capyba

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by capyba 1y ago
Nothing about this is moving goalposts - you and/or the person(s) conducting this study are the ones being misleading! If you want to measure time to complete a complex task, then measure that. LOC is an intermediate measure. How much
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by capyba 1y ago
“ Productivity (measured by the number of lines of code produced) increased” The LLM’s better have written more code, they’re a text generation machine! In what world does this study prove that the LLM actually accomplished anything useful?
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by capyba 1y ago
I’m glad to hear someone say that. I’ve been wrestling for weeks with the idea of reinventing a particular wheel in my profession, for a personal coding project. The problem is that my implementation can’t ever be as complete or as useful a
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by capyba 1y ago
I disagree - a lot of people with positions of power are unfortunately saying the “will be left behind “ bit
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by capyba 1y ago
But it wasn’t industrial automation that ruined Detroit. It was the automakers’ failure to compete with highly capable foreign competition.
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by capyba 1y ago
Can you explain this to me? Trying to understand but can’t haha.
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by capyba 1y ago
I’m out of the loop with laptop processors and GPU performance measured in “AI TOPS”. I’m not “doing AI” locally on my laptop, are those AMD processors of any use to me? I’m familiar with traditional X86_64 CPU architectures, I just don’t u
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by capyba 1y ago
I was thinking the same but got a prusa kit instead. Have you use or built a prusa before - how do they compare? At some point I’ll want two printers and was thinking a voron or similar would be perfect because I could print parts for it no
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by capyba 1y ago
Reading about the `left-pad` incident (almost 10 years ago itself!) gave me an incredibly strong aversion to dependencies in my own projects. I suppose that like the author, I care a lot about understanding the foundations and ensuring that
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by capyba 1y ago
In terms of performance, how does it compare to compiled languages like the C it’s written in?
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by capyba 1y ago
I love working in Julia, it makes clean numerical code so easy to write.
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by capyba 1y ago
Excellent point, that makes a lot of sense. You’re absolutely right that I’ve only tried problems that could be auto vectorized…
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by capyba 1y ago
Very cool, thank you for sharing!
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by capyba 1y ago
Personally I’ve never been able to beat gcc or icx autovectorization by using intrinsics; often I’m slower by a factor of 1.5-2x. Do you have any wisdom you can share about techniques or references you can point to?
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by capyba 1y ago
as other commenters noted, this sounds like chatgpt and it gave me indigestion when reading
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by capyba 1y ago
I’m a mechanical engineer, not a software person, but I write a lot of (hopefully close to professional quality) code for my work. writing tests while in the beginning/middle of my development cycle has been the best change I’ve made i
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by capyba 1y ago
Hard agree. Alibre CAD has affordable permanent/monthly licenses, I recommend that as the affordable commercial option.
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by capyba 1y ago
I agree with the general gist of this piece, but the awkward flow of the writing style makes me wonder if it itself was written by AI… There are open source or affordable, paid alternatives for everything the author mentioned. However, ther
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by capyba 1y ago
Makes sense - thanks for clarifying!
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by capyba 1y ago
Isn’t the `real` datatype in Fortran a float64? Or am I making that up?
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by capyba 1y ago
Chickens aren’t particularly noisy, especially relative to a “non rural area”, and any mess is contained within the coop.
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by capyba 1y ago
Can’t a good privacy browser randomize some of the ‘nonessential’ elements it sends, thereby creating a new fingerprint for each website? Or change them all to the same one so everyone using that browser has an even more similar fingerpr
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by capyba 1y ago
Yeah - that's the thing. I've seen enough hallucinations or other errors to need to carefully check the output from every prompt. If I need to check it thoroughly, then I suppose I could treat it as a fancy autocorrect? But then t
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by capyba 1y ago
I honestly feel that LLMs have been a net negative for me rather than a positive, *especially* with software development. Most of the time I end up coaxing it through a series of prompts, only for there to be some bug in the code it generat
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by capyba 1y ago
Or just write it in java
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by capyba 1y ago
I don’t know anyone that works at Meta, so I’m hoping that someone here could answer this for me- What makes employees there feel good (or at least okay) about doing stuff like this? You're spying on people, no? Surveilling ordinary pe
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by capyba 1y ago
Why telegram instead of signal?
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by capyba 1y ago
Dang, feeling this right now. Went above and beyond again and again, for years, barely got a thank you - let alone a raise of any sort. Now I’m completely burnt out and don’t have the energy to even consider my own ideas for my own next mov
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by capyba 1y ago
I’ve been trying to build a desktop app in Rust+egui but as a Rust newbie (and desktop app newbie in general) I’ve found it really difficult to learn so many concepts at once. My work centers around mechanical engineering analysis tools whi