professoretc

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by professoretc 6d ago
But the screens should look different, right? That's the point of building separate iOS vs. Android versions is to make each version "native" to its platform. The feature-set should be the same, but the interfaces can diver
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by professoretc 7d ago
If you want to know what flying first-class 50 years ago was like (and you live in southern California, and you have money to burn) you can try the Panam Experience ( https://panamexperience.com/ ). It's a replica of a P
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by professoretc 8d ago
A proof is not like a program. The goal of a program is to "do the thing", thus you can make the argument that it doesn't matter what the code looks like as long as its works right. But the goal of a proof isn't to &quot
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by professoretc 12d ago
That article (slash advertisement for Speechpad) spends a lot of words not explaining why human captioning is preferable in general to automated captioning. If I, a human, make a mistake in captioning my videos, am I any better off than
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by professoretc 1mo ago
I think the algorithm recommended Chris to me because of his topology videos, and from there I watched all his "old computing devices" stuff. Something about the Boston accent, the dry humor, and the occasional audio jump-cut make
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by professoretc 1mo ago
> And, the US providers seem to all be racing to make that capability inaccessible to anyone who isn't at a Fortune 500 and able to use their "cyber" versions. Because it's valuable. I'd be surprised if the big p
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by professoretc 2mo ago
A Vitamix is not an immersion blender; an immersion blender is one you "immerse" in the thing you're blending, i.e., a stick or wand blender. https://www.seriouseats.com/best-immersion-blenders Wand blender d
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by professoretc 4mo ago
> Some markdown flavors for example use \(\), which is probably the worst of them to use. Some markdown flavors say they use `\(\)` but they also use `\` as the escape character, so in practice you have to use `\\(\\)` which is definit
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by professoretc 4mo ago
The post I was replying to said, > UB was coined only in the first C standard, in 1989. Prior to that there was no "If you do this, anything can happen". I.e., the context is, before UB existed as a concept , how would these t
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by professoretc 4mo ago
More like, "if you do this, what happens depends on your particular combination of hardware, operating system, and compiler. Don't ask us."
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by professoretc 4mo ago
"Look around to look around."
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by professoretc 4mo ago
Plus, if the LLM goes down (or gets "upgraded" to a model that does the translation differently/wrong), you still have the tool available locally.
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by professoretc 5mo ago
They'll qualify their answers in English but as the article mentions, if your prompt asks for a confidence score, that "uncertainty" doesn't translate into low numerical confidence.
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by professoretc 5mo ago
If my compiler "went down" I could still think through the problem I was trying to solve, maybe even work out the code on paper. I could reach a point where I would be fairly confident that I had the problem solved, even though
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by professoretc 5mo ago
I just tried QBasic 1.1 and it includes context-sensitive help: press F1 on a keyword to get documentation for it.
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by professoretc 5mo ago
> An interesting side effect might be that only people locked out from using LLMs will learn how to program in the future, as vide coding doesn't teach you the fundamentals. While thinking about/working with LLMs, I've bee
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by professoretc 7mo ago
> On a phone keyboard, sure, it's as hard as an accent sign (á, for example), difficult but not twrrible. But on a keyboard? Yeah, no one is typing in Alt combos when literally any other construction will do. For me, --- gets conver
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by professoretc 7mo ago
Correct; the ability of a model to reproduce source material verbatim does not necessarily make the model's existence illegal. However, using a model to do just that might very well present a legal liability for the user . I would
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by professoretc 10mo ago
I wonder why that would be? Presumably if the batteries are low then the pressure the machine "thinks" it's inflated the cuffs to is higher than the actual pressure...
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by professoretc 1y ago
And with eye/face tracking it can tell if you really watched it, with a smile.
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by professoretc 1y ago
I miss TkDesk, which I discovered many years ago when I was first trying Linux, partly because it supports unlimited splits, not just two. In fact, if I'm remembering correctly, when navigating to a subdirectory the default was just
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by professoretc 1y ago
This also lets you run QEMU over SSH, if you want. I use this in my assembly language course; towards the end I give an assignment to write Hello, World! as a 16-bit real mode MBR bootloader. Students can do the whole thing on our SSH serve
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by professoretc 1y ago
I saw "Hugginface" listed alongside C++, React, and SQL as skills on a resume recently. Wasn't quite sure what to make of that.
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by professoretc 1y ago
Maybe that's why the models are so eager to spit out reams and reams of code, it lets their masters claim a higher percentage (even if most of the code they emit is never used).
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by professoretc 2y ago
Doesn't it still treat 64-bit code as something of an afterthought?
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by professoretc 2y ago
My wife and I agreed to expunge "just" from our vocabulary, at least with regards to asking to do this. It's almost always kind of belittling, implying that the thing you're asking for is easy and obvious, and you'r
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by professoretc 2y ago
That's called a "unity" build, isn't it? I was under the impression that it was a relatively well-known technique, such that there are existing tools to merge a set of source files into a single .c file.
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by professoretc 2y ago
> I think any NPC with dialogue important to a goal (a quest, a tutorial, etc) is going to be hard to use generative AI for. It not only needs to be coherent with the story, but it needs to correctly include certain ideas. I.e. if the NP
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by professoretc 2y ago
> > apparently in C++ a structure cannot really have zero length > Yes it can: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/no_uni ... A structure with no members can be made to have zer
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by professoretc 2y ago
Prefixes come first, 1 byte each, order doesn't matter except that REX, if present, must come last. Then the opcode, 1-3 bytes. Followed by Mod R/M byte, if present. Followed by SIB byte, if present. Followed by address/immed

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