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This part from the first try made me laugh: if random.random() < 0.01: logging.warning("This feels wrong. Aborting just in case.")
by why_at 1y ago
This part from the first try made me laugh:
if random.random() < 0.01:
logging.warning("This feels wrong. Aborting just in case.")
return None
- bspammer 1y agoI think that’s the funniest joke I’ve ever seen an LLM make. Which probably means it’s copied from somewhere.
- m463 1y ago"Why is a laser beam like goldfish? Because neither one can whistle." - Mike, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- muggesmuds 1y agoFantastic book, just read it. Surprised no movie has been made.
- grues-dinner 1y agoThe protagonists are libertarians with teenage harems, who fake an election and team up with with a sex pest. That's extremely reductive to the point of parody, but that will likely be the media coverage of it then moment someone reads the women and politics in the book. If you completely excise anything too distasteful for a current-day blockbuster, but want a film about a space mining colony uprising you might as well just adapt the game Red Faction instead: have the brave heros blasting away with abandon at corpo guards, mad genetic experimenters and mercenaries and the media coverage can talk about how it's a genius deconstruction of Elon Musk's Martian dream or whatever.
- pavlov 1y agoIf you haven't read Ursula Le Guin's "The Dispossessed", check it out too. It's like a fine wine pairing for "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress."
- throw-10-8 1y ago[dead]
- gbacon 1y agoYou’d think some filmmaker would have run with the dystopian theme. The accuracy of the book’s predictions is impressive, even the location of the North American Space Defense Command. The biggest miss was people using wired telephones everywhere.
- kahnclusions 1y agoI liked it when I was 17 but have soured on it later after re-reading. The only reason their libertarian revolution succeeds is because they have a centralised computer that secretly does everything for them.
- m463 1y ago> I liked it when I was 17 same with pretty much every scifi movie and book from my youth. What movies that wouldn't have been rendered ridiculous by the invention of the cellphone were done in by the hairstyles or fashion.
- ashdksnndck 1y agoIt would not be shocking if LLMs are legitimately better at making jokes about tasks they are extensively trained on.
- keeda 1y agoIf you're an extensive user of ChatGPT, or if you can give it some material about yourself like say, a resume or a LinkedIn profile, ask it to roast you. It will be very specific to the content you give it. Be warned, it can be brutal.
- friendzis 1y agoSo rehash of top comments in /r/roastme?
- Hackbraten 1y agoPeriodic reminder that there’s also HN Wrapped. [0] [0]: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com
- cowboylowrez 1y agoooooh boy, gotta mentally prepare myself for this one <press enter> damn these ai's are good! <begins shopping for new username>
- codyb 1y ago"The user will start a comment with 'I'm a social libertarian but...' only to be immediately downvoted by both libertarians and socialists. The irony will not be lost on them, just everyone else." I can't say I'm not impressed. That's very funny
- vovavili 1y ago>You voted with your feet and moved to Western Europe for better well-being, but you still won't vote with your cursor and use a browser other than Edge. I love this and hate this at the same time.
- kps 1y agoSpot on and I don't even mind.
- john01dav 1y ago
- x187463 1y agoI actually laughed when I read that. This one got me, too. The casual validation of its paranoia gives me Marvin the Paranoid Android vibes. try: result = a / b if math.isnan(result): raise ArithmeticError("Result is NaN. I knew this would happen.")
- tomjakubowski 1y agoYears and years ago, the MongoDB Java driver had something like this to skip logging sometimes in one of its error handling routines. } catch (Exception e) { if (!((_ok) ? true : (Math.random() > 0.1))) { return res; } final StringBuilder logError = (new StringBuilder("Server seen down: ")).append(_addr); /* edited for brevity: log the error */ https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-java-driver/blob/1d2e6faa80aeb5287a26d0348f18f4b51d566759/src/main/com/mongodb/ConnectionStatus.java#L213 https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-java-driver/blob/1d2e6faa80...
- nonameiguess 1y agoOne of my earlier jobs a decade ago involved doing pipeline development and Jenkins administration for the on-site developer lab on one of the NRO projects, and I inserted a random build failure code snippet to test that pipelines could recover from builds that failed for unpredictable reasons, like a network error rather than anything actually wrong with the build. I had to do this on the real system because we didn't have funds for a staging environment for the dev environment, and naturally I forgot to get rid of it when I was done. So builds randomly failed for years after that before I remembered and fixed it.
- chasd00 1y agoIf we’re talking about funny error msgs, a buddy of mine got this yesterday in salesforce. It’s not _that_ funny but pretty funny for Salesforce. System.DmlException: Insert failed. First exception on row 0; first error: UNKNOWN_EXCEPTION, Something is very wrong: []