lalaithion

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by lalaithion 2mo ago
What do you mean the provenance? It was published on livejournal in 2012, that’s the provenance.
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by lalaithion 2mo ago
Yes they have GPUs.
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by lalaithion 3mo ago
What about virtual events between participants in different time zones? Whose do you keep stable if one has their clock moved under them?
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by lalaithion 8mo ago
System.Object is a type of all objects, NOT a type of all types. That is, all objects are System.Object. If one has a class Foo, then every object of type Foo is also of type System.Object. But what is the type of Foo itself? Not of an inst
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by lalaithion 9mo ago
This post mixes up “easy for compilers and assemblers to transform and easy for cpus to execute” with “easy for LLMs to understand” and assumes that anything in the first category must also be in the second category since they’re both compu
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by lalaithion 10mo ago
Yes; because - is on the keyboard and — isn't. (Don't tell me how to type —, I know how, but despite that it is the reason, which is what the parent comment asks about.)
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by lalaithion 10mo ago
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by lalaithion 11mo ago
The US-UK Mutual Legal Assistance treaty imposes obligations on Ofcom which they have not met, 4chan claims: “None of these actions constitutes valid service under the US-UK Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, United States law or any other pro
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by lalaithion 1y ago
Protocol buffers suck but so does everything else. Name another serialization declaration format that both (a) defines which changes can be make backwards-compatibly, and (b) has a linter that enforces backwards compatible changes. Just wit
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by lalaithion 1y ago
They didn’t account for training. From the paper: > LLM training & data storage: This study specifically considers the inference and serving energy consumption of an Al prompt. We leave the measurement of Al model training to future
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by lalaithion 1y ago
A couple nits, since we're already going above and beyond the normal amount of nitpicking: 1. In Kenji's article on how to cut an onion, he shows a picture after doing the horizontal cuts; he did five of them, not just one or two.
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by lalaithion 1y ago
What if your program depends on library a1.0 and library b1.0, and library a1.0 depends on c2.1 and library b1.0 depends on c2.3? Which one do you install in your executable? Choosing one randomly might break the other library. Installing b
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by lalaithion 1y ago
Yeah but GET doesn’t allow requests to have bodies (yeah, I know, technically you can but it’s not very useful), and this is a legitimate issue preventing its use in complex APIs.
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by lalaithion 1y ago
How is this related to the linked article? Assemblers won’t delete your code for treating a register with a float in it like an integer.
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by lalaithion 1y ago
It’s a pretty bad system since it takes O(n^2) time to produce n integers but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Haskell avoids the extra cost by immutable-self-reference instead of creating a new generator each time.
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by lalaithion 1y ago
The first item yielded from ints() is 1. For the second item, we grab the first item from ints(), and then apply the map operation, and 1+1 is 2. For the third item, we grab the second item from ints(), and then apply the map operation, and
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by lalaithion 1y ago
The author says “any lowercase character” but they mean “any character between the character ‘a’ and the character ‘z’”, which happens to correspond to the lower case letters in English but doesn’t include ü, õ, ø, etc.
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by lalaithion 1y ago
The author says “any lowercase character” but they mean “any character between the character ‘a’ and the character ‘z’”, which happens to correspond to the lower case letters in English but doesn’t include ü, õ, ø, etc.
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by lalaithion 1y ago
I think I understand what the author is trying to get at, and if I’m right then I agree with them, but this seems purposefully written in a style that inhibits understanding by the exact group it purports to be addressing.
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by lalaithion 1y ago
One of the ways in which supply is artificially restricted is that getting planning permission is difficult, so you’re not actually disagreeing with OP
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by lalaithion 1y ago
Most trans people have undergone gender affirming medical care. A trans man who has had a hysterectomy and is on testosterone will have a very different medical baseline than a cis woman. A trans woman who has had an orchiectomy and is on e
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by lalaithion 1y ago
How do you think unions start? Yes, an entire workplace can just up and decide some day to unionize but more often unions start as non-bargaining unions and then at some point get enough support to bargain with the companies.
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by lalaithion 2y ago
I once worked with a 10x engineer who I could hand new backend APIs to and have a brand new ui component that supported the behavior in less than a day, consistently. I have worked with 10x engineers who spend hours on calls walking junior
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by lalaithion 2y ago
You can transform a function `f: (Rng, args...) -> A` into a function `f: (args...) -> Set<A>` with very little machinery. Some programming languages allow writing functions that are _generic_ over whether they're random or
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by lalaithion 2y ago
A deterministic program follows a single path of execution, always producing the same result. A nondeterministic_1 program follows a single path of execution, but at certain points, it randomly chooses how to proceed, therefore producing di
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by lalaithion 2y ago
It's not "extending" anything, that's the original definition of emotional labor. It's been extended to refer to around-the-house maintenance > What's the alternative? A customer service job where you can be
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by lalaithion 2y ago
The German umlaut also comes from small e superscripts over A, O, and U, so while the sentence is technically wrong I do think it’s fair to identify the Swedish Ä and German Ä as the same, conceptually.
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by lalaithion 2y ago
English isn’t set by a standards body; it’s designed by all of our little choices. And I think English is enhanced by the noble diaeresis, and diminished without it, so I will continue to write reëlect, reëvaluate, and coöperate. And maybe
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by lalaithion 2y ago
There’s two hard problems in computer science: cacsynchronizing shared access to the same resource.he invalidation, and
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by lalaithion 2y ago
Good to know! Thanks for the tip.

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