jwmcq

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by jwmcq 1y ago
I wonder if this could be updated to use OpenRouter in a similar way to Emigo[1] was aiming to do. (I use the past tense, because Emigo has not been updated in a quarter of a year, which seems as if it may as well be decades in the timeline
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by jwmcq 1y ago
Looking at other examples in sci-fi, perhaps to stop my body from pressing its off-switch?
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by jwmcq 1y ago
If we're still calling Guile a Scheme (I'm out of the loop) then I don't know, it gets really bloody close. Not so much in image-based development (that I've usually found less good than a decent packaging system because
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by jwmcq 1y ago
Probably read the rest? I did not see Jensen's name on any of the patents that this key engineer discusses the detail and rationale of, and I feel that those names are listed fairly deliberately.
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by jwmcq 1y ago
Growing up to Scottish and Irish Catholics in England, I remember talking to a bunch of Ulster protestants as a teenager when the topic turned to religion - I said "Well, I was raised Catholic but I'm not really a believer of any
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by jwmcq 2y ago
> "the solution to bad speech is more speech" Yes, but when enough people who otherwise have little actual power get together to drown out "bad speech" with "more speech" it gets called 'cancel culture
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by jwmcq 2y ago
There's a lot of it about, mate. The other day I had an American tell me with a straight face that we can get jail time for flying a Union Flag here in Blighty - I guess there's a big industry for convincing people that everywhere
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by jwmcq 2y ago
If "I think we need to massively curtail people's liberty in order to remove our enemies and establish a white national ethnostate" vs "we need to stop those guys" is your idea of "ape tribalism" then I&#x
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by jwmcq 2y ago
This caught me out when I was a teenager. Luckily, there was a chap in the Museum of Computing who was spending his Sunday working on the Colossus, and he was happy to let me in and show me around! I'll never forget that kindness, it w
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by jwmcq 2y ago
I am also getting this in Firefox on Linux. Don't think I've ever seen this particular failure mode before!
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by jwmcq 2y ago
Okay, I'll give you that. Let me rephrase: Industry-led regulation can work, in industries that won't kill anyone or even realistically lose anyone a bunch of money for non-compliance, if-and-only-if government regulation exists
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by jwmcq 2y ago
Industry-led regulation has never worked in the entire history of the world.
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by jwmcq 2y ago
Not as far as I can tell. You're right that China does seem to be in a fairly unique position to actually do this though - it is interesting to consider what would happen if they did. Looking at recent engineering failures at Boeing, T
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by jwmcq 2y ago
Unless that smell is oil. Or gasoline. Or burning rubber. Or petrichor. Or just plain old smoke. Or the touch is the feeling of road surface changing, or the steering wheel getting harder to turn / having no effect at all, or the rush
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by jwmcq 3y ago
Really? I think YAML perfectly fills the niche of a config format that is both hard for humans to write, and difficult for machines to read.
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by jwmcq 3y ago
And then you realise that this also applies to pretty much every industry and its workers (hooray for lobbying!) and then you get sad.
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by jwmcq 3y ago
I am disappointed that the "Irish goodbye" didn't happen at around number 82 with no items following it.
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by jwmcq 3y ago
There's a relevant XKCD, of course https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by jwmcq 3y ago
I feel you've missed my point - 'ergonomics' literally means 'efficiency and comfort', not 'future maintainability'. Regex does comfort. AWK does it. If you need to do a specific thing right now , and you
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by jwmcq 3y ago
> How does search quality really change my life? Ask this to someone who remembers when Google first appeared. I am not a Kagi user, but am seriously considering it after a number of months having to dig through at least 8 results of pay
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by jwmcq 3y ago
Odd choice of words. I'd say that perl, awk, regex etc are great ergonomic tools - if anything too ergonomic. The main problem with them - and the probable source of their bad reputations - is that the ease and comfort (the 'erg
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by jwmcq 3y ago
This would have taken you less time to Google that than it did to type the question in this public forum (the answer is very obviously 'yes', by the way). "virtue signalling" indeed.
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by jwmcq 3y ago
Surprisingly there has not been a rush to go back and update multiple decades' worth of games to use newer rendering APIs.
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by jwmcq 3y ago
I think I've seen "Madeleine Moment" most often in English.
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by jwmcq 3y ago
I get this. I've been programming Python (mostly) for the last few years, and it's honestly great for getting things done in places where most of what we're asked to do boils down to sticking lego bricks together. However, I&
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by jwmcq 3y ago
I've only used Forth briefly, but one of the things I loved about it is that it almost has the opposite of a type system - everything is just 'memory' - but you just build words around that and barely even notice. I've s
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by jwmcq 3y ago
It's never even occurred to me not to do this. I wonder if that's just because I grew up on the internet before geolocation methods were widespread/good.
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by jwmcq 3y ago
I think that signal processing is really only 'FPGA territory' because most people who need to do custom signal processing don't also have access to large scale chip design and fabrication capacity. For Apple, it could just b
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by jwmcq 3y ago
Hey, I'd even settle for dodgy software if the hardware was open source. Calling this a "Fully Open-Source Smartphone" is just incredibly misleading.
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by jwmcq 3y ago
Not in the one being discussed in the article. I'm not an American myself, but I think the context is clear here.

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