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by lanstin 1y ago
This point of view seems to bear repeating these days as the US leadership seems to be re-purposing Lysenkoism and its methods for the pro carbon burn movement and the anti-biological research movement.
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by lanstin 1y ago
Pre terraform it would take a half day to setup I new account, create buckets meeting our policies, replicate to backup buckets, etc etc. with terraform we could do same in thirty minutes so we could service many more development teams with
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by lanstin 1y ago
Oh cool, I hadn't run into LogValuer, that's cool. And passing pointers to strings rather than strings, hmmm.
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by lanstin 1y ago
Yeah I want a log package where the log statements that don't log also don't have their arguments evaluated. Half of my gc pressure is little strings created to call the log package that don't get logged.
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by lanstin 1y ago
There is a great Steve Yegge post on how useful ad-hoc transformation of source code is: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food... The only time I have used this myself was an expat style tr
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by lanstin 1y ago
Or a single logging jar that will execute some of its message contents. Inside all your DMZ layers in the app content.
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by lanstin 1y ago
The situation has changed quite a lot with digitalization. When copyright was developed, giving up the right to copy something had low cost - you needed to have a printing press. Now you can’t even read a book without making multiple copies
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by lanstin 1y ago
It’s just the academic method of sharing your work so the collective knowledge and state of the art increases monotonically. People seem to like to productive it, but even just publishing your source code so I or my llm can read it and modi
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by lanstin 1y ago
You are blaming the cruelty of the homophobes and racists on the hubris of the smart people? Not blaming the victims exactly, but certainly not holding citizens responsible for their civic contributions.
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by lanstin 1y ago
For sure.
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by lanstin 1y ago
It's another example of mistaking the current trading trends for the overall asset reality. Like NFTs, TSLA, and house prices, a relatively small amount of daily trading money can move the "market cap" quite a lot. And those
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by lanstin 1y ago
Due to tax cuts, not really do to science expenditures.
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by lanstin 1y ago
Where truth is treated with scorn, scientists and other geeky professions have to scurry into the shadowy corners; where the wealthy rule over the rest due to the confusion of wealth with virtue and truth; where the best instincts of humani
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by lanstin 1y ago
True, but however, there are times when I just really need to talk about the extremely detailed bits of some problem I'm thinking about - just the act of speech is really needed; I find this super annoying in other people, but forgivab
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by lanstin 1y ago
I think about things and then type in stuff that makes them work better.
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by lanstin 1y ago
Because hundreds of years after multiple things have proven that systems with free and open flow of information, skills, and techniques beats any system where information is walled off, capitalism (or corporatism really) still insists, all
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by lanstin 1y ago
And a self-hosted version where it can be fed some personalized info as basic prompt.
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by lanstin 1y ago
Maybe, but if I recall (from long long ago) in learning how to program, the process of debugging ones code was almost more enlightening than writing it initially - so many loops of not understanding the implications of the code and then sma
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by lanstin 1y ago
I was born in NC, and I mostly have experienced the large amount of immigration as a positive. Most of the people I grew up were virulently anti-intellectuals, mocking math and science learning, and most of them have gone on to be realtors
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by lanstin 1y ago
I mostly program in Python and Go, either services, API coordination (e.g. re-encrypt all the objects in an S3 bucket) or data analysis. But now I keep making little MPEGs or web sites without having to put in all that crap boiler plate fr
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by lanstin 1y ago
I'm sorry, it's because of eagerness and enjoying the train of your thought/speech.
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by lanstin 1y ago
I think you can learn a lot from debugging, and all the code I've put into prod from LLM has needed debugging (rather more than it should from the LOC count).
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by lanstin 1y ago
Yeah, I write a lot of little data analysis scripts and stuff, and I am happy just to read the numbers, but now I get nice PNGs of the distributions and so on from LLM, and people like that.
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by lanstin 1y ago
It did have the awesome scene where the fresh post-doc is challenged to integrate some stuff in his head by his new advisor.
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by lanstin 1y ago
I think undecidable means more like there are classes of problems for which there is no algorithm (that runs in finite time) can give the answer to. To square N, there is an algorithm that always works. To see if the Turing machine N halts
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by lanstin 1y ago
Lacking a rigorous way to verify truth, I would be pretty wary of using it for truly important things without a human to validate. And math research is a non-CS application, for the pedants :)
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by lanstin 1y ago
That's because between the two approaches "explain me this thing" or "write code to demonstrate this thing" the LLMs are much more useful on the second path. I can ask it to calculate some third derivatives, or I c
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by lanstin 1y ago
I hadn't noticed Bembo before but it was quite good looking.
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by lanstin 1y ago
I use them for testing, where I can have a client that is called by the code under test and can either just run a test CB, send a REST call to a remote server, send a gRPC call to a remote server, or make a function call to an in-process gR
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by lanstin 1y ago
That has a substraction where the 2 values are nearly equaly, which is the dangerous op as I said.

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