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by 20k 6mo ago
>I don’t really understand the, “more, better, faster,” cachet to be honest. Writing the code hasn’t been the bottle neck to developing software for a long time. It’s usually the thinking that takes most of the time and if that goes away
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by 20k 6mo ago
There's a good reason everyone calls them microslop these days. The sooner we're all able to ditch this crappy company, the better - they're actively holding back the tech industry at this point
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by 20k 6mo ago
Quantum computing, and the generic term 'quantum' is gearing up to be the next speculative investment hype bubble after AI, so prepare for a lot of these kinds of articles
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by 20k 7mo ago
This seems like a good way to weed out models: ask them to include the term capybara in their commit messages
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by 20k 7mo ago
Contracts aren't for handling errors. That blog post is extremely out of date, and doesn't reflect the current state of contracts Modern C++ contracts are being sold as being purely for debugging. You can't rely on contracts
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by 20k 7mo ago
>abuse like bots, scraping 10/10, I've got no notes
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by 20k 7mo ago
I definitely get this. The thing that gives me hope is that you only need to poison a very small % of content to damage AI models pretty significantly. It helps combat the mass scraping, because a significant chunk of the data they get will
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by 20k 7mo ago
Everyone acknowledges that the US killed a whole bunch of kids, including the US
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by 20k 7mo ago
Spoons always go in the right hand (eg fork and spoon), but yes I'd say people usually use the fork in the non dominant hand. Fork in the right hand is slightly 'uncouth', possibly due to its american associations
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by 20k 7mo ago
Its always extremely funny reading wikipedia articles about a countries customs. For the UK: >Bread is always served and can be placed on the table cloth itself This is extremely rare, to the point where I can't remember the last ti
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by 20k 7mo ago
Far too many people treat AI as a way to launder copyright, it seems likely that a lot of the current state of outright plagiarism won't stand up in court
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by 20k 7mo ago
Clean room reimplementations of software projects have been tested in court and are legally fine
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by 20k 7mo ago
At the same time, the open source community has absolutely no responsibility to make Atari profits here either. The outcome here is simply that open source is getting screwed over It isn't kind hearted. Them trying to shut down openttd
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by 20k 7mo ago
It took a long time for python 3 to add the necessary backwards compatibility features to allow people to switch over. Once they did it was fine, but it was a massive fuck up until then. The migration took far longer than it should have don
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by 20k 7mo ago
Fibers are primarily when you have a problem which is easily expressible as thread-per-unit-of-work, but you want N > large. They can be useful for eg a job system as well, and in that case the primary advantage is the extremely low cont
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by 20k 7mo ago
Yes, for physics engines I think that's a very good use case when its worth the extra complexity for robustness. Generally I think if errors (or especially nan's) can meaningfully compound, ie if you have persistent state, that&#x
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by 20k 7mo ago
>poorly designed third party APIs I think this is missing the reason why these APIs are designed like this: because they're convenient and intuitive Its rare that this kind of performance matters, or that the minor imprecisions of t
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by 20k 7mo ago
Sure. A big part of how I'd know that the function I'm calling does what I think it does, is by reading the source documentation associated with it Does it have any threading preconditions? Any weird quirks? Any strange UB? That&#
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by 20k 7mo ago
I'm curious, have you ever worked on a single software project for more than 5 years?
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by 20k 7mo ago
This mentality is fundamentally why I think AI is not that useful, it completely underscores everything that's wrong with software engineering and what makes a very poor quality senior developer I'll write an application without A
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by 20k 7mo ago
That seems like a strong error, you have no idea if it works or if it just happens to work
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by 20k 7mo ago
The problem with these long videos is that what I really want to see is what questions were asked of it, and the accuracy of the results Every time I ask LLMs questions I know the answers to, its results are incomplete, inaccurate, or just
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by 20k 7mo ago
It doesn't even work for basic astrophysics I asked chatgpt the other day: "Where did elements heavier than iron come from?" The answer it gave was totally wrong. Its not a hard question. I asked it this question again today,
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by 20k 7mo ago
This isn't dissimilar to deathworld 2, where a futuristic guy crashlands on a planet and has to reinvent modern technology for a mongolian style culture. I'm a big fan
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by 20k 7mo ago
Except you have no idea if what the LLM is telling you is true I do a lot of astrophysics. Universally LLMs are wrong about nearly every astrophysics questions I've asked them - even the basic ones, in every model I've ever tested
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by 20k 7mo ago
I mean, is it really that hard to find information in the docs? Like, if I want to find out what, I don't know, "GetQueuedCompletionStatus" does. I google GetQueuedCompletionStatus Find this page: https://learn.mic
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by 20k 7mo ago
But you have to check the answer against the documentation anyway though, to validate that its actually correct! Unless you're just taking the LLM answers at face value?
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by 20k 7mo ago
If I have to treat LLMs as a fallible source of information, why wouldn't I just go right to the source though? Having an extra step in between me and the actual truth seems pointless WinAPI docs are pretty accurate and up to date
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by 20k 7mo ago
I work in tech, and I think the worst part is seeing all the pieces of catastrophe that have had to come together to make AI dominate There's several factors which are super depressing: 1. Economic productivity, and what it means for a
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by 20k 7mo ago
How is this faster than just reading the documentation? Given that LLMs hallucinate, you have to double check everything it says against the docs anyway

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