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by vlthr 4y ago
This is exceptionally well communicated. Language design is really hard, and it's so easy to lose sight of the bigger picture when trying to find the next incremental step. This post helped me understand a lot of vague frustrations I&#
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by vlthr 4y ago
That example actually highlights why I think register is a helpful name. Dialects vary across people, but registers vary across situations for each person. In the programming language context, dialect can be applied on varying levels bu
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by vlthr 4y ago
I’m definitely not worried for Microsoft or the other big tech companies developing copilot-like products. To the extent that legal blowback focuses on issues that are both impactful and solvable (e.g. plagiarizing non-trivial snippets), th
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by vlthr 4y ago
I have a really hard time understanding what future world this article (and other detractors) is arguing for and why that world is made better by taking their arguments seriously. On the practical level I agree with the part advising cautio
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by vlthr 5y ago
I think the author is right to argue against the claim that “the singularity must happen eventually”, but I’m not sure how applicable your observations are to the question of whether an AI singularity could happen, or whether we should
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by vlthr 6y ago
I agree with all of your points about the diffusion of responsibility that is common in ML, though I think you may not be sensitive enough to the harmful framing being created by the "anti-bias" side. The original locus of the deb
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by vlthr 6y ago
I take the point about subscribers being hard to count to mean that even though most of the money comes from subscribers, each individual subscriber doesn't have much leverage or bandwidth to communicate their desires to NYT. On the fl
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by vlthr 7y ago
I don't know if psychedelics will turn out to have any medical value in the end, but I wouldn't be surprised if much of its failure stems from the way we try to fit it into the existing structures of medicine. Psychedelics amplify
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by vlthr 7y ago
I don't think it's clear that the options are either that we continue to progress exponentially or stagnate. Both of those seem like possibilities in the medium-term, but I wouldn't rule out the possibilities of decline (in t
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by vlthr 7y ago
Aren’t you being a bit uncharitable? - The article focuses on the properties of codebases, not individual code snippets. While it would be very valuable to do compare the properties of entire codebases, that is demanding on both the reader
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by vlthr 7y ago
There is definitely some distinction to be made between Google's and Facebook's approaches to privacy, but data anonymization is a more of a PR technique than a privacy one. It can be done if you accept that you may lose nearly al
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by vlthr 8y ago
The author makes a lot of good points about how these apps don't fulfill the needs of their customers in various ways, but to attribute this to sexism seems like a stretch. Software being badly designed, inflexible, and out of touch wi
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by vlthr 8y ago
I switched to dvorak for RSI reasons about two years ago and have now switched back to qwerty. If dvorak (plus split programmable keyboards, vim, etc) made any difference to my symptoms, it was at least not enough to be noticeable (though i
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by vlthr 8y ago
If you're mostly on Linux/Mac I can strongly recommend using a dotfiles repository containing all of your config files and a script that you can run to create symlinks to all of these files in the correct places. With small tweaks
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by vlthr 8y ago
Is there a video/article you could share describing how to do these with good form? I am now about 7 years into an RSI issue that nothing seems to work on, but I haven't committed to any training routine for more than a couple of
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by vlthr 8y ago
Thank you! Fascinating reading.