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by electrograv 6mo ago
IMO a UI library landing page should always contain a screenshot example of the UI. I can’t find a screenshot of it anywhere, let alone the landing page.
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by electrograv 8mo ago
While the mental image of eating roadkill is also unappetizing to me, I have to admit my reaction here is irrational. Eating roadkill isn’t much different from eating wild game you hunted — except with roadkill, it was someone else and thei
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by electrograv 11mo ago
> So if the disk isn't alive, the file on it isn't alive, the inference software is not alive - then what are you saying is alive and thinking? “So if the severed head isn’t alive, the disembodied heart isn’t alive, the jar o
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by electrograv 11mo ago
> In 2025, after a £12m investment, YASA opened the UK's first axial-flux super factory, in Oxfordshire. It’s a little sad to me that fundamental innovations in electromechanical engineering like this get just a few million in inv
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by electrograv 1y ago
Yes, but with the “revolving door” between private financial institutions and government financial policy/regulation, there’s little real distinction anymore between the two. Those private banks can print that money out of thin air bec
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by electrograv 1y ago
I had no idea Keynes had similar ideas, so I definitely should read his work (and economics literature in general). I probably should generalize my thoughts though to say “expectation of economic growth” (instead of just “money printing”) s
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by electrograv 1y ago
The thing is, you can simultaneously be completely correct about the market being insane, while also entirely wrong in expecting it to behave in a sane way. Cue the famous quote: “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain
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by electrograv 1y ago
Intelligence and consciousness are two different things though, and some would argue they may even be almost completely orthogonal. (A great science fiction book called Blindsight by Peter Watts explores this concept in some detail BTW, it’
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by electrograv 1y ago
> That's roughly how it works in C, and I know that it's also UB there if you do it wrong, but one thing is different: It doesn't really ever occupy my mind as a problem. In Rust it does. UB doesn’t occupy the author’s min
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by electrograv 2y ago
That’s why I specifically emphasized “perception and preferences”. Believe it or not, the science covers both - both what people can perceive, and what people care about and value.
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by electrograv 2y ago
> Then why do people keep buying random laptops and then complaining when Linux doesn't run on it? You buy a laptop from a vendor who designs them to run Linux out of the box. Because: (1) Laptop models designed to run Linux out o
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by electrograv 2y ago
> I would also argue the crowd that insists everyone needs Pro Motion is doing exactly what you accuse me of -- assuming their needs and perception must also be everyone else's. I am not seeing this alleged crowd of people insisti
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by electrograv 2y ago
You have to understand that your own perceptual experience is not identical to that of all other humans. Without recognizing that, we will inevitably end up talking past each other endlessly and writing each other off as { hallucinating, ly
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by electrograv 2y ago
It’s deeply flawed logic at best (or an intentional red herring at worst) to cite the existence of pseudoscience discussed elsewhere, as an argument against real science being discussed here. There is a well-understood science to both audit
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by electrograv 2y ago
I have absolutely no problem paying a premium for an upgraded display. The problem is that Apple does not offer that option for the MacBook Air. The MacBook Pro has an amazing screen, which is why I bought the MBP. But the MBP compromises i
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by electrograv 2y ago
Yes, human visual perception exists along a spectrum of temporal, spatial, and chromatic resolution that varies from person to person — I’ve even met some people who can’t perceive the difference between 30hz and 120hz, while to me and most
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by electrograv 2y ago
I’ve considered trying an ultralight PC laptop with a superior screen. But the sad state of reality is that: (1) Windows these days feels like a constant battle against forcibly installed adware / malware. (2) Linux would be great, but
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by electrograv 2y ago
I really wish Apple would make a MacBook Air variant with display quality on par with the iPad Pro or MacBook Pro (ProMotion/120hz and XDR/HDR, at least). The screen quality is the only reason I currently use the Pro despite its c
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by electrograv 2y ago
You’re right that it’s not inherently unique to EVs, but it started with EVs and now this new dangerously fragile design (of having a single monolithic computer console handle display and control of everything from critical drive modes and
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by electrograv 2y ago
I’m not claiming that quality or licensing concerns are irrelevant, but that: 1. It will not be possible to reliably detect whether code was LLM assisted or not. 2. Humans are not always 100% truthful. 3. All the concerns cited here also ap
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by electrograv 2y ago
Do they think Copilot/ChatGPT are usernames of contributor accounts which can be banned from a project/repo? It seems the underlying issue here is bad code submitted ultimately by human contributors. Consistently thorough code rev
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by electrograv 2y ago
Low fat diets are not healthier. The notion that fat is evil has been thoroughly debunked for quite some time now.
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by electrograv 2y ago
100% agree it’s a huge mistake to water down Rust’s `enum` and `match` when teaching Rust. If anything, these concepts (algebraic data types and pattern matching) are by far the highest “ROI” features to learn of all: they’re super easy to
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by electrograv 3y ago
I actually fed two GPT4’s into each other as an experiment and they very quickly devolved into just saying things like “It’s clear you’re just feeding my answers into ChatGPT and posting the replies. Is there anything else I can help you wi
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by electrograv 4y ago
Achieving <80% on CIFAR10 in the year >2020 is an example of a failed toy model, not a successful toy model. Almost any ML algorithm can be thrown at CIFAR10 and achieve ~60% accuracy; this ballpark of accuracy is really not suffi
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by electrograv 4y ago
I certainly don’t disagree with you there (about ease-of-use vs safety). I personally believe the “right” choice in C++ is to err on the side of safety (at least when adding new stuff), and wish STL did too — especially given how notoriou
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by electrograv 4y ago
The root cause of the danger you illustrate here IMO is actually a fault in the way the `std::string` to `std::string_view` implicit conversion is designed, as opposed to something inherently wrong with the concept of view/span class
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by electrograv 4y ago
Every wonder why Steam has so few Mac OSX users? Might it have something to do with how few major games are available at all on Mac OSX? It doesn’t exactly take brilliant insight to see that this is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, and s
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by electrograv 4y ago
I was in a similar situation, and found a solution that works for me! TDLR; Topre’s feel is still best, but Cherry SILENT Red (not to be confused with Cherry Red) is “close enough”, while opening the door to the larger world of custom and s
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by electrograv 5y ago
You're right, I initially completely misinterpreted your point -- sorry about that. I edited my response accordingly. My new point is simply this: You can make this argument about anything whose value declines relative to other things;

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