rmwaite

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by rmwaite 22d ago
JavaScript has its share of wtfs, so I wonder how much of it is which one someone experienced during some formative window in their learning. Did you encounter JS first?
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by rmwaite 26d ago
I find it interesting that you can’t lie to the police but the police can (and do) lie to you. Why?
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by rmwaite 1mo ago
That’s just an email signature, configurable (or removable, if you prefer) by the user. This is completely different, in my opinion.
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by rmwaite 1mo ago
On iOS, if you swipe control center down and then back up but don’t lift your finger, the screenshot will not have the logo. I do this with Twitter so my screenshots don’t have the X logo.
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by rmwaite 1mo ago
I think “staggering” is a pretty accurate way of putting it if blocking ads is in the same ballpark as running a AAA game on max settings.
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by rmwaite 2mo ago
Instructions are data
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by rmwaite 2mo ago
I think the point is that worse is better. There is incredible power in a standard (mostly) predictable platform, even if it could be done better.
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by rmwaite 3mo ago
I mean it kinda does.
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by rmwaite 3mo ago
> Once you irrigate a field, that water is gone. This doesn't seem true to me, in the sense that anything is truly "gone". The water doesn't cease to exist or is converted to anything other than water. It just moves.
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by rmwaite 4mo ago
Agree completely about the time thing. Indeed, every time I’ve fallen into the trap of somehow believing I’ve moved “past” the time sink it inevitably has bitten me down the road when something breaks or I learn about some maintenance task
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by rmwaite 4mo ago
I remember being the big innovation over svn being merging. There were others things, obviously, but the distributed model + easy merges is what I remember.
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by rmwaite 4mo ago
Any language of Python’s size and popularity will be a mess, the only difference is what parts of it.
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by rmwaite 4mo ago
What I find fascinating about LLMs is that a lot of their failures seem strikingly similar to the failures that humans struggle with. I’m not sure what this “means” but I think it’s interesting that we can theoretically fix these failures f
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by rmwaite 4mo ago
I don't think this is something to laugh at. Whether or not you think it's necessary or a proper method of punishment, it isn't funny.
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by rmwaite 5mo ago
This matches me experience as well. Some of my earliest rsync experiences were with the Cygwin version and I can remember scratching my head and wondering why people raved about this tool that ran so slowly. Imagine my surprise when I tried
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by rmwaite 5mo ago
In my case, once I set the limit to 0 minutes and refreshed the home tab I don't see Shorts recommendations at all. There is still a Shorts tab at the bottom that tells me I have no remaining time (and allows me to trivially override i
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by rmwaite 8mo ago
Relevant: https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
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by rmwaite 9mo ago
IP addresses were always meant to be globally reachable. Of course, NAT has corrupted this - which is why NAT is a scourge.
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by rmwaite 10mo ago
I think AI can add a lot of functionality but on the margins. Making things “work better”. I think AI as a focal point—in that it is The feature is a mistake for most things. But making code completion work better or suggestions more accura
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by rmwaite 10mo ago
I’ve always seen the hubris as an essential component of doing things “you didn’t know you couldn’t do.” A lot of great ideas are discounted as impossible and it takes hubris to fly in the face of that perceived impossibility. I reckon most
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by rmwaite 11mo ago
To be honest, if you’re using a tool that stores things as trees and blobs and almost every part of its functionality is influenced by that fact, then you just need to understand trees and blobs. This is like trying to teach someone how to
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by rmwaite 11mo ago
Thanks for this, I can’t believe this never occurred to me to try to do.
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by rmwaite 11mo ago
If you read carefully you will see that they never said AI has a theory of mind.
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by rmwaite 1y ago
Then what do we do? lol.
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by rmwaite 1y ago
Personally, I think you need to chill. He wasn’t “attacking” it, he was just commenting and includes his interpretation about it being from AI. Why don’t YOU just focus on the primary point of his comments instead of latching onto the AI pa
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by rmwaite 1y ago
Exactly. I mean, if you asked people how probable the current LLMs would be (warts and all) 20 years ago I think there would have been a similar cynicism.
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by rmwaite 1y ago
“You can’t tell people anything” I read this on a blog article a long time ago and I’m constantly reminded of it. This gives me that same feeling where someone is attempting to give some insight into their POV (precisely /because/
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by rmwaite 1y ago
I dunno, usually when I eat chocolate it makes me want to eat more chocolate. What is the mechanism for this?
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by rmwaite 1y ago
My problem with takes like this is it presumes a level of understanding of intelligence in general that we simply do not have. We do not understand consciousness at all, much less consciousness that exhibits human intelligence. How are we t
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by rmwaite 1y ago
I think kids are smarter than you give them credit for. You’re right that they randomly click around and will do so for hours. But they /will/ do so for hours. And when it finally clicks - that time was not entirely wasted. Kids i

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