necovek

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by necovek 7mo ago
To me, the value I would look to extract feom LLMs is turn the code changes into user-readable, concise release notes. If you are coding with the help of LLMs, then release notes are your human-crafted prompt. Basically, the intent is given
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by necovek 7mo ago
Whatever the prompt is, it is still the only information of value reflecting actual decisions made. Everything coming out of LLM on any prompt is either someone else's decisions or same thing reworded in a different way.
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by necovek 7mo ago
I believe you are making the same argument: the GP prefers space race over war for large technological development at less or no human suffering.
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by necovek 7mo ago
I can see what you are describing with Pluto. But I am reasonably confident that we'd not be seeing that reaction if the discovery of new planet-like lumps of rock similar in size to Pluto was described as "new planets discovered&
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by necovek 7mo ago
While that is just a natural reaction to "unfair" world where not everyone gets the same level of access to the best level of care, I'd also say that it's a reminder that money can't and won't solve all problem
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by necovek 7mo ago
But that is not true: a very first result in a quick search shows a marked increase in reading speed with serif fonts: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Figure-2-Comparison-of-r... There are more, but OP claims to di
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by necovek 7mo ago
It seems it'd at least getting consistently bad opinions on it.
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by necovek 7mo ago
That's exactly my point: the previous response assumed the argument was made in "I don't like change matter", when a better interpretation is "I am OK with Pluto being a planet if all the other similar objects match
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by necovek 7mo ago
On both cases it is based on some evidence even if they are completely different (one is a question of definition, another of measurement and observation): for Pluto, it is a round lump of rock going around the Sun on it's own separate
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by necovek 7mo ago
I think you are missing the point: a user putting in a lot of effort into a bug report is usually trying to help themselves get the bug fixed. As a maintainer, you will obviously look at that bug with more appreciation: but if you estimate
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by necovek 7mo ago
With a popular open source project, you'll quickly get to a number of bug reports that you have no chance of ever solving. You will have to focus on the worst ones and ones affecting most users. At the same time, you want to communicat
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by necovek 7mo ago
The most dominant style guide is The Chicago Manual of Style, which recommends against spaces around em dashes, but there is an AP style guide which actually does recommend spaces! Em-dashes are not the same thing as parenthesis even if the
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by necovek 7mo ago
ASCII-only turned me away instantly: a message board limited to a very small number of languages and typewriter typography is not for me. If you want to limit Unicode-attacks from lookalike characters — what's the attack vector? — I&#x
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by necovek 7mo ago
I concur — having added it as a third level symbol (AltGr + dash for em-dash, AltGr + Shift + dash for en-dash) to a default layout for Linux in early 2000s, it has become my signature of sorts. If I am to be called out as an LLM, at least
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by necovek 7mo ago
Are you suggesting embraced naked people to symbolise "ubuntu" was what tipped the scales in favour of Ubuntu? :)
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by necovek 7mo ago
It might be the other way around: religions came to be _because_ humans have values that became the backbone of religions. The evolution of "gods" is obvious in retrospect as well (a tale of some good deeds passed on through gener
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by necovek 7mo ago
Another thing humans are arguably good at is making a longer term plan and investment: if we see that old people simply get shot, we won't be investing surplus value into our retirement funds — at least not of the same sort. Perhaps we
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by necovek 7mo ago
You mean like for host in vps_hosts; do ssh $host < commands.sh > errors.log 2&>1 & done I imagine what you are really getting out of it is not having to type the actual commands into commands.sh?
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by necovek 7mo ago
It's not about "thinking", but behaving and acting as one.
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by necovek 7mo ago
Most software, traditional sudo included, would respect the LC_CTYPE being set to an UTF-8 (or any of the older multi-byte encodings), and do proper character counting. At the very least, all GNU tools put a lot of focus on localization sup
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by necovek 7mo ago
On the contrary, this discussion is how there was no character when you were typing your sudo password in in the olde times, and now there is a full asterisk per every password symbol you put in!
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by necovek 7mo ago
The "cinfiguration" for GNOME actually modifies the source code, so if that's the bar, you can do it everywhere. :)
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by necovek 7mo ago
While Ubuntu did build on Debian testing/unstable, they did invest in building the GUI on top of everything, paying salaries for a few Debian developers. With a very slim team (I am guessing 15-30 in the first couple of years), they pi
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by necovek 7mo ago
I'd say good hw support, no nonsense live installer, and free CDs worldwide got their foot in the door. And 6 months release cycle matching GNOME + 2 months. Mir/Compiz/Snaps came much-much later (snaps are as much a mistake
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by necovek 7mo ago
It's doing copies and (de)serialization on both sides into native data types. If they used raw byte structures, implemented the caching improvements on the wasm side, the copies might not be as bad. But they still have an issue with mu
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by necovek 7mo ago
Courage to be different is an open door to creativity. Yes, it means going in a wrong direction sometimes as well: that's why it takes courage — success ain't guaranteed and you might be mocked or ridiculed when you fail. Still, U
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by necovek 7mo ago
Understood: I wasn't trying to nitpick the numbers, but simply showing that you were likely crediting Waymo a tad too much for what it has done. Human drivers correct each others' mistakes every single day, and we don't hear
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by necovek 7mo ago
It's a huge difference between someone merging into or crossing a high speed road. In most of Europe at least (I did not drive enough in States to remember), non-highway intercity roads have a speed limit of around 50-55mph, but where
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by necovek 7mo ago
But the point is if we get all the median and better drivers off the road and replace them with autonomous vehicles, yet keep the worst 5% on the roads too, we are potentially worse off.
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by necovek 7mo ago
It certainly matters: "average driver" does not exist, and 95% of the drivers beat the average. So a claim how autonomous driving system beats the average would only tell us that it beats 5% of the human drivers. Now, the way stat

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