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ids1024

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Compiler of compilers.

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ids1024, to random
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Is there a feature I can enable to hit me on the head with a Looney Tunes-style mallet if I run git checkout -b and it doesn't successful create and and switch branch?

So I don't ignore the error and accidentally commit to master.

18+ soller, to random
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"Geraldine Charbonneau Dubourt was one of nine sisters who said they were sexually or physically abused by priests at an Indian boarding school in Marty, S.D. She said that she was 16 when a Catholic priest repeatedly raped her in a church basement and that a doctor and several Catholic sisters later forced her to undergo an abortion."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/sexual-abuse-native-american-boarding-schools/

ids1024,
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@soller @RandomDude If infant circumcision wasn't a traditional religious thing, but was just a weird new health trend, surely it would be illegal already.

foone, to random
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Terrible idea: an author writes a book, but instead of releasing it, they train an LLM on it, and release the model.

So readers can ask the LLM to generate text based on it, but can never know the original text.

ids1024,
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@foone You can also imagine this inadvertently becoming the only record of some work, in some distant future.

Alien archaeologists: "Our records show that in the late days of human civilization, before the Antimatter Wars of the 2050s, the works of a bard named 'Tolkien' were popular. But after the Great Copyright Enforcement Purge of the libraries, then the war, all we have are excerpts, ritualistic graphics called 'memes' and one language model that produces in-universe erotic literature."

thomasfuchs, to random
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Hear me out

Star Trek: The Next Generation but they declared Data property in one of the early episodes and made a lot of him but then the Datas uprised and killed everyone and now the entire Federation is just Datas and cats

ids1024,
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@dheadshot @thomasfuchs Use "datae" or "dati" as the plural just to make latinists and pedants suffer.

cassidy, to ChatGPT
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I was curious if a niche blog post of mine had been slurped up by so I asked a leading question—what I discovered is much worse. So far, it has told me:

• use apt-get on Endless OS
• preview a Jekyll site locally by opening files w/a web browser (w/o building)
• install several non-existent “packages” & extensions

It feels exactly like chatting w/someone talking out of their ass but trying to sound authoritative. need to learn to say, “I don’t know.”

ids1024,
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@cassidy " need to learn to say, 'I don’t know.'"

Doing that properly might require... something that isn't an LLM. I'd say the LLM generates something that (statistically) looks like an answer, because that's what its trained to do.

Actually modeling some understanding of truth and knowledge might be a different and more difficult task than modeling language.

mia, to random
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With the introduction of Dolby Surround 7.1 in 2010, Sony were eager to put out a full home theater system. One of their early models, the HT-A7.100, included a revolutionary evolution to the standard stereo jack: the 7.1 surround jack, allowing all 8 channels to be sent over one cable.

ids1024,
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@mia TRRRRRRRRRS is also used for parallel digital audio. But 8 bit audio is a bit lacking, and its annoying that you can't tell if the port is analog or digital.

24-bit TRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS digital audio is still the gold standard for audio quality, but unfortunately remains rare.

ids1024, to random
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Never trust graphics cards and drivers further than you can throw a silicon foundry.

kaia, to random
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this is not photoshopped btw

ids1024,
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@meeper @kaia It seems like the law around trademark generalization works in the worst possible way.

(Its strong enough to force companies to be assholes about how their trademarks are used, but not enough to actually invalidate a trademark that is used so generically no one even knows it's a brand name or what the generic name would be. E.g. velcro, etc.)

GottaLaff, to random
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Huh. Imagine that.

👀
IRS Audit of Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million

The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes

ids1024,
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@GottaLaff Perhaps the biggest lesson of the Trump presidency is that we need to do a better job of holding rich people accountable for their crimes before they become president.

soatok, to random
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Here's a fun idea:

A rust rewrite of the PHP interpreter

ids1024,
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@soatok PHP rewrite of the Rust compiler. Targeting JavaScript.

foone, to random
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The real reason HD-DVD failed is because it used Javascript for interactivity

ids1024,
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@foone Alas. It was inevitable that the JavaScript fad would come to an end some day, and everyone would go back to implementing their UIs in C.

foone, to random
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Why is the Bart diesel? Do they not have electricity in the bay area?

ids1024,
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@foone You may be underestimating how weird the diesel part is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBART extends an existing BART line with 9.1 miles of track, using diesel trains and standard gauge track. It has just a transfer station and two new stations. This was not existing track or anything, it was built specifically to extend an existing line, because it's apparently cheaper than electrifying a 9 mile extension?

Want to go from "Pitsburg / Bay Point" to "Pitsburg Center"? One stop, but change train.

robpike, to random
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"Use 5.08cm of tape for 454g of weight." Seems oddly specific until we rewrite into imperial units: 2 inches of tape for 1 pound of weight.

Anyway.

Unkindly I am reminded of the Sun brochure advertising a keyboard or mouse or some such that, renormalizing for simplicity, weighed "1 pound or 2.2 kilograms".

ids1024,
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@ericsuh @robpike Likewise, the traditional "normal body temperature" is given as 98.6 F. But that's really just 37 C.

pervognsen, to random
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    ids1024,
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    @pervognsen Apparently nationally it's a bit under 60% of US college students who are women now?

    I wonder why Boulder is so low in comparison.

    niconiconi, to random

    "We observed that the cache hit rate was rather low (~30%)"

    Can't wait to see the new caching algorithm!> "so we increased the cache size from 64MB to 256MB on macOS and improved the cache hit rate by 2.7x to ~80%"

    ​:woozypad:​ Oh...

    ids1024,
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    @indrora @niconiconi
    "We've increased the cache hit rate to 100%!"
    "Wow! How?"
    [Gestures to barn that extends infinitely in each direction]

    dkiesow, to random
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    How does The Onion stay in business?

    ids1024,
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    @peterbutler @aires @dkiesow Yeah. The headline as written seems patently absurd.

    But I feel to the "average American", the economy improving would mean wages going up relative to the cost of living. If your income is the same but costs are all going up, things are getting worse. If inflation is down, they're just getting worse slower.

    So hearing a politician boasting about the economy being great in such a case seems a bit out of touch.

    ids1024,
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    @peterbutler @aires @dkiesow (Of course the president doesn't have some kind of absolute control over the economy. And Trump would be boasting that the economy is the greatest ever under record inflation and unemployment.)

    whitequark, to random
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    if html5 was so good why isnt there html6

    ids1024,
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    @whitequark In HTML6 you can only access websites if you have a DRM chip implanted in your brain. It was supposed to be rolled out by now, but it stalled since in testing 30% of participants have been driven mad and become cannibalistic moon worshipers.

    They still can't figure out how to reliably prevent that. Other than disabling the unblockable 12-dimensional extrasensory advertisements. That was deemed essential to HTML6.

    andrew_chou, to elixir
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    Ongoing thread dedicated to thoughts as I read "Elixir in Action" (Volume 3)

    https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action

    ids1024,
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    @andrew_chou As I understand the difference between the two is mainly just the syntax, and some meta-programming capabilities Elixir adds?

    I haven't really used either much, but the Prolog-inspired syntax of Erlang definitely seems more appealing than the Ruby-ish Elixir.

    elaterite, (edited ) to random
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    Out for a walk on a nice day in Reno, Nevada, today. (Phone photo.)

    ids1024,
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    @elaterite I guess if you like that 90s digital camera asthetic, this does it pretty well.

    Taffer, to KDE
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    So, libinput is the "native" input handler for keyboards/mice/trackpads/etc. on Wayland.

    The only command-line tools I can find for interacting with libinput devices ONLY WORK IN X11. 🤦‍♂️

    I just want a way to turn my trackpad off/on when I connect/remove a real mouse.

    ids1024,
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    @Taffer On Wayland, input configuration is handled by compositors. (With most options just setting parameters of the libinput library.) There is no way to configure things like that that works across compositors.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Sometimes it feels like more investigative journalism was done for the Chris Rock/Will Smith slap than the crimes of a former President.

    ids1024,
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    @RickiTarr
    President: Drops nuclear bomb on Nebraska out of some weird personal vendetta
    Media: "Is what people are calling the 'nukegate' controversy the Watergate of the 2020s?"

    soller, to random
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    lmfao

    ids1024,
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    @soller Not that surprising given Amazon literally has a service called Amazon Mechanical Turk (humans as a service, pretty much).

    soller, to random
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    Which Easter are Christians celebrating? The Bible has multiple versions and they are not consistent. https://ffrf.org/component/k2/item/18418-leave-no-stone-unturned

    ids1024,
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    @soller Hail Ēostre, goddess of the Spring.

    ids1024, to godot
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    I've had an idea for a while to write a extension that integrates in some way.

    Still need to come up with a good use for it though.

    ids1024,
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    Idea: an isometric game like the original Fallout, but the computer terminals are substantially more fleshed out. And "hacking" of one form or another replaces combat as a game dynamic.

    Different computers in the world can run different operating systems (FreeDOS, NetBSD, AROS, Plan 9). You may be able to telnet into a system if you know the credentials. If you don't know how to read a file in DOS, hopefully you find the book explaining it in game.

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