smohare

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by smohare 25d ago
I have both of these keyboards (as well as the Moonlander, Voyager and Go60). The thumb cluster on the Glove is significantly more comfortable for me than the Ergodox / Moonlander. I never found either of the latter boards particularly
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by smohare 26d ago
I doubt this entirely. It might be quite difficult for said human to discern whether a simple passage were generated sans such accumulated experience in reading AI text, true. But LLMs do not converse like humans in ways that have always b
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by smohare 27d ago
The linked article has a fairly light gray background with white text. I can read it, but the low contrast is just tiresome.
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by smohare 1mo ago
I have a number of 3d printed peripherals, including two Ploopy devices. Nothing seems out of the ordinary to me quality wise.
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by smohare 1mo ago
Right, because x + " " + y is more clear than of simply f"{x} {y}". Been using python for longer than 10 years and immediately started using f-strings when I could. It takes almost no time to understand the basics.
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by smohare 2mo ago
I’ve used it daily almost since it was released without any real issues. But I generally do not run too many extensions or probably push the limits of my browsers. For me, Orion’s vertical tabs are the best out of the box of all the browser
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by smohare 2mo ago
There are fundamental realities associated to being a public figure or representative. When you are even privately held sentiments or actions reflect upon the larger organization. This reflection isn’t a purely social construct, but itself
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by smohare 4mo ago
Huh, I’ve never once had a problem with multiple monitors and macs over the last 15 years. But at most I’m running two monitors.
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by smohare 6mo ago
It’s a pretty literal description of what he did. If techbro bosses don’t want to get butthurt over being called out for douchey behaviour, maybe they shouldn’t engage in douchey behaviour? Almost none of these tech leaders deserve their st
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by smohare 6mo ago
There is a tendency for people to treat LLMs as oracles rather than token predictors. My guess is because they can answer in seeming technical fashion about a wider range of topics than your typical human. You can take these same people, wh
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by smohare 7mo ago
Or maybe there’s just not that many good studies, period? A lot of them barely rise above the level of collected anecdote, nor explore long term or more elusive factors (such as cross-system entropy). They’re also targeting an area that is
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by smohare 7mo ago
Having inherited some large python code bases before type annotations were common made me never want to personally read through highly-typed inferenced code again. It reminded me of a mathematician in my field who had rather brilliant ideas
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by smohare 8mo ago
Fair enough. But is there a need to propagate this abuse of the term? Might as well call advertising “fun programming breaks” while we are at it.
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by smohare 8mo ago
Anecdote, but I live next to an elementary school and also on a route frequented by Waymos. Human drivers routinely cruise down the 25mph roads at 40+ and blow stop signs, even during school intake and release. Waymo vehicles always seem a
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by smohare 9mo ago
A substance can have pharmacological effects and still not be recommended for therapeutic use. As a hyperbolic example, suppose a substance relieved all pain for 1% of the population but caused death in everyone else. Even with a highly pre
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by smohare 10mo ago
Who is thankful for sleep? It’s a biological necessity that robs us of a significant portion of our lives. I’d much rather be able to meditate for half an hour and reap the mental reset.
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by smohare 10mo ago
2016 already puts one far into the AI explosion. The current hype cycle, with LLMs as a service at the forefront, arguably makes python less relevant than in it was in the mid 2010’s. The current crop of “AI Engineers” can use whatever lang
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by smohare 11mo ago
I’ve never been able to switch since the feature set, whenever I’ve looked over the years, doesn’t seem geared toward serious mathematical exposition. I think I want to carry over habits from papers to blog pages though, which perhaps is mi
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by smohare 11mo ago
You’ll notice that most people arguing against DEI rarely perform meaningful analytics. Because when you do look at the data it tells the tale that the same centuries old systemic biases are still in play. This is obvious to any adult in th
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by smohare 11mo ago
If you’re hauling two kids in San Francisco you really come to appreciate how weak 750W actually is.
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by smohare 11mo ago
While the scornful analogy there is dubious at best, I’d certainly reserve far more skepticism for the groups claiming AGI is within reach via the current crop of mathematically simplistic models
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by smohare 11mo ago
To me a mathematics paper is more natural than the quoted text, if you afford treating symbols as their language equivalent. A string of not necessarily related words with nonsensical grammar is about as far from natural as you can get.
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by smohare 1y ago
Stopped being a concern primarily due to heavy vaccination campaigns though. It is still raging, just not nearly as many people are dying. The immunity from infection these days is pretty paltry.
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by smohare 1y ago
I worked with MongoDB a decade ago and also now. One of the worst systems I’ve ever had to deal with. Not necessarily because of the db itself, but because of the implications of its use. It serves an incredibly narrow purpose. Everywhere I
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by smohare 1y ago
You think you are “nailing it” but also lack the background to even determine whether that is the case. I can assure you, there’s likely some fundamental flaws in what you’re vibing. Just think about the type of code these things are traine
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by smohare 1y ago
You’re making the classic mistake in conflating computing how pathways to conditions can rise from computing conditionals given the current state. There’s absolutely no information theoretical difference between you saying “A girl opened th
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by smohare 1y ago
Have you ever made your own burgers? Lettuce is one of the least appealing things I can imagine adding to a half decent burger. I’ve also never once cooked a burger I’d describe as “slimy”. Obviously it’s all subjective at the end of the da
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by smohare 1y ago
I’ve always maintained my own configs for (neo)vim. The only area where I prefer vimscript is with certain incantations for which there are no lua-based alternatives. And those are increasingly rare. Authoring plugins is a lot more attracti
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by smohare 1y ago
I’ve used git since its inception. Never once in an “IDE”. Should users that refuse to learn the tool really be the target? I’m not trying to argue that interface doesn’t matter. I use jq enough to be in that unfortunate category where I d
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by smohare 1y ago
The existence of a repeat or “magic” key is one of the more interesting developments alternative keyboard layouts designs. The use case is slightly different of course. But as an extremely heavy user of vim repeat and macros for the last tw

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