whimblepop

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by whimblepop 5d ago
I chose to listen to the blog post instead of just reading it. I don't know how much if it is just the idea of AI-generated music for me, but the listening experience was extremely repulsive.
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by whimblepop 22d ago
GNU Emacs isn't the first Emacs, although it's still an impressively long-lived and vivacious one.
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by whimblepop 22d ago
In fact, the author of this blog post is also the author of a book on Emacs, which includes a section about Vi(m) bindings and migrating from Vim: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/switching-from-vim-to... And Ema
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by whimblepop 1mo ago
I thought it went without saying that GPT 5.6 Sol is the wrong model to use for things like filtering tweets. Apparently not?
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by whimblepop 3mo ago
Almost never do software companies even attempt to design secure systems. I'm not sure this requires new fundamental research so much as slightly giving a shit.
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by whimblepop 3mo ago
Bullshitting is how LLMs work . It doesn't require active encouragement. All it takes is a machine without consciousness or physical access to the world and an actually-lived life. A training set that contains lots of confident answer
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by whimblepop 3mo ago
When Apple Sherlocks something, aren't their implementations usually worse? Typically the thing being Sherlock'd is very mature and featureful, and Apple's implementation is much less capable and has undergone much less use
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by whimblepop 3mo ago
To be clear, this does technically meet the very minimal commitment[1] they gave when announcing the acquisition: > In the coming weeks, we will relicense all of our source-available tools, including Tart, Vetu and Orchard under a more
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Following acquisition by OpenAI, Tart is still proprietary software(github.com)
2 points by whimblepop 3mo ago|1 comments
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by whimblepop 3mo ago
Writing better exams, even if they're more expensive to grade, and removing homework from grading as far as possible addresses this problem well wherever it's applicable. Senior-level math courses at many universities are already
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by whimblepop 3mo ago
Whether things like "intelligence", "cognitive ability", and "aptitude" (some of which may be synonyms depending on your view) are innate vs. learned or fixed vs. variable over time are orthogonal to each other
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
IQ is about aptitude and credentials on specific topics are about knowledge and skills. It's the wrong thing to optimize for. Besides, high-IQ students can still underperform for many of the same reasons that average-IQ students often
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
You can't make people more knowledgeable by not attempting to measure their knowledge. You can maybe try to improve things for subsequent generations. But issuing a false credential won't solve the problem.
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14293%2FS... The average university attendee's IQ is virtually indistinguishable from the average person's IQ. People don't go to college because they&#x27
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
I love the Asahi project and I'll probably keep my oldest M-series Mac around to continue to play with Asahi. But even for the oldest Macs it supports, the feature list is not quite complete. The way Apple does a lot of things is bespo
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
I was seduced by Apple Silicon after experiencing the exceptional battery life and performance. Those things are great, as are the screens and the speakers. But I'm still excited about the Framework 12 because I don't love macOS.
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
Thanks! Love the game as a whole :)
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
I got "overblocked" for this one: rm -rf node_modules && npm install but actually if you're only removing `node_modules` and you have a working package-lock.json already, what you want is `npm ci`; `npm install
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
> It surprises me because I'm often asked why I knew X or Y odd perhaps esoteric fact or design pattern. Usually it's because I came across it in a book interested in something else. It was like this in the days when the primar
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
When I wrote the comment you replied to here, I of course had Sabayon in mind. Sabayon had some loveliness beyond that surface level, too. If the distro still existed (MocaccinoOS is a thing nowadays, but it's a completely different ba
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
That's great! Thanks for informing me. :D
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
Kinda surprising that this doesn't support Linux. Podman can transparently start microVMs instead of local containers via libkrun as well, which does support Linux: https://josecastillolema.github.io/podman-wasm-libkr
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
SARIF is kinda nice for security-oriented linters imo, since lots of tools know how to speak it. It avoids lock-in that way, which is otherwise/previously pretty common, with every scanning tool using its own bespoke format.
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
That's exactly the kind of flashy, gaming-forward distro I was drawn to as a teenager. Good times :)
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
I think internal organizations of employees of various shapes (unions, affinity groups, "employee resource groups") can be useful for diversity and inclusion issues. But you also need budgets and power and integration with other d
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
The FSF's purpose in writing the GPL is the protection of end-user freedom , including the freedom to inspect and modify the code (or paying someone else to do so) of whatever software people use. Linus' purpose in adopting the G
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
IANAL > Someone reverse engineered the plug-in and put it into orca slicer and then claimed that the plugin should have been GPLed to begin with which I find dubious. I don't really see it being much different than downloading close
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
GitLab isn't open-source. It's "open-core". Third parties hosting GitLab instances don't have access to the same range of features that GitLab-the-company does.
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
> You can end up with a lot of people talking about it a lot, lots of meetings and initiatives rather than doing actual work. And usually those don't go anywhere because the people doing it don't have any power to actually chan
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by whimblepop 4mo ago
GitLab's old values are for now still listed in their handbook: > GitLab’s six core values are Collaboration, Results for Customers, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Iteration, and Transparency, and together t

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