jrimbault

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by jrimbault 7d ago
> People don’t complain about roads & gutters because there’s idiots on that drive. We do complain about roads and infrastructure, and try to improve them so the inevitable idiot's impact is lessened.
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by jrimbault 13d ago
Handicap Go by Nagahara Yoshiaki helped me tremendously. I started playing I believe in March of 2025. I had the very good luck that one of my high school best friends is a 4 dan EGF player, and was in the French team 20 years ago. We playe
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by jrimbault 14d ago
What if I _want_ a staging area?
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by jrimbault 1mo ago
And even then, the "rare" qualifier is not needed here. What Amazon/LLM companies are doing is amoral. This is intellectual piracy (not in the "copyright infringement" sense) at the highest level. Stealing and centr
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by jrimbault 1mo ago
Can you feel the irony when typing this? "Simple readable C code" itself not being able to be parsed by "simple readable C code".
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by jrimbault 2mo ago
Athena/PTSD-girl being the only Trojan with a face doesn't dismiss that affirmation, only reinforces it. And she writes about her in another paragraph.
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by jrimbault 2mo ago
It's not controversial. It's only controversial in the culture wars part of the world. There has been some critics* of her translation among classicists, but not _controversies_. *: which is only natural, that's their job to
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by jrimbault 2mo ago
How do you get 'roughly be summarized as "I could have done better"' from this critique? Nowhere does she say something vaguely like that.
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by jrimbault 2mo ago
Having designed a good number of internal tools for teams of developers I couldn't agree more. Earlier I had the tendency to "leave the guts" open, thinking my users were developers and would want that. All it did was put obs
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by jrimbault 2mo ago
I love how new people keep discovering Ian's website (cf the xkcd 1053). It's a really well made website, the pictures and animations are very well chosen to explain knots and lacing.
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by jrimbault 3mo ago
I notice how the title by Ars Technica is much less baity than Nature: "Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?" vs "Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?"
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by jrimbault 5mo ago
Note that for little while now lazy iterators have been available: - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - Array.prototype.values https://developer.mozilla.org&#x2F
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by jrimbault 5mo ago
Cheekily, might not the "purist" want a "pot-au-feu" ? (i have a sincere dislike of purity talk, especially in cookery) The article mentions it, but doesn't disprove it.
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by jrimbault 5mo ago
> Of course, there is indeed no shame. There is also no pride. But there's is "pride" in making tools people actually use without issue
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by jrimbault 6mo ago
Couldn't you have used a subdomain "ai.mozilla.org" rather than a new tld? I'm guessing some marketing executives got involved?
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by jrimbault 6mo ago
I saw that, but anyone can link to anything. Luckily on mozilla.org there's a link to mozilla.ai, so that legitimizes it a bit. But that is not obvious.
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by jrimbault 6mo ago
Sorry, dumb question: is "mozilla.ai" related to "mozilla.org" and to the larger Mozilla organization? Because changing the tld makes this actually non-obvious. I see "mozilla.ai" and I think "someone is t
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by jrimbault 6mo ago
Except a lot of actual, very smart, economists are for UBI or similar arrangements (it's not a settled matter). And geohot might be smart, but he's just a self described hacker. If we're going to use authority arguments.
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by jrimbault 9mo ago
In C this kind of issue is so common it wouldn't raise to the status of "CVE". People would just shrug and say "git gud".
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by jrimbault 10mo ago
When the "classics" were decided to be "the classics" (by who? why? on what authority?) a lot of them were newer than Mickey Mouse is today.
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by jrimbault 10mo ago
The quotes aren't in the original title: > Two US marines implicated in killing family in notorious Iraq war shooting, expert tells BBC
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by jrimbault 1y ago
I used to.
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by jrimbault 1y ago
Thanks for the first link it's really fun game :) I've been playing lots on OGS (with my friend in particular), under my pseudonym erelde
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by jrimbault 1y ago
I've been quite taken with Go these last few months and I wish the western world had more skilled players. The Asian servers do not do much (if any) i18n, they don't need to, they aren't many players outside Asia. I've b
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by jrimbault 1y ago
I've been writing code (and prose) with 3 vertical rulers for almost 10 years now: 66, 80 and 120 characters each. None of them are hard limits for me. But they do help guide my eye. Most lines fit under 66. A lot more than 50%, even
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by jrimbault 1y ago
Yep, I looked it up a few hours after, different branches in the evolution of ML. Still weird to dismiss AlphaZero as just "playing games".
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by jrimbault 1y ago
> This meant that while Google was playing games, OpenAI was able to seize the opportunity of a lifetime. What you train on matters. Very weird reasoning. Without AlphaGo, AlphaZero, there's probably no GPT ? Each were a stepping st
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by jrimbault 1y ago
Wild to learn this is the same company selling MSG (mono sodium glutamate) and build up film - https://www.ajinomoto.com/innovation/our_innovation/buildupf... - https://www.ajinomoto.com/brands&#x2
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by jrimbault 1y ago
I meant "empty" of actual information. I'll guess there'll be more on the date. But for now that's just weird and suspect, trying to raise hype for a security related announcement ? weird and suspect
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by jrimbault 1y ago
Nothing to talk about, empty big black scary page.

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