wyattpeak

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by wyattpeak 4y ago
One day, long after I'm gone, people will finally accept that Python and JavaScript are no longer young languages. JavaScript is 26 years old, Python is 31. They both continue to grow in importance year-on-year, JavaScript because ther
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
I don't think that argument holds up. A VR headset, say, is astronomically high up the hierarchy of needs, but I know very few people who'd say the inherent value of a piece of modern technology is zero. It really seems to be art
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
I get frustrated with games that scale things with me. I want to be able to feel myself getting better, having my enemies scale with me on any axis really takes away from that feeling that I'm progressing. I say this not because I thin
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
I think this is a weird framing of the issue. Sure, lots of businesses go under, and maybe being larger would have saved them, but maybe not. Plenty of VC-funded businesses go under precisely because they tried to be too large, when they co
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
For anyone as confused as me, from Wikipedia: > [Hunger] stones were embedded into a river during droughts to mark the water level as a warning to future generations that they will have to endure famine-related hardships if the water sin
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
Oh, excuse me, I entirely missed that section of the page. Makes sense there's a geographical distinction, I'm not American so I suppose I don't have the intuitive issue with it, but on reading I see the logic.
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
EDIT: Never mind, sorry, I missed part of the article, it does indeed say what you say. --- That's the opposite of what your source says: > In writing, however, use to in place of used to is an error. Used to X was the standar
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
Honestly, I started working this out because I thought it would be negligible. But I think you're right to doubt. Leaving aside the question of how much a human produces, since two people have suggested human output is neutral and I do
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
I don't know, I maintain that policy fairly strictly, but I can imagine falling for this. I won't as a policy give out information to an incoming call, and I do call back if they want any info from me. But my working memory is not
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
I've lost track of what point you're making. Speed and memory is orthogonal to my point, which is about the output of two methods of arriving at an answer. I'm obviously not saying GPT-3 is anything like as efficient as runni
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
I don't think that's a reasonable assumption. If we allow ourselves to assume no errors, we could just assume GPT-3 makes no errors and declare it equivalent to a code interpreter.
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
I'm not talking about GPT-3, I'm discussing the theoretical question raised by the grandparent of my comment: How is predicting the output of a function fundamentally different from executing the code? We call computers determinis
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
Computers don't execute code perfectly 100% of the time. I agree that it's fundamentally different, but I'm not exactly sure how, and I think it's subtler than you're suggesting.
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
After two or three years, neither would the owner. Edit: More seriously, if they took this approach, people would regularly lose their codes, which would necessitate a backup means of obtaining it. Which would no doubt require the purchaser
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by wyattpeak 4y ago
Are we golfing? This whole discussion is about clarifying units.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
If I had to wait for several hundred network requests to complete and one or two pages to render every time I sudo'ed I'd complain about that too.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
> Let's say you are the leader of a border post Let's not say that. Suggesting that civilians have defence duties on par with members of the military is ridiculous.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
The article claims that the chip is "the world’s most powerful and capable chip for a personal computer". It's reasonable to ask whether it genuinely is faster than another available chip, it's not an implicit argument t
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
The trouble with this is it essentially reduces all differences to "biggest player wins". Because it almost never matters what symbol or representation you use for these things, your personal preference is largely based on what yo
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Does anyone know why RAR is better compression-wise than the two more modern standards? It doesn't seem like it's been updated in a long time, and I would have expected modern software from two of the best houses in the world to h
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I remember playing through Morrowind. It was my first Elder Scrolls game, and I got entranced by the in-game history books about a character called Jagar Tharn. They were deep and convincing in a way I'd never seen in atmosphere-settin
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Nah, I disagree with you there. I don't think the nature of the product being sold affects my opinion or expectation of whether or not producers are expected to shoulder the cost of a discount given by a middleman. For the record, I al
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
It seems pretty surprising to me. When the supermarket offers a discount, they don't then turn to their providers and say "since we sold this at a discount, we're going to pay you less for it". The terms on which Amazon
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
That may be so but feels tangential to my point. Perhaps address the parent to my comment? They're the one who believes that this is a symptom not present in the flu.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Why would you expect it to be similar to the flu? Covid is entirely unrelated to the flu. SARS killed fifteen percent of people who got it. Was that due to treatment, since the flu doesn't do that?
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I've made that gripe too, but there's something about error messages though that makes them very hard to take in. I don't know why, but I debug crap for a living, and I still every now and then find myself searching for a bug
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
If you want the actual data sources used by the paper, read the paper. I'm not trying to replicate an academic's source-finding, that would take months. I'm trying to quickly demonstrate that the US was a thoroughly bureaucra
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Yes. It's 1920, not 1620. Here's a page from a 1920 census: https://raogk.org/census-record/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2... Here's a tax return form from the same year: http:/&#
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
While it's true that there are differences, I think one lesson we should learn from history is that that virtually every group thinks they're especially unusual and that lessons don't apply to them, and simultaneously that th
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I think that the fact that's he's been contracted for exclusivity really changes the nature of the free speech argument. Rogan is functionally being hired to Spotify to produce content. I don't expect the ability to freely ex

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