oldsecondhand

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by oldsecondhand 2y ago
Another thing to consider is availability: many companies don't even allow powershell for dev users.
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by oldsecondhand 2y ago
IMHO Java's official documentation is quite decent as well.
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by oldsecondhand 2y ago
You can say the same thing about workers' rights and environmental protection laws too. Progress shouldn't be taken for granted.
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by oldsecondhand 2y ago
We have expert systems, theorem provers and planners but OP probably didn't mean this.
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by oldsecondhand 2y ago
> A lot of what you say is true for doctors in their first 5-10 years into their career, when employed in a hospital. Then it's just semi-official hazing. It's still something that should be fixed.
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
Yeah, but back then you had to pay $600+ for a C compiler.
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
In my experience MySql is more popular. Worked at several companies that used MySql, none that used Postgres. Kids at universities still use XAMMP to learn databases.
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
Link is broken for me (404).
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
Maybe we should teach Prolog/CLP and PDDL to LLMs. Unfortunately the training set would be too small. It would be cool to have logic based modeling jobs, even if the goal is just to feed the LLMs.
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
Building your mobile home on rented land.
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
Depending on jurisdiction an employer might be obligated to announce a mass lay-off in advance. It gives more time for people to look for another job.
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
In a language with tail-call optimization, it won't.
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
Do janitors find their job enjoyable and fulfilling? Probably not. Their job is still important for the functioning of society, so I wouldn't call it bullshit.
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
> 2. Commutativity. Order of predicates does not change the result. Finally, true logic programming! I'm not sure this is a good selling point. The fact that predicate order matters in Prolog allows performance optimization and more
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
Their theoretical expressive power are the same, they're both turing complete languages. However their practical expressive power is different that comes from language ergonomics, standard libraries and different default optimizations.
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
SQL doesn't have homoiconic structure like Prolog or Lisp, which would facilitate metaprogramming. Prolog and Lisp were derived from first principles, SQL was designed to be a language that reads similar to English (i.e. easy to learn
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
No, you can do the same in math. It just means ignoring the proofs and just using the theorems as they are. However sometimes the application and proof requires similar ways of thinking, and you kind of miss out by skipping the proof. But t
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
> You can not navigate the comment section. You're basically forced to hold control down, because expanding a comment might cause a page load, and the back button won't bring you where you originally were.
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
> Casual users can play with the open models without much difficulty either, provided they take a few hours to work through an installation tutorial That can be quite a barrier for entry for non-powerusers. I wouldn't underestimate
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
GPT-3 is opensource. GPT-4 isn't. https://github.com/openai/gpt-3
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
Crypto has created no useful products yet, unlike AI. I don't know how can you even mention them on the same page.
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by oldsecondhand 3y ago
Public key cryptography was invented in the 70s, commercialized in the 80s. In machine learning we already had back-propagation in the 1970, but had to wait another 40 years for Intel and Nvidia to create ever more powerful processors to ta
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
That would doom LLMs to mediocrity, which is great news for creative people.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
And that's when work from home will be abolished by that company, and AI will be banned from the company network.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
I prefer JEdit to Emacs for a programmable editor, but I mostly just use IntelliJ anyway. JEdit carries the philosophy of Emacs, but the UI isn't stuck in the 70s.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
I think it's better as a demonstration of the difficulty of creating a comprehensive specification.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
> What if each user gets a fixed number of vote points per month? That's called Slashdot.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
The problem with XML was slow parsing and the horrible syntax of XSD schemas. Turning attributes into elements is also a pain in the ass. And for a lot of applications turning whitespace into elements is unnecessary.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
Glasses need less maintenance than contacts, and aren't as weird to put them on, so it's an easy sell.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
The plus side of solar water heater is that the materials are much cheaper. In countries where there's no frost in winter it's a nobrainer.

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