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by dartos 2y ago
You can still regurgitate a chain of thought response… It’s all still tokens…
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by dartos 2y ago
Yeah we’re just bike shedding here ;)
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by dartos 2y ago
It’s always a fun little, largely meaningless, bike shed. ;) I don’t understand how people prefer invisible characters which change sized depending on the editor to visible ones which are consistent and easy to scan for.
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by dartos 2y ago
Question for those in the know: Why would I use websockets over SSE?
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by dartos 2y ago
It has exactly as much value as discussing whether Python or JavaScript is more popular. Which is to say, very little.
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by dartos 2y ago
It’s crazy that we have totally opposite views here. I find code block which are delineated by brackets so much more readable than ones delineated by invisible characters. Especially at a glance I don’t love do..end either, but still prefer
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by dartos 2y ago
I can’t agree with that. Curly bracket blocks are obviously visible at a glance. If I incorrectly move one around it’s obvious. If I shift tab a section of python code around, I may be breaking an if state without noticing if I didn’t pay a
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by dartos 2y ago
Personally, I think using invisible, editor dependent characters is neither simple nor regular.
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by dartos 2y ago
While not the be all end all, TIOBE disagrees. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ I think since the AI boom, Python took over.
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by dartos 2y ago
I love this. Imagine the energy savings if more people didn’t just automatically reach for LLMs for their pet projects.
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by dartos 2y ago
Isn’t python currently the most popular programming language?
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by dartos 2y ago
The article is fine, but I have one serious concern. How on earth do you prefer tabs to curly brackets?!?!
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by dartos 2y ago
> being mere puppets is a worse overly-reductive explanation than that the majority are just bad people I don't think the majority are bad people. I've only met a few people that I'd call "bad" who just want harm
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by dartos 2y ago
I think we’re just splitting hairs over what “project” means. But even so, many web projects are as easy as `npx create-next-app` and you have a solid foundation. It’s much harder to start working on an existing codebase. > you just writ
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by dartos 2y ago
> what I see on some fiction writing subreddits… the AI is often a genuine improvement over amateur writers What point are you trying to make here? That amateur writers are amateurs? That AI is only "often" an improvement over
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by dartos 2y ago
Obviously, it's different for everyone :) But surely you can tell it's not like riding a bike. > just getting up to speed like if I was starting a new project. This is the best case scenario for getting back up to speed. It may
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by dartos 2y ago
You're misunderstanding what I mean. Sorry, I have trouble articulating this idea. "Idea" was probably not the best word, but I'm not sure of a better one. LLMs can, in effect, translate some ideas into code. Under the h
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by dartos 2y ago
> I bet there are journals that have roughly the same sentiment for compiled languages vs assembler Please find one. I highly doubt there are any at all. AI isn’t translating idea to code. It’s guessing as to what the most likely next co
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by dartos 2y ago
Programming is a skill that atrophies surprisingly quickly. I spent a year just coasting at a job and not really writing any code. It was quite difficult to get to my same level after starting my new job. Now that I’m back there I’m weary o
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by dartos 2y ago
I’d say rust is a replacement for C++. Powerful, but complex, language features. C is drop dead simple.
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by dartos 2y ago
Don’t attribute to malice what could also be attributed to incompetence In this case, seems pretty clear cut though.
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by dartos 2y ago
The issue is, imo, rust is a big pain to write. It’s really nice when someone else has created all the abstractions for you. It’s fairly easy and fun to discover features of crates thanks to the type system. But to actually build out those
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by dartos 2y ago
To quibble a bit, I don’t think that magic leap one released as complete products. Magic leap had like a 30 degree FOV and no software. It was a dev kit, literally. The consumer version was never released IIRC Also, I don’t think you argued
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by dartos 2y ago
> not a lookup table You can imagine the classic attention mechanism as a lookup table, actually. Transformers are layers and layers and layers of lookup tables.
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by dartos 2y ago
Yeah the deepseek models are actually pretty solid. I use that with avante.vim for tedious refactors. All local.
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by dartos 2y ago
> That's like saying, there's literally nothing a service business can do for you that you can't do yourself. No, it’s not. You’re making my statement abstract for the sake of arguing. I’m not a cook, doctor, or a lawyer.
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by dartos 2y ago
> it also seems to be a better creative writer than I am, at least for short pieces Don’t be so hard on yourself. Chatgpt (and other LLMs) are awful at creative prose.
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by dartos 2y ago
Don’t worry. There’s literally nothing an llm can write or tell you that you can’t write yourself or find in a manual somewhere.
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by dartos 2y ago
> Often, they confiscate their property. In the real world, you need to exit crypto to realize the value of your holdings. That’s the weak link in the anti-regulation argument. You can’t pay for food or housing in most places with crypto
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by dartos 2y ago
There are still fees everywhere. fees for each trade. Fees for selling usdc for usd. Fees for just interacting with the chain in the first place. What’s more is your transaction is in competition with other similar transactions based on how

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