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One day, long after I'm gone, people will finally accept that Python and JavaScript are no longer young languages. JavaScript is 26 years old, Python is 31. They both continue to g…

I don't think that argument holds up. A VR headset, say, is astronomically high up the hierarchy of needs, but I know very few people who'd say the inherent value of a piece of mod…

I get frustrated with games that scale things with me. I want to be able to feel myself getting better, having my enemies scale with me on any axis really takes away from that feel…

I think this is a weird framing of the issue. Sure, lots of businesses go under, and maybe being larger would have saved them, but maybe not. Plenty of VC-funded businesses go unde…

For anyone as confused as me, from Wikipedia: > [Hunger] stones were embedded into a river during droughts to mark the water level as a warning to future generations that they will…

Oh, excuse me, I entirely missed that section of the page. Makes sense there's a geographical distinction, I'm not American so I suppose I don't have the intuitive issue with it, b…

EDIT: Never mind, sorry, I missed part of the article, it does indeed say what you say. --- That's the opposite of what your source says: > In writing, however, use to in place of …

Honestly, I started working this out because I thought it would be negligible. But I think you're right to doubt. Leaving aside the question of how much a human produces, since two…

I don't know, I maintain that policy fairly strictly, but I can imagine falling for this. I won't as a policy give out information to an incoming call, and I do call back if they w…

I've lost track of what point you're making. Speed and memory is orthogonal to my point, which is about the output of two methods of arriving at an answer. I'm obviously not saying…

I don't think that's a reasonable assumption. If we allow ourselves to assume no errors, we could just assume GPT-3 makes no errors and declare it equivalent to a code interpreter.…

I'm not talking about GPT-3, I'm discussing the theoretical question raised by the grandparent of my comment: How is predicting the output of a function fundamentally different fro…

Computers don't execute code perfectly 100% of the time. I agree that it's fundamentally different, but I'm not exactly sure how, and I think it's subtler than you're suggesting.

After two or three years, neither would the owner. Edit: More seriously, if they took this approach, people would regularly lose their codes, which would necessitate a backup means…

Are we golfing? This whole discussion is about clarifying units.

If I had to wait for several hundred network requests to complete and one or two pages to render every time I sudo'ed I'd complain about that too.

> Let's say you are the leader of a border post Let's not say that. Suggesting that civilians have defence duties on par with members of the military is ridiculous.

The article claims that the chip is "the world’s most powerful and capable chip for a personal computer". It's reasonable to ask whether it genuinely is faster than another availab…

The trouble with this is it essentially reduces all differences to "biggest player wins". Because it almost never matters what symbol or representation you use for these things, yo…