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recursive

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About recursive

I got into computing because I recognized it as a refuge from fuzzy stuff. Nice while it lasted.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49217230

    Irrelevant. They have all the leverage and the submitter has none.

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    Comment #49216612

    That makes it sound like they made a mistake.

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    Comment #49216606

    You can just add one and then remove it. That way you're not lying. And also it doesn't sound like you're disagreeing with them so you sound like a problem.

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    Comment #49202071

    Please be nostalgic somewhere else.

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    Comment #49199521

    The mayor of Nashville is elected.

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    Comment #49199434

    This is a good job? It takes me a half dozen scroll actions to get each sentence of text. I'm not risking a carpal tunnel flare-up just to get through effectively one paragraph of …

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    Comment #49191439

    People are drawn to nicotine use. And still people complain about smoke.

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    Comment #49191408

    It seemed implied by knowing one of two employers and the estimated total size of the population. I could have been wrong.

  9. comment
    Comment #49189874

    If it's intended for a global audience of 12, just send it to them. No need to publish.

  10. comment
    Comment #49187452

    Every time I accidentally start vim, I just buy a new computer.

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    Comment #49187241

    Then why is it published on a public website?

  12. comment
    Comment #49173011

    To the OP: your sibling explanation comment here is flagged and dead. I don't know why.

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    Comment #49164433

    It could be an app. Minesweeper is an app right? Unit conversion? Color palette designer? Metronome?

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    Comment #49160357

    Burgers don't drive cars. People drive cars, and people eat burgers. Is that the context you were looking for? We've identified two ways to reduce carbon production. 1) reduce prod…

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    Comment #49160327

    No. Sometimes they produce code that's ok in small units, but definitely not all the time.

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    Comment #49148792

    Exactly. I would want a good looking svg. That's the evaluation.

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    Comment #49148755

    > After a bunch of AI winters, it turned out that a remarkable degree of what makes us human can be expressed just by a bunch of weights Agree to disagree. If there was a realistic…

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    Comment #49148673

    If your school mascot is a pelican and you need to make a flyer for the upcoming bike safety event, then this precise thing becomes useful. Most things that are useful in the real …

  19. comment
    Comment #49128854

    The ones getting culled aren't the ones that chose the system.

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    Comment #49123908

    And the human is human. The idea that we'd have to justify the existence of humans relative to LLMs based on objective metrics sounds like it's leading in a bad direction. If the L…

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    Comment #49113592

    If you need to scroll the viewport left and right to read a line of text, that seems kind of unfriendly.

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    Comment #49112450

    This sounds like a critique of mobile browsers. Make friendliness the default!

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    Comment #49111503

    Yes. It's original.

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    Comment #49111386

    You said "really it's worse than exponential". But that's based on your own personally-interesting way of measuring n, which is inconsistent with the given way.

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    Comment #49098420

    Then we may conclude that you may not be interested in this.