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patrickthebold
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
So, maybe we could consider a "White Hat" ransomware group that takes the money and also leaks the data, so that long term no one bothers to pay which ultimately disincentivizes ransomware attacks?
patrickthebold
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Somewhat off topic, but I've always wanted to know _who_ gets my tax dollars more than what they were spent on. For example, a middle class salary to someone building bombs in Ohio is different than a wealthy investor who owns shares in some educational company that provides standardized tests to local public schools.
patrickthebold
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I'm not sure I follow your workflow exactly. If PR B is merged, then I'd expect PR A to already be merged (I'd normally branch off of A to make B.)

That said, after the squash merge of A and git fetch origin, you want something like git rebase --update-refs --onto origin/main A C (or whatever the tip of the chain of branches is)

The --update-refs will make sure pr B is in the right spot. Of course, you need to (force) push the updated branches. AFAICT the gh command line tool makes this a bit smoother.
patrickthebold
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It helps if you click the link of the operator(s) under TinyAPL. For example Blackbird goes to https://tinyapl.rubenverg.com/docs/primitive/atop

Which seems to be function composition and some extra rules about if there's 1 or 2 arguments, so the 2 arguments go to G and F is applied as a single argument function. Anyway if you click on a few of these an look at the red text in the upper right it's fairly clear what it's doing.
patrickthebold
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Reminds me of this quote which I recently found and like:

> look, I'm sorry, but the rule is simple: if you made something 2x faster, you might have done something smart if you made something 100x faster, you definitely just stopped doing something stupid

https://x.com/rygorous/status/1271296834439282690
patrickthebold
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yes, I really wanted to post the comment and I (wrongly) thought this post got blocked by my procrastination setting. Apologies for the noise.
patrickthebold
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I happen to just stumble across this article https://felixbarbalet.com/simple-made-inevitable-the-economi... extolling the virtues of Clojure. It specifically calls out Go for not being simple in the ways that matter for LLMs.

I've no idea myself, I just thought it was interesting for comparison.
patrickthebold
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This is interesting to think about: For gold I'd say the demand is coming from both industries and from people who want it as a store of value. If it was only used as an industrial chemical, then surely the price would drop because there would be less demand.

Some bitcoin advocates will talk about how useful it is as a currency, and I wonder how much bitcoin is actually used for purposes other then to hope you can sell it to someone else for more than you paid.
patrickthebold
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I'd be good to give an example of where the 'only if' doesn't apply. If only to clear up the confusion.
patrickthebold
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
of course 9.99...(repeating) is mathematically 10, so I have a hard time being against allowing that.
patrickthebold
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Half a quarter.
patrickthebold
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Is gas sold as a whole penny amounts in those locations? Where I am it's always something and 9/10ths of a cent.
patrickthebold
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I think I might be missing something basic, but if you actually wanted to do a Fourier transform on the sound hitting your ear, wouldn't you need to wait your entire lifetime to compute it? It seems pretty clear that's not what is happening, since you can actually hear things as they happen.
patrickthebold
·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I agree.

Ideally we could just increase the tax credits so it's large enough to cover the childcare expenses (and other necessities), and let the families decide what is best. And yes, some people are going to do a bad job taking care of their kids and spend the money on something else. But my understanding is that it generally works well to just give people money, rather than pay for specific things.
patrickthebold
·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
One thought I had recently: Their shareholders are probably mostly the same people. So why even compete?
patrickthebold
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
There might be a slippery slope here: suppose there's a GPL version of product X in the training set. I'm building a proprietary competitor. Then let's say copilot makes it a little bit easier and cheaper for me to build my product.

Now suppose it's 10 years from now and it's trivial to build a proprietary competitor.