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by jerf 9d ago
So, like, legit pro AI tip, at least for 3rd-quarter 2026... whenever you're working on something interesting, ask the AI about prior art, or to do a scan of the scientific literature. Whether it's economics, health, or something
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by jerf 9d ago
Honestly, having watched people argue about what simple is for about the last 10 years, I've pretty much settled on it not being a well-defined term. We know complex when we see it for sure, at least when it is present in quantity, but
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by jerf 11d ago
More poking around suggests it is an Android 14 issue.
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by jerf 11d ago
"We (Imbue, the company I work for) also offer a managed version, which I think is really important to making this widely accessible - and it gives us a straightforward business model to support the project." Looking at your hoste
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by jerf 11d ago
It's the "map" builtin. Go has a scripting-language-esque attitude of "you can build most things with arrays and hash tables". It doesn't completely preclude getting deeper but that's the general starting
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by jerf 12d ago
My passkeys are in my self-hosted Vaultwarden. If I can't put them there, I don't use them. It's not all sunshine and roses, though. Despite having Bitwarden set as the only passkey provider in my Android setup, the phone per
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by jerf 15d ago
Thank you for the clarification. I'm just impressed by the whole thing in general.
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by jerf 15d ago
And it's correct detail. Earlier models had things like detached hats, or lighthouses floating above or below the level they should be at, etc. Everything is where it should be, the fish is clearly in the basket and not clipping throug
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by jerf 15d ago
Later correct research can't build on previous wrong results. Later incorrect research most assuredly can build on previous wrong results essentially indefinitely. I'm not constructing a full differential equation model for an
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by jerf 16d ago
Or alternatively, how would any conceivable definition not be equally "psuedo-scientific"? There isn't going to be a bright, shining line. Our own Solar System is complicated enough and if we could see out into the cosmos w
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by jerf 16d ago
"Scientists really should have made up their own categories instead of using our words." If they could do it all over again probably most of them would. The sciences all grew organically too. Some of these things like "berrie
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by jerf 16d ago
You know, this is really just a fantastic opportunity to realize the phenomenal psychological power of "headcanon". Who cares if Pluto is or is not tagged with the word "planet" by some organization you know effectively
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by jerf 16d ago
To me, the "best of the best" is its own thing. I do not watch romance movies in general, but I've had good experiences watching what people call the best of the best of the genre. Similarly for a lot of genres, media types,
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by jerf 16d ago
It isn't hard to work out that it's impossible for a forum to maintain a true 1:1 ratio based solely on reported byte counts. First, you have the obvious bootstrapping problem, which is that on day 1, no matter what is uploaded, n
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by jerf 19d ago
I remember for at least a while people would complain about how GPS navigation ruined their sense of the local area. Probably stopped hearing about it because people have just surrendered to the apps, but I think part of the reason is also
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by jerf 19d ago
"What does it mean though for a GUI to be keyboard-driven?" For literally decades after they were state of the art, people who used old-school mainframe TUIs would still swear by them. I think the key difference is that they would
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by jerf 21d ago
I still really enjoy the science fiction of that age. It's fun to read stories set in a universe where computers basically never came into existence. It's really hard for anyone to write stories like that now, so, kind of like ana
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by jerf 21d ago
I haven't used Lisp but I've used another environment that was heavily image based (Frontier). The runtime ability to modify things sounds super neat but in my opinion it leads to disaster. It is not a weakness that we have a lot
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by jerf 22d ago
I don't know if this is how Costco itself thinks of it, but you can get to a pretty decent understanding of their financials by assuming they sell everything at cost and pocket the membership fees as profit. Their actual profits tend t
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by jerf 22d ago
I still carry the rather 20th century idea that a performer of almost any kind also ought to have some sort of other talent in addition to their main one. The versatility of that sort of thing is one of the things that should separate a pro
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by jerf 22d ago
I wouldn't call this a "vulnerability", I'd call it "a thing that can potentially turn into a vulnerability, more often it can turn into an obscure bug, and most often it is just a quirk". In particular, if my
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by jerf 22d ago
I know what you're saying, but modulo things like losing track of what year it is as time passes by, a current frontier model is going to continue to be useful for many tasks for many years, even moreso if it's 5-10x faster due to
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by jerf 22d ago
INT 18 WIS 3 is no way to go through life, son. (Ref: https://www.quotes.net/mquote/3799 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkoPq5AOCOA )
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by jerf 22d ago
Heh. Indeed.
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by jerf 22d ago
"At the same time, it has a fair number of toxic commenters, making it a dependable source of insults hurled in my general direction; if you want a taste, {another article by same author} has been called “watered-down” and “slop”.&quot
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by jerf 23d ago
An underrated fallacy in general. (Of course I'm just giving a common name to something that was identified, not accusing anyone of having the etymological fallacy in this conversation.)
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by jerf 23d ago
Etymological fallacy: https://www.logicalfallacies.org/etymological-fallacy.html
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by jerf 23d ago
Makes it harder to catch you in a general sweep, but it probably makes it much easier if anyone decides to target you specifically. How good a tradeoff that is varies from person to person. And the difficulty of targeting a specific person
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by jerf 25d ago
"If this ends in another fine to put into a ledger book I'll scream." You may need this: https://eathealthy365.com/learn-to-scream-like-a-pro-the-def...
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by jerf 26d ago
It is "the party the President is in", typically. Today that happens to be "R" but the President has taken the brunt of the blame for good or bad economies for a long time now, regardless of how correct that blame assign

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