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> And, the US providers seem to all be racing to make that capability inaccessible to anyone who isn't at a Fortune 500 and able to use their "cyber" versions. Because it's valuabl…

A Vitamix is not an immersion blender; an immersion blender is one you "immerse" in the thing you're blending, i.e., a stick or wand blender. https://www.seriouseats.com/best-immer…

> Some markdown flavors for example use \(\), which is probably the worst of them to use. Some markdown flavors say they use `\(\)` but they also use `\` as the escape character, s…

The post I was replying to said, > UB was coined only in the first C standard, in 1989. Prior to that there was no "If you do this, anything can happen". I.e., the context is, befo…

More like, "if you do this, what happens depends on your particular combination of hardware, operating system, and compiler. Don't ask us."

"Look around to look around."

Plus, if the LLM goes down (or gets "upgraded" to a model that does the translation differently/wrong), you still have the tool available locally.

They'll qualify their answers in English but as the article mentions, if your prompt asks for a confidence score, that "uncertainty" doesn't translate into low numerical confidence…

If my compiler "went down" I could still think through the problem I was trying to solve, maybe even work out the code on paper. I could reach a point where I would be fairly confi…

I just tried QBasic 1.1 and it includes context-sensitive help: press F1 on a keyword to get documentation for it.

> An interesting side effect might be that only people locked out from using LLMs will learn how to program in the future, as vide coding doesn't teach you the fundamentals. While …

> On a phone keyboard, sure, it's as hard as an accent sign (á, for example), difficult but not twrrible. But on a keyboard? Yeah, no one is typing in Alt combos when literally any…

Correct; the ability of a model to reproduce source material verbatim does not necessarily make the model's existence illegal. However, using a model to do just that might very wel…

I wonder why that would be? Presumably if the batteries are low then the pressure the machine "thinks" it's inflated the cuffs to is higher than the actual pressure...

And with eye/face tracking it can tell if you really watched it, with a smile.

I miss TkDesk, which I discovered many years ago when I was first trying Linux, partly because it supports unlimited splits, not just two. In fact, if I'm remembering correctly, wh…

This also lets you run QEMU over SSH, if you want. I use this in my assembly language course; towards the end I give an assignment to write Hello, World! as a 16-bit real mode MBR …

I saw "Hugginface" listed alongside C++, React, and SQL as skills on a resume recently. Wasn't quite sure what to make of that.

Maybe that's why the models are so eager to spit out reams and reams of code, it lets their masters claim a higher percentage (even if most of the code they emit is never used).

Doesn't it still treat 64-bit code as something of an afterthought?

My wife and I agreed to expunge "just" from our vocabulary, at least with regards to asking to do this. It's almost always kind of belittling, implying that the thing you're asking…

That's called a "unity" build, isn't it? I was under the impression that it was a relatively well-known technique, such that there are existing tools to merge a set of source files…

> I think any NPC with dialogue important to a goal (a quest, a tutorial, etc) is going to be hard to use generative AI for. It not only needs to be coherent with the story, but it…

> > apparently in C++ a structure cannot really have zero length > Yes it can: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/no_uni ... A structure with no members can be m…

Prefixes come first, 1 byte each, order doesn't matter except that REX, if present, must come last. Then the opcode, 1-3 bytes. Followed by Mod R/M byte, if present. Followed by SI…