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What do you mean the provenance? It was published on livejournal in 2012, that’s the provenance.

Yes they have GPUs.

What about virtual events between participants in different time zones? Whose do you keep stable if one has their clock moved under them?

System.Object is a type of all objects, NOT a type of all types. That is, all objects are System.Object. If one has a class Foo, then every object of type Foo is also of type Syste…

This post mixes up “easy for compilers and assemblers to transform and easy for cpus to execute” with “easy for LLMs to understand” and assumes that anything in the first category …

Yes; because - is on the keyboard and — isn't. (Don't tell me how to type —, I know how, but despite that it is the reason, which is what the parent comment asks about.)

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The US-UK Mutual Legal Assistance treaty imposes obligations on Ofcom which they have not met, 4chan claims: “None of these actions constitutes valid service under the US-UK Mutual…

Protocol buffers suck but so does everything else. Name another serialization declaration format that both (a) defines which changes can be make backwards-compatibly, and (b) has a…

They didn’t account for training. From the paper: > LLM training & data storage: This study specifically considers the inference and serving energy consumption of an Al prompt. We …

A couple nits, since we're already going above and beyond the normal amount of nitpicking: 1. In Kenji's article on how to cut an onion, he shows a picture after doing the horizont…

What if your program depends on library a1.0 and library b1.0, and library a1.0 depends on c2.1 and library b1.0 depends on c2.3? Which one do you install in your executable? Choos…

Yeah but GET doesn’t allow requests to have bodies (yeah, I know, technically you can but it’s not very useful), and this is a legitimate issue preventing its use in complex APIs.

How is this related to the linked article? Assemblers won’t delete your code for treating a register with a float in it like an integer.

It’s a pretty bad system since it takes O(n^2) time to produce n integers but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Haskell avoids the extra cost by immutable-self-reference instead of creating a new generat…

The first item yielded from ints() is 1. For the second item, we grab the first item from ints(), and then apply the map operation, and 1+1 is 2. For the third item, we grab the se…

The author says “any lowercase character” but they mean “any character between the character ‘a’ and the character ‘z’”, which happens to correspond to the lower case letters in En…

The author says “any lowercase character” but they mean “any character between the character ‘a’ and the character ‘z’”, which happens to correspond to the lower case letters in En…

I think I understand what the author is trying to get at, and if I’m right then I agree with them, but this seems purposefully written in a style that inhibits understanding by the…

One of the ways in which supply is artificially restricted is that getting planning permission is difficult, so you’re not actually disagreeing with OP

Most trans people have undergone gender affirming medical care. A trans man who has had a hysterectomy and is on testosterone will have a very different medical baseline than a cis…

How do you think unions start? Yes, an entire workplace can just up and decide some day to unionize but more often unions start as non-bargaining unions and then at some point get …

I once worked with a 10x engineer who I could hand new backend APIs to and have a brand new ui component that supported the behavior in less than a day, consistently. I have worked…

You can transform a function `f: (Rng, args...) -> A` into a function `f: (args...) -> Set ` with very little machinery. Some programming languages allow writing functions that are…