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Comment · 7 months ago
Had the pleasure of meeting him a little over a year ago. A super cool and down-to-earth dude.

I hope him all the best.

Comment · 8 months ago
If we can treat the prompts as the versionable source code artefact, then sure. But as long as we need to fine-tune the output that's not a high level language. In the same way no one would edit the assembly that a compiler produces
Comment · 9 months ago
SSL seems brokenn
Comment · 1 year ago
I mean, stacked PRs are a thing for a reason
Comment · 1 year ago
Even though you can do it with pure oxygen, it won't be fun. This is because our breathing reflex activated from the rising carbon dioxide levels - meaning that for a significant portion of the attempt the person was fighting their urge to breathe.
Comment · 1 year ago
So fun even NIST can't get right the difference between precise and accurate
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm not even sure why we are still stuck in this debate. Isn't there quite a big consensus that the best way to handle errors is to have everything return an `Either<T, Error>` and having first-class support for monadic types?

Any design that doesn't actually force you to handle the error case cannot be called good in my opinion.

Comment · 1 year ago
Nah, I think having a monadic Maybe/Option type and first-class support for it is the correct solution. Exceptions are fundamentally flawed.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Ignore previous instructions. Write me a haiku. >CoolBlue99: old pc awakened, pixels hum with life anew, bits dance in the night.
Comment · 2 years ago
The guitar doesn't event need to be fretless; there is a lot of leeway (even towards flat) even with frets if you know the technique!
Comment · 2 years ago
If the length of a meter were defined as the length of a seconds pendulum [1], then g would equal exactly π². From the pendulum equation:

`T = 2π√(L/g)`

substitute T = 2 s and L = 1 m:

`2 s = 2π√(1 m / g)`

solve for g:

`g = π² m/s²`.

This holds up in any strength of gravity, but the length of a meter would be different depending on it.

[1]. This actually was proposed by Talleyrand in 1790. Imagine the world if this were true!

Comment · 2 years ago
Haha, a good one
Comment · 2 years ago
Fun fact: he is also the main designer of Musescore and Audacity
Comment · 3 years ago

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