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by 20k 7mo ago
You can ask the AI why, but its answer doesn't come from any kind of genuine reasoning. It doesn't know why it did anything, because it doesn't exist as a sentient being. It just makes something up that sounds good If you cho
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by 20k 7mo ago
And now you have no idea how any of the code works AI writes bad software by virtue of it being written by the AI, not you. No actual team member understands what's going on with the code. You can't interrogate the AI for its deci
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by 20k 7mo ago
I find it odd the universal assumption that AI is going to be good for productivity The loss of skills, complete loss of visibility and experience with the codebase, and the complete lack of software architecture design, seems like a massiv
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by 20k 8mo ago
Writing an exact copy of a nontrivial function by mistake is so rare that i've never seen it happen in 20 years of programming
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by 20k 8mo ago
Its astonishing the way that we've just accepted mass theft of copyright. There appears to be no way to stop AI companies from stealing your work and selling it on for profits On the plus side: It only takes a small fraction of people
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by 20k 8mo ago
>On this site, you’ll find insights into my journey as a 100x programmer, my efforts in problem-solving, and my exploration of cutting-edge technologies like advanced LLMs. I’m passionate about the intersection of algorithms and real-wor
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by 20k 8mo ago
The magic here with the word-ese is that a floating point expression may be contracted. In C, you write things like: float a = /*expression*/ float b = /*expression*/ float c = a * b; Contraction c
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by 20k 8mo ago
Static inline functions can sometimes serve as an optimisation barrier to compilers. Its very annoying. I've run into a lot of cases when targeting C as a compilation target where swapping something out into an always-inline function r
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by 20k 8mo ago
This is why its astonishing to me that AI has passed any legal department. I regularly see AI output large chunks of code that are 100% plagiarised from a project - its often not hard to find the original source by just looking up snippets
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by 20k 9mo ago
Its happening again with contracts. Implementers are raising implementability objections that are being completely ignored. Senders and receivers are being claimed to work great on a GPU but without significant testing (there's only on
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by 20k 9mo ago
Yes. Unfortunately the committee has completely abandoned safety at this point. Even memory/thread safety profiles have been indefinitely postponed. The latest ghost safety lifetimes thing is completely unimplementable There literally
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by 20k 9mo ago
Its insane to me seeing this kind of thing. I write 100% of my code by hand. Of developers I know, they write >95% of code by hand >We are entering an era where the Brain of the application (the orchestration of models, the decision-m
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by 20k 9mo ago
char8_t also isn't guaranteed to be 8-bits, because sizeof(char) == 1 and sizeof(char8_t) >= 1. On a platform where char is 16 bits, char8_t will be 16 bits as well The cpp standard explicitly says that it has the same size, typed,
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by 20k 9mo ago
If I want to look something up, I always check out wikipedia first. Its not always accurate, but its invariably a lot more accurate on most topics than random information across the web. Its also pretty easy to spot bad quality wiki artic
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by 20k 9mo ago
Oh boy, someone's claiming that chatgpt is actually great now, time to ask it some questions I asked chatgpt's thinking mode if the adm formalism is strictly equivalent to general relativity, and it made several strongly incorrect
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by 20k 9mo ago
I wish LLMs were good at search. I've tried to evaluate them many times for their quality at answering research questions for astrophysics (specifically numerical relativity). If they were good at answering questions, I'd use them
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by 20k 10mo ago
>Every time you: >Look up a Git command instead of clicking a button >You're building real, transferable skills that make you a better programmer. I'm convinced that the only reason that people think git is complicated, i
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by 20k 10mo ago
If you make a typo, it'll go wrong. This is something that file managers fundamentally do not suffer from when trying to do that operation
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by 20k 10mo ago
xbox went up in flames with the xbox one, which was around about when microsoft as a whole started to get run by business types that had no idea what they were doing whatsoever. 2013 was when xbox permanently lost the console 'war&#x27
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by 20k 10mo ago
Yep, this exactly. Its completely unacceptable And its not something that's just a 'you' problem - if you want the actual underlying issues in physics to be fixed, its a massive issue that the spokesperson for fixing those pr
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by 20k 10mo ago
Great project, thanks for building it >i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump.. virignia spent hours at my house with him,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there Hooo boy
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by 20k 10mo ago
I agree with a part of Sabine's overall output, but she's increasingly misidentifying some of the problems and the solutions because she's drifted too far towards the grifters To a large degree if you're trying to succes
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by 20k 10mo ago
This is one of the reasons why I'm surprised to see so many people jump on board. We're clearly in the "release product for free/cheap to gain customers" portion of the enshittification plan, before the company star
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by 20k 10mo ago
Its also significantly lowered because management is forcing AI on everyone at gunpoint, and saying that you'll lose your job if you don't love AI That's a very easy way to get everyone to pinky promise that they absolutely l
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by 20k 10mo ago
The problem with sabine is that she's become the worst person to make a correct point for the wrong reasons If you do research it becomes pretty apparent that a high number papers are not great. There's varying issues, but a big o
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by 20k 10mo ago
Models don't think they're anything, they'll respond with whatever's in their context as to how they've been directed to act. If it hasn't been told to have a persona, it won't think its anything, chatgpt
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by 20k 10mo ago
I mean, we kind of do though? We could assume that the surviving images of statues showing how they were painted are accurate. If you know the colour of the underlayer, this actually lets you determine exactly what the colouration of the pa
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by 20k 10mo ago
Braid didn't start the indie boom, Garry's mod did
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by 20k 10mo ago
Pictograms let you parse a lot of information at a glance, because you can pattern match a group of differing symbols much faster than you can a block of text which all looks uniform. It lets you skip reading all the text when you're f
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by 20k 11mo ago
Companies should. Its a business risk, you open yourself up to legal action

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