If you’re not a realist, just say so. Then we’ll know that there’s no point in engaging with your epistemology, because your epistemology also admits claims like “the Universe sprang into existence last Thursday,” or “I…
> We have artifacts and historical texts talking about them, so we at least know that Romulus and Remus are figures that ancient humans talked about. Well, yeah, but you seem to be confusing the authenticity of the…
Indeed, although it is important to note that science is a proper subset of "using reason to solve problems."
If you conceptualize this as “there is an appropriate amount of brevity for each situation” then it would be expected for a better model to use different amounts of brevity if it gets better at determining the…
The original poster was referring to the golang port of TypeScript which was done almost exclusively for performance reasons. They weren’t just making an unprompted comparison of two type systems.
> most advanced type system known to mankind (yeahhh yeahh Hindley-Milner eat your heart out) This TypeScript release is largely about performance. Isn't OCaml still at least twice as fast (and maybe even faster for…
Isn't it a bad sign that there are such varied results? Perhaps that's only a bad sign for the state of science, but I suspect it's also a bad sign for the effectiveness of the drug.
> Historically, Sudafed has contained pseudoephedrine, the wonder drug equally good at clearing congestion and making crystal meth. It's much better at clearing congestion than at making crystal meth. And, as the joke…
> The problem for us isn’t that AI will take our jobs; it’s that snake-oil salesmen can sell the idea that AI will take our jobs, investors buy into it, companies try it, fire their folks, the snake-oil salesmen IPOs,…
I think it’s exceedingly unlikely for a good-faith reader to mistake good-faith human writing for AI writing. Even if you use em dashes and a few phrases that have become associated with AI writing, there’s still an…
The article was very clearly written or heavily edited by AI, which I suspect explains some of the peculiarities in structure and wording.
6! is the number of minutes in 12 hours and the number of hours in a 30-day month.
Okay, then how can something become boring? It needs to start as the new hotness? Does that imply that the people who use non-boring software are the ones who determine which things get to graduate to being boring?
So something can only be "boring but works" if it was created before today?
They literally sell actual crystals that you’re supposed to place on top of speakers and amplifiers to make them sound better.
To me it’s less about the technologies used to produce the audio. If a human has put some creative effort into it, even if it’s mostly curating AI-generated audio, I’m in principle fine with that. But if little to no…
I didn’t suggest anything about the link between pirating media and buying media, and that’s not relevant to my point. The point is, if you want to support a creator financially, then by all means do so. And if you want…
Again, pirating doesn’t stop you or anyone else from sending money to the copyright holder via whatever means the copyright holder prefers.
I think you’re confusing your own file backup practices with ownership. If you purchase a DRM-free piece of software (say, a game from GoG), I’d say you own it just as much as if you bought the same game on a CD…
I’m somewhat experienced in wilderness backpacking, and I always look into bear protocol anywhere I visit (including talking to the rangers there in person). But it’s disingenuous to suggest that you’d learn nothing…
Those numbers look way off. Are you making the common mistake of ignoring mandatory spending? In 2024 defense spending and net interest were each about 13% of federal spending.
> Dumb question, when should a developer not use a monospaced font? I.e. when should they use MonaLisa Text When I get back to work, I’ll try it out on my markdown editor.
“Movie stars tend to be more attractive and better at acting than the median human. Really makes ya think doesn’t it?”
I understand it. Just like the precautionary principle, it’s bad epistemology and bad advice. It doesn’t provide any guidance on how much research is necessary before removing any specific fence. The most charitable…
Haven’t there been successful rewrites of nontrivial applications? I’ve always been skeptical of Joel’s Netscape example. Was the rewrite really the mistake? Couldn’t the mistake have been making an application where no…
If you’re not a realist, just say so. Then we’ll know that there’s no point in engaging with your epistemology, because your epistemology also admits claims like “the Universe sprang into existence last Thursday,” or “I…
> We have artifacts and historical texts talking about them, so we at least know that Romulus and Remus are figures that ancient humans talked about. Well, yeah, but you seem to be confusing the authenticity of the…
Indeed, although it is important to note that science is a proper subset of "using reason to solve problems."
If you conceptualize this as “there is an appropriate amount of brevity for each situation” then it would be expected for a better model to use different amounts of brevity if it gets better at determining the…
The original poster was referring to the golang port of TypeScript which was done almost exclusively for performance reasons. They weren’t just making an unprompted comparison of two type systems.
> most advanced type system known to mankind (yeahhh yeahh Hindley-Milner eat your heart out) This TypeScript release is largely about performance. Isn't OCaml still at least twice as fast (and maybe even faster for…
Isn't it a bad sign that there are such varied results? Perhaps that's only a bad sign for the state of science, but I suspect it's also a bad sign for the effectiveness of the drug.
> Historically, Sudafed has contained pseudoephedrine, the wonder drug equally good at clearing congestion and making crystal meth. It's much better at clearing congestion than at making crystal meth. And, as the joke…
> The problem for us isn’t that AI will take our jobs; it’s that snake-oil salesmen can sell the idea that AI will take our jobs, investors buy into it, companies try it, fire their folks, the snake-oil salesmen IPOs,…
I think it’s exceedingly unlikely for a good-faith reader to mistake good-faith human writing for AI writing. Even if you use em dashes and a few phrases that have become associated with AI writing, there’s still an…
The article was very clearly written or heavily edited by AI, which I suspect explains some of the peculiarities in structure and wording.
6! is the number of minutes in 12 hours and the number of hours in a 30-day month.
Okay, then how can something become boring? It needs to start as the new hotness? Does that imply that the people who use non-boring software are the ones who determine which things get to graduate to being boring?
So something can only be "boring but works" if it was created before today?
They literally sell actual crystals that you’re supposed to place on top of speakers and amplifiers to make them sound better.
To me it’s less about the technologies used to produce the audio. If a human has put some creative effort into it, even if it’s mostly curating AI-generated audio, I’m in principle fine with that. But if little to no…
I didn’t suggest anything about the link between pirating media and buying media, and that’s not relevant to my point. The point is, if you want to support a creator financially, then by all means do so. And if you want…
Again, pirating doesn’t stop you or anyone else from sending money to the copyright holder via whatever means the copyright holder prefers.
I think you’re confusing your own file backup practices with ownership. If you purchase a DRM-free piece of software (say, a game from GoG), I’d say you own it just as much as if you bought the same game on a CD…
I’m somewhat experienced in wilderness backpacking, and I always look into bear protocol anywhere I visit (including talking to the rangers there in person). But it’s disingenuous to suggest that you’d learn nothing…
Those numbers look way off. Are you making the common mistake of ignoring mandatory spending? In 2024 defense spending and net interest were each about 13% of federal spending.
> Dumb question, when should a developer not use a monospaced font? I.e. when should they use MonaLisa Text When I get back to work, I’ll try it out on my markdown editor.
“Movie stars tend to be more attractive and better at acting than the median human. Really makes ya think doesn’t it?”
I understand it. Just like the precautionary principle, it’s bad epistemology and bad advice. It doesn’t provide any guidance on how much research is necessary before removing any specific fence. The most charitable…
Haven’t there been successful rewrites of nontrivial applications? I’ve always been skeptical of Joel’s Netscape example. Was the rewrite really the mistake? Couldn’t the mistake have been making an application where no…