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by fuzztester 2y ago
wow. just the existence of smartphones seems to be not enough of a reason to drop these contracts or criteria. in fact one would think it should be the opposite, because smartphones are so disruptive and distracting. maybe the unions need t
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>I'm not sure whether I'm a "good programmer" or a "bad programmer" but sometimes I just want a problem to go way in the quickest way possible. True. Most programmers would think the same, at times. >I&#x
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by fuzztester 2y ago
dammit, i thought aussies were more freedom loving than even usians. i have met and interacted with some of them, and have read a good amount about them, too. did aussies not have this right, earlier? I don't know if it should even be
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by fuzztester 2y ago
intellisense is fine, but high speed chopping off of your limbs is not. the two are not comparable.
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by fuzztester 2y ago
this is one of the most perspicacious comments I have ever read about llms, with the disclaimer that i have not read a large number of comments on the subject. I have read some however. however, referring to the first paragraph of the comme
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>If LLMs were actually good for programming, I would consider it, but they just aren't. Especially when we are talking about "assistants" and stuff like that. I feel like I live in an alternate reality when it comes to the
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by fuzztester 2y ago
yep, I would call this the anthropomorphisation of llms. undesirable, just as any other kind of anthropomorphisation is.
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by fuzztester 2y ago
why are there so many parameters in the first place? and was it humans who generated so many? seems like a very big job for a human to do, or even a team of humans to do. disclaimer: I know next to nothing about llms. and I'm not that
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by fuzztester 2y ago
Haskell in binary code, but by toggling those switches on the front panel of the machine.
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by fuzztester 2y ago
Your comment is so hilarious that I need some time to analyse its implications and think of a suitable reply. Mañana.
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by fuzztester 2y ago
Actually, your inaccurateness (inaccuracy? GIYF) is even worse than I said above. My comment of a few levels above, literally uses the name _acco at least four times - I checked just now. And your comment was in reply to that. So even af
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by fuzztester 2y ago
By god, andrewflnr. Very "nice". /s. See point 4 below. You just showed that you are inaccurate, pompous and fake, all of that, in one single comment of yours, above. How? I'll tell you: 1. inaccurate: That commenter&#x
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by fuzztester 2y ago
Err ... you realize that your argument just shot itself in both left feet? I just love it (not!, but it happens every now and then) when HN users display ignorance of basic logic, on a site for techies, yet. I could use your own argument
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>when they replied almost immediately after with a video of the relevant workflow Wow. Such wrong claims. I had already replied to you in a sibling comment, refuting your points, but will give one more proof (not that I really need to)
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>You were being passive aggressive and adding nothing to the discussion. What arrant nonsense! Don't accuse people falsely or without substantiating your accusation. My comment being referred to above, consisted of four simple short
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by fuzztester 2y ago
Hey. These are the four simple lines that I wrote above: >Solid questions and comments, layer8. > I notice that the person you replied to has not replied to you yet. >It may be that they will, of course. >But your points are g
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>I don't think so, I think it's more about openness. I've noticed older software engineers tend to be more anti-LLM and quick to dismiss. Wow, a highly ageist comment, if there ever was one. Congrats. Trying for a job and
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by fuzztester 2y ago
Even more negativity towards this comment of mine, than to some of my other ones, as shown by the greater downvotes. Jeepers creep ers! :)
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by fuzztester 2y ago
Like: Texans view Americans the same way Americans view the rest of the world - derisively, but it is those viewers who should be derided, and often are, by the groups that they deride.
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by fuzztester 2y ago
Specifically, the sections about their war techniques, which were clever, and often fooled or overpowered their enemies, although they did lose battles sometimes, too. P.S. Downvoter dude, er, brat, is prolly too lazy, hasty or clueless, to
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>Americans view Texans the same way the rest of the world views Americans. Reversing some of the substrings in that string would also result in a very good analogy.
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by fuzztester 2y ago
Okay, <rolls up sleeves> ... From the OP: > They say everything’s bigger in Texas Me say : $ echo "They say everything’s bigger in Texas" | sed 's/They/Texans/' | sed 's/bigger/bi
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by fuzztester 2y ago
I have had some colleagues who did not get the semantics either, for many features of Unix permission bits, not just the two mentioned above. For example, some did not know how to use the symbolic form of the chmod command's permission
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>To be fair nobody took it that seriously before either. Cities, regions, nobles etc. were constantly trying to challenge the king and his/her authority and protect/expand their rights and privileges. Okay. Also, similarly, the
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>But Starbucks ~05 to now is basically a microcosm of the ways America went awry . sad. someone should write a well researched book with that title: the ways America went awry.
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>[1] Small caveat on this in that royal families held something akin to the mandate of heaven by virtue of their heredity. They pretended that they did have such a divine right: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divi
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>> "There is no way you could rule over that many people solely by force with such a relatively small army. It's just not possible." >This completely undersells Genghis Khan’s use of terror. Everyone knew what happen
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by fuzztester 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt See the "Public positions" section of the above article.
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>(Yes, I have seen production outages thanks to someone's code implicitly relying on key creation/traversal order when processing RESTful payloads.) Interesting. Example of that?
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by fuzztester 2y ago
>The python dict implementation is actually extremely optimized, and used in very critical hot paths throughout the interpreter and object model (for example, ``object.__dict__``). Additionally, python dicts (in cpython) are implemented

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