kubanczyk

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by kubanczyk 2mo ago
> Is there a way now to define a slice-based type that enforces strict typing of its index Nope, no way to do that. I wonder about ergonomics. I can imagine "academic" usage, but I shudder at the perspective of the impact on a
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by kubanczyk 2mo ago
> I don't think any of the new additions to the library have seriously made the learning curve more difficult. Ah, so you haven't looked into json/v2 yet.
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by kubanczyk 2mo ago
My anecdata is that both Duolingo and LLMs are useful in learning. Yes, you have to put in the work. Seeing the usual HN hate on Duolingo specifically, I wonder whether it's blind. I might have missed scientific research about it causi
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by kubanczyk 2mo ago
We want them to better predict consequences of their outputs.
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by kubanczyk 2mo ago
ááattsistaawa means "rabbit, hare" for those who prefer real words (language of Blackfoot Indians, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A1%C3%A1attsistaa- )
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by kubanczyk 2mo ago
> At least in this configuration ads are separate from answers. As a frog would say: at least the heat is separate from water, for now.
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by kubanczyk 2mo ago
Nothing in this list implies "post-modernist", and post-marxism does not imply "marxist".
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by kubanczyk 2mo ago
On Linux. Look for `NoDefaultCurrentDirectoryInExePath` if you want to learn about Windows.
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by kubanczyk 3mo ago
> I'm pretty nuclear I'm atomic, FWIW. > how having nuclear power prevents vulnerability to direct attack? OP alluded to a well-known bonus capability of nuclear power plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by kubanczyk 3mo ago
> you can obviously just decide who has sex with your wife That's your fantasies, not author's. He merely implied that one can obviously decide whom to allow to fuck one's wife. He hasn't implied that wife's cons
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by kubanczyk 4mo ago
I've checked RFC 1738 and it's not the case. The only standard for "+" is: > (RFC 1866) specifies that space characters should be encoded as `+` in application/x-www-form-urlencoded content-type key-value pairs
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by kubanczyk 4mo ago
Sludge metal, where else...
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by kubanczyk 4mo ago
I see Tiamat at Goth Metal.
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by kubanczyk 4mo ago
Looking around at evidence, only the ones with somewhat cute eyes can qualify for empathy. Bad luck if someone is a grass or an amoeba, but machines will be just fine. Philosophers may squint at the suffering-in-itself long and hard, but I
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by kubanczyk 5mo ago
> An LLM containing the information doesn’t take away from the book being available at the library. What if there are less libraries? Will LLMs lead to more or less libraries?
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by kubanczyk 5mo ago
> this is trivial to prove Please don't forget to state the axioms before building the proof.
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by kubanczyk 5mo ago
Sure. Historically, at times people had free trade. At times we had no monopolies at all. At times there were really few laws. We had democracy and free speech and more. Various components of "The West" had been tried before. All
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by kubanczyk 5mo ago
Hmm, sounds close to "shut up and mind your own business because sure I know better" so I'm keen to upvote it.
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by kubanczyk 5mo ago
> The reasoning behind Gentan was that a landless peasantry was more likely to revolt. So, it was an anti-revolutionary policy. Which at that time of history worked as well as an anti-communist policy. > Unsurprisingly the Soviet Unio
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by kubanczyk 6mo ago
> breaking capitalism It seems non sequitur. This hypothetical scenario sounds like entrenching capitalism, because it would concentrate capital even more. It would probably weaken democracy and weaken free market (esp. the job market)
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by kubanczyk 6mo ago
> The Settler unit was a big eared bat You validate my feelings. I always knew that at heart.
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by kubanczyk 6mo ago
> My gut says something simple is missing that makes all of the difference. We have too much code - languages to program machines. We need a new different language now. A plan.md, written in what... legalese English? Really? Am I back in
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by kubanczyk 6mo ago
> Ads as a concept are not evil. Sticking a piece of steel between two wooden planks is not inherently evil. Until we declare it to be unethical in some settings, and codify a law against "breaking and entering". Same with ads.
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by kubanczyk 6mo ago
You know what else strongly disincentivized legitimate contributions from people? Having your code snatched and its copyright disregarded, to the benefit of some rando LLM vendor. People can just press "pause" and wait until they
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by kubanczyk 6mo ago
There is no meaningful solution to this, besides just this one exception.
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by kubanczyk 6mo ago
> if something looks like crud, it probably is crud Yes, technically, but you've probably meant cruft here.
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by kubanczyk 6mo ago
The first powered aircraft fatality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hermann_W%C3%B6lfert and his mechanic Robert Knabe, 1897
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by kubanczyk 6mo ago
Also there's Hyrox, newer and lighter than Crossfit.
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by kubanczyk 6mo ago
> do you enjoy the "micro" of getting bits of code to work and fit together neatly, or the "macro" of building systems that work? These are not toys. I want to make money. The customers want feature after feature, in
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by kubanczyk 7mo ago
> RTFA Sigh. Is there any LLM solution for HN reader to filter out all top-level commenters that hadn't RTFA? I don't need the (micro-)shitstorms that these people spawn, even if the general HN algo scores these as "intere

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