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by foo42 11d ago
Internet Archive feels like an important... well, archive, yet I often worry about the load, financial and potentially political, which is put on it when people use it as a workaround for pay-walls, as is often advocated on HN
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by foo42 29d ago
Great video. Other trebuchet fans who dream of building one some day may be interested in googling "walking trebuchet" for a surprisingly high complexity/results ratio.
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by foo42 1mo ago
Perhaps tangential to your point, but I often write blog posts (although finish and publish far fewer than I start) where I write about something as it has occurred to me, informed by things I've absorbed no doubt, but without specific
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by foo42 1mo ago
Side note: The linotype, which Paige's machine is compared to, was one of my favourite machines to discover existed. Such a clever design.
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by foo42 1mo ago
But what are the questions nobody is asking?
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by foo42 1mo ago
I've recently been running yolo mode, but in docker container with the codebase I'm working on a as regular mount with other reference code mounted as read only. I've been experimenting with dedicated Linux users for various
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by foo42 1mo ago
I've been using them by reading some docs/wiki/tutorial, then when I think I understand something trying to do a rough explanation to the LLM and ask if I'm right. I'm usually making some analogy to something I alre
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by foo42 1mo ago
An overlapping technique (covering some but not all of the circumstances you'd use assert) is to take a parse-dont-validate approach, and essentially encode the fact that an assertion has been applied to a value in its type. How ergono
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by foo42 2mo ago
I agree, although I think the real goal the model providers are going for (both commercial _and_ open weight) is probably power. Just think of the control available to the organisation training the models politicians, business leaders, and
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by foo42 2mo ago
or netcasts even
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by foo42 2mo ago
On point 4, is the general flow that an "update" would read the current latest, check whatever conditions, then rather than updating, insert a new record (all in a transaction), or is your append only sot more an ordered "log
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by foo42 2mo ago
Perhaps political candidate Count Binface here in the UK should add to his "I'll lower _your_ taxes and raise _everyone elses_" policy with "I'll protect _your_ job and automate _everyone elses_"
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by foo42 2mo ago
I wonder if some sort of member owned cooperative would be the way forward if we the people want to retain any control.
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by foo42 2mo ago
I'll take this as an uninvited opportunity to plug nushell. Ive never got on with bash, it feels like too much of the friction is incidental to the problem, whereas with nushell I find I get to the fun intrinsic difficulty of a problem
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by foo42 2mo ago
You might be surprised how "little" engineers make outside the US too
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by foo42 3mo ago
I've used postgres on a few projects (via AWS rds) but I've always used it as a pretty vanilla SQL database. Probably the most "fancy" feature I've used being bson columns. Can anyone recommend good resources for go
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by foo42 3mo ago
People already know a lot of things. But which "know"? There's seeing something and recognising it as something you've seen before. There's being able to recite it without seeing it. There's being able to expla
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by foo42 3mo ago
The fact that someone makes a simple observation is probably suggestive that despite its simplicity, it doesn't stick fully, maybe it's even anti-memetic. Perhaps repeating such simple truths is like a spaced repetition system for
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by foo42 3mo ago
When you say "it", I suspect it will pan out to American Elites, as opposed to America the nation, or Americans the people.
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by foo42 3mo ago
Makes me think of [shepherd tones](Shepard tone - Wikipedia https://share.google/xooRbF7wIIhcsTt2J ) which sounds like they're rising in pitch indefinitely
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by foo42 3mo ago
good timing, I just started learning Typst this weekend!
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by foo42 3mo ago
I think there are multiple aspects at play. People have reasonable concerns about the ethical, political, economic dimensions before we even get to the technical capabilities. Even within the narrower question of the technical utility, I th
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by foo42 4mo ago
Interesting. Could you elaborate. As a pro Europe Brit I'm interested to understand this viewpoint. Is it a widely held perspective do you know?
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by foo42 4mo ago
It feels like the virtual actors are the primitive the author is reaching for. As an erstwhile Elixir hobbyist I've often found myself wishing for the simplicity of actors when solving problems in my day job. I tend to work in an AWS e
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by foo42 4mo ago
This is somewhat off topic, but a question to Americans: Why do none of you seem to pronounce the "l" in soldering? Every US video seems to say "soddering"
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by foo42 5mo ago
Seems like a decent place to point out that there are good savings to be had on heat pump running costs with a smart controller designed for heat pumps which can learn the dynamics of your building then preheat when tariffs are low or outdo
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by foo42 5mo ago
apparently it is a British thing. https://editorsmanual.com/articles/collective-nouns-singular...
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by foo42 5mo ago
I suspect sycophancy has a lot to do with things . People with power attract those who want their favour and/or money who will align themselves to please the powerful rather than steer them to their best selves. Furthermore as the syco
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by foo42 6mo ago
I built a very similar system into my own assistant type project. In all honesty though I've not used it enough to know how well it works out in practice.
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by foo42 6mo ago
I've never implemented it, but I think WebMentions was supposed to enable this

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