tehmillhouse

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by tehmillhouse 8d ago
Fuck OpenAI. Fuck everyone who works there. Like seriously, to all the people who gift their life's work to this monstrosity, do you actually think something good will come of any of this? Not in a happy-go-lucky "if we just ignor
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by tehmillhouse 8mo ago
Every time I can remember that the finance people have become more important to a company, it has led to the disappearance of the internal culture geared towards excellence that got a company to that point in the first place.
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by tehmillhouse 8mo ago
Buddhism has bad news for you
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by tehmillhouse 11mo ago
I wish my forehead had more headroom for the amount of travel my right eyebrow needs to accommodate this statement.
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by tehmillhouse 1y ago
Interesting and well-executed. But why does the blog post read like it was written by fucking chatgpt?!
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by tehmillhouse 2y ago
I was this close to concluding with a paragraph about Buddhism and the Self. Which is basically the same thing, but from the first-person perspective.
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by tehmillhouse 2y ago
When understanding a new "magic", there's this beautiful moment when you grok it, and the abstraction poofs away. It's when you take apart a mechanical clock and keep looking for the time-keeping part, until you figure o
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by tehmillhouse 2y ago
I'm not sure if investors will agree. The general way the stock market works heavily favors shortsighted thinking. They'll say après moi, le déluge and then package the déluge up into sellable financial instruments.
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by tehmillhouse 2y ago
We have to contend with working with people who are sometimes very hard to work with. Watercooler talk gives you the opportunity to remember that the guy who keeps filing badly written tickets has a wife and kids and hobbies, and is likely
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by tehmillhouse 3y ago
"Bard won't always get it right" That's like saying "the imp you summoned and are keeping in a cage won't always tell the truth" or "fever dreams won't always be true prophecies of things to come
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by tehmillhouse 4y ago
I'd like to thank you for the time and effort it must take to research, write and edit these articles. The tone you strike with these articles is a delight to read, and I find myself gobbling these things up even for topics about which
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by tehmillhouse 4y ago
As a compiler guy, I'd appreciate some look at the layers of abstraction in-between (so, ASM). Microbenchmarks are famously jittery on modern CPUs due to cache effects, branch prediction, process eviction, data dependencies, pipeline s
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by tehmillhouse 4y ago
You've already got that part down pat. "Shaping your mental behavior to minimize surprise" is just a really complicated way of saying "attempting to understand a thing". There's no secret technique here, I was
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by tehmillhouse 4y ago
I think there's definitely something to the neuroplasticity thing. Learning does take longer as we age, that's just a biological fact. > Man what a frustrating journey it has been ! I keep telling myself I'm a seasoned sen
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by tehmillhouse 7y ago
Axiom Verge (2015) uses the same trick to avoid the `strings` utility, but with parametrized cheat codes. (Back then I took it apart in a decompiler and looked up all the cheats, see https://trollbu.de/axiomverge/ )
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by tehmillhouse 7y ago
By simple statistics, most people are, on average, about average. This is true for any population large enough. I don't buy your assertion that C++ developers are better than Java developers, and all else being equal, bad Java code doe
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by tehmillhouse 9y ago
I know you said you didn't want to go into why you needed this, but I am curious: why did you need this (preventing your machine from going to sleep I imagine?), and why didn't `while true; do xdotool click 1; sleep 60; done` do
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by tehmillhouse 9y ago
If you're interested in this kind of thing, note that Coq can also extract code in Haskell, Scheme and OCaml. If Coq's not quite your cup of tea, Isabelle/HOL is another proof assistant with amazing (dare I say superior?) too
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by tehmillhouse 9y ago
Isn't this basically what Google has been doing for years with their DiRT exercises?
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by tehmillhouse 10y ago
Judging by the preview image for the live stream (yeah, I wish I had more to go on, too), this looks to be a long-haul plan for terraforming mars. I wouldn't hold my breath for the first actual settlements up there. That being said: Ye
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by tehmillhouse 10y ago
And thus the student was enlightened.
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by tehmillhouse 10y ago
As a reader of a website, I usually primarily care about what the page looks like when it's rendered, as opposed to how clean the HTML is. Granted, the current trend to make everything feel like a shitty JavaScript application would be
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by tehmillhouse 10y ago
The video's nice and all, but I'd appreciate if people would stop using my Mom as a stand-in for "person who is not competent with technology". Also, did they really mistake the chrome logo for the google logo?
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by tehmillhouse 10y ago
Good to know StartSSL is just as shoddy as it's always looked. Good thing we have letsencrypt these days.
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by tehmillhouse 11y ago
I'm sorry, but in a time where the US is killing people on the other side of the world using unmanned bomber drones based on just this international spying, I have a hard time believing that any of this should be "fair game".
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by tehmillhouse 11y ago
As someone who doesn't live in the US, I am awestruck by how big of a deal this seems to be for people. Are you really trying to tell me that surveillance of ~the rest of the world~ is somehow less bad?
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by tehmillhouse 11y ago
Before the site has given me any reason to join, it makes me choose between 7 virtually indistinguishable options of providers with subtle technical advantages and disadvantages. Ah, GNU projects. Never change.
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by tehmillhouse 11y ago
ahem ... "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
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by tehmillhouse 12y ago
You're absolutely right, and I'm a colossal idiot for not making that absolutely clear.
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by tehmillhouse 12y ago
It doesn't really send a signal to your program. It just sets flags inside cpython to make it think so. (pendingbusy and pendingcalls_to_do, to be precise)

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