bandrami

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bandrami (n): activity proper to a monkey
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Comment · 10 days ago
Shakti de. This should be firm-ending for them but I fear it won't be.
Comment · 14 days ago
I really want one of these, but more importantly I absolutely don't want my neighbor to have one. This has always been the problem with flying cars as a concept.
Comment · 16 days ago
The childhood lead exposure generation (not being flippant; it may also be why we engaged in the worst crime spree in history as teens and young adults).
Comment · 1 month ago
Dunbar strikes again
Comment · 1 month ago
I think the argument is the Indus Valley civilization was dependent on international trade with the autocracies further west and collapsed when that network broke down
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm sorry but it's hard not to see this as a tool mainly designed to inflate token counts
Comment · 1 month ago
There's an alternate timeline where Ousterhout's dream was realized and TCL filled the role that the Javascript swamp filled. I think that's a better timeline from a tech perspective.
Comment · 1 month ago
Is it the models or the users' dopamine receptors that get nerfed after a few weeks?
Comment · 1 month ago
Ken Lay would like a word
Comment · 1 month ago
The fact that Ellison just backed out of a massive stock sale makes me think everybody is reading the same bond market numbers
Comment · 1 month ago
That's "rude" but allowed; that capability is one of the reasons Wayland was developed (though their solution removed some capabilities people wanted with the result that the compositors now replicate the original flaw).
Comment · 1 month ago
Everybody's out of money and they need a way to calmly unwind this. Same reason Ellison just backed out of the stock sale.
Comment · 1 month ago
A chimpanzee could turn the nuclear keys if he were given access to them. The solution is not to remove chimpanzees' thumbs; it's just to not give them the nuclear keys. This is a very basic lesson that the labs are somehow missing.
Comment · 1 month ago
Every one of those posts costs money, and OpenAI is apparently willing to pay that. This really is a problem with a simple solution.
Comment · 1 month ago
iPython was famous for a while but I think its popularity has waned, but yes as you point out really any dynamic language can do a repl; it's just that it's mostly the lisp/scheme and forth families that have leaned so heavily into the idea.

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