xyzwave

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by xyzwave 9mo ago
I hate writing code, but love debugging. LLMs have been a godsend for banging out boilerplate and getting things 95% of the way there. Now I spend most of my time on the hard stuff (debugging, refactoring), while building things that would
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by xyzwave 9mo ago
“Warning: Smartmatch is experimental at foobar.pl line 42.” If only I had a dollar for every time I’ve seen this message.
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by xyzwave 1y ago
Fair critique, we should never lose the spirit of play, but Franklin’s guidance seems very much in line with a quote from Gustave Flaubert I often see echoed: > Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and origin
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by xyzwave 2y ago
Therefore mutations ensure you don't get stuck there.
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by xyzwave 2y ago
"You wanna buy a Tower Records, Eduardo?" https://youtu.be/pLgpUEpaUVs?si=WXciPD8BuEgP5nMe
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by xyzwave 2y ago
> Be careful what you outsource. Better a creator than a proofreader, IMO. Or as authors put it: "write drunk, edit sober".
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by xyzwave 2y ago
I haven’t watched the video yet, but I was instantly reminded of the Alan J. Perlis quote he and Abelson used for SICP’s dedication: > I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it
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by xyzwave 2y ago
Thanks, strange. This reproduced for a good 30 mins, but no longer does now.
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by xyzwave 2y ago
I butchered the "Ask HN" format by providing a link in this post. Made an updated submission with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40469206
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Ask HN: Is ChatGPT Down?
1 points by xyzwave 2y ago|2 comments
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Is ChatGPT Down?(chat.openai.com)
1 points by xyzwave 2y ago|2 comments
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by xyzwave 2y ago
I'm unable to load the ChatGPT login page. Not much in the DOM, just a <form> element and 2 sibling <script> elements. Console logs show 2 identical errors: > Refused to execute a script because its hash, its nonce, or &
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by xyzwave 2y ago
This is an example of the “tu quoque” fallacy [0], and has no bearing on the claim they’re making about Sam. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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by xyzwave 2y ago
Maybe the average technologist, but for anyone who understands Apple's culture and history, your claim is not just inaccurate, but opposite of the truth. Steve Jobs addressed this exact point during a 2011 keynote [0]: > It is in Ap
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by xyzwave 2y ago
> Also, smokers who get unemployed, will smoke more, out of boredom. Unemployed smokers will have less disposable income, and may not be able to afford to smoke more.
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by xyzwave 2y ago
Tangent, but I never realized the original for this great Alan J. Perlis quote: > A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. https://cpsc.yale.edu/epigrams-programming
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by xyzwave 3y ago
Independent of location on disk: `open -b com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine`
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by xyzwave 3y ago
> the introduction of the wolves also introduced wasting disease. Doesn't look like it, from the CDC: > CWD was first identified in captive deer in a Colorado research facility in the late 1960s, and in wild deer in 1981. https:
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by xyzwave 3y ago
Interesting, I blame Grand Theft Auto for my near perfect driving record. Gave me a great feel for driving physics before I ever got behind the wheel.
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by xyzwave 3y ago
I just read a hypothesis from an anthropologist suggesting that the reason California’s indigenous tribes did not practice agriculture like eastern tribes, was due to the abundance of food they could forage year around. Oaks providing a sig
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by xyzwave 3y ago
What’s NeXT?
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by xyzwave 3y ago
This resembling that scene from The Social Network in which Zuckerberg rolls in to a meeting (with Sequoia) late, in pajamas, and tells the VCs to get bent is pretty ironic. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jynTRc8vcIA
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by xyzwave 3y ago
You mean an experience which categorically compels individuals to be kinder, more gentle, and less selfish in pursuing genuinely altruistic ends is not useful? Often times as a result of (their ego) thinking they were going to die. Entertai
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by xyzwave 3y ago
You’re cherry-picking [0] (using Vice to boot). Not to mention people do that without drugs. How about the thousands who don’t commit violent crimes as a result of taking these drugs [1]? Sorta like the clothesline paradox [2]. 0. https:&#
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by xyzwave 3y ago
“curl | sudo bash” ;-)
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by xyzwave 3y ago
./configure && make && sudo make install
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by xyzwave 3y ago
IIRC, these were planted as potential wood for railroad tracks, but ended up proving too fragile.
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by xyzwave 3y ago
Not sure about DMT, but LSD seems to show promise. https://www.science.org/content/article/lsd-alleviates-suici...
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Protein Design the AI Way(science.org)
2 points by xyzwave 3y ago|0 comments
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by xyzwave 3y ago
Followed by > “It’s almost like a kind of a game. You against nature.”

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