SanderNL

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by SanderNL 3y ago
You can use RoR, .NET, SBCL, Python, Erlang and 6502 assembly if you so desire. Sure “machine code” is one option, but that doesn’t engage with the argument in any meaningful way IMO.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You would never program Minecraft in it, right? Probably for the best, but you can and he did and it’ll make you a billionaire all the same.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Given the myriad other variables that go into a successful software business, the choice of stack and its various modes of expressing whatever transformation on whatever data it is you are mangling is so exceedingly minor a consideration th
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That's not a good faith interpretation given the near infinite amount of options for conjuring up your favourite moneyprinting system of choice besides "machine code". SBCL is about the most arcane option you can pick and eve
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I wish to live in your beautiful country filled with loving doctors doting on you with motherly care, because I definitely would prefer asking a bot for meds.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I think the times when your tech stacks mattered in the slightest are mostly behind us. Also: it's good you concocted some arcane shit that works like a charm, but now nobody - except the ones whose pay you express in number of zeroes
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I don't think there's a "killer app" coming soon, but it'll be a thousand cuts. One awesome thing here, one slightly less awesome but still useful thing over there. Take Copilot. Cool stuff and one of the early prod
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Well, no, therefore this should cost infinite dollar per year.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This is ass-backwards. Screenreaders should handle autofocus properly or ignore it, not force the other 90% into (even deeper) insanity.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
It’s not about any one person in particular. It’s about whole communities descending into hell for what could be multiple generations. I know that in theory we all should be free and take whatever we want, but I know that in practice this d
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Right? That’s why I continue kicking kittens. If I don’t, someone else will. It better be me, because I’ll kick them real gentle.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Good luck enforcing that, though. How would they ever know?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This metaphor is not about the tools so much as it is about the nature of expertise and its effect on the results of said tools. Someone with expertise will use any tools, including GPT, in ways a novice can’t even understand. Same tools, d
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by SanderNL 3y ago
If anything it’s more important. Without it you cannot separate its confabulation from its useful output. Knowing when to use what tool, how to do it properly and to what extent takes expertise as well. Carpenters and craftsmen in general
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Don’t forget this can be trained as well. Mental imagery can become a lot sharper if you want it to be. I think mental imagery is always sharp, it’s just your perception and/or your memory of it that sucks. Perhaps a bit like dreams. I
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I agree with this. I was a bit blunt. Each situation is different. Superficial learning might be all you need depending on the circumstances. I still think it’s better to learn without too much tooling of any kind, but that’s a topic for an
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by SanderNL 3y ago
True, but that’s not a good comparison. If we would compare this with arithmetic it would be like handing out a calculator and claiming this is way faster without “muddling around” (also known as “learning things”). You teach programming by
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> It is simply far, far easier for a newbie to see a computer generate 1 / 3 / 5 slightly-different attempts to solve a specific problem they have, and then to pattern match sufficiently to be able to solve the problem themselv
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by SanderNL 3y ago
It’s not about the results, it’s about its ability to “reason”. Math is about as close to pure reasoning we get so I don’t get the pessimism. If it is bad at math and can’t be taught, then you have a fundamental problem. It’s a matter of ti
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Hate to say it, but the tech itself is the easy part. It usually is.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
.. which will all look and feel exactly the same and the only thing differentiating you from the competition is doing non-LLM and probably very human design.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Notice I said these features sound (and should be) easy, but they are not. The “intellisense” features themselves are fine as QoL improvements. It’s the environment and the languages themselves that produces these “problems”. I mean, let’s
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I feel you, but I’d like to point the Finger in the other direction as well: (modern) programming is not sane. The tools and the environment are not made to be sharp and minimal, we are not using hammers and screwdrivers, we are all using
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by SanderNL 3y ago
So nice penises are ok?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I agree. While commendable, OP complicates matters greatly by declaring war on indecency and incompetence. What’s wrong with penises and bad drawings?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I count myself among those who are almost irrationally opposed to microservice anything. However, in my quest for the holy monolith I came across small teams who against all odds were adequately functional despite this heretical paradigm. T
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Thanks for pointing out environmental considerations. These got swept under the rug for too long. I'm not too comfortable pointing to the cloud providers for "efficiency", but you gotta go somewhere. I get that. Personally I&
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You had a good education. Don’t discount “provincial” schools. > A group of students that were acing the tests and finishing their homework were spending a couple weeks of time [..] assembling a full ladder Let’s just say I was submerged
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I don’t know what high school you were in, but that is not the norm.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You ever built a computer this way? If nothing else it’s great fun and kind of magical TBH.

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