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by dcminter 1y ago
The dot com crash was a thing though. The bubble burst. It's just that there was real value there so some of the companies survived and prospered. Figuring out which was which was absolutely not possible at the time. Not many people fo
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by dcminter 1y ago
"AI" has been doing that since the 1950s though. The problem is that each time we define something and say "only an intelligent machine can X" we find out that X is woefully inadequate as an example of real intelligenc
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by dcminter 1y ago
This is true. The old original series (and later) Star Trek computers being able to interpret normal idiomatic humam speech and act upon it was, to those in the know, hilariously unrealistic until very suddenly just recently it wasn'
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by dcminter 1y ago
"Empty vessels make the loudest noise" as my headmaster used to rather pointedly quote to me from time to time.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I think it's worth engaging with even if this guy's a troll (not saying he is) because it's not that freakish a view in the real world. What are the arguments to counter this kind of blind enthusiasm?
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by dcminter 1y ago
Well frankly your lack of concrete arguments makes it seem a lot like you don't actually understand what's going on here. I'm enjoying the new LLM based tooling a lot, but nothing about it suggests that we're in any w
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by dcminter 1y ago
The Java one (Idea) got a lot better in the last year or two too; I couldn't pinpoint exactly when it happened, but it did make me wonder if I'd turned on an AI feature by mistake! I'm curious about this too; is this a local
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by dcminter 1y ago
> this is not an intellectually honest claim Don't do that, it's not cool. > Take [...] a step further, and imagine the systems in 2035 How about imagining AI slop multiplied by 10 years. How bad is this going to get? It&#x2
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by dcminter 1y ago
Define "make decisions" such that an 'if' statement does not qualify but an llm does. LLMs may be a stepping stone to AGI. It's impressive tech. But nobody's proven anything like that yet, and you're runni
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by dcminter 1y ago
> we are on the cusp of intelligent machines That's an extremely speculative view that has been fashionable at several points in the last 50 years.
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by dcminter 1y ago
If they're that profound you should be able to come up with one example though, right? Not that I think you're wrong, but come on - make the case! I have the very unoriginal view that - yes, it's a (huge) bubble but also, j
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by dcminter 1y ago
I'm comparing object references (pointers) not the value boxed by the object (what the pointer points to). For performance reasons boxed Short objects are interned when they represent values in the range -127 to +128 so for 42 the poin
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by dcminter 1y ago
It was such a lifesaver for doing raw database stuff. The boilerplate for making sure Connection, PreparedStatement, ResultSet and so on were all released properly was a huge pain before that.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Maven was peak Java build tool. I detest Gradle. Some people just hate XML enough to doom us all.
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by dcminter 1y ago
You can disable them at runtime (e.g. in prod) to avoid the performance overhead once you're satisfied the codebase is thoroughly enough tested. For some things like requiring arguments to be non-null static checks with annotations hav
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by dcminter 1y ago
> Are there linters for this sort of thing? Yes and they're pretty good so it's rarely an issue in practice. Using == on object references will indeed usually get you yelled at by the linter.
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by dcminter 1y ago
No, it's a 6 month release cadence. You might be confusing the initial release with a point release which are less regular. Edit: oh, my bad, I see the article author had the wrong year for 24. 22 was March 2024 23 was September
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by dcminter 1y ago
Or my favourite... Short w = 42; Short x = 42; out.println(w == x); // true Short y = 1042; Short z = 1042; out.println(y == z); // false
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by dcminter 1y ago
I very rarely see assertions in "real" Java code; I think the author is right - in fact the place I see them the most often is in unit tests where they've been used by mistake in place of an assertion library's methods
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by dcminter 1y ago
Some of the weirder choices have been the result of a desire to avoid making breaking changes to JVM bytecode. Also there was a long period when changes were very lumpy - it could be multiple years for a feature to make it into the releas
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by dcminter 1y ago
Yeah, I know there are even oddballs using it for HFT and the like - I like Java a lot, but even I find that a bit peculiar. Edit: actually, if someone here is using it for something like that I'd love to hear the rationale...?
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by dcminter 1y ago
Well, it was annoying until autoboxing came in. // Before autoboxing list.add(new Integer(42)); // After autoboxing list.add(42); Mostly it's a non-issue now. If you're desperately cycle/memo
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by dcminter 1y ago
One of the more amusing bugs I had to figure out resulted from the fact that some of the autoboxed values get cached, resulting in peculiar behaviour when someone managed to reflectively change the boxed primitive value... i.e. something li
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by dcminter 1y ago
Last time I tried to make an international transfer from my British bank account it couldn't accept destination names with any accented characters. An international transfer. Sheesh.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I usually flag such stories when I see them. Per the Site guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. It's rare that I
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by dcminter 1y ago
Most Swedes have Swish (mobile payments) so fleamarkets etc. mostly require that. Before I had my Swedish bank account set up (so six years ago) and thus BankId & Swish I often had to get my partner to pay for things even though I had a
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by dcminter 1y ago
Anyone correcting my Swedish is in a target rich environment!
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by dcminter 1y ago
Not like the g in jraphics then? :D
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by dcminter 1y ago
Interesting; I don't recall hearing it pronounced like that from my Polish colleagues, so perhaps it's something about the Germanic languages specifically?
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by dcminter 1y ago
Who's judging? I'll save that for when my Swedish är lite mindre dålig! It's just a little strange that the "b" somehow transforms into a "p" when "b" is a perfectly common letter in Swedish. If

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