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Comment · 6 hours ago
I suppose LLM will go hand in hand with compilers for the foreseeable future. The majority of garbage humans have been producing for decades were comments, not code. Without good comments, code was unmaintainable and unclear. So programmers will be writing comments first, the LLM will interpret each comment to generate code, the programmer will correct the codes intent and so forth.
Comment · 2 days ago
pistachio trees grow on polluted land though, without passing the arsenic to the nuts in lethal amounts. google states they can grow up to 1000mg arsenic/per kg soil. If you were to compost the sargassum, then grow pistachios on it until the arsenic level gets too high to kill the plant, you would at least be a step closer and it would pay for itself via the produce.
Comment · 16 days ago
israel does desalination on a massive scale.
Comment · 21 days ago
You would think it would be possible to avoid the bugs by breaking a browser up into discrete components, and have it call curl each time. perhaps there is a speed penalty i do not know about.
Comment · 21 days ago
it makes up for the lag in user friendliness. I regularly use the feature that grabs the clipboard. then i can copy 30 file links in two minutes and have it download them all sequentially at a slow speed so as to not clog the server. plus it gets updated fast. i've had a site break compatibility and jd2 fix it in under a week.
Comment · 22 days ago
I guess they left it out because there was no way to test it. i guess you would need a closed local area network and a local ai.
Comment · 22 days ago
in the 1990s i read that ai wouldn't be competitive with biological brains in real time because the neuron density of the latter was so high that heat generated by the silicon would burn itself up. perhaps it is still true as llm are frozen at a fixed time, so it avoids real time.
Comment · 4 months ago
I am a terrible hobby c programmer that doesn't understand pointers but surely a symmetric approach doesn't have the overhead or the bug. that is to say that if the language was designed to work in single bit pairs of a string character in conjunction of a string length character assuming a fail safe design of one dummy string character then if a bug happens in the code then there's no overflow because the length can never be shorter than the character.
Comment · 4 months ago
have to shoot the elevator buttons in this, in the original you could move into them.
Comment · 5 months ago
the earth is old though, i'd think that the sun will have expanded and made the planet uninhabitable before all the crust is recycled. i've heard there's only 500million years left, assuming we don't destroy it before then.
Comment · 5 months ago
southpaws are more common where at least one parent has schizophrenia. i believe it to be caused by an epigenetic change, where damage to the brain in a parent leads to the parent rewiring their brain to use the opposite hemisphere. In short, it's hardly an illness, more of an antibody to one.
Comment · 5 months ago
James "Whitey" Bulger was given LSD in exchange for a reduced prison sentence after some low level crime. He went on to work as a professional hitman, taking out politicians and trafficking drugs. LSD does work for things such as alcoholism, but MDMA is usually used in treatment programmes as it doesn't have such life changing mental effects.
Comment · 6 months ago
also, if you are blind from birth or go blind within a year of birth you won't develop schizophrenia. those folk are completely absent in the population.
Comment · 6 months ago
could you recompile a c program in fil-c and then decompile it to c and recompile it in c to have the high performance.
Comment · 6 months ago
Do you happen to know the reason the term for english is sasanach in irish language. i.e. is there a connection between sasanach and sassanian.

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