mttpgn

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by mttpgn 1mo ago
Because I had to look it up, a 2015 Neal Stephenson novel.
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by mttpgn 4mo ago
Clarification: when Aaronson quotes Gur to say that Kristof is "feigning that he can’t see the water," that line is a callback to an earlier (unquoted by Aaronson) sentence in Gur's original post: "Fish don't notice
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by mttpgn 5mo ago
Thanks, and I got the main window open now, but I'm getting a second error that doesn't look OS related. `Plugin error (txtfilter.py): No module named 'miniword.importexport'`
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by mttpgn 5mo ago
On MacOS, I'm seeing `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'miniword.core.utils'` whether I run `python3 -m miniword` from src/miniword/ or from src/miniword/miniword/.
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by mttpgn 9mo ago
There are many computing platforms that rust devs simply cannot be bothered to support (for just one example, Cygwin). The Python devs, by contrast, have actually put in a lot of work over the years to support a plethora of operating system
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by mttpgn 9mo ago
Your site has a search bar for typing in a full prompt to an LLM about what is my current mood, and I just find it interesting that one's mood is the important thing for your users to supply as input to your service. For me, unless a m
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by mttpgn 10mo ago
> Pandas code is untestable The thousand-plus data integrity tests I've written in pandas tell a different story...
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by mttpgn 10mo ago
The BBC published this article. I agree with "all of literature" being hyperbolic though.
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by mttpgn 11mo ago
Phillip
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by mttpgn 11mo ago
I too have a `mkcd` in my .zshrc, but I implemented it slightly differently: function mkcd { newdir=$1 mkdir -p $newdir cd $newdir }
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by mttpgn 11mo ago
> So I prompted my brain Is there anyone for whom this phrasing has a clarity advantage over "So I asked myself..."/"So I thought to myself..." ?
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by mttpgn 1y ago
Ditto
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by mttpgn 1y ago
This submission links to the actual paper. The other submission is the NY Times' summary of it.
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by mttpgn 2y ago
What a great reply this graph can make the next time we see VCs on X complaining how, "Everyone I talk to has so, so many engineering positions they just can't fill". By these measurements, the job market looks worse now than
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by mttpgn 2y ago
An excerpt from _How to Lie with Statistics_ by Darrell Huff (1954): > Take this one: "27 percent of a large sample of eminent physicians smoke Throaties--more than any other brand." The figure itself may be phony, of course, i
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by mttpgn 2y ago
To be fair to Zweig, history's events could have unfolded differently than they did.
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by mttpgn 2y ago
Joe-Nathan? Yonatan?
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by mttpgn 2y ago
The position doesn't have to be "in the money" to be profitable. At present, the underlying (that is $CRWD, not the puts themselves) is trading around $305 per share, so these puts with the strike price all the way down to $1
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by mttpgn 2y ago
I want to agree with the point you're making, but WannaCry, to take one example, had an impact at roughly this scale.
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by mttpgn 2y ago
Yes, elevenlabs can.
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by mttpgn 2y ago
I find myself grateful I can support my family financially, as it's statistically unlikely my art can ever permit me to quit my day job. Not to imply that it's in any way a quality peculiar to those who write poetry in their free
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by mttpgn 2y ago
I build and deploy business process automations to AWS using Python.
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by mttpgn 2y ago
The link directs to an announcement via "toot" on mastodon.archive.org
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by mttpgn 2y ago
To modify tags on MP3 files programmatically, I have found the Mutagen library works well in Python.
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by mttpgn 2y ago
Licensing the emotion-intoned TTS as a standalone API is something I would look forward to seeing. Not sure how feasible that would be if, as a sibling comment suggested, it bypasses the text-rendering step altogether.
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by mttpgn 2y ago
I have never found protonmail's signup step asking for phone number verification or a recovery email to be unskippable. Protonmail can still be the best choice for a pseudonymous mail service so long as it's combined with diligent
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by mttpgn 2y ago
The cryptographer Dan J. Bernstein once told me a story that Bruce Schneier kept some cryptographic protocol secure for an additional 24 hours. The researcher demonstrating this protocol's weakness based their proof-of-concept on a pro
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by mttpgn 2y ago
For an overview of other complexity classes besides P and NP, there's https://complexityzoo.net/
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[Short story] Rastelli the Programmer(captiveliberty.substack.com)
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by mttpgn 2y ago
The adoption of this motto by a company employing thousands of people provides a great example of why we need more engineers versed in the humanities. What is evil? If it's violations of the law, then why not "Don't break the

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