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I thought tokens were already sold below what they cost the AI companies, no?
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:06PM (#50047270)
Jeez, TT made one bad example (cancer cocktail) and people in this thread can't stop bitching about this, even though the rest of the slide deck kinda makes sense.
Just from looking at the title, I feel that this talking about AI in general...
Re:Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D on Saturday July 25, 2026 @12:07PM (#49048804)
This is just silly.

The great gift of language is that it allows us to talk about arbitrarily complex things using a stream-like medium. Human speech is fundamentally 1D. The tree like structure of the concepts in language then facilitates the exponential growth in complexity.

Or maybe centuries of human progress just went completely in the wrong direction? Unlikely.

Nothing wrong with being silly, of course.

Re:Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:27AM (#48957529)
"I like it! It's bold!" lolol
Re:How Complex is my Code? on Sunday April 12, 2026 @03:47AM (#47737052)
I haven't read this yet, but from the title I'm surprised that it doesn't mention Kolmogorov complexity. How does Kolmogorov complexity relate to the concepts in this article?
> Astronomical tariffs [...] and from all of this they got only $130B ?

Which is it? A number can't be small and large at the same time.

Re:We mourn our craft on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:22PM (#46927530)
Well said!
Re:We mourn our craft on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:21PM (#46927512)
I don't mourn our craft.
Re: on Sunday January 04, 2026 @12:37PM (#46490199)
Could someone ELI5 what this does?
Re:A standard language for machine-readable code comments on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @04:05PM (#46210633)
Would be interesting to heard about similar attempts, in particular for other languages like C++.
Re:Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages (1995) on Sunday November 09, 2025 @05:27PM (#45869827)
Hmm, interesting! Sounds a bit like a DSL for ECS with tight integration of event handling.
Re:Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages (1995) on Sunday November 09, 2025 @04:19AM (#45864200)
I'm probably not gonna do it, but just out of interest: What is the syntax?
Re:I Love OCaml on Friday November 07, 2025 @02:31PM (#45850084)
Music being "good" is subjective. A programming language, however, can objectively be better if it allows a subset of programmers to better solve certain problems.

The reason for why OCaml is not more popular, thus, is that this subset is small. The reason for this may be either (a) habit or (b) it's not that much better than other languages. I'm gravitating to (b). OCaml guys seem to be quite dogmatic for the wrong reasons.

Re:A man who changes the time on Big Ben on Sunday November 02, 2025 @01:44PM (#45792422)
His name is Strangeway, he's sporting this preposterous mustache, and he looks after Big Ben. The guy is basically a living meme lol. He must be fun at parties; at least for like 2 minutes haha.
Re:The Geometry of Mathematical Methods on Saturday October 25, 2025 @03:29AM (#45701988)
Why "Geometry"? Seems to just be a math 101.

  // You are responsible for releasing the structure in the end
  arrow_array.release(&arrow_array);
This doesn't look like RAII. How is this idiomatic for C++20? Why do you have to pass a pointer to "this" again as an explicit argument.
Re:Age Simulation Suit on Friday September 05, 2025 @08:05AM (#45137590)
As a German, that's exactly what I was thinking lololol
These days, a lot of brainpower is spent on scamming people (case in point: Vivek Ramaswamy). One can really make quite a good living off of scamming people these days. If you could reduce the brainpower of that demographic, I think this would be good for everyone else.
If you primarily reduce the brainpower of scammers, like Vivek Ramaswamy, I think that would help, even if it reduces overall brainpower.
Ahh, yes, all the blue cities run by democrats are such a breeze to live in: St. Louis, Baltimore, ...

Anyone who doesn't like this must be a racist. Got it!

Re:A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:46AM (#43946059)
Basically https://www.shadertoy.com/ for dummies. Right up my alley haha ;)
Re:Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:33AM (#43735076)
A tried A Short Hike. Games like this make me anxious, actually, because they make me feel like I'm wasting time. But I'm not anxious in general. I guess, it depends on the person.
Re:Tiny Pointers on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @04:44AM (#43023638)
Can someone ELI5?
Re:Systems ideas that sound good but almost never work on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @04:03PM (#42561816)
Lost me at "DSLs".
Re:Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties on Saturday November 16, 2024 @02:55PM (#42158771)
Fake news.

> The house overall was a 7-digit number. Sorry, I'm not comfortable being any more specific than that.

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