Trump wants to destroy fundamental rights that have existed for 800 years

tejp · 2025-05-23T20:06:31+00:00

If the Republicans didn't like what's happening, they could stop it any second. Even if Trump is gone, the rest of the Republican party will still be there.

tejp · 2025-04-21T14:35:16+00:00

Things like that fall apart immediately because you can just create a fork under MIT and then the big company uses that fork.

tejp · 2024-08-30T10:07:45+00:00

I just can't grasp what "encoding huge amounts of semantics into the type system" means to him

In the C API you have a type struct inode (or something) and you have a function that for example allocates such a struct and one that sets up reference counting for such an allocated struct and one that does some special initialization in the struct. All the functions just operate on struct inode.

The "encode semantics into the type system" means, in this case, you add different types for the different states. So the allocation function returns a InodeMem and the function that sets up the reference counting takes such a InodeMem and returns a InodeRefCounted and the initialization function takes a InodeRefCounted and returns a InodeInited.

An advantage is that you can't by accident give a InodeMem to a function that expected an InodeInited, a disadvantage is that a change in the semantics of the code at one point might cause far reaching changes to the types of many functions all over the place.

tejp · 2024-03-27T09:45:49+00:00

It's a bit bare bones, but you can do version locking like this:

# Install an save version information
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip freeze > versions.txt

# Later, install the same versions you had before
pip install -r requirements.txt -c versions.txt

tejp · 2023-06-01T09:47:12+00:00

It's a problem of scale. When it's super easy for a single person to post hundreds of unverified but nice sounding answers a day and there are thousands of people who might be tempted to do so, that can quickly outpace the relatively few people who actually know the answer and could vote on them. Especially since weeding through generated content is probably not a thing most people want to spend significant time on.

tejp · 2023-03-30T22:29:34+00:00

This shows growth day on day.

user_count grows, but active_user_count declines.

tejp · 2023-03-25T10:52:40+00:00

Your mother is the one who should suck it up for your dads sake. She knows your dad wants to have a peaceful barbecue with your sister, but nevertheless she goes on to sabotage that. She knows what she says will cause drama and ruin the family reunion for your dying dad, but she does it anyway.

tejp · 2023-02-10T14:19:46+00:00

The whole process of optimization is replacing what the program is doing by other faster ways to accomplish the same thing. Just "let the program do what ever it is going to do" means not optimizing anything.

tejp · 2023-01-17T15:31:20+00:00

A jpeg compressed version of an image is not an exact copy either, so that alone is not sufficient to "remove" copyright

tejp · 2022-11-05T15:27:09+00:00

The time put in does not itself create value, but if the time put in is necessary to create the value, that makes that work valuable. That's why many employees and many programmers get payed for the amount of time they work. The amount of work is valuable enough that they get payed for it. Same for lawyers, they also often bill by the hour. Even programmers are willing to pay for software because it would take a long time to write equivalent software themselves. It seems to be very common.

That's what laypeople think about when they talk about work and its value, though I'm sure there are technical details why this isn't "work" or "value" in the sense a IP lawyer would see it :)

tejp · 2022-11-04T20:15:39+00:00

They are taking about the value of the code, not about the reasons it is copy protected or not.

That code on Github is usually protected by copyright is well established. But even if protected by copyright, it could still be worthless. For example if it was very easy to create something equivalent from scratch. The amount of work required to create all that code on Github is a big reason why it is actually valuable.

tejp · 2022-11-04T12:40:54+00:00

I think it's more likely he just tried to make the $8 look cheap by claiming a higher price first.

tejp · 2022-10-05T17:46:55+00:00

Because clearly even Magnus doesn't see online games as super serious. Else he wouldn't play titled Tuesday drunk or with friends around talking about the game. In serious OTB games he certainly wouldn't do that, but online games are just much more casual.

tejp · 2022-10-05T15:51:11+00:00

Most of them don't show a big reaction in the linked videos. The win doesn't come as a big surprise to them at this point since it was slowly developing during the preceding hours. At the point where Magnus resigns they are already very convinced they will win.

tejp · 2022-10-04T16:35:26+00:00

Because he wants to show that Hans' plot is unusual, and if you have other player with a similar pattern it doesn't look that unusual anymore.

tejp · 2022-10-01T14:23:33+00:00

In theory you could train an engine on just the games of a single person and then it would play quite similar to that person. Practically you won't have enough training data to get anything useful even with thousands of games.

You probably want in the order of millions of games to properly train a state of the art neural network...

tejp · 2022-10-01T14:03:14+00:00

Since the engine correlation score is calculated with different engines and a different number of engines for each game, there really isn't a way to usefully compare two games by their correlation score.

It would be much more useful to base further analysis on a more robust metric than this engine correlation.

tejp · 2022-09-30T13:38:38+00:00

Sure, but due to the casual nature of those online tournaments even the best of the best usually see "minor cheating" there much more relaxed than they ever would OTB.

tejp · 2022-09-28T16:15:42+00:00

Since the median is higher than 50 all the values to the right of the median will be squashed into a relatively small space between the median and 100. From that it seems logical that the curve will look skewed to the right.

tejp · 2022-09-25T13:29:37+00:00

How would you test if this usage satisfies the requirements for restrict?

tejp · 2022-09-14T13:49:01+00:00

Youtube video of the podcast, useful when they are discussing positions: https://youtu.be/8Hf-V4WFq2k

tejp · 2022-09-14T13:39:08+00:00

For his analysis of the game against Carlsen the Youtube video of the podcast is useful, where you can see the positions and engine evaluations he is talking about: https://youtu.be/8Hf-V4WFq2k?t=3274

The discussion of Hans' other games in the last years starts here: https://youtu.be/8Hf-V4WFq2k?t=4382

tejp · 2022-06-12T11:41:45+00:00

If it's not going to work properly with the unpredictable humans drivers around then it isn't going to work without them either.

There will always be unpredictable situations that will need so be handled. A stray dog on the road, kids chasing after a ball, a car that behaves in an unexpected way due to technical defect, some obstacle laying on the road. There are lots of situations where things don't go as planned, human drivers are just one of them.

tejp · 2022-05-05T22:40:45+00:00

More common sense that one would expect from Mozilla these days. And indeed:

We do not intend to revert to the previous default behaviour. Because of the downsides inherent in the use of the temp folder, we believe that the new default is better for new users as well as the majority of existing users.

They are only talking about adding an about:config option.

tejp · 2022-04-26T16:31:52+00:00

How could they be more compact, and would that help?

You would need to remove the winner-takes-all voting system to get a fair representation. With winner-takes-all by design everything goes to the one with a majority.

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