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by ludwik 2y ago
For the (niche) Python library that I co-develop, we use this for demo scripts that live in an example/ directory in our repo. These scripts will never be run in production, but it’s nice to allow users to try them out and get a feel f
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by ludwik 2y ago
> But the comment you're replying to doesn't say Java doesn't have any downsides Yet it blames "hipsters" for throwing "it all in the garbage," implying that there was no rational reason for people to s
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by ludwik 2y ago
> What are you talking about, seriously It's probably unavoidable that people's memories will differ, but personally, as someone who worked with Java 10–15 years ago and then ran away as fast as he could, these are the things I
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by ludwik 2y ago
> pls suggest the correct word here Simply dropping the "a", turning the word from a noun into an adjective, would make the phrase sound more friendly.
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by ludwik 2y ago
The translation above is really bad. It was probably supposed to be "shaping the narrative", not "shaking". In my opinion, this translation is much closer to the original: "We had been contemplating leaving X for qu
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by ludwik 2y ago
Some for me. I'm a man with a relatively deep voice. The translation was read out by some generic female AI voice.
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by ludwik 2y ago
Allowing you to catch and handle an exception is not the same as silently returning a wrong answer.
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by ludwik 2y ago
Of course they fucked it up, as evidenced by their bad security incident. The only question is whether you can really chalk this particular one up to a problem with "rolling your own crypto." That mantra exists for a reason, but i
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by ludwik 2y ago
Simply hashing your data (using an established hashing algorithm/library combo) to later compare two hashes in order to check whether the data has changed doesn’t usually feel like rolling your own crypto.
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by ludwik 2y ago
I don't think anybody claims that it is not a flawed idea. From what I understand from this thread, people who use flags to represent languages fully acknowledge that it is a flawed idea - the problem is that they lack an alternative
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by ludwik 2y ago
I spent a year learning a language on Duolingo, and I both agree and disagree: 1. Yes, the fact that Duolingo uses techniques to get you hooked on the app isn't some dark secret. On the contrary, Duolingo is very open about it. This is
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by ludwik 2y ago
> The appeal of Go is that it has just the bare minimum feature set to be useful for modern backend engineering I know that many people love Go, and I respect that, but I was never able to grasp its appeal (despite my two-year stint as a
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by ludwik 2y ago
They are considered people only when it comes to rights , but not when it comes to restrictions and consequences.
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by ludwik 2y ago
Not only is it useful, but it gets straight to the point by presenting exactly what is needed in this context (“it is not synthesized by our bodies”) without getting bogged down by explanations (“because it is an element”). It efficiently d
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by ludwik 2y ago
> I didn’t die of being trampled by unicorns either I think this comment is incredibly telling. Many people tend to treat problems that do not currently affect them because of the momentous, coordinated efforts of many individuals and in
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by ludwik 2y ago
That’s not deep linking (i.e., something set up by the person posting the link). It’s simply the specific device being configured to handle regular web links differently.
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by ludwik 2y ago
But that's not OP deep linking to an app - it's just a normal website URL. It's you having your user agent configured to launch an app for this particular domain. Nothing that OP can do about that.
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by ludwik 2y ago
Even if we set three-value logic aside for a moment, this behavior of NULL still makes sense intuitively. The value of NULL in a particular table cell is simply a way to indicate 'no value'. If you want the values in a column to b
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by ludwik 2y ago
Reasoning involves making accurate inferences based on the information provided in the current context, rather than recalling arbitrary facts from the training data.
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by ludwik 2y ago
But what does this have to do with reasoning? Yes, LLMs are not knowledge bases, and seeing people treat them as such absolutely terrifies me. However, I don’t see how the fact that LLMs often hallucinate “facts” is relevant to a discussion
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by ludwik 2y ago
It seems like you skipped the second paragraph of my comment?
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by ludwik 2y ago
> But if all models were truly open, then we could simply verify what they had been trained on How do you verify what a particular open model was trained on if you haven’t trained it yourself? Typically, for open models, you only get the
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by ludwik 2y ago
To me, it sounds more like claiming that AI writes better code than Linus Torvalds because a group of random non-programmers preferred reading simple AI-generated Python over Linux kernel C code.
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by ludwik 2y ago
This is a fun post about an obscure internet protocol, not a how-to.
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by ludwik 2y ago
It would be something like this: if (God does exist) return isComputable(() => true) else return isComputable(() => false) (where `() => true` / `() => false` are functions, returning true / fa
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by ludwik 2y ago
The word "randomness" in the title is in quotation marks, which seems like a pretty clear indication that it's not referring to true randomness but to something random-like.
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by ludwik 2y ago
I tried quite a lot of multiplatform frameworks in the context of mobile, and for me Flutter is in a completely different league than the rest of them. I really love it.
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by ludwik 3y ago
"Fundamental issue" doesn't imply "hidden".
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by ludwik 3y ago
You may find this statement obvious and as such uninteresting but it does have a clear, simple meaning. And while it is simple, I see people who think that they can "build the next X" by replicating X's features all the tim
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by ludwik 3y ago
Usually they roll updates over several days, so most likely it's currently different for different people.

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