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Thank you, dredmorbius, for this very helpful response. dang has mentioned a procedure or system that involves making guesses for the purpose of shadowbanning. I wonder if downvote…

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Is it also true that users with certain karma count or special permissions have more significant - and potentially lasting - downvoting weight that…

Do you have get-out-of-jail or N-strikes-and-you're-out policies? What if someone's legitimate website gets caught in this? I've also long wondered about user specific shadow bans.…

Will you share examples for prompts that “vastly improved” your integrations?

Neat. How did you land on the 2000 figure?

Very cool. I gave it https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3300/pg3300-images.html and it was able to pick up on some niche references in my questions. The text is quite long but it…

Given a paper, how do you find out if it was reproduced, disproven, or failed to replicate?

What do you evaluate to decide for yourself whether, or not, a scientific paper or experiment is legit?

Based on my quick read, “Why build Carbon?” section calls out just 1 problem with C++ which is the developer experience. Agreed. However Carbon seems to do a whole lot more than De…

Questions for whoever was involved with this decision or might know: Why was Sourcehut chosen? Any specific appealing features? Any alternatives considered?

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Do_It.txt

Why do you expect the content to precede the platform?

I like to refer to computing history as much as the next person, but the references in this post [0][1][2] came across as rather weak and mostly anachronistic. Computer hardware, n…

What does a “stuck on-chain transaction” actually mean, can someone explain? The least generous read is that they’re testing their withdrawals halting system in preparation.

C++ programmer here. I was about to start a deep dive into Go today. Hearing there are no enums is giving me serious pause. How do large systems (e.g. Docker?) deal with this?

Thanks Greg. That post you just linked is super encouraging — I’ve been meaning to “do something with ML” for the longest time but couldn’t figure out where to start. P.S. Huge fan…

I do systems software engineering. What should I learn in order to become an ML engineer?