acuozzo · HackerLangs

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> No point in wasting your time with them.

I've been arguing with people online since Usenet was mostly used for discourse instead of piracy. Trust me, I know that there's no point.

acuozzo

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> That would be impossible in a suburban setting;

Not necessarily true. The "village center" idea Jim Rouse used in his design of Columbia, MD could be used to solve the problem.

All of these things are within walking distance if you live in Columbia's village of Wilde Lake (and, of course, your health insurance covers the primary care physicians in walking distance).

I'm guessing you're thinking of typical "stroad" suburbs, but alternatives are possible and do exist.

Unfortunately, the suburb has to be the product of planning like Columbia. Typical "emergent" suburbs turn into unwalkable ones.

acuozzo

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What if you're using it for Mathematics (e.g., making progress on unsolved problems) instead of writing software? Would you consider that a valid use-case?

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Can you pay for The Thinnernet with Thnickels? https://thick-coins.net

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> It's not an easy thing, but some of the histrionic claims about child raising on the internet are really out there.

Have you considered that objectively difficult infants/toddlers/children exist? Children with O.D.D., for instance, show symptoms early, but diagnosis usually doesn't come until much later.

Perhaps the comments you came across online were from the parents of those kids.

-A parent of a very challenging child with Level II Autism

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Weird. I thought they came from Nilbog.

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> Why do people shy away from such things?

Have you ever met someone with a true addiction to food? I'm not talking about someone with a habitual craving for sweets. I'm talking about someone who consumes food compulsively like a chain-smoker; someone who, in the absence of whatever their favorites are, will consume and consume with little regard for what the food is: an entire jar of pickles, multiple pounds of grapes, a whole rotisserie chicken, et al.

I used to be one. I once ate six baked white onions¹ in one sitting before vomiting everywhere and rethinking my life.

I broke through naturally, but I wish GLP-1s had been prevalent at the time. Want to know what made breaking it so challenging?

  1. Unlike other addictions, you have to continue consuming this one or else you will die.

  2. Nearly every social event in the USA is tied in some way to food which means that you have to exercise willpower __constantly__ if you have a social life.

  3. People are more interested in shaming you than supporting you. Most want you to fail.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV9spqCzSkQ

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Tomer's website is great! Thanks for sharing it here.

I'm mentioned on there, FWIW, toward the end of the CV page. I really wish I hadn't scared Mel away after my first e-mail exchange with him.

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> If you can make something special and engaging

... and sufficiently interesting to more than a very small group of persons.

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Were there any periods in which the rate of change in warming was the same or greater?

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Don't mistake a defused bomb for a dud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox

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> I have never heard of analog CDs.

Laserdiscs are analog.

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NTSC video & film (movie film - 35mm) restoration.

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> I don't think very many people predicted that it simply wouldn't matter when photorealistic compromising images of whoever you don't like

This goes hand-in-hand with the widespread death of belief in absolute truth in the US and other western nations.

If this technology were released during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, I'd wager it would have had the impact most of us expected it to have, at least for a little while.

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> Did you have a runnable WolframLanguage file so it can compare results?

Yes.

> Did you give it H100 / H200 access to compile and then iterate?

Yes via Lambda.ai. Also, FWIW, I run claude with --dangerously-skip-permissions and codex with the equivalent flag.

> it does amazing kernel work (Codex-5.4)

Specifically with WGMMA + TMA?

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Once TMA gets involved both Claude and Codex spin endlessly until they dump TMA for a slower fallback.

I've observed this with Claude-Code having Opus 4.6 reasoning set to medium, high, and max; "adaptive thinking" enabled and disabled; and I've made sure to max-out thinking tokens.

I've also observed this with Codex GPT-5.4 in addition to GPT-5.3-Codex with reasoning efforts from medium to xhigh.

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I've also observed this on the web, as mentioned in my OP, with GPT-5.4pro (Extended Pro), Gemini3-DeepThink, and Opus 4.6.

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> AI and LLMs have changed one thing very quickly: competent output is now cheap.

If you're working on something not truly novel, sure.

If you're using LLMs to assist in e.g. Mathematics work on as-yet-unproven problems, then this is hardly the case.

Hell, if we just stick to the software domain: Gemini3-DeepThink, GPT-5.4pro, and Opus 4.6 perform pretty "meh" writing CUDA C++ code for Hopper & Blackwell.

And I'm not talking about poorly-spec'd problems. I'm talking about mapping straightforward mathematics in annotated WolframLanguage files to WGMMA with TMA.

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> I solve that in a hilarious way: by uninstalling the app when I’m not using it.

Ha, I do the same thing!

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> but that was not a replacement of understanding what multiplication was

You're conflating an algorithm in N or Z with inherent meaning.

Let's shift over to R: Expand e*pi to repeated addition.

Think exponentiation is "repeated multiplication"? Try 2^pi.

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> our countries identity has basically become "we're all immigrants" but that's not a new phenomena

This is a very "New World" perspective which won't cut it for the "Old World" until their countries hit their own crisis points.

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> laundry [is] already automated

Partially. Ironing/steaming is only partially automated. Folding/hanging is not.