digitailor
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
In the author’s defense they mentioned the NASA standard, and that guide— while legendary— isn't a "lacing" guide. Of the 50+ images, only 2 show lacing (acceptable v. unacceptable), and the rest is spot tying, zip tying or other harnessing. Always nice to see the link though
Comment · 3 years ago
Here’s a highly specific example about the subject matter of TFA published last month: https://nextyorktimes.com/p/boomer-predatory-crime
Comment · 3 years ago
You’ve clearly been a victim of victims before. Your detailed analysis of these harms they’ve performed against you, and your warning not to listen to victims, is very concise, detailed, and clearly derived from experience. I think you’re right, I won’t take advice from someone trapped in a victimhood mentality
Edit: The current HN bio of this user amazes me. "Used to have close to 1000 karma, got destroyed over time by hackernews cancel culture and a change in downvote algorithms." This user is literally the victim who doesn't know that they're a victim that they "see all the time." This makes perfect sense, assuming they own mirrors
Now, if I had a victimhood mentality, I would be decrying the fact that this comment was downvoted. But I won't, because the downvoting is a positive that helps prove my point. Thank you for the downvote, unknown victim of victims, I am eternally grateful to you and your kind
Comment · 3 years ago
This is exactly what happened in digital audio signal processing and recording, where word size represents amplitude. 12-bit audio was the first word size that provided a pretty good noise floor by the late 1980s, a real improvement over 8-bit. And by the mid-80s the CD format was already providing 16-bits for playback, which really is good enough for most playback scenarios. The 16-bit DSP era was just a few years longer than the 12-bit and quickly gave way to 24-bit, which provides a noise floor good enough for almost anything audio processing and recording related and is still the standard after more than 20 years. I have gear that defaults to 32-bit now, obviously just for power-of-2 convenience in software dev, which is annoying because the file sizes are bigger for basically no reason.
(The master buses in DAWs and digital hardware use even larger word lengths these days, but it's not really the same thing, that's a summing and calculation process)
Comment · 3 years ago
The workflow update-deps.yaml will periodically check for new updates of SBCL or the linked libraries. If an update is found, it edits build.env and creates a pull request that will check that the set of dependencies can be compiled and linked without errors.
Just, wow. Thank you for this.
Comment · 3 years ago
Only bc it’s Valentine's Day :)
Nice work, fun and the repeats system is cool
Comment · 3 years ago
McQuillan’s central point here that ChatGPT is a “bullshit generator” and not “artifically intelligent” is really apt. What we’re often working on in the industry is emulating the worst uses of intelligence processes, that humans also use, like optimized BS generation. Seeing ChatGPT turn into the equivalent of a competent essay-spitting undergrad is distressing; the internet is now such a mass of human-generated BS, it's hard to believe people will be arguing and competing with machine optimized and generated BS speech.
The really concerning thing is that in BS Wars, the party that's willing to BS most flagrantly and not be seen as truthful tends to win: https://post.news/article/2LGf4ziMatzJ3nCHuZv7e6pTKVA
The most powerful and effective and immediately available BS generators will probably rely on machine-generated, unhinged speech. I truly fear for the future of the few reputable internet forums left, because even intelligent people tend to engage with well-optimized BS generators, whether driven by human or machine.
Comment · 3 years ago
Meta comment: I understand why this was downvoted and am impressed (not complaining at all) but please keep in mind that the top of the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34677527) was later hijacked by a completely unrelated sensationalist political issue. The initial comment that caused that was later deleted, yet somehow its responses remained at the top:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34683697
Been reading HN since 2006 or so and started going to meetups from it soon after that. A bit sad to see how threads can get hijacked by a comment as low value as "GPT is a calculator for words" directly into a sensationalist political issue.
This is an article posted to Hacker News where a defendant was incarcerated by a judge for media manipulation, and journalists who were involved made statements to the judge in support of the defendant. Since the defendant was incarcerated, that makes the journalists involved closer to malfeasant than not, but the entirety of your claim is that there is never malfeasance involved in journalism and the skepticism of the people you're reprimanding is simply "populism." Frankly, that comes off as a bit malfeasant, in the reflexively defensive sense.
Would you like to claim I "know nothing" about the profession of journalism as well? How would you know that I know nothing about the profession of journalism?