mackeye

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by mackeye 3d ago
the u.s. and israel are actively using AI for weapons, auto-targeting, surveillance, research. why not mention them?
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by mackeye 1mo ago
> except when you ask US/western models what happened at Tiananmen Square they'll give you an answer instead of being blocked by an authoritarian government. do you think the average american could estimate the order of magnitu
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by mackeye 2mo ago
i love that geeksforgeeks is the website everyone mentions wanting to block :D
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by mackeye 3mo ago
for advanced undergrads, the university of michigan (i'm speaking from my own experience here) has a course progression of (1) programming languages for 1st year grad students, (2) compilers for undergraduates, (3) compiler optimizatio
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by mackeye 3mo ago
it has the nicest calculator syntax (imho) among the tools i've tried (python/julia/array langs/matlab/etc...) with extensive docs for each function and a nice notebook interface, but i've never written a progr
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by mackeye 3mo ago
awesome article! i appreciated the alternatives and misc. workarounds to OT/unicode typesetting toward the end, very helpful :D (go blue!)
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by mackeye 4mo ago
this is good to know :) my use for janet hasn't involved much processing of external data but i'll keep bb in mind when the use case arises. thank you for the information!
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by mackeye 4mo ago
"we" didn't pass them --- i don't think changing the severity of law enforcement alone can achieve what i wish for in society, but the existence of many laws (and severity of their punishment) i disagree with and thus do
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by mackeye 4mo ago
janet has replaced sh, python, awk, etc. for me, for system scripts over a certain length! it has a very fast startup time (on my system, 1.4ms via hyperfine vs. 1ms for dash) for scripts (not compiled executables), and its sh-dsl module al
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by mackeye 4mo ago
i've tried not to
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by mackeye 4mo ago
god help us if we have to choose between the two );
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by mackeye 4mo ago
i do photo restoration as part of my research (bizarre place to be for a math undergrad), so i do think AI is a lifesaver for very small adjustments that would be tedious or subpar otherwise. i just disagree that its creative output is of v
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by mackeye 4mo ago
you would watch a movie generated with the sterility of an LLM?
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by mackeye 4mo ago
:D https://github.com/UnsafeLabs/Bounty-Hunters
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by mackeye 4mo ago
not much to add but this was an excellent read :D
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by mackeye 5mo ago
umich currently has a course like this (but it's a bit of a blowoff)
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by mackeye 5mo ago
the original kakoune is just cli; the binary has a json ui client option to allow communication with the kakoune server, with the intent of any gui or alternative client being separated from the kak binary/repo. that being said, this s
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by mackeye 5mo ago
just got my stickers from there yesterday! :-) i wish my less cs-oriented friends could see how cool i think the sdf is, lol; and, that some kind of "small-web" system, complete with the self-expression the sdf offers via web-host
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by mackeye 5mo ago
adding a zero to the left of a binary integer doesn't double it
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by mackeye 7mo ago
i don't entirely disagree, but > the cheapest usable tier of Claude Code is $100/mo is, imo, false. cc pro, $20 per month, gets you a lot of sonnet usage, and code review with opus (which i find very valuable, even as someone w
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by mackeye 7mo ago
western liberal democracies tend to use "autocratic" as an epithet (though, i guess, there are fewer countries that marker is used against for which it's false now than ~50 years ago). for the first sentence, "the opposi
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by mackeye 7mo ago
what would you say makes a UI look as if it's for a computer (genuine)? aside from purely(!) cosmetic things, like the skin on the windows 11 taskbar vs. 10. i think to windows <= xp, or tiling window managers (bar hyprland, probabl
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by mackeye 7mo ago
a readable version seems to have just been added! https://github.com/datavorous/sameshi/tree/master/readable
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by mackeye 7mo ago
95% of the commenters on this post own no private property.
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by mackeye 8mo ago
some would say their money is our money via the ltv :-)
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by mackeye 8mo ago
many schools (like mine) don't teach unique pointers in the pure "programming" class sequence, but offer a primer in advanced classes where c++ happens to be used, with the intent to teach manual memory management for a clear
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by mackeye 8mo ago
https://makki.moe
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by mackeye 8mo ago
a member of the c++ committee (herb sutter) is writing an compiler for an alternative c++ syntax [0], to c++, with the intent to restrict some semantics of the language for less UB, surprises, etc. i think less implementation-defined behavi
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by mackeye 9mo ago
if a handwritten letter is a "faithful image," then say a typed letter or email is a simulacra, with little original today. an AI letter is a step below, wherein the words have utterly no meaning, and the gesture of bothering to s
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by mackeye 9mo ago
(i worked a _little bit_ on dwl) each wlroots upgrade is a pretty small diff on the dwl source. the annoying part is, as dwl is configured with patches, every patch author has to update their patch to the new 0.x, as dwl is quite minimal, a

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