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I agree. But that usefulness can be deceptive, especially when one thinks enough context has been captured to prevent misunderstandings. An LLM (or human, to be clear) can easily g…

I can’t tell from the text if the first paragraph of your response is meant to be ironic or tongue-in-cheek, but it certainly works that way. It feels hard to recognize that you ag…

>None of the three can easily be captured in code, but are trivial to capture as documentation. Posts like this frustrate me. Not because of what they ask, but because of what they…

You're not entirely wrong that double-entry accounting doesn't add much to keeping track of one balance. And the example provided in the article was very simple, just like mine was…

I'm not sure CRDTs are actually the right answer here for your example of #2, Marco. A double-entry accounting system might actually be more ideal. In that case, what you are keepi…

It's Wargaming who owns the IP and assets, and I doubt they release them, if they even have them. DrDeath or Mavor might have copies, but neither of them would likely release them.…

That’s one of Peter Watt’s Rifters trilogy, I think maybe the second one? Been a few years since I read them. I think it’s a biological neural net, not an Ai per se. Lots of big id…

I wonder if part of this has to do with the more complex, piecemeal nature of medical debt and these buybacks. How I understand several of these groups (I'm not certain of the one …

The web is crying out for true RAD. GridWhale is promising, I have been casting around for a project I could use it with. If you can pull it off, I guess we'll grudgingly forgive y…

When we both worked at an NGO in a mountainous desert country in a relatively peaceful period. My advice is always, find the kind of thing that you want to be doing and then do it.…

An acquaintance did basically this a few years ago on a vBulletin. My memory says there was a project to be a vB->Discourse converter that didn't rely on DB access, but I can't imm…

I took your using the word literally to mean you were saying that the physical characteristics changed, which is apparently not what you were saying. I think this is a difference i…

I wouldn't really characterize the Catholic Church's official doctrines that way or that flexibly, but again, I am a Protestant with a number of overall disagreements with them and…

I'm a Protestant, but that explanation of transubstantiation may be the popular understanding but is not the actual official doctrine of the Catholic Church. I'm not versed enough …

Zero-k is based on Spring Engine, that started as a community project to be a 3D engine for TA. So you are very correct.

It’s still some of the same folks - SJ and some of the other SYs wrote the Spring Engine that Zero-K uses. I myself learned how to code writing .bos scripts and hanging out at Anni…

Hard for me not to conclude that hoarding can happen more easily now, and that it is more prevalent because it takes a surplus of money and a surplus of goods available, plus some …

:) Not celebrities, but a little bit of whimsy makes life fun! As far as rewinders, he has a huge collection of VHS cassettes and VHS decks, but they are all getting old, have alre…

This doesn't feel like an archive to me, it feels usable. When I was 16, my parents got a new answering machine. My dad's recording of the message was yelling into the machine "You…

The library in the city near where I grew up had some variant of this book in it. Unfortunately, the variant of BASIC was something that didn't compile on the 286 my parents had pu…

If that is the takeaway you got from my comment, I am sorry for bad phrasing on my side. I was trying to short, pith, koan-like. Can I try again? Almost no one want to use the tool…

Somewhere between 2010 and 2012 when doing small business IT support, for a client, I spent some time installing 1-2-3 on an old, mostly disused machine in a corner of their office…

I lived in the relatively safe stable part of a war zone as a foreign civilian for a few years, and had friends who were frequently in the less safe/less stable parts. So much of o…

My dad's bank switched to $COMPANY in the late 90s and to this day, when I run into people who work for them (which happens from time to time since they have offices in my city), I…

My father, controller at a mid-sized regional bank, was involved in a couple of these when I was growing up, and worked at the FDIC as an examiner in the 80s. My memory from the la…