scythmic_waves

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by scythmic_waves 15d ago
What's a good example that comes to mind for you of it done right? I don't do much frontend so I think I just uncritically accept whatever design is put in front of me.
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by scythmic_waves 24d ago
I agree that an LLM could also generate the code for a new query language. But my point is that fewer people will attempt to author a new query language in the first place because an LLM will be writing the queries either way. So the effort
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by scythmic_waves 24d ago
Some overlap here with some of my favorite essays on why SQL is lacking: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql That particular post ends with a wish-list of items so it's the most similar to the O
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by scythmic_waves 1mo ago
> The power set lattice (P(N)) of all sets of natural numbers, not to scale, some sets omitted...
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by scythmic_waves 3mo ago
Anecdotally, it is very much different in Elixir land. I occasionally see bugs related to something being unexpectedly `nil` but it's pretty rare IME. I'd love to evidence what I'm saying with specific numbers since this kind
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by scythmic_waves 5mo ago
I read this years ago and I think it's the best one I've read. Thanks for writing it!
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by scythmic_waves 5mo ago
I think it's because, without further context, it's so hard to argue against. Pretty much every person in every culture cares deeply about their children. So if you can successfully hitch your position to that idea, it too becomes
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by scythmic_waves 5mo ago
It's fun! I play some chess but I am not a natural at this game. I think I need an AI easier than easy haha
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by scythmic_waves 5mo ago
From the conclusion: > The primary trade-off observed is the increased calculation time for OLS and SVD steps. Consequently, the next phase of this work involves implementing these operations within custom Triton kernels to amortize late
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by scythmic_waves 5mo ago
Is it? Your reasoning relies on this being true: > [CRQCs] will be slow, expensive, and power hungry for at least a decade How could you know that? What if it was 5 years? 1 year? 6 months? I predict there will be an insane global pivo
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by scythmic_waves 6mo ago
That was also a great read, thanks!
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by scythmic_waves 6mo ago
I dabble in "um actually"s myself (especially given that my original comment was one), so no worries :) I don't disagree with your comment exactly. But I primarily wanted to push back on a common response to scientific works.
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by scythmic_waves 6mo ago
It's not a tautology because it's not guaranteed. There are plenty of plausible sounding claims that fail to be true. That's why science is needed: to provide _empirical_ evidence for/against a claim.
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by scythmic_waves 7mo ago
It's possible to use manufacture whey protein without cows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whey_protein#Microbial_product... It's not theoretical either. You can buy vegan dairy products made from this method
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by scythmic_waves 8mo ago
Ohhh thank you! I thought the same as the parent comment: I expected that button to turn off the animation immediately. I guess the author wanted the yellow background to "melt" the snowflakes?
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by scythmic_waves 8mo ago
Wow fever dream is right! The beginning reminds me of 'Dark City' (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO6ApZlxqo8 Sidenote: is that Clancy Brown doing the voice over on the 'Home' commercial?
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by scythmic_waves 9mo ago
I used this recently for my resume and I recommend it. I have the technical background to write Latex and Typst documents but I honestly didn't want the headache. Plus I'm the type to futz with styling all day long instead of putt
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by scythmic_waves 9mo ago
Yep. I punch literally everyone I meet in the face. I have the power to do it. Why would I not?
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by scythmic_waves 9mo ago
> as a code reviewer [you] are only expected to review the code visually and are not provided the resources required to compile the code on your local machine to see the compiler fail. As a PR reviewer I frequently pull down the code and
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by scythmic_waves 10mo ago
Borgo [1] is basically that. Though I think it's more of a hobby language. The last commit was > 1 year ago. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211891
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by scythmic_waves 1y ago
The first link is a mistake. It's supposed to be the thing being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170164 . The 2nd link seems reasonable to me? Why does a study about 25k workers in Denmark (11 occ
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by scythmic_waves 1y ago
Hey it'd be great if you could rank the choices individually rather ranked-choice-style than picking just one first-past-the-post-style. I'm sure you could still compute a score, but it'd lead to less frustration from the qui
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by scythmic_waves 1y ago
Sorry off topic but I love the styling of this site.
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by scythmic_waves 1y ago
> Critiquing beyond burgers for their macro breakdown doesn't make sense to me. They're selling a meat replacement. Replacing the meat in my diet with their product does not work for my goals without additional planning to comp
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by scythmic_waves 1y ago
Thanks for breaking that down. As someone doing weightlifting, this is the primary reason I don't bother with vegetarian meats. They actually taste pretty good IMO, but they don't offer nutritional benefits commensurate with anima
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by scythmic_waves 1y ago
This particular professor has been teaching for 30 years. I'm not sure I find your explanation all that convincing in light of that, especially since this isn't an isolated opinion. I'm much more interested in how much the av
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by scythmic_waves 2y ago
> as well as the promotion of weird ideologies by the DoE What weird ideologies?
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by scythmic_waves 2y ago
As someone working in a niche area, I can confirm. It's shocking how little tech adoption there is in my industry. Plenty of low hanging fruit. However I still sympathize with the parent comment. The niche-industry-exception state of a
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by scythmic_waves 2y ago
I haven't read this yet but I see one of the two authors is George R. R. Martin? That's cool! Does he normally contribute to this kind of thing? I had no idea.
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by scythmic_waves 2y ago
Oh _that's_ what's happening. I was wondering why so many images were broken but I hadn't investigated.

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