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SGML_ROCKSTARon GPT-4o shows humanlike patterns of cognitive dissonance moderated by free choice

It's not sentient.

It cannot ever be sentient.

Software only ever does what it's told to do.

SGML_ROCKSTARon Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

Is LaTeX difficult to learn? An article stated something about how its syntax is inscrutable, from what memory will allow before the caffeine hits.

SGML_ROCKSTARon TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

Is there any way to still read all the political and world news while keeping your self from over-entertaining or internalizing it?

SGML_ROCKSTARon TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English? (2023)

It might still be of introductory help to someone who has yet to formally learn what a language model is, what large language models are, and where things might be in the future.

SGML_ROCKSTARon Web 2.0 sucks sharp pebbles and canal water through a dirty straw

  BTW, there's no way to navigate your blog now ? That's good design ?

What do you mean? The user can just use the browser's location field and go up a directory to /blog, where they should see links to published posts for April.

SGML_ROCKSTARon L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

They testified in front of the U.S. Senate in 1998. That's more than a footnote might do, in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJldn_MmMY

SGML_ROCKSTARon Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?

Hardware kill switches for camera and microphones, as well as for wireless.

I wonder if one for an internal NIC would be overkill.

SGML_ROCKSTARon Hermit Programmers Are Dead

Is the fact that it hasn't, due to the market at all?

SGML_ROCKSTARon Hermit Programmers Are Dead

Rude way to comment on the writing quality.

SGML_ROCKSTARon A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)

It is clear to me that we are in a holding pattern for web components to become the norm and for component frameworks to become decoupled from application frameworks, so I have no idea what I will be using in 5 years.

So, we'll arrive to something similar to where we are with JavaScript and jQuery, where the latter is less relevant now that JavaScript is appreciably better? Meaning, that with web components the norm, we might arrive to less need for frameworks like React or Vue?

(I might be misunderstanding due to the sleep deprivation, so apologies if what I write comes across as gibberish.)

SGML_ROCKSTARon Ask HN: What are your best tips for a good slack group?

Make a base set of rules that facilitates your goal(s) as a group. Enforce them early, enforce them often enough.

Look into how successful bulletin board systems have done things in the past. If I find anything that might be of use to you, I'll update this post or to it create a comment.

SGML_ROCKSTARon Conditional JavaScript: Only download when it is appropriate

Have you ever designed or developed (or both) for slower connections? "Slower" meaning something like 56k, 1G, or 2G? Do you happen to know of any people or groups that practice in such a way?

I consider website design and development to _still_ be a craft that centers the end user, which suffers degradation of quality because of -- for lack of knowledge of a better name or phrase -- The Market.

SGML_ROCKSTARon Conditional JavaScript: Only download when it is appropriate

Loading them being unnecessary would be so when? Do you have time to elaborate?

SGML_ROCKSTARon Conditional JavaScript: Only download when it is appropriate

I'd like to read what you have to say about doing so.

SGML_ROCKSTARon Show HN: I made a crate for creating interactive chord diagrams in Rust

Would you say that Rust is an appropriate language for learning Machine Learning and Data Science? Does it make the learning of it simple, difficult, other?

I'm new to the three, and Rust is a language that I'm working on now as it (to me) seems that it will be around for a long time, like Perl.

SGML_ROCKSTARon Show HN: I made a crate for creating interactive chord diagrams in Rust

Since when is it a meme? And what do you mean that it's like the software has no useful feature?

What an awfully dismissive comment.