larsrc

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by larsrc 2y ago
I've been considering setting up "ConfuseAIpedia" in a similar manner using sentence templates and a large set of filler words. Obviously with a warning for humans. I would set it up with an appropriate robots.txt blocking cr
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by larsrc 2y ago
How do these much smaller cores compare in computing power to the bigger ones? They seem to implicitly claim that a core is a core is a core, but surely one gets something extra out of the much bigger one?
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by larsrc 2y ago
Cool to see the whole process behind it. Some sneaky tricks there, and much knowledge. Unfortunately, I find the picture doesn't show the tidally-lockedness very well. If it wasn't for the title, I would never have noticed. The ha
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by larsrc 2y ago
Oh, and there's massive use of aspect-oriented programming, the least local paradigm ever!
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by larsrc 2y ago
> If someone feels compelled to read every function either the functions are poor abstractions or the reader has trust issues, which may be warranted. Or it's open source and the authors were very much into Use The Source, Luke!
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by larsrc 2y ago
Some people are proud of making complex code. And too many people admire those who write complex code.
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by larsrc 2y ago
Comments should describe what the type system can't. Connect, pitfalls, workarounds for bugs in other code, etc.
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by larsrc 2y ago
But knowing what Brian was considering at the time is useful, both due avoiding redoing that and for realising that some constraints may have been lifted.
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by larsrc 2y ago
Even more infuriating is when the more expensive version is the same object but with extra unnecessary features added via software, to the detriment of usability.
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by larsrc 2y ago
And here I thought here would take about how new models come out so frequently that any information about long-term quality is long obsolete.
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by larsrc 2y ago
I recently found that store-brand peanut M&M's (my favourite) were just as good, half the price, and fair-trade! Win-win! When I joined my current job, I used M&M's as reward when learning the names and faces of the people
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by larsrc 2y ago
+1! You can't travel very much, you can't go hiking or biking in places without cell coverage, your whatever thing you are busy with gets interrupted, you can get woken up in the middle of the night, etc etc. That deserves some co
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by larsrc 2y ago
Follow best practices unless you can give a reason not to. "Best practice" is a shorthand for a lot of accumulated knowledge that you don't want to go over again every time. Also following BP makes the code more consistent an
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by larsrc 2y ago
It's a bad user experience if you have to keep checking for hidden extra costs.
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by larsrc 2y ago
While I don't like Amazon one but, I appreciate that you don't go into the Evil Big Tech trope. Things at that scale are indeed complicated and hard to coordinate. That said: fuck, that's expensive and poorly explained! Not d
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by larsrc 2y ago
Wow, I totally missed that. Sorry.
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by larsrc 2y ago
Moving software "backwards" is hard, but not impossible. There are ways to structure both data and code that make it easier. A change being "rollback-safe" can be an important question in designs and code reviews.
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by larsrc 2y ago
I've been using wooden spatulas on my non-stick pans for years without any issues. Maybe only cheap non-sticks have trouble with them?
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by larsrc 2y ago
And that's why you should pour boiling water over any implement that has been in contact with raw meat.
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by larsrc 2y ago
And that even when using plenty of fat, a sticky pan can be a bother to clean.
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by larsrc 2y ago
TLA Will always mean Three Letter Acronym in my book. It took many link hops to find an actual definition, I finally found it in Leslie's first paper on the subject. PEYA, people! Please Explain Your Acronyms!
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by larsrc 2y ago
I've long thought that that is one of the main functions of corporations. There's a reason they're called limited liability. The fact that you can conjure up new companies at a whim makes it easy to shuffle responsibility int
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by larsrc 2y ago
"[docs] will take an example and do something with it to demonstrate an outcome." No. Good docs will explain the context and choices made and trade-offs and risks and relations etc. All the things you can't read from the code
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by larsrc 2y ago
Is not Z3?
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by larsrc 2y ago
Interesting read. How much speedup did you get in total? Steps of improvements don't always add up directly.
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by larsrc 2y ago
Judging from the releases page on Github, Typst has been in the public since May 2023. You can hardly expect it to catch up with decades of LaTeX packages in that time.
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by larsrc 2y ago
This! It's the basis for fruitful negotiations to understand what the other person needs (which is not always what they say at first). Sometimes you can give them something that's cheap for you but valuable for them or vice versa.
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by larsrc 2y ago
I like to hear from the actual traffic planners. Enough laymen rant about why roads are made the way they are, but there are usually considerations they don't know. I'm very curious what kinds of systems get used for planning and
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by larsrc 2y ago
We fools here in Germany sometimes _pay_ to get rid of excess electricity when it's very sunny and windy. How about having some rock crushing machines that instead use that cheap electricity to make more sand? Thanks for the puns, too.
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by larsrc 2y ago
Just came here to say that I hate that st ligature. I'm a fan of ligatures in general, but I find that one harder to read.

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