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FreeBASIC(freebasic.net)
5 points by tuveson 20d ago|0 comments
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by tuveson 1mo ago
As a data/serialization format (the original intended use of JSON), I think no comments is the right choice, since adding comments introduces a bunch of questions about how comments ought to be parsed into a datastructure (or if they s
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by tuveson 1mo ago
Effective at what though? The article is not exactly painting a rosy picture of EIC, nor should it. More of an advertisement for laws and regulations that curtail such abuses and an educated populace that can see such a threat to their libe
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by tuveson 1mo ago
Tail call elimination often is part of the language semantics though, for the reason others in this thread have described. E.g. Scheme specifies when a conformant implementation is required to eliminate tail calls: https://cons
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by tuveson 1mo ago
I refuse to accept “cyber” as a noun to mean “cybersecurity”. If you use cyber as a noun, I’m assuming you mean this, regardless of context: http://cyber.urbanup.com/521436
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by tuveson 2mo ago
He’s probably the most famous living mathematician.
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by tuveson 3mo ago
I mean this does exist in baseball, kinda, but there’s incentive to not do so since it gets the opposing team closer to scoring: https://www.mlb.com/glossary/standard-stats/intentional-walk
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by tuveson 3mo ago
If we accept the “LLM == compiler” cliche (which I don’t, but whatever), then isn’t posting a repo of LLM-produced code equivalent to posting a repo of compiler-produced assembly? Why not just post the prompts and leave it at that? I have a
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by tuveson 4mo ago
Sure VB ignores case, but what I want is for it to compare each method against a dictionary of similar terms. And maybe calculate the Levenshtein distance between all terms if it’s not found, and just assume it’s the closest one. You could
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by tuveson 4mo ago
Yes, I say “funny” because it would be impractical and weird, definitely not a good idea. It’s already a bad enough that so many popular languages don’t (and can’t) check if a field or method is misspelled at compile time…
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by tuveson 4mo ago
I’ve often thought it would be funny if instead of an error message for stuff like this, a language could be designed to be “typo-insensitive”. If a method or function call is similar enough to an existing one or a common one from other lan
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by tuveson 4mo ago
But if the US isn’t the first to put an AI on the moon, we’ll lose the AI space race!
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by tuveson 4mo ago
I mean, you can be tired of both the frivolous complaints and also tired of having a moron for a president. I’m tired of people complaining about stuff that is symbolic and unimportant like the ballroom but I’m much more tired of every comp
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by tuveson 4mo ago
I thought Future put out a new album.
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by tuveson 4mo ago
What we need is some sort of Common, business-Oriented suBset Of the english Language that can be deterministically translated into something that the machine can understand, but also be read and understood by non-technical stakeholders. Su
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Can Chatbots Do Memfrob?(danieltuveson.github.io)
1 points by tuveson 4mo ago|0 comments
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by tuveson 5mo ago
I’m remember when CrowdStrike caused that huge outage, he basically blamed Windows / Microsoft for it. I kind of stopped taking him seriously after that. I more-or-less agree with his point of view, but he seems more interested in sell
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by tuveson 5mo ago
No bonobo wars though
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by tuveson 6mo ago
Twitch gets a big cut of individual creators’ subs, and I’d bet most people that stream also sub to other channels. Keeping people in the ecosystem is probably worth it, even if there’s some amount of “freeloading”.
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by tuveson 6mo ago
My company has an on-premise instance of the old Jira and is migrating to Jira Cloud, and the cloud version feels way slower to me.
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by tuveson 9mo ago
Over here we spell it "uze", so I think there's still some ambiguity.
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by tuveson 9mo ago
You were the one who changed subject to be about “switching jobs”, presumably because that issue has less to do why companies want to hire non-citizens in the US. Up until that point we were talking about employees advocating for rights at
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by tuveson 9mo ago
Sure, anyone who tries to get you to sign one of these: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/10/627682297/regulators-investig...
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by tuveson 9mo ago
Take it up with your fellow “caps” then, they’re the ones that support expanding this category of workers that have fewer political rights. The labor unions clearly only about immigration issues insofar as it relates to trying to weaken lab
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by tuveson 9mo ago
I encourage HN readers to read your username before replying to this comment. And also to consider why self-identifying capitalists like yourself might want a large cheap labor pool of people who can be deported if they complain about their
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by tuveson 9mo ago
It’s all fun and games until you have to be like “blastoise deleted our database backups”
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by tuveson 9mo ago
Or maybe it's like someone saying homecooked meals and professional chefs are outdated because McDonalds exists. Homecooked meals are cheaper and healthier, and professional chefs still make better food. I don't think McDonalds is
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by tuveson 10mo ago
> But what is a hobbyist surgeon? Serial killer
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by tuveson 10mo ago
Escape from New York is the good one (in my opinion anyway)
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by tuveson 10mo ago
I like the cover of the book Crafting Interpreters: https://craftinginterpreters.com/image/header.png It's basically a flowchart showing all of the different things that we mean when we say compiler/interpret

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