gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Day 3

3-2

I expect much wailing and gnashing of teeth regarding the parsing, which of course is utterly trivial if you know a bit if regex.

I got bit by the input being more than one line. Embarrasing.

I wonder if any input starts with a "don't()" or if it's too early for Erik to pull such trickery.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

LOL @ North Korea being "woke". If they are, why are they assisting Russia, the Right's Great White Hope, in a war against a country that these people also denigrate as "woke"? But hey, never let facts or logic get in the way of a good grift.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

re: 2-2

I was convinced that some of the Perl gods in the subreddit would reveal some forgotten lore that solved this in one line but looks like my brute force method of removing one element at a time was the way to go.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's that time of the year again. Last year was tough for me, i got laid off in the middle of dec and it kinda killed the vibe. I'll see how long I keep up this year. My historical backlog is growing but I've made peace with it.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

you know why people use reddit and lemmy because they don’t have to read the articles because people summarize the source material accurately in the title and summary

this is the funniest thing I've read all week, thanks for the LOL my dude

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for expanding. I think every company that has a biggish community has to deal with nazi entryism.

This was the story I remembered about this

https://kotaku.com/the-struggle-over-gamers-who-use-mods-to-create-racist-1826606138

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Isn't there a huge neo-nazi subculture around Paradox games, with weird mods and stuff?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair there are lots of forests one can be on other side of in Eurasia...

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There is no Poland, which unfortunately tracks, historically.

I can see Denmark having Scania now, which is what a lot of the more racist Scanians have wanted since forever. But you can't just split Sweden (Sverige, Svea Rike) into Sweden and Svealand, which isn't even historically correct (it's way too big).

Also Ulster being 50% of the island of Eire is gonna work out great.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Dude discovers that one LLM model is not entirely shit at chess, spends time and tokens proving that other models are actually also not shit at chess.

The irony? He's comparing it against Stockfish, a computer chess engine. Computers playing chess at a superhuman level is a solved problem. LLMs have now slightly approached that level.

For one, gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct rarely suggests illegal moves,

Writeup https://dynomight.net/more-chess/

HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42206817

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Anyone here read "World War Z"? There's a section there about how the health authorities in basically all countries supress and deny the incipient zombie outbreak. I think about that a lot nowadays.

Anyway the COVID response, while ultimately better than the worst case scenario (Spanish Flu 2.0) has made me really unconvinced we will do anything about climate change. We had a clear danger of death for millions of people, and the news was dominated by skeptics. Maybe if it had targetted kids instead of the very old it would have been different.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 4 weeks ago (20 children)

HN runs smack into end-stage Effective Altruism and exhibit confusion

Title "The shrimp welfare project " is editorialized, the original is "The Best Charity Isn't What You Think".

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