Asraelite

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by Asraelite 2y ago
This has been my experience too. Gemini might be better for vibe coding or architecture or whatever, but Claude consistently feels better for serious coding. That is, when I know exactly how I want something implemented in a large existing
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by Asraelite 2y ago
How true what I said is depends on the domain. It is less applicable to subjects which involve simple facts with lots of rote memorization, and more applicable to subjects with difficult to grasp concepts. You are comparing a subject near o
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by Asraelite 2y ago
It will basically be like the rise of indie games. Every now and again you get something like Among Us which is low quality but good enough to be enjoyable and with the right combination of luck and timing it becomes insanely popular.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
> the reason being to avoid a division by zero exception/crawsh in a mathematical formula Why don't they just special-case it?
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by Asraelite 2y ago
I strongly disagree. That's just how education is done as a matter of pragmatism. In general it's very very difficult to impart conceptual knowledge to someone else because of the nature of human brains. We don't understand h
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Or even change it to "to learn CUDA programming". I thought this was for shaders or something at first.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Yeah, I would prefer to see this effort being done for AMD GPUs. They're not as powerful, but at least everything is open source and developer friendly. They should be rewarded for that.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
> Do they go to special schools? Yes. https://www.yahoo.com/news/hermit-kingdom-north-korea-became...
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by Asraelite 2y ago
> crypto is all proprietary What?
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Just came across your comment when googling this and was wondering if you had any thoughts. My understanding is that when startups have the insane levels of advertising on Youtube that Ground News does, it's because they're expect
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by Asraelite 2y ago
> This is the initialization vector (IV). The developers -- of course -- failed to do this and used a constant Oh, at that point you're not even using the algorithm anymore. Why is this even possible in the library? I would've
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by Asraelite 2y ago
> Static keys used in encryption can be cracked by obtaining many ciphertext samples. They can? My understanding was that with a well-designed symmetric algorithm and a key with enough entropy this shouldn't be possible.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
You've completely missed the point of the parent comment. It doesn't matter if it occasionally hallucinates, because there are many use cases where that's okay and you can generate enormous value anyway.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
> They are still not an adequate substitute for Zig's comptime feature. For one and in a sense they are much more limited than comptime functions in Zig The syntactic restrictions don't really matter; it's still Turing-com
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by Asraelite 2y ago
> you are not responsible for other families. Why not? Do you not consider yourself at all responsible for the wellbeing of society?
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by Asraelite 2y ago
> One server with a RAID array can survive, usually, 1 or maybe 2 drive failures. Standard RAID configurations can only handle 2 failures, but there are libraries and filesystems allowing arbitrarily high redundancy.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
I get what you're saying, but this reasoning has always rubbed me the wrong way. You will often hear scammers and con artists justify what they do by saying it's the only way they have to support their family. It's like, why
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by Asraelite 2y ago
When the actions you would take if you were acting entirely out of self interest and the actions that are the most ethical align with each other, then it's okay to take those actions, which is the case here and that's fine. I just
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Self interest is not something to be proud of.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
There are competing incentives. Governments/politicians want to make it easy for companies to comply in order to encourage economic investment, and also to gain goodwill among their voters. Legal institutions want to make things appear
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by Asraelite 2y ago
I never thought I'd see the day where technology finally advanced far enough that we can edit a PDF.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
It was. The definition of "AI" keeps shifting.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
You're underestimating the insane amount of engineering effort Google has put into optimizing V8. Take a look at some benchmarks. https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/javascrip... https://progr
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by Asraelite 2y ago
> Perhaps most troubling is how cryptocurrency enables ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure, healthcare facilities, and local governments. Criminal groups can now easily monetize cyberattacks through untraceable ransom payments,
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by Asraelite 2y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as disagreeing with you, I just wanted to point out what I thought was an interesting fact. Yes, the original source code is unrecoverable.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
It doesn't really matter if it needs to extrapolate. Whether or not you called the variable "mungus", a sufficiently powerful LLM could infer that this is the best possible name for that variable to make it understandable for
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by Asraelite 2y ago
You left out the "for common algorithms like this" part of my comment. None of what you said applies to learning simple, well-established algorithms for software development. If it's history, biology, economics etc. then sure
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by Asraelite 2y ago
This is getting downvoted but I would also recommend it. It's much faster than reading papers and, unless you are doing cutting edge research, LLMs will be able to accurately explain everything you need to know for common algorithms li
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by Asraelite 2y ago
So what? We would still need to work on actively reducing current CO2 levels even if emissions dropped to zero tomorrow.
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by Asraelite 2y ago
You can squash locally, that's fine, so long as you then locally run tests on the new squashed commit before pushing. What I think is problematic is rebasing entire branches weeks after their commits have last been touched. The more yo

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