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Stressful on the body. Odd hours, sitting too much, inhaling too many exhaust fumes, having people yell at you if _they're_ late. Sounds like a fairly hard job.

RegExps is the way to tokenize, so it's not surpassing you can look for individual tokens using them. It's parsing that's hard , for example when it needs to match up braces, or st…

Models do not have assumptions. They have probabilities for what the next token should be. With enough context, in the context window and built into the model, that next token isn'…

LLMs to inspect: - Simple robust syntax > - One obvious way to do things That always leads to more verbosity. Much syntactic sugar is a more specialized way to do a subset of a mor…

So the `+` is not _overloaded_, the `+` syntax is a shorthand for calling a method named `__add__` on the value of the first operand, with the value of the second operand as an arg…

Hyperbolic title is, unsurprisingly, misleading. At least the article follows the style consistently. The "ghost cut" is a two-step text move. A perfectly fine operation to have, _…

Probably don't care. I have no idea what "randoseru" means, or what kind of backpack it is. Looking it up, it seems to be a design that carries special meaning in Japan, and not re…

The distinction is not physical vs (entirely) digital. If you buy games at GOG, you get entirely non-physical products, but you own and control those bits. You can download the gam…

> https://www.build.aau.dk/report-from-aau-warns-danish-homes-... The Danish Building code has requirements for retaining heat in the house, which is great in the cold winters, but…

It's not that I don't agree, but lawyers will then ask you to define "buy" in such a way that it is distinguishable from a perpetual lease with a cancellation clause _to buyers_, w…

Just because it's my windmill to tilt at: `[\s\S]` can be written shorter and more precisely as `[^]`.

Assigning to multiple variables in a single expression is fine and useful. Take ``` target[i++] = source1[j++] + source2[k++]; ``` That's idiomatic, it shows the intent to read and…

The value of the variable is not hoisted by the Java compiler. (It's not that JVM, that only executes the byte code, what y doesn't have that kind of ambiguities.) The semantics of…

... thus falling into the Pitt of failure, where every way out is just a little too far away.

Semantic major/minor version 0.15 means it's still in development. It's not supposed to be stable. Going from 0.14 to 0.15 allows breaking changes. Try making a similar change betw…

So "cooperative multitasking is not preemptive multitasking". The typical use of the word "asynchronous" means that the _language is single-threaded_ with cooperative multitasking …

Aks. "Every beef anyone has ever had with Nvidia in one outrage friendly article." If you want to hate on Nvidia, there'll be something for you in there. An entire section on 12vhp…

JSON is a text format. A parser must recognize the text `2` as a valid production of the JSON number grammar. Converting that text to _any_ kind of numerical value is outside the s…

Your irony detector may need calibration. Or mine does.

The JSON spec only defines the JSON text format. It doesn't say what the text means. There are obvious interpretations, but every program that reads or writes JSON can decide what …

So you're saying that "an ask" is "an order" or "a demand", rather than "a request". Why not use those words? I don't understand what "an ask" means. I don't know what the speaker …

I'm personally convinced that the reason the conditional operator of called "the ternary operator" it's that the ANSI C Programming Language book contains the phrase "the ternary o…

Agree, other than that I wouldn't use "2-arity". Maybe "2-ary", but that's just "binary" written confusingly. It works for "n-ary". I'd rather say that a binary operator _has_ an a…

"Success" is to achieve the intended goal, without causing new problems that outweigh the benefit of reaching that goal. Reaching the goal is not a moral measurement, it is all abo…

Many quick-sort implementations are deterministic, so will consistently have their worst case behavior on the same inputs again and again. The good ones try to do a little better t…