Shower thought: If a rogue AI agent can spread across the internet, it might be regulated under the same ruleset as other self-replicating dangerous critters: biosecurity / quarantine type laws. E.g. Who is allowed to…
This is part of the picture. But IIUC Telstra is very keen to keep that "obligation". Why? Because along with it they 1. Are fairly free to decide where to put payphone (eg next time you are in the city, notice…
Over the years, I have noticed there are two specific places where my kids ALWAYS smile ALL the time. 1. Trampoline. 2. Pool.
Interesting, I was about to say -1, 0.9, 1.0, because I don't know is almost as useful as the correct answer!
OK I love used books but this diatribe is a thing of beauty.
Mathematica is the earliest thing I am aware of with this feature where it was Alt+. to expand selection in their notebook interface starting in the early 90s. But the thing I miss most that I still can't shake the…
Yep on ChromeOS each user's home dir is separately encrypted with their own password.
+1 DJGPP/Allegro key life experience on my parents Windows machine, thankyou!
After reading TFA, I have to cop this as fair criticism :). Thanks.
Agreed with others it's just what you're used to. I was inverted-y for most of my gaming life because I started with flight sims where it was mandatory, reflecting the real life hardware. So I used the same in FPS games…
One idea for what happens next, that rhymes with pop-up blocker revolution, is Gates' "disintermediation of everything" via AI, where agents on our behalf will be able to "find me a video I like and don't show me the…
(Maybe skip the mini-insults & make the site nicer for all?) Anyway I think GP has a point worth considering. I have had a related hope in the context of journalism / chain of trust that was mentioned above: if anyone…
This is how Eiffel works. Instead of private, protected, public, you specify the set of classes a method can be seen by: `feature {ANY}` for `public:`, feature {NONE} for private, feature {Self} (IIRC) for protected,…
It seems a standard childhood memory! I had a chicken and salad sandwich downgraded to a salad sandwich while I held it my hands as a child. Couple of decades later, almost identical thing happened to my own kid.
In 2004 I owned only my laptop, with no full size keyboard -- but the sword fighting minigame really benefits from a numeric keypad. And so I bought a USB numeric keypad, which is an odd little accessory which, every 5…
+1 this breadth vs depth framing. I notice this in aider itself: What right does that project have to support all those command line options, covering every little detail, and all optionally via Env variables too,…
I get so much value out of this site in all sorts of important fields (to my career, or to my interest) where I am playing catch-up. But every couple of months a thread pop up in a field I am closer to state of the art,…
In what is surely not a coincidence, 2012 is also the year in which a Stack Exchange question about how to generate these beautiful diagrams in Mathematica came up:…
Oh my, this is so amazing. I can't wipe the grin off my face. I never thought I was would see Hammurabi (https://github.com/maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games/b...) again! With this I can pinpoint the exact first…
This! I used to think fridging bananas ruined them right away as they went brown, until I learned the insides are perfectly fine.
> In fact, it can be nice to do one's explorations in the REPL and then reify one's discoveries as tests. This is how I wrote unit tests when I worked on Mathematica: try out every edge cases of the function in a…
I like this take. Previously there was a tension between easy-to-write (helper functions to group together oft-repeated lines of code, etc) vs easy to read (where often modest repetition is fine and is clearer). I felt…
> Mathematica notebooks aren't related to juypter. I don't think that's fair. Rather, IPython, and later Jupyter, explicitly (successfully) sought to create a Mathematica-like notebook experience for Python.
I got an LLM to explain it to me. That sort of thing is definitely in their wheelhouse.
Adding to the pile of anecdotes of dirty browser hacks we're proud of: In 2002 (few years before Ajax went big) I rolled my own Ajax-y thing using a hidden iframe with a form inside it to send & receive data from the…
Shower thought: If a rogue AI agent can spread across the internet, it might be regulated under the same ruleset as other self-replicating dangerous critters: biosecurity / quarantine type laws. E.g. Who is allowed to…
This is part of the picture. But IIUC Telstra is very keen to keep that "obligation". Why? Because along with it they 1. Are fairly free to decide where to put payphone (eg next time you are in the city, notice…
Over the years, I have noticed there are two specific places where my kids ALWAYS smile ALL the time. 1. Trampoline. 2. Pool.
Interesting, I was about to say -1, 0.9, 1.0, because I don't know is almost as useful as the correct answer!
OK I love used books but this diatribe is a thing of beauty.
Mathematica is the earliest thing I am aware of with this feature where it was Alt+. to expand selection in their notebook interface starting in the early 90s. But the thing I miss most that I still can't shake the…
Yep on ChromeOS each user's home dir is separately encrypted with their own password.
+1 DJGPP/Allegro key life experience on my parents Windows machine, thankyou!
After reading TFA, I have to cop this as fair criticism :). Thanks.
Agreed with others it's just what you're used to. I was inverted-y for most of my gaming life because I started with flight sims where it was mandatory, reflecting the real life hardware. So I used the same in FPS games…
One idea for what happens next, that rhymes with pop-up blocker revolution, is Gates' "disintermediation of everything" via AI, where agents on our behalf will be able to "find me a video I like and don't show me the…
(Maybe skip the mini-insults & make the site nicer for all?) Anyway I think GP has a point worth considering. I have had a related hope in the context of journalism / chain of trust that was mentioned above: if anyone…
This is how Eiffel works. Instead of private, protected, public, you specify the set of classes a method can be seen by: `feature {ANY}` for `public:`, feature {NONE} for private, feature {Self} (IIRC) for protected,…
It seems a standard childhood memory! I had a chicken and salad sandwich downgraded to a salad sandwich while I held it my hands as a child. Couple of decades later, almost identical thing happened to my own kid.
In 2004 I owned only my laptop, with no full size keyboard -- but the sword fighting minigame really benefits from a numeric keypad. And so I bought a USB numeric keypad, which is an odd little accessory which, every 5…
+1 this breadth vs depth framing. I notice this in aider itself: What right does that project have to support all those command line options, covering every little detail, and all optionally via Env variables too,…
I get so much value out of this site in all sorts of important fields (to my career, or to my interest) where I am playing catch-up. But every couple of months a thread pop up in a field I am closer to state of the art,…
In what is surely not a coincidence, 2012 is also the year in which a Stack Exchange question about how to generate these beautiful diagrams in Mathematica came up:…
Oh my, this is so amazing. I can't wipe the grin off my face. I never thought I was would see Hammurabi (https://github.com/maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games/b...) again! With this I can pinpoint the exact first…
This! I used to think fridging bananas ruined them right away as they went brown, until I learned the insides are perfectly fine.
> In fact, it can be nice to do one's explorations in the REPL and then reify one's discoveries as tests. This is how I wrote unit tests when I worked on Mathematica: try out every edge cases of the function in a…
I like this take. Previously there was a tension between easy-to-write (helper functions to group together oft-repeated lines of code, etc) vs easy to read (where often modest repetition is fine and is clearer). I felt…
> Mathematica notebooks aren't related to juypter. I don't think that's fair. Rather, IPython, and later Jupyter, explicitly (successfully) sought to create a Mathematica-like notebook experience for Python.
I got an LLM to explain it to me. That sort of thing is definitely in their wheelhouse.
Adding to the pile of anecdotes of dirty browser hacks we're proud of: In 2002 (few years before Ajax went big) I rolled my own Ajax-y thing using a hidden iframe with a form inside it to send & receive data from the…