adamc

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by adamc 2y ago
As an exercise in self-learning, I thought this was wonderful.
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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, this. Also, in most advanced societies, it isn't particularly likely that your kid wants to work at whatever you were doing. But there are a bunch of services helping "teach the test" for kids going to college/grad
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by adamc 2y ago
In big organizations, it solves a lot of problems. Docker isn't perfect (hence interest and growth of Nix), but in day-to-day use it's fairly replicable.
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by adamc 2y ago
Well... the "right answer" is going to be subjective. But I think parents providing for their children is going to win out 1000 times out of 1000. It's got human psychology and biology behind it. If doing what is "right&
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by adamc 2y ago
Per google, more than 30,000 employees, so I'd say enterprise-scale, sure. One of the biggest? No, but not tiny or even medium-sized.
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by adamc 2y ago
Not disputing it, but people don't pick Python because they need the fastest language, they pick it for friendly syntax and extensive and well-supported libraries. I loved Lisp, but none of the lisps have anything like Python's ec
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by adamc 2y ago
This gets into the whole "fast for what purpose" discussion. For many purposes, JavaScript is quite acceptably fast. But it isn't C or Rust.
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by adamc 2y ago
2 to 3 broke lots of code. Print became a function. Imports moved around. And there were subtle changes in the semantics of some things. Famously, strings changed, and that definitely affected a lot of packages. Quite a bit of that could be
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by adamc 2y ago
That was, in many ways, a crazy difficult transition. I don't think most languages have gone through such a thing. Perl tried and died. So I don't agree that it reflects poorly on the community; I think the plan itself was too amb
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by adamc 2y ago
There are different definitions of slow, though. You might want arbitrary precision numbers but want it to be reasonable fast in that context. I don't agree that it is "insane stuff", but I agree that Python is not where you
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by adamc 2y ago
It's hard to comment on this without knowing more about the dependencies and when/how they changed their APIs. I would say if it was a major version change, that isn't too shocking. For a minor version change, it should be. S
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by adamc 2y ago
Both her wit and her pain are on display in the poem Resumé. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44835/resume-56d22415... She lived in a difficult period for bright women who needed to express their thoughts. I
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by adamc 2y ago
This is kind of a sidebar, but the "growth mindset" is the kind of just-so story that appeals to people. It makes sense. If you are doing well, you can congratulate yourself on your growth mindset, and if you aren't, it makes
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by adamc 2y ago
Critiques Nadella's emphasis on the "growth mindset", and links some articles suggesting that the research supporting it has not been successfully replicated. Kind of interesting...
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by adamc 2y ago
The article notes that many of chatgpt's answers may be sourced (at least in part) from stackoverflow, and it made me wonder... as AI kills off the sites that provided the answers in the first place, where is it going to source new ans
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The rise and fall of Stack Overflow(infoworld.com)
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by adamc 2y ago
Might be good for some "average" user but strikes me as bad for software developers or other folks with particular need for tight control.
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by adamc 2y ago
They don't contradict each other, the contexts are different. Words have subtly different meanings according to what is being discussed. English is not a context-free language.
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by adamc 2y ago
I think these are definitions from very different contexts.
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by adamc 2y ago
One of the first languages I learned, along with Basic and PL1. But I bought a Mac, and, at the time, they were programmed in C.
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by adamc 2y ago
It was a problem even before the interest rate rises, although that certainly made it worse.
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by adamc 2y ago
Wouldn't it be "I reckon"? :-)
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by adamc 2y ago
To solve that problem you have to solve all the issues that make me not trust the results. As search, it's fine, since I am perusing and evaluating them. But as an agent, hallucinations and inaccurate answers have to disappear (or very
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by adamc 2y ago
I dunno, I'm not exactly on the AI bandwagon, but search is the one place where I use (and see others using) chatgpt all the time. The fact that Google search has been getting worse for a decade probably helps, but better search -- con
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by adamc 2y ago
Yes, and I think of them as examples to grab interest, particularly of young people. Which is good, the world needs not only more scientists, but more people who understand and appreciate how it works.
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by adamc 2y ago
Another might be that usually state capitals are significant cities in their state -- not necessarily the biggest, but cities you have at least heard of. Given that I have never heard about Moscow in Connecticut, it seems unlikely (not impo
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't see the emotional devastation in that, but those are real costs.
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by adamc 2y ago
This is a company, so no.
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by adamc 2y ago
Evidence, please. From what I've seen in person, it doesn't work this way at all. Companies don't have a great fix on whom to cut, and it usually just makes the other employees feel stressed (and start looking at other jobs),
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by adamc 2y ago
No, if you are having an LLM generate code that you are not reviewing, you are relying on the compiler 100%. (Or the runtime, if it isn't a compiled language.)

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