marcianx

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by marcianx 4d ago
It's a simplification to help people understand, but this is in the spirit of how things work because the value in the economy is not the money, but the goods and services that get created in the economy as a consequence of it. Most co
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by marcianx 7d ago
What makes you believe the organs are AI generated? It says it's using the "BodyParts3D 4.0, an adult male reference anatomy", and the information page for it [1] says nothing about it being AI generated. [1]: https:/&#
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by marcianx 7d ago
Love seeing the proportions and configurations, on my phone, no less! I removed the arteries and veins to more easily click the on the organs, and the liver vanished! It seems to be classified under the vein system, whereas I'd more cl
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by marcianx 12d ago
I'm genuinely curious: I read through the article and the narrative felt deliberate and didn't trigger my AI-radar. What made you think it was AI written?
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by marcianx 16d ago
The passage has a couple commas where it shouldn't and doesn't have some commas where it should just for justification. So it's trading one type of particularity for another, and I favor grammar more. :)
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by marcianx 25d ago
I agree about the existence of people who really just aimed for the grades (sometimes dubiously) to unlock a career. There were also enthusiastic folks with whom I learned a lot. While I'm an interested self learner, I significantly be
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by marcianx 2mo ago
It's right there under "Stats": > 11 days (May 3 → merged May 14) · 6,778 commits > Pre-merge, this took 5.9 billion uncached input tokens, 690 million output tokens, and 72 billion cached input token reads — around $16
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by marcianx 3mo ago
Building it out and maintaining it isn't free. And per a friend who's been selling consumer solar installations for years in the North East and gotten disillusioned: the equipment maintenance, repairability, and replacement story
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by marcianx 7mo ago
I do type Z with little finger, etc, because that's how the typing software I used long, long time ago taught it. But I don't accommodate by messing up my wrists, which are still in a natural position. My fingers just adapted to t
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by marcianx 8mo ago
I was confused by this at first since `&T` clearly allows aliasing (which is what C's `restrict` is about). But I realize that Steve meant just the optimization opportunity: you can be guaranteed that (in the absence of UB), the da
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by marcianx 8mo ago
So, I'm not pretending that certain kinds of jobs aren't going to be obsoleted. Lots of responsibilities went by the wayside as a lot of things were automated with technology and algorithms - I mean, this is not just an AI thing.
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by marcianx 8mo ago
I think it makes some sense to allow leeway for intelligent "signal processing" using AI (separating out individual tracks, clean-up, etc) vs generating new content with AI. Similarly, say, for video editors, using AI to more inte
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by marcianx 9mo ago
Can people register a subdomain of fl.us willy-nilly though? Isn't the root domain owned by the state?
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by marcianx 9mo ago
If the past is any indication, it's more likely that it'd get reset to "Office One".
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by marcianx 10mo ago
Agreed about POP Shop being slow. I recently learned that they were working on its replacement: "COSMIC store" (written in Rust + Iced), and it's super-fast. You can try it with `sudo apt install cosmic-store`.
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Typst's Math Mode Problem(laurmaedje.github.io)
124 points by marcianx 11mo ago|54 comments
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by marcianx 11mo ago
When you have a strong pointer, you already have a positive ref count. Only once the strong pointer is destructed, is the reference count decremented.
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by marcianx 11mo ago
Reference counted pointers can deference an object (via a strong pointer) without checking the reference count. The reference count is accessed only on operations like clone, destruction, and such. That being said, access via a weak pointer
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by marcianx 1y ago
And also the issue with checked exceptions is that one can't be generic over the checked exception, at least in Java. So it's impossible to write out a universally useful function type that's strictly typed on the error. This
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by marcianx 1y ago
There are further bugs: `for path in paths` should be `for (const path of paths)` JS will immediately error on the lack of parens, but the `in` vs `of` iterates over indexes, not values, and those indexes are unfortunately converted to stri
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by marcianx 1y ago
I've found this to be a common Americanism, but it's still incorrect, I believe. When I moved to the US in my teens, I was surprised at the sheer disregard of English grammar rules in common vernacular here, to the point that some
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by marcianx 1y ago
Major subsidiaries within a large company can and do have separate CEOs. For example, YouTube also has a separate CEO (previously Susan Wojcicki, and now Neal Mohan) under Sundar Pichai.
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by marcianx 1y ago
To make sure I understand correctly: did you want to read a `String` and have lots of references to slices within the same string without having to deal with lifetimes? If so, would another variant of `Rc<str>` which supports substrin
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by marcianx 1y ago
To add to it, I crossed the border into the US via train recently, and for the first time (I've done this trip many, many times) they took my photo on their cell phone after scanning my paperwork, as they did with everyone else. So the
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by marcianx 1y ago
A less unflattering interpretation might be that once they saw the level of skill required to contribute to a field, they switched to a field that they could more meaningfully contribute to.
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by marcianx 2y ago
So, fun fact from calculus (though you can easily prove this with basic algebra as I do below): - You want to compare two products: in this case 6x9 and 7x8. - And in each product, if you add the two numbers together, you get the same resul
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by marcianx 2y ago
I immediately see the logic in this API. When slicing, I look at indexes as being between elements or at the start (0) or end (length). This gives an in-bounds starting index between 0 and length, inclusive. So if the starting index is in b
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by marcianx 2y ago
How would you impose these limits on wealth? Where would the extra money go? To the government? If so, would you be okay with the government saying that _all_ future earnings if yours went straight to them because you have too much money al
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by marcianx 2y ago
Reminds me of Max Shulman's advice to aspiring authors: "Marry money"
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by marcianx 3y ago
TBH, I think Valve is doing pretty well with both. Steam has now long resulted in a renaissance for indie game marketing and access, and the Steam Deck is incredibly well designed for on-the-go usability.

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