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nottathrowaway3

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    It evokes a larger brand of similar wordplay which is basically the professional equivalent of "it's not you, it's me". The reason people don't like it is that it essentially tries…

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    > I have the conclusion opt-in async/await is a mistake. I think high level language/runtime like c# should handle it automatically... This is not a good idea unless you like havin…

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    Comment #35208171

    tl;dr > language and compiler capable of rewriting normal control flow into a state machine implementation of coroutines

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    Comment #35203116

    The median chess player is usually described as mediocre (if you ask chess players). They suck as badly as the median clarinet player in your high school band/orchestra.

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    > me: You are a chess grandmaster playing as black... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Ingmar_Bergma... The KNIGHT holds out his two fists to CHATGPT, who smiles at h…

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    Comment #35202239

    > "and no one will ever help you in life" ... strange thing to say in a hospital bed? It's strange until you get the hospital bill in the mail.

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    Comment #35202066

    > I try to click less on negative stories and more on positive stories. An alternative approach is to consume news from multiple countries (including your own). It's so interesting…

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    The answer will either be some socialist rationing policy, or genocide. Current "work for a living" systems only sustained the population because a human could be the most cost-eff…

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    Comment #35187196

    > then it's in the best interest of ... the applicant that they not be hired This kind of wordplay makes sense from HR's perspective. Ex: it "wouldn't be a fit for you anyway", the…

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    Depends if it was a standard project format like npm or setup.py. The risk is, by asking, you indicate you don't know how to use standard industry tooling. "hey, your starter code …

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    > We call it a valid instance of an Othello game board. We. Not GPT. We. People who know the symbolic meaning of "Othello game board"... The board structure can be defined precisel…

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    Comment #35164755

    Unless the decision-maker is short or otherwise unattractive. For some managers' egos, fully remote work was the best thing to happen to them. If RTO happens, such people will go b…

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    > Human: ...but the intention is to have a "model" rather than the full thing Rat: easy for you to say. Also, this was the plot of Shinsekai Yori .

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    > There is no way to represent the state of the game without some kind of board model. I agree with the conclusion but not the premise. The question under debate is about not just …

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    Comment #35163464

    > And there is no ceiling yet in sight We are approaching the time when we find out if the human brain uses language encoding as its core mechanism of thought, or if it has any tri…

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    Then there becomes a "material" difference between Othello and those LL(1) grammars as grandparent comment suggested there wasn't. I would argue the optimal compression for such a …

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    > It doesn't seem materially different than knowing that U always follows Q, and that J is always followed by a vowel in "legal" English language words. The material difference is …

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    > As someone who is occasionally challenged by finding the right balance between assertiveness and diplomacy, I can see how this AI would be a game-changer for professionals like m…