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by fl7305 3y ago
I tried the "pull or push a glass door with mirror writing". I feel it's a huge difference between GPT-4, which seems to be able to reason logically around the issue and respond with relevant remarks, and Gemini Gemini Advanc
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I just tried some logic puzzles on the Advanced model, and was not impressed. It feels much worse than paid ChatGPT.
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That's a bit too much. Wouldn't it be better to each year rank all the executives by their proximity to Jack Welch, and then fire the worst 10%?
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Edit: Reading your comments again, it does look like you are a pacifist? > I think it's ok to take life if it's your own life or help someone to take their own if there are good reasons for it. I read this as you think it is ne
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> I don't know how a peaceful society should act if neigbour tries to kill them. I think if that's the case, they made a lot of mistakes already, if they reached that point. There are literally thousands of examples throughout
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Are you a pacifist who thinks that it is never OK to take a life, no matter the circumstances? In that case I understand what you think, even if that is not my way of thinking. If you are not a pacifist, then I don't understand how you
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It'd suck a lot less if your main hobby was playing poker with roughnecks.
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> anyone who volunteers to be a killer has something wrong in him Consider the native american indian warriors who volunteered to defend their land against the invaders. Or jews in Poland who volunteered to defend against the Germans in
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> my conclusion is that some of what's there is playing to an invisible audience My impression was that he got an assignment in class to write a letter where he reflects on bad interactions in the past, apologize, and try to put the
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> Saying Rust has no benefits over C++ Sorry, that wasn't my intent. It was more to point out that bad programmers are surprisingly inventive when it comes to write bad code. New languages are an improvement, but not a panacea.
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Thanks! But Weak can be needed in case you have self-referential structures, right? I was wondering about this in the context of the C++ programmer in post above who likes to use both new/delete and malloc/free in his code. Sure,
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I'm new to Rust, but wouldn't it be possible for the "C++ boss" to start writing Rust code like below? Here I think we have a multi-threading race condition that can lead to a crash (?) use std::sync::Arc; use std:
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> Failing closed is typical of safes Unless it's a very large safe where people can walk inside, like a bank vault. The fire department gets very grumpy with you if they fail closed and can trap people inside. So if you want to forc
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A nerd finds a talking frog by a pond. The frog says, "Hey, I'm not really a frog. I'm a beautiful princess, and if you kiss me, I'll turn back into a princess, and I'll grant you one wish." The nerd thinks for
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by fl7305 3y ago
I'm guessing it would be like a fever dream to let an LLM be the dungeon master in isolation. Things would change after the fact in weird ways, especially when the context grows too large. But what about coupling an LLM with a physics
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by fl7305 3y ago
No, the previous post above is correct: > Each commit contains a complete exact snapshot of the entire repository. On the other hand it does contain optimizations to reduce the size of these snapshots in the form of git packs I think the
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>>> Whiteboard tests are not a good way to evaluate people >> How do you make sure you don't hire these people? > I simple whiteboard test such as reversing a list will do the trick! Agreed. I did a lot of hiring inte
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Some people have good resumes and can present themselves well. But they can't write very basic code, no matter how much handholding they get. How do you make sure you don't hire these people?
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Are you saying "smart, are disciplined, and have the capacity to work hard for a long period" have no bearing on doing a good job?
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The ancient Chinese exams were the exact opposite of what you describe. The Chinese rulers realized they had a problem where incompetent rich kids got promoted to important government jobs. This caused the government and therefore society t
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by fl7305 3y ago
> then turned out to be very poor on the job with in one case worst “teamwork” I’ve witnessed Which was what I meant by "might not be perfect employees". > many jobs require more than one muscle Sure. But high intelligence,
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Have they done a double-blind test on the peer review system?
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They might not be perfect employees, but at least you know they are smart, are disciplined, and have the capacity to work hard for a long period.
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> uppercase letters start at 0x41, and lowercase letters start at 0x61 And the reason for the 0x20 difference is that the Shift key on old teletypes turned the 0x20 bit on and off. In the same way the Control key turned the 0x40 bit off.
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> engineer was what you called someone who did the thing (I.e. railroad engineer), not the certificate needed. Indeed, having a certificate for engineering at all is a recent invention. Umm, no. It is true that train drivers were called
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Imagine meetings during WW2 with American and British generals, where the Americans proposed an urgent plan, and to which the British enthusiastically responded "Let's table that immediately!"
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Thanks. I know the difference between the UK and the US, but wasn't sure about Canada, and above all where the person writing it was from.
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> it's tabled legislation Is it "tabled" as in "stick in a drawer and forget about it", or "tabled" as in "next on the agenda"?
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Good point. My experience is also that most users don't learn many of the neat features I have built in to speed up their work. Even if I show them a couple of times, it is often quickly forgotten.
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Writing GUI applications, there's nothing as valuable as standing behind a user who tries to do something for the first time with my application. Just seeing the moments of hesitation, how the mouse is moved while searching in menus, e

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