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> except when you ask US/western models what happened at Tiananmen Square they'll give you an answer instead of being blocked by an authoritarian government. do you think the avera…

i love that geeksforgeeks is the website everyone mentions wanting to block :D

for advanced undergrads, the university of michigan (i'm speaking from my own experience here) has a course progression of (1) programming languages for 1st year grad students, (2)…

it has the nicest calculator syntax (imho) among the tools i've tried (python/julia/array langs/matlab/etc...) with extensive docs for each function and a nice notebook interface, …

awesome article! i appreciated the alternatives and misc. workarounds to OT/unicode typesetting toward the end, very helpful :D (go blue!)

this is good to know :) my use for janet hasn't involved much processing of external data but i'll keep bb in mind when the use case arises. thank you for the information!

"we" didn't pass them --- i don't think changing the severity of law enforcement alone can achieve what i wish for in society, but the existence of many laws (and severity of their…

janet has replaced sh, python, awk, etc. for me, for system scripts over a certain length! it has a very fast startup time (on my system, 1.4ms via hyperfine vs. 1ms for dash) for …

i've tried not to

god help us if we have to choose between the two );

i do photo restoration as part of my research (bizarre place to be for a math undergrad), so i do think AI is a lifesaver for very small adjustments that would be tedious or subpar…

you would watch a movie generated with the sterility of an LLM?

:D https://github.com/UnsafeLabs/Bounty-Hunters

not much to add but this was an excellent read :D

umich currently has a course like this (but it's a bit of a blowoff)

the original kakoune is just cli; the binary has a json ui client option to allow communication with the kakoune server, with the intent of any gui or alternative client being sepa…

just got my stickers from there yesterday! :-) i wish my less cs-oriented friends could see how cool i think the sdf is, lol; and, that some kind of "small-web" system, complete wi…

adding a zero to the left of a binary integer doesn't double it

i don't entirely disagree, but > the cheapest usable tier of Claude Code is $100/mo is, imo, false. cc pro, $20 per month, gets you a lot of sonnet usage, and code review with opus…

western liberal democracies tend to use "autocratic" as an epithet (though, i guess, there are fewer countries that marker is used against for which it's false now than ~50 years a…

what would you say makes a UI look as if it's for a computer (genuine)? aside from purely(!) cosmetic things, like the skin on the windows 11 taskbar vs. 10. i think to windows <= …

a readable version seems to have just been added! https://github.com/datavorous/sameshi/tree/master/readable

95% of the commenters on this post own no private property.

some would say their money is our money via the ltv :-)

many schools (like mine) don't teach unique pointers in the pure "programming" class sequence, but offer a primer in advanced classes where c++ happens to be used, with the intent …