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melissalobos

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CTO Izente Scientific Consulting

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melissalobos··on My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
It was mentioned in the DALL-E github repo.
melissalobos··on Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals
It looks like you have done a lot of work with sixels based on your github too. Have you ever written anything about that?
melissalobos··on Show HN: Watermelon – open-source VSC ext. to document code and view Git blame
> Wow this Sherlock Holmes-level research.

It isn't very hard to click on the usernames after you see some suspicious messaging from similar accounts.

melissalobos··on Is there a housing shortage or not?
> I should be ruinously taxed

I don't know where you are getting that it would be a ruinous tax. It should also be offset by not having other types of taxes in a pure Georgian system.

melissalobos··on IntelliJ D Language – support for the D language within IntelliJ IDEA
Did something change with this recently? Or was there other new news about it?
melissalobos··on Converting Integers to Floats Using Hyperfocus
I don't really know what this is decrying, but this was very well written.
melissalobos··on A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
> - the main value of vi is editing speed

If it is purely mechanical type changes I would just use sed or find and replace, otherwise I think scrolling with a mouse and clicking tends to be fast enough. Could you explain a bit more about how it could be faster?

melissalobos··on A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
I really can't say I have understood, what exactly org-mode is supposed to be. I have seen the website and had an ardent fan explain it to me, but still don't get it. How is it better than having another text file open in another tab? Or using a jupyter/pluto notebook?
melissalobos··on A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
I can sympathize with this strongly. I have tried vim/emacs a few times, and frankly I can't see any improvement from just using any reasonable editor. Also from my own experience they tend to be much inferior IDEs than even a not so great one like Geany.
melissalobos··on Show HN: A simple but effective chess engine in JavaScript
It was interesting to play against, but it got stuck into a threefold repetition and the match ended in a draw, maybe do something to detect move cycles.
melissalobos··on Abletone Learning Synth
Man, the way they choose the sounds for all the interactive parts is perfect, that was one of the most fun demos to use.
melissalobos··on Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says
Isn't this one of those "If everyone is crazy, you're crazy" situations? If every house is overvalued by some metric, then maybe the metric is wrong. People's perceptions of value are a large part of the actual value(meaning what someone would really pay) for things like housing that should depreciate over time.
melissalobos··on Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you
> Do you have any examples of the “perfectly safe code the Rust compiler will nag you about”?

Not an example, but if the borrow checker approved every proper program in a reasonable time, then it could solve the halting problem.

melissalobos··on Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you
Rust is slightly unusual in that most users/potential users of it tend to be very vocal about it. It would be nice if their knowledge matched their enthusiasm.
melissalobos··on Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you
https://actix.rs/

Look at the first example. It can be very similar.

melissalobos··on Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you
> start to try mutate things for example it get 100x more complicated that Python.

I don't know about 100x, using Box and mutexes it is pretty much as complicated or maybe 2x. If you want it to be efficient and leverage all of Rust then sure, but that wasn't what they were meaning.

melissalobos··on Entr: Rerun your build when files change
Another solution is just to use inotify-tools and inotify-watch and wrap that in a while true with your commands after. But I like this solution much more.
melissalobos··on Science of Fasting
> cholesterol is essential for the production of bile which breaks down foods

So maybe the person fasting had higher cholesterol levels due to his body needing more bile immediately to breakdown a larger amount of food at once? I am very much not a doctor or at all educated in these topics.

melissalobos··on Science of Fasting
1lb of body fat is ~3500 calories. An average person doing average things burns around 2000 calories. You can easily put in your own numbers and get your own results. Just calculate your TDEE(total daily energy expenditure) and look up how many calories in a pound of fat to whatever tolerance you want.
melissalobos··on Science of Fasting
> Where is the limit?

You lose roughly ~0.75 lbs of body fat at normal fasting levels assuming a reasonably active regular sized person. So how ever many days worth of body fat you would like to gain and lose regularly. You would have to eat back the same amount and probably wouldn't want to gorge yourself too much. A reasonable practical limit might be 5 days.

All of that assumes that you want to maintain a set weight. So the real limit is how much you want to eat in a single sitting. Take those calories and average them across as many days as needed to maintain weight.

melissalobos··on Ingredient in Cough Syrup Could Work as an Antidepressant: Works Like Ketamine
> it reduces tolerance to other substances, like caffeine

Would this help at all with withdrawal symptoms as well? I don't know anything about biochemistry so that may be a very stupid question.

melissalobos··on Jax vs. Julia (Vs PyTorch)
Sure, just try to properly document what it does. There are some characters that are easily confused at first glance even for native speakers, so be sure to use some common sense.
melissalobos··on Jax vs. Julia (Vs PyTorch)
> The learning rate is a well known name that basically every one will understand

Absolutely! Because as we all know, everyone speaks English.

The GP's point was that greek letters are used in lots and lots of papers even written in other languages. I have read quite a few papers in Japanese that used exactly the same conventions with respect to the greek letters and latin letters used.

melissalobos··on Considered "18+"
> Olek is a short for Aleksander.

Very likely this is due to both being transliterations from Cyrillic.

melissalobos··on IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway
> undiagnosed adhd

I don't know if not wanting to perform boring activities in your free time is a great indicator of adhd. How far would a neurotypical person get into a long terms and conditions disclaimer before wanting to quit if there didn't seem to be a good/any reward?

melissalobos··on An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to manufacture fertiliser
That actually sounds very frightening, can anyone comment on how possible that would be?
melissalobos··on New C++ features in GCC 12
Rust only uses LLVM currently. WSL or Cygwin is because the compiler situation on Windows is a bit rough(VS doesn't support C fully), so most people use GCC there.
melissalobos··on The New OCaml Website
People will mention Jane Street for financial stuff, but mostly academia and compilers.
melissalobos··on I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)
> creator of Tarsnap

I am much more a fan of their work on diffing

melissalobos··on I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)
> it speaks more to your own limits than the limits of others.

Indeed, and that is totally okay for a 13 year old to have limits. You can't expect a kid to have any real maturity. People only really get good at communicating with age, and even then it is hard.

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