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smitty1e

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Submissions

How Much Is AI Manipulating Us?

americanrefugees.substack.com
4 points·by smitty1e·4일 전·8 comments

Will AI kill the research paper?

marginalrevolution.com
6 points·by smitty1e·2개월 전·4 comments

Fast Fourier Transforms: for fun and profit (1966)

dl-acm-org.mutex.gmu.edu
2 points·by smitty1e·3개월 전·0 comments

Cyclic Graph Query in SQLite/Python

smitty1e.substack.com
2 points·by smitty1e·3개월 전·0 comments

Cindy Cohn on privacy battles old and new

lwn.net
2 points·by smitty1e·4개월 전·0 comments

Emacs Internal #01: Is a Lisp Runtime in C, Not an Editor

thecloudlet.github.io
2 points·by smitty1e·4개월 전·0 comments

Fragments of an Adolescent Web

vincent.bernat.ch
3 points·by smitty1e·5개월 전·0 comments

Claims about AI productivity improvements

marginalrevolution.com
2 points·by smitty1e·6개월 전·1 comments

The Legend of Kipp Hickman

feistyduck.com
2 points·by smitty1e·8개월 전·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by smitty1e·8개월 전·0 comments

Do (human) readers prefer AI writers?

marginalrevolution.com
12 points·by smitty1e·8개월 전·3 comments

Librephone

irreal.org
5 points·by smitty1e·9개월 전·0 comments

What Is the Forced Organ Donation Hypothetical?

betonit.ai
4 points·by smitty1e·10개월 전·2 comments

Leaving the GDAL Project Steering Commitee

sgillies.net
1 points·by smitty1e·10개월 전·0 comments

Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI?

marginalrevolution.com
1 points·by smitty1e·10개월 전·0 comments

The Brilliance of UTF-8

irreal.org
3 points·by smitty1e·10개월 전·0 comments

Whatever Happened to ¡No Pasarán!?

powerlineblog.com
2 points·by smitty1e·10개월 전·0 comments

comments

smitty1e
·13시간 전·discuss
> And it’s not like there’s anywhere to go. The real world is strip malls and axe throwing and escape rooms.

While the ersatz realms of AI regress to the mean, religious traditions chug on, bringing joy to adherents.

Find your community of faith.
smitty1e
·16시간 전·discuss
Nice.

I'm going to go through https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs as well as https://www.masteringemacs.org/
smitty1e
·17시간 전·discuss
I've been on spacemacs.org for a while, but since I've got a Keychron G6 Pro where I can reprogram the caps lock, I'm going to try out some hard-core init.el stylings.

Suggestions welcome.
smitty1e
·4일 전·discuss
Really? One more way in which I'm just not a representative sample, I suppose.
smitty1e
·5일 전·discuss
I went with feedly whe Google reader died.
smitty1e
·6일 전·discuss
The author wants tau=2*pi, but in the Greek alphabet, tau has one vertical stroke, and pi has two.

So, visually in Greek, pi=2*tau would seem an improvement.

Oh, well.
smitty1e
·7일 전·discuss
Your reply was as substantive as my original, but I'll upvote you anyway, because there is no point in being a jerk.
smitty1e
·7일 전·discuss
Well, there's always

https://grokipedia.com/page/Odin_programming_language
smitty1e
·7일 전·discuss
> In 1980, 38 percent of private-sector workers had defined-benefit pension coverage. By 2023, that number had fallen to 11 percent. [15] Government workers, who have the political power to maintain the old arrangement, still have pensions at a rate of 75 percent. [15] The private sector abandoned the model because it could. I wish I’d known when I was young what I know now about government jobs.

I wish I'd had better tools for budgeting and retirement accounts.

This argument would have much more heft if it discussed 401k accounts and financial planning.
smitty1e
·11일 전·discuss
Everybody's "Blatantly Obvious To A Casual Observer" (BOTACO) solution is somebody else's "Scam Amounting to Large Amounts of Dollars" (SALAD).
smitty1e
·11일 전·discuss
I just got a really great keyboard...except that the space bar and my Linux distro don't get along at all.

So now I have a surprise deep-dive to make this thing usable.

It's a Nietszchean Bargain: that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
smitty1e
·12일 전·discuss
> C99 isn’t a compiler.

Sure, but the pojt here is that if we say "Write in X" we generally understand it to mean "Treat X like a standard and don't get too colloquial with the stylings."

Pedantry is worthwhile, but it can be a diminishing returns game.
smitty1e
·12일 전·discuss
The whole discussion consistently fails to acknowledge that, in a day where we have a Supreme Court Justice who cannot define "woman", education devolves into anarchy.

Surf the chaos, bro.
smitty1e
·12일 전·discuss
Open Source puts the onus on the user to know what they are doing.

The learning curve is not too vertical on the established components, but stand by on the New Shiny.
smitty1e
·12일 전·discuss
Not sure how to vote for it, though.
smitty1e
·13일 전·discuss
As I am fond of saying: "The good news about Open Source is that you've got the source code; the bad news about Open Source is that _you've_ got the source code."

That is, you may well get sucked down a rabbit hole in order to accomplish a simple task.
smitty1e
·14일 전·discuss
A montage is a fantastic device in a movie.

But a montage about weight lifting does not a body builder make.
smitty1e
·14일 전·discuss
I read PyNomo as "Py no mo' " and was overcome by a feeling of loss.
smitty1e
·15일 전·discuss
I'm generally encouraging my two high schoolers toward:

- trades

- military service

...or some blend of the two, i.e. SeaBees or Army Corps of Engineers.

White collar/tech chops are fine as far as they go, but know how to swing a hammer or turn a wrench, say I.

Eschew debt; remain sober; stay married (not in the modern, ersatz sense); be a productive member of the community of faith.

Ain't no magic.
smitty1e
·16일 전·discuss
I didn't know what WEB was, but I thought the dots were related.