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by arcturus17 4y ago
For me it’s never been about type bugs but rather about being able to work comfortably with the code. Some of us don’t have the greatest working memories; having the IDE offering support with types is a godsend. Python’s my prototyping lang
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> 1. UI development is hard to do well. Throughout my career I've seen complexity explosions in C++/Win32, C#/WPF, and JS UIs so this isn't a new phenomenon The people who complain about current front-end complexity a
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I've been doing some research recently and it continues to be by far the most popular state management framework for React. The fact that there are alternatives doesn't mean that most projects have abandoned it.
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I did a fairly rigorous linear algebra course in school, and it went over my head despite passing it. Saw it explained in a single slide of Andrew Ng's ML course and everything clicked perfectly. Where I lived math was taught like fuck
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> I think the reality is that programming is not as intellectually challenging as we'd like to think. It takes most people thousands of hours of practice to get good at it, and a lifetime to master it. I think most people of average
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Thanks, these are extremely interesting beyond TypeScript.
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> For me, it’s the language complexity. For 15 years, I was nearly exclusively a C# developer. Since I moved on, it seems it’s gotten quite a bit of syntactic complexity. From the outside looking in - I don't know C# yet but I want
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by arcturus17 4y ago
Which IDE do you use? The Jetbrains family of products do pretty much everything I ask of them out of the box. Even outside of Webstorm (eg, PyCharm, IDEA) they're all JavaScript-ready because it's so common to develop full-stack.
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by arcturus17 4y ago
The hyperexplosive growth of all tech (startups AND enterprise) in the period might be the big explanation. As to what explained that , possibly the chief factor was low interest rates, with other factors being Covid-led digitalization, gr
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> Edit: changed all to most as I still need windows for some c++ specific stuff at the moment. What kind of stuff? I am going to invest heavily in learning C# and .NET in 2023. Anything that takes me out of Unix development and hosting w
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by arcturus17 4y ago
You're using EU vs EU-but-non-eurozone data to leap and conclude that "EU is worth it only for poor countries", the intellectual laziness on display is astonishing and I'm done here.
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> look at Serbia GDP growth for instance, higher than any EU country Absolutely false, Ireland has had higher GDP growth, and closer peers like Estonia or Lithuania have had comparable growth rates to Serbia, which is all the more impres
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> The CR is in some ways a bit of an outlier - they're very heavy into manufacturing Made easier when well over two-thirds of your exports are to EU countries, with zero tariffs. GP then has the nerve to conflate Eurozone membership
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> And if you look at Eurostat stats Eurozone countries have consistently lower GDP growth and higher unemployment than countries not in Eurozone. Sorry but "if you look at Eurostat stats Eurozone countries" is not going to cut
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I wish, but I don't think it'll be the case as long as Apple and Google control the mobile platform. The problem was always economical, and not technological. The tides of regulation seem to be changing, and we might get key rulin
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by arcturus17 4y ago
> Nothing interesting happens on the front end anyway. That's just like, your opinion, man
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What's the story in Deno with the standard lib and filesystem interaction? Because those are the two vital parts of scripting for me. I dabbled in Node scripting for a bit and ditched it because I didn't feel it was a viable optio
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by arcturus17 4y ago
> This paper is not even using GPT-3.5, it's using PaLM. Where are you getting this? From the excerpt: "We set out to investigate whether GPT-3.5 (Codex and InstructGPT) can be applied to answer and reason about difficult real-
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by arcturus17 4y ago
Have you asked GPT-3.5 about something as simple as the classification of sailfish ? Wake up.
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ChatGPT has been taught about sailfish - it has had access to a corpus of several centuries worth of knowledge regarding sailfish - and it will try to persuade you that it is a mammal, making up some outlandish facts along the way. Yea, I l
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by arcturus17 4y ago
See my comment in this thread about how ChatGPT thinks that sailfish are mammals. I possibly have never read the classification of sailfish explicitly in a book or a documentary, but I could have classified it as a fish any time of day. For
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by arcturus17 4y ago
ChatGPT gets animal classification frequently wrong. There is an example made famous on Reddit about how it insists that the sailfish is a mammal. I could reproduce it this afternoon by simply asking it: "What is the fastest sea mammal
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by arcturus17 4y ago
It all depends on the degree of customization you do on your products, but if my team or I had to code all the auth or UI components by hand, I would quit the profession. I speak from experience when I say that if there's something I l
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Name a single time that technological progress on this scale was stopped. Your opinion as a connaisseur of the fine works of deviantart is as good as anyone else's here. The cat's out of the bag and there's nothing you or I c
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by arcturus17 4y ago
> Sure, buddy, just like ChatGPT will turn us into Einsteins, Knuths and Turings (hint: they won’t, you can’t replicate exceptional people with a crutch; exceptional people will be able to utilize it, but not general public) Run-of-the-m
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I use ChatGPT daily for programming help (love it!) but the people saying that machines like this will outsmart us imminently make me wonder if they've even tried it or they're just going by headlines. It goes from genius to full-
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The volumes of email spam are absolutely staggering, but its detection and filtering, with minuscule amounts of false negatives, are nearly perfect. It has been largely a solved problem for a decade to which we give very little credit. Me p
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by arcturus17 4y ago
Sorry about your parents... I wouldn't want wish anyone to lose them early. I also understand that genetics sometimes are an unescapeable force. On the bright side however, life expectancy is growing worldwide. In Spain, where I live,
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Wait, how would this stop phone scams?
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Pigeons may be dumb as bricks but I’ve never seen one hit by a car. When I’m driving I think I’m going to hit them but they always bail. Credit where credit is due!

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