats grass, produces methane, the methane gets converted into CO2, the grass grows back. No net incre
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by codeflo 3y ago
I get that methane has a strong greenhouse effect, and that climate models need to account for its concentration to make accurate predictions. But in terms of climate activism, isn't worrying about methane mostly a red herring? My unde
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by codeflo 3y ago
The idea is a lot older than Al-Khwarizmi: positional base-60 fractions were already used by the Babylonians in *2000 BC*.
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by codeflo 3y ago
I’m sure most of the world’s population has no idea what the boiling temperature of water is in Fahrenheit.
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by codeflo 3y ago
I honestly thought “That sounds really dangerous for the hardware”.
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by codeflo 3y ago
There’s probably a piece missing in the article’s simplified explanation, but if corrosion were in fact “instant” as claimed, nothing should help, as the damage would already be done. Probably it’s not really instant, just very fast, and di
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by codeflo 3y ago
The tweet showing ChatGPT's (supposed) system prompt would contain a link to a pastebin, but unfortantely the blog post itself only has an unreadable screenshot of the tweet, without a link to it. Here's the tweet: https:/&#
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by codeflo 3y ago
I mean, there's a point here. Even in the videos OpenAI shows as "successes", you can spot uncanny coherence mistakes. There's one where a forklift morphs into one that's turned 90 degrees. The previous frame looks
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by codeflo 3y ago
I'm not trying to be overly dramatic, but I think it's precisely when the industry accepted this as a law -- instead of treating it as something that needs be trained out of junior programmers -- is when software quality started t
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by codeflo 3y ago
Anonymous source close to the OpenAI situation, according to the Financial Times: "His superpower is getting people onside, shaping narratives, pushing situations into the shape that work for him." Paul Graham: "Sam is extrem

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