mietek

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by mietek 8d ago
B1 is exactly 1 meter tall.
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by mietek 12d ago
> most of the messages are just gibberish Encrypted data should be indistinguishable from gibberish. Reality is catching up to science-fiction. In "Person of Interest", the Machine circumvented the limitation of having its me
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by mietek 12d ago
There is a lot of space in, you know, space, for people who live long enough to travel.
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by mietek 12d ago
Roughly, yes. See B. Werner (1997) “Sets in types, types in sets”.
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by mietek 22d ago
If only you had bothered to check the settings, you would have found the option to keep your music files where they are when adding to the iTunes library. It's been there all along, and it's still there in SoundJam's current
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by mietek 1mo ago
Keep telling yourself that.
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by mietek 2mo ago
> Jensen Huang disagrees and has said AI is a marathon. Of course he'd say that; he wants to keep his shovels flying off the shelves.
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by mietek 2mo ago
> Have a strong anti-counterfeit strategy. Don’t overlook this. Would like to see this highly non-obvious point expanded upon.
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by mietek 3mo ago
Indeed, it's annoying that there doesn't seem to be an Apple-approved method for customizing the outer display.
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by mietek 3mo ago
I found the ability to merge unrelated repositories very useful when collecting various bits of work I did separately and combining it into a single library.
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by mietek 3mo ago
My number one request: let me block specific sites from my search results.
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by mietek 4mo ago
I built an example project showing how to build shared libraries in Haskell, in 2019. https://github.com/mietek/haskell-so-example
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by mietek 6mo ago
If they're using a LLM to make those decisions, then they're fundamentally unable to provide the reasons for those decisions, because of how LLMs work.
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by mietek 6mo ago
> ...an AI model will receive the applications, read them, auto-reply to irrelevant ones... You're probably breaking EU law by building this nightmare. https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/86/
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by mietek 6mo ago
No.
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by mietek 6mo ago
FYI, the very recently released Marathon with the BattleEye rootkit works fine on a maximally trimmed down Windows 10 LTSC, which is what I'm running on my PC (personal console).
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by mietek 6mo ago
Some people should definitely be getting Repetitive Strain Injury from all the hyping up of LLMs.
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by mietek 6mo ago
Unfortunately.
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by mietek 7mo ago
Sign me up!
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by mietek 7mo ago
Why don't you try paying your bills with passion and report back.
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by mietek 7mo ago
Join us in ##dependent on Libera IRC. We continue to talk about this stuff all the time, with a focus on Martin-Löf intuitionistic type theory.
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by mietek 7mo ago
The preposterously long rock-paper-scissors scene had me laughing tears.
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by mietek 8mo ago
I would also like to obtain this information that clearly doesn't exist. Please reply to my comment to prove me wrong.
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by mietek 8mo ago
So, is Outer Wilds a RPG or a platformer?
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by mietek 10mo ago
My original HomePod has recently regressed in its ability to play songs. It can no longer play one song after another without glitching and repeating a little bit of the previous song. It boggles my mind.
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by mietek 10mo ago
Thank you for writing down this memory. It would fit perfectly on https://folklore.org but unfortunately it seems that the site is no longer accepting new memories.
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by mietek 10mo ago
Threads and locks are fundamentally the wrong abstraction for most scenarios. This is explained in complementary ways in two of the finest technical books ever written, Joe Armstrong's "Programming Erlang" and Simon Marlow&#
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by mietek 10mo ago
Whoever is downvoting you for speaking the truth should go stand in a corner. Or try maining BeOS for a while, to experience first-hand what happens when application programmers are forced to use threads and locks.
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by mietek 10mo ago
1. Go to the App Shortcuts subsection of the Shortcuts section of the Keyboard preferences panel in System Preferences. 2. Add an arbitrary keyboard shortcut (perhaps ⌥⌘N) for the "New Finder Window" Finder menu command. 3. Add yo
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by mietek 10mo ago
Some things have been tried; some things continue to be tried. - Naylor and Runciman (2007) ”The Reduceron: Widening the von Neumann Bottleneck for Graph Reduction using an FPGA”: https://mn416.github.io/reduceron-project&#x

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