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Green is in the center of the visible spectrum of light (notice the G in the middle of ROYGBIV), so evolution should theoretically optimize for green light absorption. An interesti…

You do need to turn off strict aliasing for that, because mruby uses `struct RObject { RB_OBJECT_HEADER; ... }` and `struct RHash { MRB_OBJECT_HEADER; ... }` (where MRB_OBJECT_HEAD…

There is plenty of room in science for research that is just to examine and collect data. I don't understand your argument that science should only be to demonstrate claims and "co…

The MRuby embedding API isn't a whole lot like Lua's. Lua is a fantastic experience to embed. You might have to futz with the registry to store Lua objects in a C struct, but the a…

I think it's fatigue. His stuff appears on the front page very often, and there's often tons of LLM stuff on the front page, too. Even as an LLM user, it's getting tedious and repe…

I don't think it's implying that at all. Especially with the accompanying sentence. The implication is that hyper focusing on news is distorting our perception of normal.

If your friend then believes that work, sleep, and hygiene are not things you did at all because you don't talk about them, then your analogy would be comparable. People believe ho…

Many cancer and heart disease deaths are preventable. There's no direct correlation with preventability. The correlation is with fear and spectacle.

I didn't imply that all web developers care about it, but that most of the people who care about it are web developers. I won't deny that it's still a minority.

It's a common philosophy for developers with standards of robustness and accessibility to not hard depend on js for things that don't need js to function. > Why the target audience…

Fair enough, I meant in terms of what rules and restrictions exist around aliasing, which are different between the two, but my wording was indeed off.

Octopuses or octopodes. Octopi is incorrect.

It's worth noting that "aliasing" in Rust and C typically mean completely unrelated things. Strict aliasing in C roughly means that if you initialize memory as a particular type, y…

The accusations aren't "towards anyone who dares question her", they're towards people who assume that she had come in after the fact and unfairly got into somebody else's role, wh…

Do you have a better word that describes "things that look correct without definitely being so"? I think "plausible" is the perfect word for that. It's not a sleight of hand to use…

Yeah, SQLite doesn't have any true array datatype. I think you could probably do it with a virtual table, but that would be adding a native extension, and it would have to pack its…

I'm certain it wouldn't, and you're certain it would, and we have the same amount of evidence (and probably roughly the same means for running such an expensive experiment). I thin…

These discussions often end up resembling religious arguments. "We don't know how any of this works, but we can fathom an intelligent god doing it, therefore an intelligent god did…

Could an LLM trained on nothing and looped upon itself eventually develop language, more complex concepts, and everything else, based on nothing? If you loop LLMs on each other, tr…

> Everyone is out here acting like "predicting the next thing" is somehow fundamentally irrelevant to "human thinking" and it is simply not the case. Nobody is. What people are doi…

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I make my code public, and keep my inputs in a private submodule.

It's not forced if you were getting it all for free anyway and can walk away at any time. "They've stopped giving away old thing for free and are now only doing new thing" doesn't …

For the record, it's a Malcolm in the Middle reference: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CzBi5tIfzK4