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by mst 1y ago
13 days late but for posterity: Yes. Not Wanting To Do That was the motivating factor for coming up with this approach :D
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by mst 1y ago
8 days late but for posterity: So far I've only ever been using a private symbol that only exists within the codebase in question (and is then exported to other parts of said codebase as required). If I ever decide to generalise the ap
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by mst 1y ago
Oh my word. const defer = f => ({ [Symbol.dispose]: f }) using defer(() => cleanup()) That only just occurred to me. To everybody else who finds it completely obvious, "well done" but it seemed worthy of mentio
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by mst 1y ago
I regularly add Symbol based features to JS libraries I'm using (named methods are riskier, of course) import { SomeStreamClass as SomeStreamClass_ } from "some/library" export class SomeStreamClass extends Som
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by mst 1y ago
If you want to play with this, Bun 1.0.23+ seems to already have support: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/discussions/4325
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by mst 1y ago
I feel like it would be creepy if the kid was using it without anybody ever checking up on it ... but I think all of my friends with kids would say that the answer to that is "parenting." I mean, giving a kid an unlocked iPad and
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by mst 1y ago
OpenAI stuff in general seems (to me, at least) to be overly positive and confident in terms of how it replies. While I make no foolish claims that it's perfect, I've found Claude feels much less arrogant, and was genuinely apprec
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by mst 1y ago
I absolutely agree with your analysis wrt current tech - however, I suspect the person you're replying to is talking about "what would be really cool" in terms of it happening in a future where the relevant underpinnings had
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by mst 1y ago
It does kinda make sense to me that the various non-US subsidiaries that survived did so at least in part because those places didn't have anything like Walmart. Whether they'll be able to continue to survive in a world containing
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by mst 1y ago
Lots of people not in the US saying they got redirected to various places due to (I guess) some sort of GEOIP detection rubbish, me included. There's a (just about readable, the background is greyed out due to a popup, although thankfu
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by mst 1y ago
I got redirected to history.co.uk/ (the root, so lol, no article for you) There's a (just about readable, the background is greyed out due to a popup) archive at https://archive.ph/3HvjM - far from perfect, and I
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by mst 1y ago
Once you get as far as FDIC insurance being involved, the bank generally ceases to exist (ideally via a fire sale to another, more stable bank) and the shareholders generally get (all but) wiped out, at best. Competent risk management so th
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by mst 1y ago
I remember some years ago we got somebody joining irc.perl.org #perl to ask for help replacing perl with lua as a game scripting system. Obviously, a few people were like "uh, why would -we- want to help you with that?" As soon as
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by mst 1y ago
If the map editor is an extension (and they have lots of example extensions on github, all of which I've checked are under normal open source licenses) rather than a set of patches to the core code itself, it isn't subject to the
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by mst 1y ago
Paid extensions are allowed, which seems like a neat compromise. If you need to add an extra API or something to the core to make your paid extension work, you can't charge for that, which I think is designed to incentivise "imp
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by mst 1y ago
They seem to be fairly explicit that _they_ believe that extensions aren't covered by those restrictions. Possibly the license text needs to be tweaked to make that more clear (IANAL too) but I read it as meaning that commercial extens
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by mst 1y ago
> Yeah but the open source ones ARE guaranteed. Even if they later become closed source, the code up till that point will remain open source forever. The changes from the Apache 2.0 license are sufficiently minimal that you can _still_ f
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by mst 1y ago
My first Archimedes came with a ring bound user's manual that was, IIRC, about 1/3 a guide to using the Risc OS GUI, and then 2/3 a programming guide to the version of BBC BASIC that shipped with it. (I remember reading it en
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by mst 1y ago
Having cut my teeth on early Archimedes machines, I have a deep fondness for arm2's 16 instructions and the (lost during a house move, I suspect) assembly book I had that gave me enough of a description of the internals of the chip tha
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by mst 1y ago
Turing complete YAML ends up being an app specific terrible programming language. Many of us would rather use a less terrible programming language instead.
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by mst 1y ago
Honestly, "using the same language as the application" is often a solid choice no matter what the application is written in. (and I suspect that for any given language somebody might propose as an exception to that rule, there&#x2
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by mst 2y ago
You could use docker export to sluro the container contents (see article for example)
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by mst 2y ago
Aha! Doom noclip so you can run through walls. (the first google result I got for idspispopd did not say _which_ cheat code it was, so figured I'd mention)
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by mst 2y ago
> I think every run that claims to be RNG-edited should post RNG seed for verification If I understood the later parts of the article right, that's now basically a standard or nobody believes you.
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by mst 2y ago
Yes, but I think it's also true that LLMs are acting as a force multiplier to the underlying effect you describe. Something like (my apologies to maths for the abuse) LLMs are adding one to the exponent of the adoption feedback cycle.
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by mst 2y ago
Possible middle ground if you can't immediately get what you're hoping for: Explain to the new Director that in the medium term you'd still like to be able to also work with the prior domain, and try to negotiate roughly &quo
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by mst 2y ago
If a static binary's --help doesn't tell me where the repository lives then I hope the author steps on a lego.
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by mst 2y ago
A more experienced Perl hacker would probably rewrite it as 100 lines of less dense code that people could actually read and comprehend. I'd probably end up rewriting it as 50 lines of code that used a bunch of pure perl libraries and
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by mst 2y ago
IIRC thezvi's summary post on R1 mentioned that R1 is amazing for general reasoning and is very clearly a successful proof of concept/capability but a lot of effort seems to have been put into making o1 Good At Code as a practical
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by mst 2y ago
I'm (genuinely) fascinated by people having opinions about the splash image at all. When I click through to an article my first action is to PgDn past it without even registering the image, be it a photo (on a 'normal' new si

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