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by roel_v 3y ago
"The question is never asked about any other school subject" Huh? People around me asked that all the time in high school & beyond.
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by roel_v 3y ago
Lots of lawyers use WordPerfect. Version 5.1. There's plenty of evidence online if you don't believe me, I wouldn't believe me if this was the first time I heard it.
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by roel_v 3y ago
The direction of conversion doesn't matter. If a recipe starts out with 300 gr of flour, and that gets converted into 1 3/4 cups + 2 tbsp, that's useless (or at least silly and cumbersome) for an imperial unit user. The whole
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by roel_v 3y ago
"No! Handle units! @milk{4%cup} should be trivially convertible to liters" No! That's silly and it's not how cooking works! This way you get stupid recipes like on American cooking Youtube channels that just run their vo
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by roel_v 3y ago
Uh no, not in 'Europe'. Where I am in Europe, 'atheism' is being convinced there is no god. Agnosticism is not knowing whether there is a god at all. Not that you're religious but not to a particular god or doctrine
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by roel_v 3y ago
In the court cases, there was communication between Dotcom and van der Kolk that essentially said (paraphrasing here) 'hey, downloads are going down, we should add movie x or album y somehow, people search for those a lot'. There
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by roel_v 3y ago
In your example, one of the abstractions is 'what Python does it use'. Because I'm dealing with this very issue right now, distributing a simple Python tool to a Windows end user, and they're on heavily managed governmen
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by roel_v 3y ago
I'd argue that a 'conspiracy factor' of 1 is not a conspiracy, just like a road with an occupancy factor of 0 doesn't have any cars on it, and I presume this was exactly the point of the GP.
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by roel_v 3y ago
Slightly related: I love how in the restaurant of the Lego museum in Billund you order by putting some bricks together in a special format (each dish had it own brick configuration IIRC - maybe it also had something to do with the colors) a
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by roel_v 3y ago
Plus, restaurants can practice the same recipe again and again for months or years on end. It would be pretty damning if they wouldn't be better than home cooks after that much repetition.
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by roel_v 3y ago
Without subsidies none of those would survive, especially the French ones, who are notorious for their 'traditional' (i.e., inefficient) farming practices.
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by roel_v 3y ago
You mean 'substance' as in 'objective fact'? Well there isn't, that was the whole point of the comment. Everything as far as I can find is factually correct, and yet how it's all woven together makes the narrat
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by roel_v 3y ago
I guess my point on that was 'Landsheer van de Nederlanden' should today not be summarily translated as 'Lord of the Netherlands' since 'the Netherlands' has a current meaning, as opposed to in Dutch, where &#x
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by roel_v 3y ago
Haha I didn't want to go into accusations like that, since it does list an author at the bottom and this is apparently an excerpt from a book, but still.
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by roel_v 3y ago
Meta: it's kind of eerie to read an article like this that is obviously written by an 'outsider'. Although non of what's written is factually wrong (as far as I can tell, I'm no historian), the specific way certain
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by roel_v 3y ago
I was cleaning out my old books just a few weeks ago and put 'Alex and Philip's guide to web publishing' in the 'can't justify to keep, feel bad to throw away' pile. I've been trying to give it away on our
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by roel_v 4y ago
There is no 'meaning' inside these AI's. It's terribly confusing to think about these LLM's as having 'meaning' in the same way we humans do. It's all just statistics. Given a sequence of numbers (eac
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by roel_v 4y ago
"Also gpt4 >> gpt3.5 for coding. " This is not my subjective experience. It's better, sometimes somewhat, but also much slower. I'm not sure which one is the better tradeoff for real work. I have it on 4 by defau
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by roel_v 4y ago
I don't think this is the take away. I'm in a similar situation as the GP, but the crux is that we still need people to make the decisions on what needs to happen - the computer 'just' helps with the 'how'. You
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by roel_v 4y ago
No, that's how it is. My MO is now I type in the question to the chat; go to another tab to google a bit on the background of the problem; by the time ChatGPT is done, I already know enough to have a reasonable idea about whether what
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by roel_v 4y ago
Make it write a test suite that you can manually verify/expand as necessary, just like code written by humans. I don't understand this 'but how do you know it works' argument. How do you know the code you wrote yourself
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by roel_v 4y ago
"Good indoor lightning" Man I'd love me some indoor lightning, no matter the cost.
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by roel_v 4y ago
"any old x" is an idiom that references "any random" or "any", indicating x being interchangeable or not special in any way. It has nothing to do with age.
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by roel_v 4y ago
Yah 'supposed', but that's (to me) in the same bucket as 'different features behind flags aren't supposed to interact' and 'we're supposed to have detailed documentation of who is/was using what
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by roel_v 4y ago
Maybe this works in the type of work this guy does, but I've been horribly burned by feature flags. How do you test for the combinatorial explosion of feature interactions? Even if you separate into 'silos' that pinky promis
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by roel_v 4y ago
I tried that last time, and got upsold a bunch of 'variations', and looking back on everything I bought the next day, none of them looked all that great. The style was too much... well let's say 'country' (which is
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by roel_v 4y ago
Not sure why I'm downvoted - I literally used it last week. I got an API key from my account and made several calls to it, using the OpenAI Python library.
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by roel_v 4y ago
Yes: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat . I wrote a small proof of concept plugin for vim last week, was quite easy to do with their Python library to access this API. I have no experience accessing the
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by roel_v 4y ago
Oh I don't know about that, I can only comment on my own experiences. I don't have sufficient breadth of experience to be able to say how much of this would be applicable to other developers in other subfields. I do however, like
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by roel_v 4y ago
Well... yes? I don't know about this 'flow based programming' per se, but what you describe is indeed how one uses ChatGPT for programming. I don't understand the pushback on every article like this. How aren't ther

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