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96 points·by dnmc·vor 6 Monaten·18 comments

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dnmc
·vor 14 Tagen·discuss
This has been on my mind lately! Especially in light of the many incomprehensible but machine-checkable proofs we've been hearing about.

Occam's Razor is a useful heuristic, but it biases us towards simpler explanations.
dnmc
·letzten Monat·discuss
They're targeting something like a 5th grade reading level — I'm not convinced it's slop.
dnmc
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
When you have two monitors, is your head always turned to one side? That always hurts my neck, so I wind up with the second monitor relegated to the side, where I never actually look at it.
dnmc
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
There are languages like Dafny that permit you to declare pre- and post-conditions for functions. Dafny in particular tries to automatically verify or disprove these claims with an SMT solver. It would be neat if LLMs could read a human-written contract and iterate on the implementation until it's provably correct. I imagine you'd have much higher confidence in the results using this technique, but I doubt that available models are trained appropriately for this use case.
dnmc
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Maybe this isn't what you're suggesting, but it's already possible to make an interface that prevents callers from doing math on indices in Rust — just return a struct that has a private member for the index. The caller can pass the value back at which point you can unwrap it and do index arithmetic.
dnmc
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
And If `jj absorb` gets it wrong, you can run `jj undo`.

This is such a killer feature to me. I'm not scared to start potentially gnarly rebases anymore because I can painlessly undo.
dnmc
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
In response, I expect the open-source community to make an optimal square packing window manager. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_packing
dnmc
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Is this the Stephen Dolan of "mov is Turing Complete" fame?
dnmc
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Are you suggesting we move to C++++?
dnmc
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
I've never verified this, but it feels like scp starts a new TCP connection per file. If that's the case, then scp-ing a tarred directory would be faster because you only hit the slow start once. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5681#section-3.1
dnmc
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
I don't think the OP ever returned with a conclusive answer, but I'm somewhat convinced by the commenters that it was either a low-frequency engine sound rattling the neighbor's windows or something to do with the car's rear-cross sensor.
dnmc
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Here's another for your collection.

- Putting the car in reverse sets off the neighbor's home security system. https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/7k12fs/neighbors_hous...
dnmc
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
There are yet more interesting docs in the parent directory :)

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/styleg...
dnmc
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Oh no! I can run it on my phone, which is a few years old, so I figured it wouldn't lock anybody's computers up.

It's pretty CPU-heavy because it's constantly creating and updating SVG elements. I may attempt to rewrite sometime with WebGL and shaders :)
dnmc
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Hah, believe me, the flamethrower feature is first in line for the v2 milestone!
dnmc
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Oh, those are great ideas. On that note, I was also considering simulating nutrients and rewarding the roots that find them.