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> Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation

Interesting, I never thought of the term as pejorative. I always thought of the movement as a kind of working-class heroes trying to navigate an uncertain future where rich people made them obsolete.

I use Kotlin daily at my job (I have to) and I'm not impressed. It is a new language that ignores most of the innovations in Programming Language Theory from the last 20 years. It only improves on Java by making the syntax less verbose and adding coroutines but almost doesn't add any benefits in terms of semantics.

If it's legal, it means that somebody could write a model that could predict mergers pretty accurately and make a lot of money. For instance, by tracking flight patterns of C-suites executives, scanning car brands in parkings next to offices using satellite images, and analysing working hours of the staff (this can be done in multiple ways like sending e-mails to check of automated OOO responses or analysing the light coming out of the building from satellite images.)

Let's say you live in front of the Splunk office, and you see tens of people in suits, a limo with a CISCO sticker, as well as a lot of commotion on the office in front of you. You strongly suspect something is happening, you buy $22k of Splunk calls.

Is that insider trading?

> even of a relatively impoverished department like statistics

It's not a statement you would read in 2023 :)

I'm surprised we're not seeing much about the Unity announcement in here

Notable omissions:

    - Schindler's list
    - The Pianist
    - La vita è bella

Well, english is not my first language. What I meant probably got lost in translation :)

My comment is not about changing the language but about the fact that whenever we rewrite it, we improve the quality because of the lessons learned during past iterations.

Simply rewriting it in any language would improve reliability

levels.fyi has the same info

A company had me implement that in Rust during an interview. It was pretty hard

> 2. presence of settlements is an indicator of political organisation, but political organisation is not a requirement for settlements

I disagree. People living next to each other need to reach a political order (organisation) even if it is tacit. A common understanding of a shared living space where you can trust your neighbour to not try to steal you or enslave you is a form of political organisation, even if no interaction between the settlers ever occur. Likewise, a settlement where the strongest people enslave the others is also a political organisation. Also, seasonal settlements where people only spend a few weeks a year also require political organisations to coordinate on the dates and logistics.

Monarchy and anarchy are forms of political organisation, just like families, unions and corporations.

I would agree if we were talking about _Institutionalised_ political organisation, but this statement would still be wrong:

> In terms of proof of political organization, that requires evidence like writing or inscriptions.

Other forms of evidence can prove institutionalised politics. For instance, the presence of shared infrastructure, palaces, temples, monuments, royal funerary sites, battles, etc.

One could argue that the mere presence of settlements is evidence of political organisation.

Interesting application of Hyrum's Law

We have some people of the road in Geneva. I'm not sure if they're Yenish or not but the usually arrive at the beginning of Spring and leave at the end of the Summer.

Freeciv[1] also has a named port (5556) that once caused me a lot of headache because our server was binding to 5556 and nmap reported it as freeciv, which I had no idea about.

[1] https://wiki.wireshark.org/Freeciv.md

> I haven’t been to Google, so I’m not sure, but you might actually need LeetCode to get a job there

You do

I was a bit surprised by this:

> For example, suppose you prompt with a sentence "What is the capital of California: ", it would take ten forward pass iterations to get back the full response of ["S", "a", "c", "r", “a”, "m", "e", "n", "t", "o"]

From the content I have been reading trying to understand LLMs, I thought that the output was a token and not a string of chars. What am I missing here?

C++: Just write Assembly

I keep seeing claims that modern C++ is functional but that is simply untrue.

Most so called functional methods in the standard library require mutating the target (ie std::sort, std::transform, etc.) They are not ergonomic because we have to pass begin and end as arguments, which also means they cannot be chained.

Lambdas are hard to work with because it is difficult to track the lifetime of the values they borrow.

std::variant, std::visit, std::optional have a clunky interface. And because they are not part of the language, they often make it difficult to represent structures that would be trivial in languages with tagged enums (for instance a tree or a Linked List are difficult to model with std::variant or std::optional.) The compiler is also not able to assert that data is present in an option or that the correct variant is accessed.

I'd never get the job given how much of a loser I was in high school.

It reminds me of these movies when the AI starts becoming crazy over time and initially goes into a senseless monologue obsessing about some random subject.

Yes that's my issue, it always come back (like weekly). I was not aware I could add a registry entry. I'll try, thank you :=)

True ahah. And that's what I did. I'm dual booting my desktop but I do need Windows for gaming.

I'd love to have a way to remove Edge. But it seems impossible.

Soon, websites will require kernel access to make sure you don't have cheats installed. (Sarcasm, obviously)

Sure but is it impossible that something would leak when injecting massive amounts of energy in a gigantic tunnel?

Yes I think it's great, but still it would be good to have research to understand the effect on local population.

It is intellectually dishonest to just say it is not possible for anything to leak and have adverse effects on people without actively researching the matter.

Do we know if this could have an impact on the local population? Also is there any research on the effect of the LHC on people living in Geneva and around?