karmakurtisaani

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by karmakurtisaani 5d ago
Firstly, I'm very happy we're having this conversation. It's so pointless, yet pedantic it warms my heart in the best way possible. Secondly, I stand by the statement that there is no merit to this joke. This is because the w
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by karmakurtisaani 5d ago
The orthodox jews have some wacky mental acrobatics that you might like! You're not allowed to work on Saturdays, and even turning the lights on counts as work. So if you want to have lights on on Saturday, you turn them on on Friday.
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by karmakurtisaani 5d ago
Yeah, I've seen this before as well. I guess I've just become old and grumpy and can't appreciate jokes like these anymore. Also taking jokes seriously is peak HN so.. Edit: actually, forget about the above. I just find it ve
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by karmakurtisaani 5d ago
But now you're talking about a different thing. First, you said they don't even want to solve it so they'll have voters in the future. Now, you say they want to solve it, but the wrong way. So which one is it?
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by karmakurtisaani 5d ago
I don't believe this is basically ever the case. The reality is more like that simple promises often collide with messy reality, and the compromise solution ends up solving a fraction of the original promise.
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by karmakurtisaani 6d ago
Just as it was foretold, the Torment Nexus is coming and it has some really cool tech in it.
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by karmakurtisaani 6d ago
Why is x interesting? Just because it has a minimal description in P\I? That makes it interesting in strictly technical sense only.
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by karmakurtisaani 6d ago
Yeah, our world is collapsing, but could we at least make good jokes about it?
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by karmakurtisaani 6d ago
A bit lazy take, don't you think?
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
I'm skeptical, most human written code was and still is garbage and survives without major rewrites.
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
I guess a large part of my motivation was that it makes me a more effective and skilled programmer. There are countless of interesting things out there, and the motivation to focus on one comes from what you do with it later on.
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
Yeah, this is exactly it. Not earth-shattering, but personally depressing. My solution has been to start a career switch.
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
Yeah, I also try to follow what's new. But it's more like "Ok, that's good I guess." Rather than "Cool! Looking forward to applying this in my next project!"
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
Yep, learning new things is amazing now. Just today I went through some really crappy slides, just dropped them to gemini and asked for elaboration. It saved me hours of figuring the shit out the old fashioned way.
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
Dude, you're just too smart for me.
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
Thanks for the perspective.
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
Nothing stopping me from doing a lot of things. But is there any point to it?
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
Exactly, hard to see why any of this matters anymore.
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
True, it does more than just c. Does it do anything the usual LLMs don't have in their training data tho? I doubt it.
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
Yep, my point tho is more sentimental than technical. Let the LLM figure out the language details and just manage the output and deployment. It's ... not fun
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
But do you still have enthusiasm for finding out about new language features or concepts? I'll do what it takes to get the job done, but the passion for it is totally gone.
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
Off topic, but I remember fondly the pre-LLM days when I used to love reading about programming languages. I never got a chance to professionally work with Rust, but made some cool hobby projects with it. Would have eventually tried out zig
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
What about you start a new thread for these unrelated questions?
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
Hate to tell you mate, but this is rather close to stitching together random sentences..
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
> Humans meanwhile scrub the floor and write blog posts about "what a time to be alive". I'm pretty sure we already have machines to do both of these.
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
There must be like a 1000 examples of c compilers in git hub alone. No idea why building LLM building one is impressive. It's right there in the training data.
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by karmakurtisaani 7d ago
I, for one, wish to dedicate my life to improving the wealth and power of the already existing billionaire class.
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by karmakurtisaani 8d ago
Are you familiar with the concept of rhetoric? This is something similar.
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by karmakurtisaani 8d ago
Yeah, I mean that happens as well. Also really long ... that ends up being just a short question.
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by karmakurtisaani 9d ago
A read this advice a while ago, and now it hurts me every time someone goes "Hi (name)" and then you just sit there looking at the 3 dots indicating they're writing something. Or worse, "Hi (name)" "How are you

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