Sharlin

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901.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Incredible false dichotomy. I don’t even know where to start dissecting this "argument".
902.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
GP’s point is that because being anti-science is on the rise.
903.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Well, nobody did, because fire was likely used for tens or hundreds of thousands of years before anyone figured out how to make fire on demand.
904.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
We’re accustomed to "the future" connoting progress and improvement. Unfortunately, it isn’t always so (no matter how heavily implied). Just that it’s literally expected to be the future state if matters.
905.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
To be fair, it easily takes 3 million lines of code to make a browser from scratch. Firefox and Chrome both have around ten times that(!) – presumably including tests etc. But if the browser is in large part third-party libraries glued toge
906.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
TBH that sounds like TeamScale just has too verbose default settings. On the other hand, people generally find almost all of the lints in Clippy's [1] default set useful, but if you enable "pedantic" lints, the signal-to-nois
907.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
I’m super impressed by how "zillions of lines of code" got re-branded as a reasonable metric by which to measure code, just because it sounds impressive to laypeople and incidentally happens to be the only thing LLMs are good at o
908.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
It could still be special-case RLHF trained, just not up to perfection.
909.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
I suppose what’s impressive is that (with the author’s help) it did ultimately get the port to work, in spite of all the caveats described by the author that make Claude sound like a really bad programmer. The code is likely terrible, and t
910.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
LED bulbs, even though cheaper in the long term, used to habe high enough shelf prices enough that most houdeholds wouldn’t have switched without a government push. Incandescents are literally banned now for most uses, while the economies o
911.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Water scarcity is mostly caused by factors other than overpopulation.
912.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
In Finland even the hot water bill is split, per-apartment water meters are only now getting common in new buildings.
913.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
No problem! Just give the agents the ability to autonomously report issues, submit patches, and engage with library authors. Surely nothing can go wrong.
914.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Yes, I think it’s a well-known phenomenon that the brain extends its concept of the body to tools, vehicles etc that you learn to use well.
915.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
CWT is laid in such a way that it has net zero stress in a "neutral" temperature, which naturally depends on the climate. Both extreme heat and extreme cold can cause damage, buckling and fracturing/embrittlement respectively
916.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Yeah. Lots of talk about agents and whatever, but then you lack minimal integration with the most basic of tools?
917.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
I don’t understand how the author can simultaneously argue that Claude is great at Elixir because it’s a small language with only one paradigm, and also that Claude is bad at Elixir, spewing out non-idiomatic code that makes little sense in
918.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
> I’m mostly […] doing routine tasks that it’s slow at, like refactoring or renaming. So… humans are now doing the stuff that computers are supposed to do and be good at?
919.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
The administration has already given its verdict, and that's all the "investigation" you're going to get.
920.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
It's not a technical problem (well, it is, but not primarily). It's a social problem. Replicating a technology is one thing. Getting thousands and thousands of organizations to migrate is in a whole different universe difficulty-w
921.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
It's adding the property that it's an all-in-one turnkey solution. Which is an extremely attractive proposition compared to having a dozen separate tools. And to paraphrase the old adage, nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft
922.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Java has so few features that there's not much to ban. Nevertheless Java definitely has language features (in addition to deprecated library APIs, which are many) that aren't recommended today. Off the top of my mind: * `synchroni
923.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
But <regex> definitely does not predate utf-8.
924.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Being primarily interested in money and career advancement would also make you not a great colleague in many people’s eyes. It’s rather subjective.
925.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Here's a couple of articles: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/people-once-downloaded... https://interestingengineering.com/science/you-could-downloa...
926.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Sure, but this failure mode is not that . "AI will malfunction and doom us all" is pretty far from "AI will malfunction by sometimes confabulating stuff".
927.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
You don't need the recipient to actually click on any visible link. Tracking pixels are the oldest trick in the book.
928.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
"It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." In this case, the thing that's difficult to understand is "AI in everything is shit and nobody wants it.&q
929.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
That's what you get when your primary source of nutrition is very calorie-poor and largely indigestible.
930.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Or a reverse centaur [1]. [1] https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-revers...

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