bigstrat2003

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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
Objectively, Notepad++ is inferior at cross-platform support. Subjectively, I don't like that the creator of Notepad++ uses the software itself as a platform for his politics. In either case, I prefer Sublime.
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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
It's a joke. Microsoft has been ignoring user preferences and doing what is good for Microsoft for many years now, and the parent poster was implying that Apple is now doing the same kind of bad behavior.
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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
> The lead-times are ridiculous, and these guys now only pay attention to the really big guys. Not sure I can blame them though, you've gotta do what's best for your business. I don't blame them in the sense that I wish fo
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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
> Writing code requires substantial amount of thinking as well. Shouldn't we write code without AI as well? You absolutely should. Using an LLM to write your code for you is not a good idea. It produces bad code, and it also robs yo
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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
Sublime Text doesn't automatically download and run language servers without your consent. Zed does, and last I looked there's no way to turn that behavior off (the devs said it's an intentional decision to make things easier
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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
Some humans, yes. Most humans write much better code than an LLM.
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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
You get 0% productivity gains if you are careful and actually reviewing the code the LLM produces. The only way to actually get the massive productivity gains that AI bros claim is to throw quality out the window.
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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
The time it takes you to review the code the LLM produces is the same amount of time it would take to just write the code yourself. There's no speedup to be had using these things, despite what many claim.
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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
It's certainly true that companies can take a turn for the worse and stop treating their customers well. But a company using bots to communicate with prospective customers is sending you a signal that they already treat their custome
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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
There's nothing stopping you, true. But I think you will find that nobody is going to buy software for whatever thousands of dollars it took you to make it. So the limitation in this case is a practical one, not a legal or moral one.
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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
No, but "free as in speech" effectively precludes making money from sales of the software. As soon as you sell it to one person, that person can give it to others for less than he paid you (all the way down to free), so nobody has
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by bigstrat2003 5d ago
That is the entire business model of AI companies: selling garbage to people foolish enough to buy the hype.
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by bigstrat2003 6d ago
I don't think that's suffering at that point. The programmer has made an explicit decision to let things overflow, so he should be prepared to handle that possibility. It's not like a language where overflow happens silently
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by bigstrat2003 6d ago
I feel the same way about "an homage". The H is normally pronounced on "homage" - for example, you would not say "pay homage to" with the faux-French pronunciation. So you therefore would say "a homage&quo
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by bigstrat2003 6d ago
Very few people say "acks" instead of "ask". It's not a common error at all. I would say "who"/"whom" is the only truly common one you listed, though screwing up "than"/"
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
Depends on the writing. Writing a blog post or something is challenging because you want to have an engaging style. But I see people at work using LLMs to fill out tickets, which is the easiest thing in the world. It's just a plain des
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
The words of a machine are not of interest to me. I want to hear what you, the human, have to say, imperfections and all. Reading something written by an LLM is actively annoying, and it's not very respectful to inflict that upon other
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
It isn't like LLMs are actually good at programming, so there's no reason to give up on your interest in it. The hype around LLMs is not sustainable, the quality simply is not there.
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
LLMs can't even get much simpler programs right without humans holding their hand, let alone an OS. The odds of an LLM just banging out an OS are nil.
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
That is not possible. Google, or anyone else, can make a fork of the project. But they can't take away the original from the commons.
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
A Pixel 10a is far bigger and has no headphone jack.
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
Agreed. Despite the many claims of how awesome LLMs are for productivity, we have yet to see that supposed productivity produce fruit. Moreover, I dispute the claims of productivity: in my own usage I find them to be at best neutral, or eve
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
Yes it is. I find them empirically not useful. You may not wish to debate it, but the fact remains that there are a great many people who are not convinced of their usefulness.
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by bigstrat2003 8d ago
The first and it isn't even close. Normal operation of the system is more important than preventing attacks, and trading it away at a 2:1 ratio is a bad trade.
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by bigstrat2003 8d ago
There's nothing sad about that. He's entitled to his opinions, as are you.
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
IsOdd and IsEven never made sense. They were a badge of shame that said "I have no idea how to program".
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
You don't need to vibe code to set up a piracy setup. LLMs aren't really adding any new capabilities there.
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
No, there's a massive difference. Taking Star Trek as an example: most of the time (not all the time, I am well aware), old Trek series were careful to present social commentary in a way that trusted the viewer to draw his own conclusi
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
I've definitely seen roundabouts that were a downgrade. Primarily these have been placed on rural highways where the cross road just had a stop sign before, which was good enough for the light cross traffic and did not impede the prima
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
It can be a good thing. But I've seen many roundabouts in the US (specifically in the state of Wisconsin) where someone decided to put a roundabout on a major rural highway that was crossed by a side road. In that case there is no se

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