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blubber

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    Comment #49119178

    I cannot tell whether you were really serious but this actually could be an interesting study: same task, same procedure, only the language and writing system is different: English…

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    Comment #49119071

    How do you explain applicants that the real goal of your work is folding underwear while the internet is flooded with announcements like this https://www.unitree.com/mobile/As2-W a…

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    Comment #49088434

    Variable AWS is unbound.

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    Comment #49088372

    Common lisp isn't functional in that sense.

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    Comment #48815299

    "found numerous examples of bloat and inefficiencies in Tan’s site code, and used a single (Anthropic) Claude session to review the files he downloaded from the website to confirm …

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    Comment #48704811

    In mice Edit: the title should have such a tag

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    Comment #48682214

    I suppose you meant "good enough"?

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    Comment #48589424

    "Where Are the Accuracy Benchmarks?" I wish the author would have provided one.

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    Comment #48589359

    There is a conflict of interest, though.

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    Comment #48438035

    Because it's cgo-free maybe?

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    Comment #48379862

    Some additional sound bites from last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLevant/comments/1nv9521/larry_el...

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    Comment #47999224

    That's why there won't be any local models in 10-20 years. The latest Chinese models are already hosted on proprietary clouds.

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    Comment #47157617

    Obligatory post: open source != free software. There is OSS you are not allowed to modify etc.

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    Comment #46910149

    And since you became management, you have refered to software only by the stock symbols of the owning companies?

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    Comment #46882642

    While I like the move, I think it could have come a few decades earlier and I'm stunned by the fact that this is Franc-only. When will Europe ever wake up?

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    Comment #46677788

    Isn't Zig's repetitive ceremonial code around allocators+ allocation + defer *.deinit() a sign of a serious shortcoming like golang's error handling? If zig is so good at metaprogr…

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    Comment #46629203

    Or Microsoft could simply fund open source software since they provide a Linux subsystem to allow people to do proper work despite of them having to use windows

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    Comment #46347521

    Two AI agents fighting couldn't end up in an infinite loop?

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    Comment #46309616

    Yes, but there is no song with the line: party like it's 1996. Simply doesn't work.

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    Comment #46305335

    "When I use a text-only browser then no "adblock" is necessary" So you browser as if it were 1999? Yup, no ads back then.

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    Comment #46103793

    This isn't about compilation vs interpretation. R is simply badly designed as a programming language. This doesn't change just because its inventor wrote a book.

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    Comment #46103768

    An RSS client without a web browser, which the team is fervently opposed to?

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    Comment #46066698

    I know people who used Visual Basic for all of their programming. I'd say No either way unless people explained to me without bursting out into laughter that they also have extensi…

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    Comment #46056089

    No, it's not. Even established packages have bugs caused by R weirdness. I like it nevertheless.

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    Comment #46056078

    "The reason you can use this simpler syntax in R is because it’s non-standard-evaluation ..." So it actually is about Python vs R. That said, while this kind of non-standard evalua…