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Cake day: Aug 24, 2023

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I reuse some of the ducks by doing pnpm i


coral by cohere

no wait, it’s perplexity, I remember the logo.
you can try their labs version which gives to access to latest and beefy models like llama3.1 70b








[we're not the same meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-are-not-the-same) with the following text: you like threesome I like leetcode.com/problems/3sum we're not the same
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react programmers*, I should’ve said :p


I’ve seen programmers who accidentally click left gutter(next to line numbers) on vscode and then are confused as to why there are “red dots” in their .jsx files.



thank you mates, I’ll definitely look elsewhere.



they rejected my request for raise because “you already are amongst the ones with highest percentage raise in the past”(which is in single digit, BTW). meanwhile peers who do nothing all day are more paid.

i’m not jealous. just feel like I’m underpaid and overworked



source: https://twitter.com/wagslane/status/1637910671781404673 image description: a girl is smiling in front of the camera, not directly looking at it. in front of her is a big cake. the text on her reads, "PM showing off latest features" just on the left and a little behind is a guy, out of focus, blankly staring at the cake. the text on him reads, "dev getting 0 credit"
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I really like rust™ as a language. but their foundation does some drama every 6 months.
I was almost done with “the book”(their official book) when this draft policy came out. they have since backed up a bit, but I really don’t want to see ‘oracle 2’.
they say they’re not going to do an oracle because ‘trust us’. i’m indecisive ever since.
I love pattern matching, I want to have 8 different ways of creating strings. what I don’t like is the way foundation wants it to go.

but if in the future I wish to make anything with rust, I’ll use the trick you mentioned :)


I can see the pain in your “no”, haha.


update: I received a letter from the rust foundation stating that my use of the word rust violates their trademark policy. I have to redact my pervious comment.



the only JS package manager I have on my system.
for unruly projects, I just pass –shamefully-hoist



divide and conquer
video description: scene of arnold preparing for battle in commando with text underneath saying, "me preparing for studying divide and conquer algorithms" in case gif is not visible: ![same gif](https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/f352cf8c-cf0b-4f61-9844-206f78ab07d6.webm)
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Facebook would still dominate. it’s over 2 billion. granted others would become even smaller. reddit being one tenth of its size in the picture.

this graph also excludes weibo and qq.


yeah, there are quite a number of people who have multiple accounts. almost everyone I know does. same goes for whatsapp and instagram. it’s still a massive number nonetheless


I was reading the Wikipedia page linked just an hour ago.
and I was surprised to see over a billion daily users on Facebook. I used to think at best that’d be in millions.

I understand now that what do people mean when they day social media’s amplification of a certain message can have great impact. I used to take it lightly, partly because I an totally detached to any of these big platforms.

and being on Lemmy is a wholly different experience.


I’m not into too much music, but whenever I do want to listen to some, I open a YouTube music client which is more than enough for my needs. they don’t require subscription, or are ads-riddled.
like, at the moment, I’m using vimusic


what’d a symbol be? a pixel?

aside from this, they say a picture is worth a 1000 words. so maybe a big language.


thanks for sharing. can’t wait to go insane :')


sigma star.

if you haven’t heard about theory of computation, let me define some keywords:

  • symbol: smallest unit. denoted by any character(a,b,c, etc.) or number (0,1, etc.)
  • alphabet: set of symbols. denoted by Σ(sigma). e.g.: {a, b, c}
  • string: sequence of symbols. eg: a, aa, aaab, etc.
  • language: set of strings. e.g.: {a, as, aaab, …}

now, sigma has powers. Σ² is set of all strings of length 2. e.g.: {aa, ab, bb, …}. you can generalise this to Σ^n.
Σ* is union of all powers of sigma. i.e., Σ¹ + Σ² + …

so, a language is basically a subset of Σ*.

as for why theory of computation even exists, you basically try to define what a computer can/cannot do.
and you try to mathematically define a computer. then you try to define what a language is(in case of programming , you need it to form languages and compilers). hence the need for this.


image transcription: an image incorporating two famous memes. on top is the title "learning about Σ* in theory of computation." in the centre is a close-up of [Chad face](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chad-face) – often used when talking about sigma males – cropped in a five-pointed star shape. below are [two soyjaks pointing](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/two-soyjaks-pointing) towards the aforementioned Chad face. those soyjaks are labeled "me" and "my brain".
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but I don’t have any Java extension?!


I wonder how did Microsoft come up with this suggestion.
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thanks for the comment. it is exactly how I feel about this and similar projects.

and thanks for the edit, had an insightful read.