mike_hock

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by mike_hock 3mo ago
2 misplaced apostrophes, 8 spelling errors — definitely human output
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Yes, the question is whether it drowned in a myriad of other LLM "assisted" reports, because that would be a way in which a simple straightforward report could be missed.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Also, slop code is not open source. It's not source, it's a build artifact. The prompt is the source. But we don't have a deterministic build system for it so publishing the prompt isn't even useful.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Maybe the bug report got ignored because they posted another 1000 slop reports, who knows.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
80% of what I read are thinly veiled advertisements and shills pretending to be average Joes proudly presenting AI slop they "created" (so thinly veiled advertisements).
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
> the media and much of the population treated critics with absolute contempt. Being anti-AI feels the same as being anti-war. The propaganda machine is just that good. With enough money, you can control public opinion.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Hello Anthropic marketing team.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
It literally has only downsides except some convenience for people who don't want to think and don't want to work.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Hey guys, look at what I didn't make. I paid money to have someone/something else do it.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
> SpaceX filed with the FCC for one million more satellites Sure, that's only gonna cost a couple quadrillion dollars or so.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
The article also doesn't touch on whether visually cluttered "traditional" decor is better for people affected by those conditions. I found the office in the picture quite pleasant to look at. Not comforting and homey but sui
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
No matter what the 100 liters of mystery fluid are worth, if the pump is running continually, the billing for that day would only be off by .0011574%, so either side can probably afford to absorb the loss. Though if it's valuable enoug
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
I find it annoying to try and talk completely silently. I'm always whispering at least a bit. I can't imagine doing this for the entirety of a call.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
> good luck editing a photo with CLI tools Or good luck editing text with CLI tools, for that matter. Obviously, those need an interactive UI. > to your point i think there is a lot of merit to having CLI-first development, where if i
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
> It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. Well it has been replaced. We don't need anything now.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
OK, and why can't the full assembly, once it's back in session, just take another vote to see if the majority actually approves?
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
I completely agree that the author is right and the strawman is wrong. For example. The strawman criticizes GUI apps because he cannot navigate them with the keyboard alone. Keyboard-navigated TUIs are the worst type of UI. CLI > GUI &gt
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Zero-Copy in Go: Why magic is an antipattern, and: performance is observable behavior.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Probably by design. > This book offers a one semester introduction [...] enabling the reader to build a simple compiler that accepts a *C-like language*
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
> But sometimes you must act on exceptional situations, recover, take alternative route, provide default And then the Rye version is presumably just as verbose. > or translate exception from lower level one to a higher level one This
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
> Virtual vs static polymorphism > std::visit over std::variant<A, B, C> is lowered to a switch over the active alternative. > In this case, layout is probably doing more work than the dispatch mechanism itself. Very likely b
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Yeah, or just let the exceptions bubble up and the boilerplate goes away.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Got any burning questions today?
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Revs the coal-rolling truck's engine. "Once and for all." "But ..." Revs the engine again. "ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Tragedy of the commons.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Buy aircon stocks now!
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Climate change itself is not gonna endanger humans as a species, but secondary effects might. Such as wars resulting from dramatic shifts in the value of territories and wars over resources.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
Brutal bugs for a release candidate.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
This comment was left by the international nuclear energy commission. When reading this, retract all control rods and let the reactor go critical.
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by mike_hock 3mo ago
On the contrary. I'd give procedurally generated worlds as an example that suffers from exactly the same problem. You realize pretty fast which parts of the game had thought put into them and which ones are just realizations of a rando

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