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by 20k 11mo ago
I always find it amazing that people are wiling to use AI beacuse of stuff like this, its been illegally trained on code that it does not have the license to use, and constantly willy nilly regurgitates entire snippets completely violating
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by 20k 11mo ago
Tortoisegit isn't an ide though, and the quality of git integration varies wildly between different ides - many of them have pretty toy integration. Its much nicer to have proper quality support of uniform quality, rather than having t
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by 20k 11mo ago
I do virtually everything through tortoisegit, and much prefer it over a CLI. When you right click, you get this: https://i.postimg.cc/hG4g8pjp/tgit.png Which gives you basically everything you could ever possibly want
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by 20k 11mo ago
Does anyone know if its possible to get shell integration working? The sole app keeping me on windows is tortoisegit: you right click, and get a bunch of git commands on your context menu. If there was any way to get this running in linux,
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by 20k 11mo ago
codeblocks. There are dozens of us!
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by 20k 11mo ago
I have absolutely 0 idea why any developer would rely on any IDE produced by google. It'll be canned within 5 years max, with 3-4 seeming like a reasonable estimate of the lifespan of the product I've been using my current IDE for
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by 20k 11mo ago
>Instead of doing those things, you just put up with it. Or, worse, you fight through your anxiety using an earlier solution that required willpower, and the exertion of willpower makes you feel like you’re trying. But the feeling of eff
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by 20k 1y ago
Its worth noting that the idea that great apes have learnt sign language is largely a fabrication by a single person, and nobody has ever been able to replicate this. All the communication has to be interpreted through that individual, and
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by 20k 1y ago
Disclaimer: This is my own work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doS85Mh78Vc This is what they look like when they merge, its pretty darn cool
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by 20k 1y ago
Its a stone cold fact that the NSA does this, it was part of the snowden revelations. Don't spread FUD about security, its important
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by 20k 1y ago
Because the NSA actively intercepts that traffic. There's a reason why encryption is non optional
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by 20k 1y ago
And neonicotinoids are directly thought to increase susceptibility to Varroa mites
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by 20k 1y ago
The problem is, if its one time payment, companies will just leech off of it indefinitely. It'd be great if companies were contributing, but its gotten to the point where you have to assume heavy bad faith from everyone involved
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by 20k 1y ago
I think a lot of these use cases for AI are incidental byproducts of the actual goal, which is to replace software developers. They're trying to salvage some kind of utility. Because I agree that the AI tools in use are marginal improv
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by 20k 1y ago
One of the problems with using AI for prototyping (or just in general), is that the act of creating the prototype is what's valuable, not the prototype itself. You learn lessons in trying to build it that you use to build the real prod
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by 20k 1y ago
Those languages have been going through exactly the same evolution though, like the JS -> typescript migration is one of the most direct practical examples of this imo
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by 20k 1y ago
So while I don't disagree with you at all, in terms of AI being a bubble, none of that is why the tech is being so hyped up. The current speculative hype push is being driven by two factors: 1. The promise that AI will replace most if
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by 20k 1y ago
The problem is, given the inherent limitations of natural language as a format to feed to an AI, it can never have enough information to be able to solve your problem adequately. Often the constraints of what you're trying to solve onl
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by 20k 1y ago
The key is to look at the long term structural changes the industry is going through, and whether or not AI helps, or hinders that goal In general, the industry has been making huge efforts to push errors from runtime , to compile time. If
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by 20k 1y ago
Every 6 months since chatgpt launched, everyone keeps telling me that LLMs are going to be amazing in a year from now and they'll replace programmers, just you wait They're getting better, but a lot of the improvement was driven b
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by 20k 1y ago
+1, I use exclusively free tools for this exact reason. I've been using the same tools for 15 years now (GCC + IDE), and they work great There is a 0% chance that I'm going to subscribe to being able to program, because its active
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by 20k 1y ago
My forever favourite error message is iverilog encountering a problem and simply printing: I give up
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by 20k 1y ago
These kinds of simulations inherently cannot model the singularity accurately whatsoever. At the singularity, the numerical technique used becomes knowingly invalid In fact, the entire interior of the event horizon is actually physically in
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by 20k 1y ago
I'd guess its the weyl scalar w4, which is generally used to extract gravitational waves
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by 20k 1y ago
Natural language is inherently a bad programming language. No developer, even with the absolute best AI tools, can avoid understanding the code that AI generates for very long The only way to successfully use AI is to have sufficient skill
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by 20k 1y ago
The issue is that you have to put in more effort to solve a problem using AI, than to just solve it yourself If I have to do extensive subtle prompt engineering and use a lot of mental effort to solve my problem... I'll just solve the
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by 20k 1y ago
>All progress on LLMs could halt today, and LLMs would remain the 2nd most important thing to happen over the course of my career. During my time as a programmer (gaming + astrophysics), the following things have happened: 1. The rise of
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by 20k 1y ago
I have a feeling that a lot of people here haven't read the article. There's lots of "Its just a dimensionless ratio" comments
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by 20k 2y ago
I think this is exactly why I dislike black mirror. It feels very 'pointless' as a show, because the situations and characters are so far divorced from anything real, that it feels like a meaningless critique. Sure, a technology
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by 20k 2y ago
Virtually all reasonable alternatives to GR have been strongly ruled out, including theories with large extra dimensions in them. In general, these theories have a some kind of parameter which measures their deviation from GR, which is bein

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