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Comment · 9 months ago
It is a useful skill. But regardless of the theme at hand there is also

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

People change all the time, and things need to be reevaluated from time to time.

So another skill is to disengage with our heroes when the values start misalign.

Comment · 10 months ago
Thank you for the clarification, that was not entirely clear to me from the post.

You also mention that the current "optimised" version is "good enough" for every-day use (I use `bs4` for working with html), was the first iteration also usable in that way? Did you look at `html5ever` because the LLM hit a wall trying to speed it up?

Comment · 10 months ago
while it's mentioned in the post, it seems to me a bit burried:

isn't this more like a port of `html5ever` from rust to python using LLM, as opposed to creating something "new" based on the test suite alone?

if yes, wouldn't be the distinction rather important?

Comment · 1 year ago
Made possible in turn by giving safe haven for user content on the big social networks. Turned out to be a double edged sword.

When Rupert tried to lie about voting machines, he was fined couple of hundred mils. All the social networks mouthpiece accounts spouting nonsense suffer no repercussions whatsoever.

Comment · 2 years ago
The hong kong police had to release this statement recently:

HKPF reminds the public that the following websites are not the official Hong Kong Police Force website.

1. 96o.1ss5623.com 2. joshhyoung.icu 3. amylfraser.xyz 4. tiaflowe.icu

Comment · 2 years ago
nobody is gonna mention TeX? so i will.

yes, i have TAOCP on the shelf and yes guilty of "one day i'll ready it".

but every now and then i open them up and just flip thru that magnificent typography.

Knuth has not just written up all these things, he has developed an entire typesetting system (complete with fonts) to bring technical publishing screaming and kicking into the 20th century (when other software thought kerning and hypenation were creatures from space). it's the only program deserving a version number approximating PI.

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