mjdv

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by mjdv 6d ago
Pangram does not work reliably on single, short sentences.
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by mjdv 7d ago
Feature request: I'd like to ride the ferris wheel.
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by mjdv 26d ago
They're scans. Those are human-readable. They probably won't make them available to the public, which is the exact same state they would be in if they bought the books and just put them on a bookshelf in a warehouse.
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by mjdv 1mo ago
The thing he "<Did not> refuse to proceed" with was LiMux, his project for moving away from Microsoft.
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by mjdv 2mo ago
That seems only fair. ;-)
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by mjdv 3mo ago
> eat food, mostly plants, not too much. If the state of physics was "stuff falls, heat sticks around, light goes fast" I think it'd be fair to describe that as "abysmal".
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by mjdv 5mo ago
> FWIW, I think this is the same as saying "iff it is bounded and has finite discontinuities". It is not: for example, the piece-wise constant function f: [0,1] -> [0,1] which starts at f(0) = 0, stays constant until suddenl
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by mjdv 8mo ago
Until this post it wasn't clear to me that just opening and trusting a directory can cause code to be run without taking any other explicit actions that seem like they might involve running code, like running tests. My bad, but still!
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by mjdv 8mo ago
I would say we have a problem when people who write compilers can't read type theory papers, but then our backgrounds might differ. ;-)
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by mjdv 10mo ago
> We never talk about it now because we obviously blew past it years ago. It's shocking to me that (as far as I know) no one has actually bothered to do a real Turing test with the best and newest LLMs. The Turing test is not whethe
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by mjdv 4y ago
Rush is the most popular brand of poppers. Maybe you're thinking of those? It's a liquid in a vial, but nothing like MDMA, and definitely older than the 2000s. If not, and there was another drug called Rush sold in a vial, I'