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by smitty1e 1mo ago
Canonical Monty Python sketch => https://youtu.be/dVI5ZOT5QEM?is=bf1E43oA05Q3S0zI
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by smitty1e 1mo ago
When there is a multiline template, you can make it look natural within json_doc = '''{}''' % some_dictionary and then populate json_doc via %(some_dictionary_key)s values inside of the brackets. I find it more
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by smitty1e 1mo ago
Whenever I'm building a JSON document, I revert to the old %s syntax just because it's more tidy than an f-string.
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by smitty1e 1mo ago
I'm so full that I may have to run for public office.
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by smitty1e 1mo ago
> if the cost of a resource goes up, the total spend on that resource can go down. Not unlike hiking taxes on the rich, seeing them vote with their feet, and revenue subsequently catering. But as long as we reward politicians for deliver
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by smitty1e 1mo ago
Ouch. I knew three of the deceased. #RIP
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
The feeling of becoming the product and requiring a Familiar loaded with Apps that amount to passive spyware cannot be escaped. Very glad to be closing in on retirement.
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
We hand-wave at each other. The repeatable experiment would be another universe itself. Cutting to the chase and declaring you the winner of the discussion.
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
> rarely, if ever, evolves beyond primitive intelligence. Given the complexity of the Periodic Table, molecules, DNA, &c can we agree that life is a low-probability event? Previous paragraph omits the contextual perfection of our pla
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
The Astralcodex link has a YouTube URL to a woman purportedly reading the Epic in the original tongue.
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
An interesting tangent to the language discussion is the Epic of Gilgamesh => https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-epic-o...
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
> That does not mean that LLMs are great writers: their prose lacks lucidity and elegance and is often formulaic. AI is regression to the mean. That is, being the next great writer in the starboard tail of the distribution will not be th
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What's in a Name: A Guide to the Many Flavours of TeX(overleaf.com)
2 points by smitty1e 2mo ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
Ah, yes, the difference between the tool and the wielder is an old observation: "If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct." (Eccl10:10)
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
This article recalls the Steven Wright joke: “I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates. I couldn't believe it. I called my roommate in and said, 'Come here, look at this stuff, it
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
How quickly would you drop a non-deterministic compiler for the source code of a project?
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
No, no, TFA is about python: "self" aged well.
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
I guess I don't follow admitting to a religious dimension in mathematics, and then eschewing the religious answer to the existential problem cited: prayer. "Lord, this situation bites." Potential reply: "Tell me about it
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A Natural Experiment in Economics(marginalrevolution.com)
4 points by smitty1e 2mo ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
Living this dream with the CI/CD pipeline deploying to a cloud system. It's really, really hard to shrink the problem and troubleshoot with large, opaque, containerized chunks of functionality and services. Can I just connect to a
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
Me: "Claude, give me a fair taxation system that supports a balanced budget in a debt-free federal government." Claude: "Dude. Do I look like Lloyd Schumer[1]? Lay off the dope, son." [1] Via Grok, since Google has chose
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
A third alternative, to quote Dirty Harry, is "A man's got to know his limitations." https://youtu.be/CG2cux_6Rcw?is=44LjSt5DpEhY6BWr
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
It's not impossible that everything in the universe can be explained within the scope of human reason. Life just seems to exceed that scope, is all.
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
"The Gästeführer would like a word with you..."
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
Can confirm for some dumb joke subs. You want to blow off some steam, and there is a laundry list of rules to read through. Yeah, not bothering with all that.
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
I went to a party in Germany some years ago. It was a birthday for someone. What was fun was that people all offered jokes or poems or whatever. I remarked at the quality of the offerings, and was told that there where books of content to c
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Stop the GUARD Act and age verification laws worldwide(fsf.org)
15 points by smitty1e 2mo ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
Why hasn't AI proposed the ultimate "fair" taxation scheme?
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
Same vibe. Plus, there is a very "community" spirit in successful distros. The Linux version of TempleOS is of clinical interest only.
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by smitty1e 2mo ago
Case study: Turso[1] Rewrite the open source SQLite in Rust under an MIT license[2]. Of course, once you complete the core product, there is the extended ecosystem to consider. [1] https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-li

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