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  1. I'm self-taught, and I'm mostly avoiding[0] AI while I learn. I regularly see the phrase 'know how to code', but I'm not sure what the consensus criteria are for that. Typically this kind of beginner question would be…

  2. 3 or 4 years ago, I started SICP on a machine I no longer have. Iirc I was working in Scheme but there was some tricky setup involved. I'd like to start again, but I don't have the free-time to explore the…

  3. I blew it off in college because my instructor did not speak english. I regret it more & more each year.

  4. My mom is retiring and will soon no longer have her company laptop. I'm a 'old thinkpad with xubuntu' guy, so I have no idea what's worth spending money on these days. She uses an iphone, so I'm tempted to say mac even…

  5. It seems like there's a lot of disagreement about what constitutes a safe model or what is too ‘censored’. Why not just focus on the three laws?

  6. Is it a physical hardware difference? Is it just a convention? I haven't read 'What every programmer should know about memory' yet, but I've read K&R and Stroustrup's principles, and while that lifted the curtain on a…

  7. Regardless of whether or not you think a US CBDC is a good idea or not, if one is implemented, what will the technical[0] details look like? [0] I mean from a computer science standpoint more than a financial one, since…

  8. I'm a self-taught programmer and I've done lots of messing around in Python, but I want to bridge the gap between what I know and what I would have learned in school. There's lots of 'everyday' stuff that was tripping…

  9. I've got a neat little CRUD app in mind and I'm going to need opengl/ES for a couple specialized UX views that involve lots of elements. I thought about WASM, but I want to charge a little subscription ($5-10/yr) and so…

  10. I heard a rumor that adobe is now scraping right from the app's canvas and although I'm okay with stuff I post getting scraped, collecting my workflow crosses the line for me. Then it occurred to me that I've never read…

  11. My dad always said he thought I'd make a good architect because I like thinking about qualitative, quantitative, and aesthetic design all at once. But in college I turned away from it because A. I really prefer more…

  12. I remember all this stuff about Gary Gensler/ the SEC/ CFTC working hand in hand with SBF to craft "crypto regulations". SBF was going on and on about "embracing regulations" and "regulations are good for us" in…

  13. It was all over the place rumor-wise, and now there's radio silence.

  14. Right now I preface languages with terms like "familiar", "comfortable", "confident" to indicate the amount I've used a particular language. But for most of them I feel like I'm in a pool and never touched the bottom,…

  15. It seems to me that if users could rate the results of a prompt, that could build a dataset with (seed, settings, prompt, rating) that could be used to further and rapidly refine 'holes' in the model.

  16. At the end of highschool in about 2010 I was pretty interested in becoming a lawyer. But all signs pointed to it being a terrible financial decision: -law school grads I knew unemployed for years -lots of debt, no way…

  17. Or before/after Shannon’s paper on a mathematical theory of communication?

  18. We all know google search is dying. What's next?

  19. My main computing device is a Lenovo x220 with xubuntu. It does 99% of what I need; I love it. I also own a 2021 Ipad Pro. I bought it as a Nomad Sculpt and Procreate machine. However, I've really been getting into…