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Comment #49210040
Exactly the same point where I determined the article is garbage.
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Comment #49209150
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Comment #49195872
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Comment #48672242
> write fanfiction about what it thinks those best minds I asked AI what Einstein would be working on today if he were alive, the result was a predictably rosy scenario of modern p…
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Comment #48257790
> lines a consistent thickness A "ruling pen" would help. It's like a fountain pen where you can adjust the width of the ink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruling_pen
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Comment #48195089
One shudders to think of the difficulties of launching and landing space vehicles on these balloon-supported platforms.
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Comment #48174095
To put it simply, nobody wants to watch AI slop. This should be obvious!
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Comment #48061814
That's why they always teach: "never compare floats for equality." Or maybe they don't teach that anymore, I dunno. See link for the Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic:…
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Comment #47777787
There is still hope for a compiler book. From Knuth's website: > And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of context-free languages) and…
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Comment #47283562
Ada doesn't even have a "++" operator to increment a number. SAD!
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Comment #47127725
Coincidentally, I did a search for "honda generator." One of the sponsored results was a scam posing as a different company! https://imgur.com/a/3ydKHZe
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Comment #46989637
First they came for the stochastic parrots, but I said nothing, because I'm not a stochastic parrot. ( /s )
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Comment #46959823
> AI agents will soon be processing payroll, placing orders, paying suppliers, creating policies, sending out contracts, creating marketing materials, answering customer questions,…
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Comment #46346935
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.
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Comment #46181843
I seriously looked into it many years ago... One problem with "literate programming" is it assumes that good coders are also good writers, and the good writers are also good coders…
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Comment #45786819
Welp, back to nepotism, I guess.
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Comment #45393045
I think to remember something, you have to replay it in your mind from time to time. The more you do that, the more you remember. (Reminiscing is probably the right word). I guess …
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Comment #45339168
You're a bot, aren't you.
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Comment #45331294
Nice ending: > The reporter was banned and now it looks like he has removed his account.
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Comment #45101676
In a tech support scenario, Dvorak is always troublesome. You sit down to type at someone's computer, and random characters start popping out.