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528karma·41submissions·August 19, 2022
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One major difference is that H.I. often cares for the outcome, so directing them is enough. LLM has no capacity to care, it is just a tool, more like watercolors that you paint with than a H.I. storyb…
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It's simple, and it doesn't work as `Exclude` only applies to union types. For type `string` it just returns the same type `string`.
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Are you quoting the same polls that simply didn't offer respondents any way to say "I'm against all of it"? Dishonest polls do not demonstrate popular support. https://c…
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I'm not aware of any relevant research, but to answer the "So what can we do about it?" question I have a wild idea: invert the power structure, with cooperative of workers hiring their…
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The third value could map to "mu" [1], or "unask the question". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative) …
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> We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features I know there are some services that send GDPR data removal requests on your behalf. …
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Human-carrying birds have been built. Piloted ornithopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-qS7oN-3tA Human-powered ornithopter: https://youtu.be/0E77j1imdhQ?si=Dd5hL…
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Second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
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It's "macOS" [1] if you really want to be pedantic. However, it's still "Intel Mac OS X" in Safari UA even on M1 MacBook, so why Statcounter data includes both OS X and m…
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> the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses That's a bold claim for glasses this comically thick. If you're interested in more normal-looking glasses with a HUD, I suggest taking a l…
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You don't need plastics for that.
Warp knitting has been used for the last few centuries with cotton/linen/silk/wool to get stretchy textiles, and there are plenty of stretchy pant…
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You might find Eloquent[1] (and a related HN discussion[2]) interesting. [1] https://www.32al.io/projects/eloquent/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…
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Something like if ('Bun' in globalThis) ...
if ('Deno' in globalThis) ...
if ('window' in globalThis) ...
could be used to determine the runtime.…
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You and Symbiote are technically correct, what I'm suggesting wouldn't match The Open Source Definition [1]. But being "correct" matters little to me, what matters is promotion of …
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Your comment, and this line in particular: > A license is like a constitution for an ecosystem for how people will interact, a check-and-balance on the monopoly power of the license-holder, and a c…
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You can find examples of people using eye trackers for coding/gaming on Youtube and judge the latency yourself, here's one such example: https://youtu.be/FZRgBw8m34c?feature=…
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> What ensures that the “rest of the string” is, in fact, a suffix of the input? Nothing, unless you have unit tests. Or use Liquid Haskell: https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhas…
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> Everything is always on. Power consumption is constant. That was the case in ye olden days of single-core CPUs, but is it still true today? I can easily imagine a computer that has one always-on …
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I’m glad that the free software movement existed for so long and achieved a lot, giving me the opportunity to reap the benefits of their work. And that’s exactly what disappoints me: everyone can bene…
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>many companies don't allow you to use code with the unlicense because of its unclear legal status I'd argue that this is an advantage of "funny" licenses: any megacorp can use …
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There is a third option: make your language shine where it matters (to you), and accept subpar experience in areas that matter less.
Specific things you mentioned — debugging, profiling & analysis…
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Sure thing, if you're building something complex, you have to deal with complexity, there is no way around it, low-code doesn't change it. But I've seen lots of non-coding professionals…
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I was sceptical about ChatGPT and still am, as it's too boneheaded and verbose to be inspiring. But in this case it helped me to understand where do I want to head next, so thanks for creating th…
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I find it funny that the author dislikes "casting magic spells", and yet cherishes the book which states that we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells. What I don't find f…
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> eee-vic-ser https://github.com/google/evcxr/issues/215
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"Why did it take so long?" and "Pointless bloat!" reactions were much more common: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3780367 https://news.ycombinator…