quanticle

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by quanticle 2y ago
Mail delivery doesn't seem to be working, or, at the very least, is considerably delayed. I just sent an e-mail to my primary Fastmail-hosted e-mail address from my secondary GMail, and it hasn't shown up despite several minutes h
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by quanticle 3y ago
No you cannot. Copilot plugins are currently only supported for NeoVim, VS Code, and JetBrains IDEs. Emacs is not on the list.
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by quanticle 3y ago
>ActiveX just had the nice side effect of only running on Windows and IE. It also had the nice side effect of being the security equivalent of a sucking chest wound. Flash and Java Applets were bad too (c.f. the famous Java classloader v
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Why Flossbar/Medbar Failed and What We Learned Along the Way(medium.com)
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by quanticle 3y ago
ATT has provided the best service of any carrier while traveling, so I will use them. Really? My experience with AT&T while traveling has been pretty awful. In the US, in rural areas, Verizon is better. And outside the US, Goo
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by quanticle 3y ago
One of the issues with many of those studies is that they track per-pupil spending and track educational outcomes without actually verifying that the per-pupil spending is actually being spent on pupils. If a significant fraction of the per
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by quanticle 3y ago
I don't think that there will be a collapse. The linked post [1] has this telling line: Because I’m in a very very blue state and city Emphasis on city . Every time I've read something about how the education system in t
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by quanticle 3y ago
Currently? You don't know for sure. It might be possible to make some guesses by examining how the model responds to various prompts, and checking the output of the model against the output from the same prompt against known models. Bu
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by quanticle 3y ago
I look forward to reading breathless thinkpieces in the New York Times about how "techies" are keeping their kids away from AI, written in the same tone as articles written today about how they're limiting the "screen ti
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by quanticle 3y ago
This reminds me of how NASA would never have a Shuttle in flight during the transition from December 31 to January 1, because they were unsure as to whether the shuttle's computers could handle the rollover correctly [1]. Sure, they co
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by quanticle 3y ago
I'm not going to respond to your points one by one. My overall response to you is that the system you're describing, with its multitude of RAID controllers, ancient webcam, overclocked CPU, etc, etc, wouldn't even have been p
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by quanticle 3y ago
When was the last time you had to debug an IRQ conflict? I remember when "Plug and Play" was derisively nicknamed "Plug and Pray". Today, it all just works. When I'm assembling a computer, I don't have to set j
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by quanticle 3y ago
while Java originated the billion dollar mistake By the "billion dollar mistake", are you referring to null references [1]? But null references were introduced in 1965 in Algol, by Tony Hoare. They long predate Java. [1]
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by quanticle 3y ago
There, you can $$$ your way out of data corruption. You can even loss all the data if you have enough replicas and backups. That's absolutely not true. All the money and all the backups and redundancy in the world won't
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by quanticle 3y ago
Is it just me, or does Ed Huang skip over the most important part of database design: actually making sure the database has stored the data ? I read to the end of the article, and while having a database as a serverless collection of micro
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by quanticle 3y ago
Testing delete code against production isn't that big of a deal. If you screw up, the "oops" is immediate and obvious, as is the recovery strategy — restore from backup. The real fear with deploying code directly against prod
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by quanticle 3y ago
The only reason Circle isn't bothering with this market is seemingly that they didn't want to deal directly with retail That's actually a really good reason! An analogous situation is with e.g. Robinhood and Citadel
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by quanticle 3y ago
The problem is that the countries that are good for crypto, e.g. Venezuela, Nicaragua, Lebanon, etc, aren't really all that good for anything else .
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by quanticle 3y ago
It would be unavailable in the sense that US entities would be legally prohibited from transacting with it, in the same way that US entities are prohibited from transacting with Binance (and, to the extent that they're flouting this pr
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by quanticle 3y ago
But that relegates the centralized exchange into the position of being nothing more than a "fiat on-ramp" That's actually a pretty profitable business. "If you want to interact in any way with crypto, you eithe
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by quanticle 3y ago
That might seem the case from afar, but once you start writing Haskell and start experimenting these space leaks, you will notice that: 1. 90% of the space leaks you write end up adding a tiny amount of memory usage to y
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by quanticle 4y ago
>I've never seen a civil engineer say they hate how we built bridges. You must not have spoken with any of the civil engineers I've spoken with. They all describe an absolute wasteland of arbitrary and capricious regulations, c
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by quanticle 4y ago
>it’s plausible that learning a healthy way to integrate with your local community is an important life skill that gets disrupted by these online connections and makes the big picture of one’s life worse Yes, let's go back and tell
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by quanticle 4y ago
>The 1990’s weren’t some dreary hellscape. You can totally still live a '90s lifestyle today. Cancel your high-speed Internet and tether to your phone for everything. Give up watching YouTube. Give up looking things up on Wikipedia.
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by quanticle 4y ago
>The weird thing is that I never needed computer assisted navigation until it existed. In my local area I simply remembered where streets were, and when traveling I used a map book. You are extremely fortunate. It may not be apparent to
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by quanticle 4y ago
>I do think those things are great but I would say that culture is substantially worse. Only if you aren't a misfit. If you had some "weird" hobby or interest, like anime, or science fiction, or heck, even computers , you
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by quanticle 4y ago
You don't think your life has been substantially improved by Google? Or the Internet more generally? You'd rather go back to the '90s, when you had to carefully watch how much Internet you consumed, so as to keep from running
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by quanticle 4y ago
For non-mainstream languages 95% of what Emacs enables can be done using multi-cursors and a macro language built in to the editor, and we're in 2023. Those kinds of editors are a dime a dozen :-) Are they? Multi-curs
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by quanticle 4y ago
requires barely any ram It's incredible to me that our tools have bloated to the point where we look at Emacs and think, "Ah yes, what a svelte program!"
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by quanticle 4y ago
>But I can create an AI bot to answer questions about products and store policy. Why wouldn't someone be able to game your bot's responses about refunds and store policy in exactly the same way ? Then, when the customer really

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