globnomulous

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by globnomulous 7mo ago
I appreciate that your message is a good-natured, friendly tip. I don't mean for the following to crap on that. I just need to shout into the void: If I have some time, the last thing I want to do with it is sharpen prompting skills. I
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by globnomulous 7mo ago
I fear this will be horribly self-indulgent, but I'll share it anyway: I'd always been a computer person, but it wasn't until I'd reached my thirties that I realized I could make a career out of that interest. The joy of
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by globnomulous 7mo ago
Thanks, I needed this. There doesn't seem to be a place for me in the future of software/tech: I like sitting quietly, alone, solving problems, writing code, and reading it. I like in code much of what I like in art: the fruits of
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by globnomulous 8mo ago
> This is totally misleading to anyone with less familiarity with how LLMs work. They are only programs in as much as they perform inference from a fixed, stored, statistical model. It turns out that treating them theoretically in the sa
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by globnomulous 9mo ago
I'm an LLM naysayer, and even I have no trouble seeing, or accepting, that they're much more than glorified spell checkers.
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by globnomulous 9mo ago
You know, it's funny. Your comment made me realize something about LLMs: There's a famous line in Hesiod's Theogony . It appears early in the poem during Hesiod's encounter with the Muses on the slopes of Mt. Helicon, w
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by globnomulous 9mo ago
I disagree. When you add an abstraction layer, the user of that layer continues to write code. That's not the case when people rely heavily on LLMs. They're at best reading and tweaking the model's output. That's not the
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by globnomulous 9mo ago
I agree with the person you're answering. LLM-assisted coding is like reading a foreign language with a facing translation: most students who do this will make the mistake of thinking they've translated and understood the original
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by globnomulous 10mo ago
I don't follow. Could you explain? I also don't see on the website the text you quoted. (Your comment made me giggle though, which I appreciate.)
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by globnomulous 10mo ago
> to fastidious Do you mean "too fussy?"
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by globnomulous 10mo ago
> This sounds unbearable. I can't see the original post because my browser settings break Twitter (I also haven't liked much of Karpathy's output), but I agree. I call this style of software development 'meeting-based
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by globnomulous 11mo ago
Good bye, accessibility.
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by globnomulous 11mo ago
Sorry for my cluelessness, but why is this laptop so popular?
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by globnomulous 11mo ago
Likewise. I don't always do this, but for problems that cost me much time or effort, I like to try to make sure that, if I wanted to reproduce a bug or problem, I'd know exactly how to write it. Writing and understanding working c
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by globnomulous 11mo ago
My expectations are those of any reasonable, sensible person who has a modicum of software-development experience and any manners at all. Incidentally, my expectations are also exactly the same as every other person who has commented on you
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by globnomulous 11mo ago
> admitted was somewhat of a PR stunt. You should be blocked, banned, and ignored. > Now, what was your question? Your attitude stinks. So does your complete lack of consideration for others.
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by globnomulous 11mo ago
It's worth asking yourself something: people have written substantial responses to your questions in this thread. Here you answered four paragraphs with two fucking lines referencing and repeating what you've already said. How do
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by globnomulous 11mo ago
This isn't just "making mistakes." It's so profoundly obnoxious that I can't imagine what you've actually been doing during your apparently 30 years of experience as a software developer, such that you somehow
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by globnomulous 11mo ago
I'm blown away that I caught that reference.
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by globnomulous 11mo ago
Does anybody actually want this?
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by globnomulous 11mo ago
Huh, maybe I misunderstood the nature of the .net work the guy I mentioned was doing. All I know directly is the pain of MSBuild itself. Thanks for the correction.
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by globnomulous 11mo ago
> I've worked for several companies where upgrading to a newer version of .NET was always a major pain point, This was so difficult for the teams I work with that the person who became the team specialist in MSBuild, dotnet, and C#
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Roughly half of public-school teachers in the US have tenure. According to my reading, teachers below the university level typically receive tenure in three years, not 5-7. And yet nearly half of teachers still don't have tenure. What
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by globnomulous 1y ago
> Evidently, I'm just imagining all the times my teachers went on strike in Illinois in the 2000s. There have not been any "right to work" laws in Illinois passed affecting teachers or firefighters since then. Evidently, i
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by globnomulous 1y ago
> It is entirely self-imposed stress. Teachers have unions and tenure. You don't have the first idea what teachers do or what their jobs require. If you really think all teachers have tenure and are supported by unions, you also hav
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by globnomulous 1y ago
> If the model is doing meaningful research that moves along the state of the ecosystem, then we are in the outer loop of self improvement. That's a lot of vague language. I don't really see any way to respond. I suppose I can
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Very few people predicted LLMs, yet lots of people are now very certain they know what the future of AI holds. I have no idea why so many people have so much faith in their ability to predict the future of technology, when the evidence that
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by globnomulous 1y ago
The quality of your contributions is extremely low. You're making hacker news worse.
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by globnomulous 1y ago
Sanctimonious nonsense. The are plenty of kinds of crimes for which "modern law systems" commonly, and rightly, impose 'lifetime' penalties or restrictions. Restraining orders are a simple example. And C-suite assholes w
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by globnomulous 1y ago
There are tons of great speakers and speaker companies, and I think B&W is very, very overrated. Check out the monitor audio gold line. I have two pairs of their floorstanding, and prefer them, unreservedly, to the b&w 702cs that I

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