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stingpie

@ stingpie @lemmy.world

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  • That's real 😂😂😂😂

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  • Regarding what "sounds" hot, I think 100 makes more sense as the "super hot" number than 40. Although both numbers are arbitrary, 100 is less arbitrary. (Sorta. We just culturally define 100 to be an important number) Fahrenheit makes more sense if you think of it as "0 feels super cold, 100 feels super hot" although I'll admit it's a little strange that room temperature is 3/4s up the scale. That could be solves with a logarithmic scale, but that would probably be worse than either system.

  • KICKS

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  • Did they? I guess I missed that issue.

  • OpenAI's Codex app has 70% GPU usage while it is “thinking” due to tiny useless animation

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  • Instead of spinners, you should use progress bars. When the endpoint of a process is unknown, you should just have a ticker that displays an increasing number. In codex, for example, just show me the number of tokens read or generated so far. It gives me feedback that the process hasn't frozen, and it provides useful information. What an easy and cheap solution!

  • KICKS

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  • It's interesting how girl being raised to be a technomage soldier instilled a tendency for cruelty. Torturing then killing the matabot is kinda fucked up, they're sapient. Although matacorp are clearly bad, I don't think they would stoop to that level. As nasty as they are, they're a corporate entity, and torture is beyond the veil of faux decency they have to adhere to.

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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  • I'm having trouble passing your comment. Are you saying I'm more stupid than a toddler, or that the marketers are?

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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  • LLM stands for "large language model" in other words, it is a big neural machine. Saying they don't use LLMs is like saying the ocean isn't blue, it's azure.

  • Ancient Staff

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  • Wizard, get off the stage, your health is soft, You need to quaff a potion to cure your cough. Oh, you think your precious little staff can halt the gaffe where everybody looked at you and began to laugh? Old man, take a look at yourself, you're not top shelf, you're lesser than a cobbler's helper elf.

  • The things people do to sabotage free software

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  • I'm not that well versed in rust, is this literally just wrapping the C library in rust, and calling it a rust implementation of it?

  • Meet Potential Language

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  • I think there are programming paradigms that haven't even been discovered yet. Rock music was "discovered" centuries after baroque music, and composers back then would have thought baroque music is the ultimate musical genre, which could not have been improved upon.

    I've been working on a programming language recently that sort of programs itself. It's hard to explain how it works, since I approached it from a mathematical direction, but for a domain and range defined with a set of correct input-output pairs, there are an infinite number of functions which correctly maps one input to its corresponding output. If we define f_1 as all functions which correctly map the first IO pair, f_2 as functions which correctly map the second IO pair... Etc etc until we reach f_N, then the set intersection of all f_1...f_N is the set off all functions which satisfy our requirements. From this set of known correct functions, we can sort them by speed or some other trait.

    But the devil's in the details there. I won't go into how I get f_1...f_N, but I'm having fun thinking about it & designing it. It may even be useful some day.

  • Already going to be a problem child

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  • Already going to be a problem child

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  • Belial

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  • Someone's about to learn about the dark art of writing APL, and the ancient torture method of reading APL.

  • How to you feel about using autism as a joking synonym for "dumb" or "awkward"?

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  • Dumb used to mean someone who is both deaf and mute.

  • Well that settles it

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  • The problem I have is that there is a loss of specificity, not that Asperger's and autism are fundamentally different. Autism used to be defined as the cluster of autism-like symptoms paired with a developmental problem with language. Asperger's was very similar, except that the impairment was with social interaction and non-verbal communication rather than linguistic aspects. Nowadays, while there is a lot of overlap, the difference is more like car vs truck rather than car vs SUV. You can classify a truck as a type of car, but you can't classify a car as a type of truck.

  • Anon tries watching nu-Trek

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  • nutrek is "woke" in the most boring way possible. It doesn't attempt to challenge the viewer at all. It's all vague reassurances that go "Oh yes! Aren't you so very moral? People should have rights! Have a dog treat for being so smart!" You know what I wanna see? How about some postgenderism. Have a society in which binary and nonbinary are both REgressive.

    What about an alien race that sees identity as a form of oppression? If identity is used as a way to gauge what someone is and is not allowed to do, is that system restrictive or freeing?

    Come on, Star Trek! Give something I can sink my teeth into. I'm starving for something that questions me, that I can actually think about.

  • Focus!

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  • In the US, you are sometimes given the option to opt-in to a handoff, especially if the package is valuable. Delivery engines like Amazon typically don't do this because of how incredibly strict delivery quotas are, but I know at least UPS and USPS allow it.

    Of course, UPS and USPS drivers also have qoutas, so if you don't get to the door I within a minute, they take the package back and try to deliver it the next day.

    I think what you're experiencing is more just a consequence of increased package delivery use rather than anything inherently to do with Americans(unless you consider getting packages delivered a uniquely American characteristic).

  • fuck you bill

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  • I disagree that comments are an indication of messy code. The purpose of comments are to 1) translate low level concepts into higher ones for improved readability and 2) to maintain information in the design process that can't be represented by the code itself.

    Obviously I don't have to comment mathematical operations, but it makes sense to comment the algebra of how I derived an equation and it's use in the code. Now, I could refactor that section of code into a function in order to give it a name, but that would make it more difficult to read as the programmer would then have to find the definition of that function somewhere else in the file. It is objectively more spaghetti-like to pull out single-use code into a function rather than just label the block of code with a comment.

  • WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?

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  • I'm guessing old CRTs. I've heard they can emit radiation if they aren't lead lined.

  • suboptimal

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  • I've been working on developing a CPU architecture based around my own variant of lisp called "dollhouse lisp" the big twist is that DHlisp executes code by reducing a syntax tree, so all code is destroyed once it's been executed. It's a very elegant solution, but a very difficult implementation. (Especially when it comes to loops and garbage collection.)

  • Autism @lemmy.world
    stingpie @lemmy.world

    Does anybody else have unconscious multitasking?