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With pleasure. There was a boy A very strange, enchanted boy They say he wandered very far Very far, over land and sea A little shy and sad of eye But very wise was he. And then on…

Love the pedantry here. I'm currently at: no op code does anything, it's all fancy effects in the hardware that can be described in arbitrary detail, which somehow allows me to cau…

I agree. What I meant to say is that the Wikipedia article tells you upfront where it is going. In TFA, you need to push many little paragraph cards across the screen before you ge…

But Wikipedia tells you in the first paragraph what it's all about. A "Pareto front represents the set of solutions where no solution outperforms any other solution in the set at e…

Thanks a lot for the link! I appreciate your work to make this topic accessible in an interactive format. Somehow, in this case, it's too much for me. I think the ratio of informat…

Is there a version I can just read as text without having to push every paragraph out of the way with my fingers across an unevenly colored background that shines through? I get th…

There is clearly LLM-prose involved, but it's pretty well done. Here's one example: "The reallocations were real, but they were never the bottleneck." LLMs love this pattern. Wheth…

That's a good point. They're not selling progress, they are claiming to enable progress by selling you (tokens in -> tokens out), making it your responsibility to connect the two. …

Easy for you to say, but who says they're looking for a way out? It's often easier to find a reason to stay where you are, and easiest to not even need one.

Well, first, we don't have enough context to judge what the "load-bearing seam" was used for in this case ("The key structural point first: the only load-bearing seam is [...]"), s…

It's a clunky metaphor, and it's used clumsily: not for the sake of its clunkiness, but by mixing two decent individual parts in an attempt to have them reinforce each other, but e…

As of recently, there is a strong correlation between use of em-dashes and a verbose, bloated style of writing that uses many words to not quite get to multiple repeated points. No…

Nothing wrong with browsers using resources to do useful work. I'm just not a fan of bloat that eats resources because they're assumed to always be available. That's what this thre…

Waste the cycles, everyone has too many cycles, is it even waste if the cycles would just go unused, GPUs are expensive, they better do their bit, who's got no GPU, go play somewhe…

(I replied to the sister comment to yours, because it was there first, but it's essentially a reply to you, as well.)

I understand the apprehension, and I agree that rules should be as clear as possible and not be applied inconsistently. Hoewever, I take exception to the suggestion that the mere e…

I don't think that the rule should regularly be broken. That's not what they say, and it's not what they mean. The strongest interpretation is: err on the side of not acting surpri…

There's no rule against being surprised, and especially not against _ever_ being surprised. They are asking people not to express surprise, real or not, when responding to a questi…

The social rules page links to the code of conduct, which contains a rule about the roof. The most sensible interpretation to me is that OP wanted to comment on both, possibly forg…

The transparency of this information is a public good in itself, so it is in the interest of the public that this information can be requested as freely as possible. Of course ther…

Generations, presumably.

Interesting, thanks for mentioning that. I've always wondered about the origins of the name, never found anything, but now with your mention of "mineral" I was able to find this: >…

How do you know it's not SQL-lite with the single L serving a double role? Common pronunciations allow you to stay perfectly ambiguous about where the L goes, which aligns quite we…

I think we're all aware of that. The post you're responding to essentially made the same point you did, but to someone who thought it appropriate to express their love for realism …

I was never part of one, but in case nobody with more experience chimes in: I'm assuming the large battles involve a lot of sitting around, pressing the occasional button to change…