schmidt_fifty

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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
The detail missing from this explanation is that structs and classes are the same thing with different default visibility. I found this enormously confusing when learning the language, and I think it was a major mistake. My assumption was t
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
I hope someone will one day talk about me the way corporate america talks about its logos.
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
> those running the country control the police Interestingly one of the things that came out of 2020 was that nobody appears willing to control the police. Unless by police you mean FBI, which would both make sense for investigating a
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
Surely there is some middle ground between "we should ban this behavior entirely the second this comment is read" and "we should never acknowledge or discuss or take responsibility for the inevitable harm that this behavior c
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
> Vector search is almost never the winner relative to full text. Full text search is certainly the winner in the time dimension, but can it compete in quality? Presumably which method is likely to provide relevant results depends greatl
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
People probably just find it interesting
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
Doesn't really matter if you can block the ads anyway Besides, advertisers are not who i worry about when it comes to "my data".
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
> In January, New York state announced plans to build up its AI research bona fides through a $400 million public-private partnership dubbed “Empire AI.” How is this not just straight graft?
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
> "Real artists ship." —SPJ Many of the most prolific artists of all time are now forgotten by the masses. The choice of "artist" is particularly perplexing here because the implied sentiment seems to apply primarily
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
It's not clear if they actually need to do anything to achieve this explicit goal—I'd think it comes for free with lack of analytical ability.
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
My understanding is this is rooted in the perception of hot water as a luxury—it's not like we have any shortage of evidence from chinese texts that people have always drank cold water. The idea that most people even could avoid cold
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
> Again, this was not a disease control issue, as there was no notion of separating wastewater from spring water for health reasons — it was simply a matter of taste. The idea that "there was no notion of separating wastewater from
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
This would be a lot more interesting of an article if we could tell what this mysterious genre is.... I'm guessing they don't like their taste being called out as predictable.
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
I disagree, i think it's worse in every way except that you can hail one with an app now. It's certainly more expensive and the driver makes less than ever, but now there's a kafkaesque middleman that doesn't appear to p
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
It's hard to discount other factors but I certainly notice a difference switching from water to coffee.
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
Bringing up personal responsibility always struck me as avoidance of addressing the problem at all. People will always be irresponsible. If you want to address the problem some part of the answer will have to come from society compensating
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
Cigarettes are much easier to regulate than phones are because you need continual consent from regulated businesses to continue the habit. So regulation isn't really possible, and parents will never be perfect, so society needs to prov
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
The source code is here: https://github.com/opf Seems to be a rails app on top of Postgres.
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
> There’s a very real/significant risk that AGI either literally destroys the human race If this were true, intelligent people would have taken over society by now. Those in power will never relinquish it to a computer just as they
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
> needing a ppa to install ripgrep Might be easier to just install cargo and use cargo to install rust tools. I've found it's much less hassle than using a generic package manager.
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
There's something deeply diseased about a country that spends so much on policing but still has high crime rates and (nearly) the highest imprisonment rate in the world. Meanwhile, the NYPD exemplifies excellent judgement and a true co
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
Yes, of course. What kind of comment is this? EDIT: to be clear, I think the idea of alien involvement in pyramids is ridiculous. I'm just answering the question.
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
> The "fact" about the pyramids I simply cannot believe is the insistence of many historians that slaves weren't used I can't speak to evidence that slaves weren't used but we have records of wages paid to labo
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
I can't speak to "the literature" but people have been colloquially talking about the mysterious lack of a canal since at least the 90s. One of the reasons people floated was a no-longer-active branch of the nile.
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
> what is with the obsession that ancient egyptians were incapable of building these monuments? It's part of the broader new age movement. It coincided with the rise of commodification of the identity, individualism of the 80s and 9
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by schmidt_fifty 2y ago
> LLMs won’t behave in a more creative and independent way (as we hoped), but more susceptible to issues like hallucination. What is creativity if not what people call hallucination? Horribly named phenomenon, btw.