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by choeger 4y ago
I call bullshit. The average cooked potatoe has 25% less calories than rice or pasta. You'd have to eat 3kg of cooked potatoes to get 2100kcal. I am pretty certain it is near impossible to get fat from eating potatoes. Go give it a try
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by choeger 4y ago
It's unhealthy and they can change it. While there are many people that have a comparatively harder time to retain a healthy weight, no one has to be obese. A small minority might find it so hard to not become obese that they simply
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by choeger 4y ago
So Meta is putting much effort into isolating employees from each other to create a quiet working environment and foster concentration? At the same time, are they forcing their employees to work from that apparently bad-for-work place? I th
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by choeger 4y ago
This is a weird act of class struggle, I think. Management strikes back, if you will. I think what happens here is that management, or rather managers, feel like they are lacking something: And that something is the public display of hierar
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by choeger 4y ago
While gaming/hacking a system can be fun, I find it somewhat sad that someone would prefer to do that over actually working on the Linux kernel. I recall a time after a undergrad course in OS when I actually understood what the kernel
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by choeger 4y ago
> ChatGPT can write better than me, it can summarize better than me, Probably. But you still need to give some input about what to write and proof-read the output. > it can research quicker than I can I don't think so. AFAIK, i
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by choeger 4y ago
Could be malice or simply just incompetence. Maybe they simply can't hire developers anymore that understand how to develop a program that is not depending on web services?
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by choeger 4y ago
We have such a theory, it's called "modules". But unfortunately, modules are even less popular than proper typesystems have been for decades. It's no coincidence that Rust (which has basically copied Haskell's type
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by choeger 4y ago
> Giving two weeks is a courtesy, nothing more. Forcing someone to work against their will ant great financial penalty is indentured servitude What do you mean "against their will"? They have voluntarily signed a contract. I ho
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by choeger 4y ago
>That just sounds like slavery with extra steps. No it's not. It's absolutely normal in Germany. > Why would anyone stand for it? Because it goes both ways. The employer has to adhere to the same period. This gives some safe
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by choeger 4y ago
Who doesn't see that Chat-GPT coined a new hype cycle is either blind or doesn't want to see it. How long that cycle lasts and what it will end up with, noone knows, of course. But Microsoft places a large bet here to be just the
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by choeger 4y ago
> Specialisation is something that should happen before the optimiser. That's true, but your example shows a very important point: These cases are limited and (in current languages) known by the compiler developers. I don't kno
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by choeger 4y ago
I agree that the C-model is keeping Rust back. But it's ubiquitous and extremely successful. Dynamic linking also practically gives us an ABI (a very simplistic one) for free, which is great for FFI and debugging. So if I could choose,
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by choeger 4y ago
That's a very particular perspective and I don't think it tells us a useful truth. While big cities definitely have this game of musical chairs, they already have lots of housing per sqkm. Yet, they all seem to have a housing cr
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by choeger 4y ago
Yeah, what BS. Everyone knows that if you have a book on C, you can always quickly implement git yourself.
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by choeger 4y ago
I am just wondering, if they trained the model exclusively with real-world data, where are the nonsense answers? People don't always answer seriously. Think reddit threads. Handpicking would probably not be feasible, so how did they do
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by choeger 4y ago
I would bet at least one of them involves dropping explosives on Russian soldiers.
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by choeger 4y ago
This is brilliant. "Hey we have this gazillion flop/s available, shall we try to put it to some good use?" - "Nah, let's just waste them recovering information that was lost because it's so much simpler to shar
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by choeger 4y ago
Now the real question will be: Will we see a leap as we did in language models if we just wait for the computing capacity to grow enough?
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by choeger 4y ago
Excellent article. One point though: The author compares context-free grammars with LR grammars on the one hand and recursive descent (LL) parsers with LR parsers. But in theory, recursive descent parsers are context-free as well. It's
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by choeger 4y ago
And no one will ever be able to implement a tool that works with the input language without reimplementing everything . CFGs are equivalent to modularity in language design. A choice, clearly, but one with significant upsides.
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by choeger 4y ago
Reflection or any other kind of dynamic execution (JNI?) will break this, no?
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by choeger 4y ago
It's not that simple. The typical European brick & mortar home is much sturdier than your typical US wooden frame construction. Houses aged 100 or more years are no rarity. The US median age of 37 years or so is still relatively yo
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by choeger 4y ago
They don't. Solve tasks, I mean. There's not a single task you can throw at them and rely on the answer. Could they solve tasks? Potentially. But how would we ever know that we could trust them? With humans we not only have millen
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by choeger 4y ago
I don't get the tiling. Cells are 7x7 dual (?) Pixels yet they can be divided by 2,3 and 6? Cubes are 4x4x4 cells yet can be divided by 3? How does that work out?
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by choeger 4y ago
Everyone claiming that the autopilot is at fault for stopping suddenly get something very important very wrong: Stopping a car must be possible at all times. Any automation in a car should always be able to stop the car as the safe default.
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by choeger 4y ago
Is it just me or is "AI" focused very much on fooling human perception, lately? AFAIK, we have no deterministic algorithm that can tell us whether synthetic language sounds "human", have we? So essentially, that model ha
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by choeger 4y ago
I will bring this up the next time, someone laments about the lack of digitalization compared to other nations.
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by choeger 4y ago
And all these tools struggle with incremental code reviews for some reason. There are currently two options: 1. Add new commits to an existing branch. Any reviewier always needs the context from the earlier commits. 2. Overwrite the whole b
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by choeger 4y ago
What the author calls the product model is just capitulation. There's no agreed-upon requirements and no scope. Each product thus occupies the team in perpetuity. That's obviously bad for business. I would argue that this model do

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