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by feoren 3y ago
But MDN's "AI Explain" is just straight LLM output, right? It's neither generative (LLMs are transformers, not GANNs, right?) nor rules-based: it's predictive. We need that too. But not for technical documentation!
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by feoren 3y ago
> The submitter knows the AI isn’t lying You've somehow internalized something as "obvious to everyone" that's actually very wrong and dangerous about AI. Of course the AI is lying. Or, perhaps a better term would b
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by feoren 3y ago
> Recipes which are another species of algorithm aren’t accorded copyright protection because they are simply a set of instructions. Yet Recipe Books (particular curated collections of recipes) are afforded copyright protection. If you
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by feoren 3y ago
> <sweeping generalization> I suppose you're not a big fan of puppies then? > right to repair This has absolutely nothing to do with copyright except that you lump them both together under "freedom". That's y
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by feoren 3y ago
Do you realize how genuinely awful most people's advice is? Most people parrot off a poorly regurgitated version of whatever they read in the latest fad software engineering book, regardless of whether it's even applicable to your
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by feoren 3y ago
It's honestly crazy to me that people would downvote you for expressing this. I think it's an extremely common hang-up among lots of programmers and it's an important thing to talk about. I don't understand how it improv
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by feoren 3y ago
> They explicitly say they have no position on artwork Right, the FSF has always had the view that software developers are the only creative professionals who must be shamed for not releasing their hard work for absolutely free. Author
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by feoren 3y ago
I think you're suffering from a lack of imagination. > 99% of use-cases for businesses are for the most part "solved." History is over, technology is done advancing, every business idea has already been had and executed we
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by feoren 3y ago
I was nodding along to everything until they got to the 4th and 5th axioms: > Integration: ... seeing a blue book is irreducible to seeing a book without the color blue, plus the color blue without the book What? Why is this taken as a g
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by feoren 3y ago
Are we ignoring the fact that congress didn't need to fix this for the last 45 years, because the judiciary had set clear precedent on how it interpreted the law? Why would congress spend its time on bolstering the defenses of well-e
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by feoren 3y ago
> if given wetlands are not connected to interstate navigable waters How many endorheic basins do we even have in the United States? And one of the major ones, the basin of the Great Salt Lake, is clearly navigable for commerce purpose
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by feoren 3y ago
I'm not sure. Imagine if life-critical safety documents were "fun to read". Or material safety data sheets. Or assembly instructions for heavy machinery. Or even code. All of this stuff needs to be extremely clear, precise, a
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by feoren 3y ago
You are conflating object pools and ECS architecture. Yes, they work very well together, but neither is required for the other. The ECS architecture is about which parts of your application are concerned with what, and it's an absolute
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by feoren 3y ago
Could have been phrased better, but I think both points emphasize that it's the mastery of tonal language, not student's race, that seems to be making the difference.
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by feoren 3y ago
You're right that it's not at all necessary for being a professional musician, but it doesn't hurt either. It's particularly helpful if you want to be able to sit down and play a song you know from memory in its original
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by feoren 3y ago
Racism is incorrect. It's simply false. Average differences between races are dwarfed by individual differences between humans. This is not an assumption that the past is morally inferior. It is a simple observation that when you elimi
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by feoren 3y ago
> you ban the questions I'm not a moderator -- I'm not banning anything. You literally stated no reason . You asked no question . Why are you telling me that I can't handle the question when you haven't even hinted
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by feoren 3y ago
His post is basically "we all know why this is happening, we just can't say it. You know what I mean. Wink wink. Nudge nudge." First of all, as an outsider, no, I don't know why it's happening. Secondly, the way
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by feoren 3y ago
UML is not documentation, it's code for people who can't read code. UML diagrams offer no additional information to someone who already can read code (and write readable code). They are training wheels. Mature bike riders don&#x27
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by feoren 3y ago
I agree with everything you said until you got to UML diagrams. The problem with UML diagrams is that they communicate exactly the same thing that the code should be communicating. Class diagrams are not higher-level than the code they desc
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by feoren 3y ago
> I made the career decision of no longer accepting positions at agile shops at all I'm legitimately curious what the alternative is. You refuse to work anywhere that starts programming before they have a complete specification of w
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by feoren 3y ago
To be fair, /r/PeopleFuckingDying is all about totally normal, innocent videos "subverted" by their insane captions. It will be things like a baby lightly falling over on a bed with the caption "cHilD FuCKiNg SMoTHE
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by feoren 3y ago
> I think it mostly depends on maturity of the team and engineering culture, whether UML is used or not. I suspect that's true: teams with a very immature engineering culture probably do use a lot more UML. It's a good way to f
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by feoren 3y ago
> Isn't there a theory that any nootropic substance needs to have a downside or we would have naturally evolved it by now? Couldn't that be applied to all modern technology? Humans obviously weren't meant to fly or we woul
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by feoren 3y ago
> There’s something about psychiatry and neuroscience that makes a lot of people who are good at engineering/software think that they are qualified to also be experts on the field of psychiatry. This isn't always hypocrisy: The
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by feoren 3y ago
> Even if someone sends you raw data you are taking their word that it’s the true data. With hundreds of millions on the line, is it so much to ask that VC firms employ a couple statisticians to at least do a sanity check on the data? Fa
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by feoren 3y ago
That sounds a little bit like "If I can tell this company is defrauding investors, how can I get in on the fraud?" Whoever you borrow that stock from is now your mark that you are defrauding -- indirectly, of course, since you&#x2
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by feoren 3y ago
> a completely gut feel of: does this sound reasonable, do the numbers look sensible, does the team look good. That's really the only way you ever could do it. But the key words there are "reasonable" and "sensible&qu
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by feoren 3y ago
> if you subtract two `time` types, the result must be a valid `time` type, so you can add/subtract to it. The result cannot be a `timediff` type. Huh? Of course `time` - `time` gives a `timediff` type. You can add/subtract to
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by feoren 3y ago
> It's a level of middle school Which should be a hint to you that it's not anywhere near that simple.

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