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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Wow, excellent insight from these programmers. Very cool. Will be keeping this in mind!
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Where's the fun part? I can't exactly imagine throwing this out as an anecdote to entertain a few friends during a sophisticated little soiree.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> This ∞-shaped curve is called a 'leminscate', and ϖ is called the 'lemniscate constant'. I'll show you the leminiscate in my next post. I think others have commented, but this three-way spelling certainly got
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Really worth actually reading, very nicely done. I think the point is being made that real Julii exist, and also, that the mechanisms being used to get AI into workplaces and such are the same methods used by the Julii of the world to get a
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
What makes you think this? On the face of it, what you're saying seems to be absolutely nonsensical, so I'm curious.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I think it's great. I've good passable German, not enough to really follow the details of a fast-paced, complicated talk, so I'm practically shut off from German media (at this level, anyway). But still, diversity is good, an
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Keep meaning to go to this. What a great thing, the talks are often wonderful!
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Well, if one of OpenAI's LLMs started quoting Mein Kampf in its answers to people, would you laugh, or would you not laugh? That's the question.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> Now, all of that will be done by AI. No "AI" of any description is doing novel proofs at the moment. Not o3, or anything else. LLMs are good for chatting about basic intuition with, up to and including complex subjects, if an
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Am I understanding correctly, and the only thing with a bit of actual data released so far is the ARC-AGI piece from Francois Chollet? And every other claim has no further data released on it? Serious question. I've browsed around, loo
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Capitalism is not efficient, it's grabby. Read Bullshit Jobs. Moreover, capitalism isn't interested in efficiency, it's interested in grabbing more stuff. It's relatively effiicient at centralising power and resources in
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Summaries of these are being added to my chess-learning files :) I will be doing Lichess tactics streak, the forced element of "can't lose" sounds like exactly what I need to be that little bit more hotly engaged. I love the
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
What you are saying would make some sense if having Muslim beliefs or being Muslim or looking Muslim were some sort of disease which a nation must be "protected" from. Unfortunately for you, this childish fantasy of ethnic a
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I had spotted that, although thank you for pointing it out, it is indeed relevant. My experience is that support can, under certain circumstances, be over-rated. Depending on your use case, of course. If it's an Android-based phone wit
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I think it's a tad risky, as in, if I've an issue, returning it is an extra effort. Plus I'd be paying a fair bit extra for postage in the first place. I think the best bet for me over here (Ireland) is to research the CAT ph
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Ohhh snap, I'm glad I asked, I had not seen that one during my browsing. It looks like it really does hit all the points, wow. Investigating it right now! Cheers! Update: not available outside US, or you can get it shipped but it'
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Oh, also, for new users who want to quickly smooth over a few papercuts, there's: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-11-28-basic-emacs-confi... Also, a small point, you'll be thrilled to hear that an excell
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I would be in favour of the defaults being "prettified" or "modernised" a bit, but I don't agree that it's that big of an issue. Actually, I'm not sure if there are any "major" issues... Developm
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Are there any not outrageously expensive, tough, battery-goes-for-weeks, does calls and SMS and wifi hotspot and maybe even F-Droid but a small screen, and maybe has at least LTE so that it is safe to be used for years, type devices? I&#x27
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Ok, it's settled then! OP should have said: "And they - vim implementations - are always frustratingly incomplete and/or buggy... Except perhaps Emacs' evil-mode, with some users going so far as to claim that it's a
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
At no stage in my argument did I make any point contrary to that, and my argument is in no way about that. The point is simply that U.S. democracy is visibly in tatters. Clinging on to this notion that still, in spite of all the evidence in
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
No, I think it's debilitating, disempowering, wholly unnecessary, and that it would be easily solvable if there existed a will to solve it. It's a cultural issue, not a technical one, I mean. I didn't mean in the first messag
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
https://scribe.rip/@niraj.lal/rubberhose-cryptography-and-th... and https://archive.fo/2EaFZ
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Rubberhose cryptography and WikiLeaks: Julian Assange as a physics student(medium.com)
4 points by sourcepluck 2y ago|1 comments
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
There was a different article I was trying to think of earlier when I wrote this comment which eluded me, and it just hit me: a friend of Assange's from University where they were doing mathematics and physics wrote it. Obviously it&#x
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Even very intelligent people will accept this argument for America, and then reject it for often literally every other country. Imagine I made the same argument for Russia, or China, or North Korea, or Syria, or Venezuela, or some other cou
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Yes! We need to have only American propaganda in the heads of the vulnerable youth of America, and we need to have only Chinese propaganda in the heads of the vulnerable youth of China, and we need to have only Zimbabwean propaganda i
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Scheduling, and homework assignments, and textbooks [0], and handing in homework, and communicating absences, and asking the teacher a question later in the day in a groupchat, and the teacher sending an extra thing for everyone to read out
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I thought Rust's trademark-related controversy was pretty well-known. Here: https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/rust_foundation_apolo... Also, does this link from the wiki not work for you? https:&#x
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
To get all the bells and whistles done oneself, yes, it is time and learning. Using Emacs with no bells and whistles just for writing is very enjoyable too, though! That's how I started. Within an hour or two I'd removed any visua

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