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by patrick451 2y ago
Same. After learning that Wikipedia is not, in fact, about to go off the internet for lack of funds, I came to hold a very dim view Wikipedia organization.
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by patrick451 2y ago
Theoretically, it could have been an advantage, but in practice it's not. What we got instead is a software ecosystem of slow, bug infested garbage that requires constant updates.
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by patrick451 2y ago
If I waste 5-7 minutes multiple times every day, that quickly adds up. It's easy to waste an hour or more fiddle farting with these unreliable tools. It's easier to just do it myself.
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by patrick451 2y ago
The frustration of using an LLM is greater than the frustration of doing it myself. If it's going to be a tool, it needs to work. Otherwise, it's just a research a toy.
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by patrick451 2y ago
You have to balance this time savings with all the times the LLM is just making shit up. I can't the number of times I ask "how do I do X?", and says "call function Y" or "Use command line argument Z". Tur
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by patrick451 2y ago
Previous layers of abstraction were largely reliable and deterministic. Compilers don't just randomly generate assembly. Yes, all abstractions leak, but most of them just drip, while whatever "abstraction" AI provides leaks l
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by patrick451 2y ago
Contractors have to do the leetcode monkey dance for prospects?
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by patrick451 2y ago
Sometimes I write code like this. Then I delete it and replace it with a for loop, because a loop is just easier to understand. This functional style is what I call write only code, because the only person who can understand it is the one w
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by patrick451 2y ago
I never use them to generate code for languages that I know well. Google has started trying to answer my programming related searches with LLM results. Half the time it points me a useful direction, the other half it's just dead wrong.
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by patrick451 2y ago
> We have observed a ~13.3% slow-down, which is significant enough to warrant a second thought on whether the bounds checks were a good idea in the first place. Wow. I will think twice the next time I reach for .at().
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by patrick451 2y ago
>Natural England has developed a detailed licencing regime and application process to make sure that stakeholders are engaged and landowners are supported. What a bunch of dissimulating bullshit. If they actually wanted to support landow
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by patrick451 2y ago
>whoever comes across your clever code next will probably want to hit you, especially if it's not a dev from your immediate team, and especially if you have succumbed to blurring the lines between your idk code and your app code. If
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by patrick451 2y ago
Do most individuals who oppose AI doing so out of "just" self interest? Maybe. Not wanting to starve is inherently self interest but it's fundamental to not just human nature but every living thing to avoid starvation. AI als
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by patrick451 2y ago
If they are so easy to identify, why not just make it a JIT error. Manually inspecting all of this sounds awful. I'd rather my compiler just do it for me.
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by patrick451 2y ago
Let's forbid the police from lying to everybody.
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by patrick451 2y ago
Software devs are not alone here. Have you ever tried asking a doctor how much something will cost? Or if the thing they want to bill you for will even work? They have no fvkin clue.
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by patrick451 2y ago
I still find seatbelt laws to be one of the most ridiculous examples of government overreach. People think the government shouldn't be in their bedroom, but for some inexplicable reason have no problem with the government being inside
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by patrick451 2y ago
The only thing more frustrating than a rustacaen redefining "safety" to suit their purpose is a Stallman discipline redefining freedom to mean something totally weird. Something in the public domain is not free? Give me a break.
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by patrick451 2y ago
Calling writing for just humans irresponsible is quite the claim. Personally, I'd rather AI did not injest anything I write whatsoever. Not that there's much I can do about it.
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by patrick451 2y ago
We use some of these terms in the U.S. too, but they are less common and/or mean something slightly different. Some carpenters and millwork companies will call casing architrave instead, but this seems be mostly used for classically in
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by patrick451 2y ago
I'm a controls guy, not a quant guy but I've found the SDE perspective and this blog post to be incredible in helping me understand how a diffusion model works.
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by patrick451 2y ago
> The new-school guys want to make things better in a new way. The new guys definitely want to make things different, but it seems there is a lot of debate over whether it will actually be better. Really, they should just write their o
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by patrick451 2y ago
I think obscuring details to foment emotion is lying regardless of what the chart is about.
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by patrick451 2y ago
I agree data visualization be used for emotional manipulation. But that is unethical. Dressing up rhetoric in the trappings of science is one of the many reasons science has lost tons of credibility in the last 20 years. Charts should be ab
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by patrick451 2y ago
This is a fixable problem if we can get congress to roll back the insane KYC laws.
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by patrick451 2y ago
Evoking emotions is the role of art, not data visualization.
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by patrick451 2y ago
> It is completely reasonable to give up some precision to: > - Reduce unnecessary cognitive load and emphasize a feeling, as in the Climate Stripes example. > - Encode a much higher volume of data, as in the Climate Globe example.
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by patrick451 2y ago
Depending on the context, dot and times may have different meanings.
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by patrick451 2y ago
Wirth's law doesn't bolster your point. He observed software is getting slower at a more rapid rate than computers are getting faster. Which is the whole point. We write increasingly slow, increasingly shitty code each year. I rea
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by patrick451 2y ago
The real problem is that we have a broken, anti-performance culture. We have allowed "premature optimizaiton is the root of all evil" to morph into "optimization is the root of all evil. That single quote has done untold dama

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