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ocschwar
·9 ngày trước·discuss
I'm often shuffled into teams where I am the only American and everyone else is Indian, working in India, and I take a small measure of pride in switching to the formal register that Indians like to use in workplace English, and using the idioms they have.
ocschwar
·tháng trước·discuss
It didn't hurt that you can't play Fruit Merge on a TI 84
ocschwar
·2 tháng trước·discuss
The strange thing is he picked a fight with a store of humanities papers rather than scientific ones.
ocschwar
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Seems to me these LLMs have a critical mass of Python training data and Rust training data, so there's no advantage for Python there.

So as the article points out, an iterative process that catches the mistakes at compile time is much more suited for an AI than one that catches them at runtime.
ocschwar
·3 tháng trước·discuss
The Pyramids have a recently noticed Tamil inscription from Indian tourists visiting 2000 years ago.

And the Neo-Babylonian Empire had the first tourism minister taking care of a paleo-Babylonian site.
ocschwar
·6 tháng trước·discuss
The firmware for a diesel engine goes into a diesel engine. The company can be required to get a PE's signify for putting the firmware in. After that, if it's copied elsewhere, that's not their problem.
ocschwar
·6 tháng trước·discuss
This is why we need Professional Engineer licenses for software.

There are times when a product design needs to be reviewed and approved by someone who cares more about his license than about his job. It doesn't happen as often with software as it does with civil engineering, but often enough that it needs to become a thing.
ocschwar
·7 tháng trước·discuss
Well, the Tongan boys provide the only empirical data on how unsupervised children behave on a desert island.

Everything else written about the idea is speculation, from The Coral Island to The CHildren's Island to Lord of the Flies.

But Golding did observe behavior in a boarding school, and while the Tongan boys did also go to boarding school, they also were being raised in Tongan culture, and that culture, including its behavioral norms, was what helped them survive on a desert island.
ocschwar
·7 tháng trước·discuss
Maybe it's time to do a Eurovision style thing for the quality badge. Everyone uploads to Arxiv. Every who's in the field votes on the worthiest papers (not allowed to vote for anyone you actually collaborated with).

Winners get to put a shiny sticker on their papers.
ocschwar
·7 tháng trước·discuss
Who could have guessed that growing up in a Polynesian culture is a better preparation for such a thing than going to an English boarding school..
ocschwar
·7 tháng trước·discuss
Whatever it takes to keep you from leaving your post.
ocschwar
·7 tháng trước·discuss
The value you get from the health care system isn't just from the services they provide when/if you need them.

It's from the system existing and being ready to help you.

We're not talking about widgets, onions, haircuts, or pork bellies here. You can't opt out of the system existing. And you can't opt out of the horrific consequences if the system doesn't exist.

So it's a bit silly to talk about health care like it's something that has a free market.
ocschwar
·7 tháng trước·discuss
My childhood was dominated by the smell of licorice in some places because chocolate was too expensive.
ocschwar
·7 tháng trước·discuss
And then they enroll their patients in the Drug of the Month Club.
ocschwar
·8 tháng trước·discuss
Young people moving out, and those who stay are not inclined to bear children.
ocschwar
·9 tháng trước·discuss
It's true, but it's cold comfort. the amount of reading I can do in a single sitting has declined a lot.
ocschwar
·9 tháng trước·discuss
It's things like having a grating monotone, and having to pause before speaking and willing yourself to adopting the right tone for your state of mind and the effect you want to have on your audience. Every. Time. You. Speak.

It's like being an actor, except the whole world is your stage, and you have to be conscious of your character, lines, and motivation, the entire time you're awake.
ocschwar
·10 tháng trước·discuss
Discord servers are half of a good counterexample, since people try to avoid the extreme end of network effects and want their chat partners pre-screened.

But... it's all on Discord, not IRC or jabber or anything.
ocschwar
·2 năm trước·discuss
I'm hoping the author of FPiLean adds enough to the book to let the language function as a competitor to Haskel.
ocschwar
·2 năm trước·discuss
So you basically implemented an MQTT-Sockets protocol. Which you could then use to connect to a WebSockets server on the other side.