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by rpeden 5d ago
Recklessness is a mens rea and given how often OpenAI and its spokespeople talk about safety and alignment, it's hard to argue they were unaware of the risk. https://lawprof.co/definition/recklessness/
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by rpeden 18d ago
This gave me the shove I needed to cancel some longstanding Google subscriptions. So...thanks, Google, I guess?
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by rpeden 3mo ago
I actually think COM is an amazing bit of engineering considering its intended use case. It still feels like a much more advanced way of sharing compiled libraries between different languages than the current default of "export a C ABI
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by rpeden 3mo ago
You could also use forward slashes, like C:/path/subpath, which has worked since Windows 1.0/DOS 2.0. That's handy when you're entering paths in a Cygwin/MSYS Bash shell, but might not help much if you're
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by rpeden 1y ago
I don't live in this broken place you speak of and don't feel the pain you mention. Outside of work I sometimes user LLMs to create what amounts to infinitely variable Choose Your Own Adventure books just for entertainment, and I
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by rpeden 1y ago
I'm appalled by how dismissive and heartless many HN users seem toward non-professional users of ChatGPT. I use the GPT models (along with Claude and Gemini) a ton for my work. And from this perspective, I appreciate GPT-5. It does a g
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by rpeden 1y ago
Is |> actually an operator in F#? I think it's just a regular function in the standard library but maybe I'm remembering incorrectly.
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by rpeden 1y ago
Thank you! I knew this, but of course blanked on it when I came up with an Ocaml example. There are a few other places I prefer F#'s syntax, but overall it's not the reason I'd pick F# over OCaml for a project. It's usua
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by rpeden 1y ago
F# has diverged from OCaml a bit, but they're still very similar. I mentioned in a top-level comment that F#'s "lightweight" syntax is basically what I want when I use OCaml. I know ReasonML is a thing, but if I'm w
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by rpeden 1y ago
I like OCaml a lot - but I think I like F# a little more. They're very similar, since F# as essentially Ocaml running on the .NET VM. I know some people dislike the fact that F# lacks OCaml's functors, but I can see why they weren
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by rpeden 1y ago
For the tangible ones, it's often relatively easy to get financing that lets you spread the payment over the asset's useful life, which solves most of the cash flow issues you get if you pay in cash up front but have to spread the
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by rpeden 1y ago
It's a lot easier to get financing for a tangible asset like an oven or a delivery truck, which mitigates the cash flow issue. Sure, you can only deduct a certain percentage of the asset's value as an expense each year, but your c
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by rpeden 1y ago
Neat! I've written streaming Markdown renderers in a couple of languages for quickly displaying streaming LLM output. Nice to see I'm not the only one! :)
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by rpeden 2y ago
Not yet - I just created a browser-wasm project using the .NET CLI and then experimented with it. I spent a bunch of the digging through .targets files to see what optimization options were available. I plan to put the source on GitHub shor
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by rpeden 2y ago
It works quite well especially in .NET 9! And exporting to WASM works nearly identically to DllExport. I used that to shift all the heavy lifting to .NET 9 AOT compiled to WASM in a fun little side project I've been working on: https:
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by rpeden 2y ago
The fun thing about watching a Sprint video for the first time is that you just assume it must be sped up. Eventually you realize that no, it really does accelerate that quickly.
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by rpeden 2y ago
This reply is extra funny given my edited message. And it might still be true.
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by rpeden 2y ago
Come to think of it, it's probably my fault for gravitating toward threads that are going to rile me up. It's been a weird few weeks in Canada - everyone has seemingly united around strong anti-US sentiment. That's true even
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by rpeden 2y ago
Maybe it's just been the threads I've happened to end up reading? The overall tone of the place feels different. And that's okay. Maybe HN has changed. Maybe I have. Maybe both. That's okay - places and people change. I
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by rpeden 2y ago
His role in The Day After is the one that always stands out in my mind.
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by rpeden 2y ago
Alaska recently starting experimenting with using drones to drop explosives on snowpacks, so that's another relatively cost-effective option.
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by rpeden 2y ago
Are we looking at the same article? None of the photos look AI-generated to me. Too many small details are correct in too many places. I realize some AI photos are really damn good, but I don't think it would do so well on the photo of
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by rpeden 2y ago
You can download the complete JRuby JAR, which will run happily anywhere you have a JVM.
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by rpeden 2y ago
Or possibly NT::.com I remember seeing interviews with Nortel's CEO where he bragged that most internet backbone traffic was handled by Nortel hardware. Things didn't quite work out how he thought they were going to work out. I th
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by rpeden 2y ago
I think it depends a lot on the kinds of companies you work for, and also on luck. In my 14 year career, I've never been laid off and only once had a company I've worked at done a layoff of other people.
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by rpeden 2y ago
Unless they've been issuing a ton of new shares recently and then selling them into the market at something resembling the current share price, the amount of capital they've raised is nowhere near their current market cap. But it
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by rpeden 2y ago
Hopefully I didn't seem too pedantic. I don't think C# having it first necessarily diminishes your point about the use of async and await in JS. Async and await were nice additions in C# to make working with tasks more convenient,
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by rpeden 2y ago
It seems potentially tricky because they didn't just say they're not responsible for death or injury. They essentially got the customer to accept a contract that says the software isn't designed for use in systems where failu
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by rpeden 2y ago
Async and await appeared in C# well before they were added to JavaScript, so I'm not sure the reasoning of your timeline makes sense.
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by rpeden 2y ago
When I fed that prompt to my Claude 3.5 based CarlinBot, it refused to write a poem and instead wrote a rant about why it hates tangerines (warning, profanity): Fuck tangerines, man. Those little orange bastards are a pain in the ass to pee

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