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by lucraft 9mo ago
Terrific thing! The FAQ should state explicitly that patron money will only be used for preservation, not put into GOG general revenue, if that is indeed true.
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by lucraft 9mo ago
It's not a wildly false dichotomy. It's hyperbolic, sure, but the broad point that there are things that parents find hard to parent for reasons, and society should think about helping them out, is 100% true.
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by lucraft 9mo ago
It's a coordination problem. I can "parent" my kids by banning them from social media sure, but if the other parents don't also do that, then I just made my kid a social outcast. As it is we have to allow our eldest a lo
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by lucraft 9mo ago
The basic mechanics look like very standard type of puzzle mechanics (e.g. Sokoban) that have been in many games over decades.
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by lucraft 9mo ago
I'm British and I have sometimes chosen Canadian English as my OS language so that it will not constantly try to correct my usage of z in words like this.
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by lucraft 9mo ago
It's way easier to remember and program When I was playing The Farmer Was Replaced and needed to implement sorting, I just wrote a bubble sort. Worked first time.
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by lucraft 11mo ago
Slate Star Codex's review is always worth a re-read https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/02/book-review-on-the-roa...
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by lucraft 1y ago
Right - don’t make subagents for the different roles, make them to manage context for token heavy tasks. A backend developer subagent is going to do the job ok, but then the supervisor agent will be missing useful context about what’s been
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by lucraft 1y ago
Right - for me each year of university (in UK) was a year of learning with exams at the end, that was it, and it was normal.
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by lucraft 1y ago
To an extent I think would be surprising to anyone who hasn’t done interviews, all developer CVs below about Staff level are the same . Everyone’s architected a system, handled communication with stakeholders, contributed to technical dire
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by lucraft 1y ago
I tried the demo, fingerprint.com, in: - Safari - Safari private mode - Chrome private mode and it was not able to identify me across those. I then tried - Chrome (normal, non-private mode) and it did identify that as a re
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by lucraft 1y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but what is the C# compiler and runtime that you use? I used to be up to date with .NET and Mono and stuff but I'm 10 years out of date
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by lucraft 1y ago
Can I ask a dumb question - how is Atomic set operation implemented internally if not by grabbing a lock?
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by lucraft 1y ago
As always when there's a new trend it refuses me. I showed it a picture of a street in Rome from our last holiday and the thinking traces show it was bang on but halfway through the output it just deletes it all and says it's agai
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by lucraft 1y ago
He also wrote a story about how AI will create a non-literate society, because we'll all just talk to the computers whenever we need anything.
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by lucraft 1y ago
A big win, but not so stable - IIRC within a few years of this referendum the polls had swung back to about 2/3 against membership of the EC, where it remained for a long time.
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by lucraft 2y ago
Plural AI | www.plural.ai | Senior developer | Remote (UK) Plural creates AI workflow tools for investment banking and private equity analysts to supercharge their productivity and their ability to derive insights on their deals and data. W
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by lucraft 2y ago
Am I right that this article nowhere compares against the current red or even has anything with the current red in it, anywhere? Is that a policy choice there? They don't want to.. not be future looking or something? I don't reall
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by lucraft 2y ago
It's interesting though - I'm not sure why they submitted a police report... they weren't robbed, Apple was.
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by lucraft 2y ago
> Removing nodes by adding a concept of implicit branches via "unless" clauses within a node doesn't necessarily make the system any easier to understand at a glance. The original diagram does this too - it has an "A
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by lucraft 2y ago
How does it generate voice when it's based on a text based model? I read the readme but afraid I didn't understand
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by lucraft 2y ago
Thanks... I haven't thought about it in a long time, as it was difficult, but looking back it seems quite positive. Three things: 1. Full disclosure at that time in my life I was rather bad at motivating myself to work independently fo
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by lucraft 2y ago
> "You are formally invited to A WAKE for THE RESEARCH SCIENCE CAREER of FRANCES HOCUTT FRIDAY from 7 PM to MIDNIGHT" When I quit my PhD I had an Ungraduation Party! My wife made a cake and everyone sang Happy Ungraduation To Y
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by lucraft 2y ago
More like AssholeHub. But not so rude.
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by lucraft 2y ago
Ahh takes me back! In 2009 I wrote a lib to auto-generate Ruby bindings for Vala code. It gave a very pleasant API to create native extensions for Ruby, if you were happy using glib. https://github.com/danlucraft/valar
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by lucraft 3y ago
One reason was to increase investment. In water's case the infrastructure had been under-invested in under public ownership for decades, due to it always being a low priority from a political point of view. The regulatory structure of
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by lucraft 3y ago
I've been an Evernote user since 2008 and a paying one for most of that. The other week I tried to go through some old notes. Half of them wouldn't load. Looking to leave now.
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by lucraft 3y ago
On the main ChatGPT website there's already an option in settings to disallow use of anything you say in chat for training.
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by lucraft 4y ago
Tl;dr someone put “futuristic skyscrapers” into Midjourney
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by lucraft 4y ago
At the time I calculated that if all the money spent on the 2012 Olympics (supposedly to inspire a nation's children to love sport) was instead given as endowments, then every single secondary school in England would receive something

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