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811.
by sfn42 2y ago
Confessions, sure. But what about location of military bases? Obviously torturing people to make them admit to crimes is just horrible, and sure torture in general is pretty horrible. But if you capture a soldier and want to know where his
812.
by sfn42 2y ago
Sure, you have to verify information.
813.
by sfn42 2y ago
I see this "torture doesn't work" claim around sometimes and personally I have a hard time accepting it. If you ask me something I don't want to tell you, I won't tell you. But you start tearing out nails (or even t
814.
by sfn42 2y ago
It's not really an issue for him either. He's making truckloads of money. If he can do that without polluting his videos with sponsor segments then that's just better isn't it? Personally I don't really mind them, t
815.
by sfn42 2y ago
Actually I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not saying you should profile and optimize all the code you write, I'm saying that a basic understanding of algorithms, data structures and complexity analysis allows you to wr
816.
by sfn42 2y ago
In my case the processing was happening in our backend. I can't remember exactly why it couldn't be SQL, actually it's possible it could have been sql. But changing it to sql would have been a bigger change and this wasn&#x27
817.
by sfn42 2y ago
Problem: Learning many tools takes a lot of time and effort. Solution: Nah, just learn them it's easy, see it as an investment
818.
by sfn42 2y ago
I think about time complexity and DSA all the time when programming. My personal view is that the people who claim it is unnecessary don't understand it and probably would be better off if they did. I've seen lots of code that wou
819.
by sfn42 3y ago
It's a bit more complicated than falling and missing. Getting out of the gravity well takes the same amount of energy as you gain from falling into it, so those two things alone would be pointless. I'm not an astrophysicist but I
820.
by sfn42 3y ago
I think that's the point of the article. It's not complaining about shortcomings, it's pointing them out. A lot of people don't seem to understand this. A lot of people seem to think LLMs are "AI", even that th
821.
by sfn42 3y ago
It's crazy to me how even in here there's such a huge amount of people who just don't understand. Even the article were discussing points this out > The implications are that LLMs do not perform reasoning over data in the
822.
by sfn42 3y ago
Lot of BS excuses in there. The ones about nitpicking in reviews too, if the comment is a tiny nitpick then surely it's trivial to fix? I regularly fix a whole bunch of minor things people comment on in minutes, it only takes long if i
823.
by sfn42 3y ago
I threw a rock and it landed in a field
824.
by sfn42 3y ago
Do you really want a partner whose criteria is doing dumb shit? I mean if a woman doesn't want me because I wear a helmet I figure that's me dodging a bullet
825.
by sfn42 3y ago
Yeah, that's kind of my point. I agree that api design is important if you're publishing a library, even for internal use - that's why I said "in a single project". It seems to me that a lot of people obsess a bit t
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by sfn42 3y ago
It's worth mentioning regarding the IFoo example that in a single project you can always just find/replace FooBase with IFoo or even FooBaseV2. I feel like a lot of people blow this up like it's so e huge problem when in real
827.
by sfn42 3y ago
But why would you want to be able to pass an apple to a function expecting a banana? Doesn't even make sense, the whole point is that the type system forces you to consider this stuff. If OP wanted to be allowed to do whatever and just
828.
by sfn42 3y ago
I wanted an ebook reader so I looked around and bought a Kobo Forma. It's great. No ads that I've noticed, I can load whatever I want onto it. As I understand it, Kindle is locked to Amazon. I don't know why anyone would pay
829.
by sfn42 3y ago
Then go win the prize?
830.
by sfn42 3y ago
$60,000 1970s dollars is a "micro-budget"? Who paid for it?
831.
by sfn42 3y ago
Uh, yeah clearly. We're looking at it.
832.
by sfn42 3y ago
I'm not saying it isn't technically impressive and super cool - but he clearly can't actually be computing infinitely recursive levels of GoL, so in that sense it's an illusion.
833.
by sfn42 3y ago
I'm fairly sure it's all an illusion.
834.
by sfn42 3y ago
You don't need that. If you know someone just ask them something trivial like "Where did we last see each other?"
835.
by sfn42 3y ago
Namespace declarations have been a thing in C# for a while
836.
by sfn42 3y ago
Extracting makes it sound like they're taking something from me. From my perspective they're not. If they can make value from shit I do that's great, at least someone's getting something out of my procrastination. And I
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by sfn42 3y ago
Yes, the point is that unless they actually take the time to do something like that, you might see that the victim has no residue on their hand and could not have shot themselves.
838.
by sfn42 3y ago
I understand what they're saying, I just don't know why they keep explaining it when its irrelevant to what I'm saying.
839.
by sfn42 3y ago
No you still don't seem to get the point. I'm saying the *absence* of gunpowder residue means something, I'm not saying the presence of it means anything.
840.
by sfn42 3y ago
I think you got my point backwards. If you are found with a gunshot wound in your head, holding a gun, but you don't have gunpowder residue on your hand, it's pretty safe to say you didn't shoot yourself. Of course there are

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