sirsinsalot

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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
Fear of loss to competitors embracing a technology creates a fear driven adoption. Let me ask you this: is any technology worth so much break-neck adoption without first seeing clear evidence of ROI? No. The adoption is irrational.
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
I think Google is doing the right thing. Using LLMs for coding is the shiny low hanging fruit but it isn't what is going to make the tech ubiquitous. That'll be finding applications of it to real data problems. Google knows LLMs a
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
My point was that if training data + encoding/training = model with emergent behaviour The emergent behaviour is in the training data and/or encoding/training. So while I agree it is emergent from the complexity, it isn'
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
Not to be pedantic but the emergent properties are in the training set, and thus the model and algorithm. There's no magic coming from the universe. What makes the behavior emergent is that it can't be predicted at training time.
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
Perhaps in the first order, but when premiums go up and go up across all policies due to the acceptability of litigation... Everyone pays eventually. Its a bit like saying driving dangerously is OK because you have insurance. Until everyone
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
Because the US is a third world country cosplaying as a developed nation. Much like their president is a corrupt and morally bankrupt fool cosplaying as a politician. It doesn't matter in the US. Just pretend.
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
Or at least some kind of cursor based text buffer tree that wasm can bind to the dom/shadow tree, rather than a fuller API
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
As I understand it you can, in fact node 23 has a type stripping feature. I could be wrong.
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
I mean, all typescript does is serve no purpose except for an LSP and documenting type intention really. It isn't much different to Python type annotation.
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
It doesn't make any sense tho. Typescript is nothing much to do with runtime. It's a build/dev concern. To get JS from TS you're mostly removing the type annotations. Theres no reason to ship TS to an end user browser.
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
Code, as a single executable you say?! Whatever will they think of next?
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
A fictional character isn't a real teenage girl who feels her life is falling apart because idiots make fake nudes of her to giggle at. Theyre not the same thing and you can't just hand wave away people's pain. You're pa
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
In a compassionate society with community mindedness people are less likely to use tools like this for mindless hurt. Our current culture isnt aligned with compassion due to individualism and greed. You sound like you've given up on nu
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
Fuzzy function calling. What could go wrong?!
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
Work
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
I agree here. People are too quick to levy adult punishment and morality against children. Teach them compassion and empathy. Teach them why their actions hurt.
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
This is another example of treating normal behaviour as criminal. Like banning VPNs or age verification. How about we undo the radical individualism that has rotted out any compassion and empathy from society in the pursuit of greed? Not as
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
It took some skill and time before to make anything passable as realistic. Enough skill and time to defeat a teenagers motivation. That's the difference. "make the person in this photo naked. No mistakes" Prompts lowered the
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
I've found JS/TS Web stacks equally lacking and ugly after Django. I'm totally spoiled by a decade in Django. Just let me build a CRUD app, on the server, that spits out HTML without an excessive swamp of unmaintained nonsens
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
Well it might prefer libraries but the culture around basic DX things like ORMs is toxic. Just write the SQL yourself they say, until they themselves optimise to a half baked in-house ORM of their own.
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
I worked in a codebase like this. The load time was insane. We would also constantly need to put imports in function heads to effectively lazy import due to the massive risk of circular imports. We also had dynamic imports so tracking the c
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by sirsinsalot 5mo ago
AI slop causes additional noise on the mailing list. Your suggestion is to use more AI to filter the noise? How about we just reduce the noise?
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by sirsinsalot 1y ago
Also yes Protocols can be used to type check quacks, bringing it more inline with the Go examples in the blog. However my point is more from a SOLID perspective duck typing and minimal dependency interfaces sort of achieve similar ends... M
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by sirsinsalot 1y ago
I'm saying that at some point declaring the minimal interface a caller uses, for example Reader and Writer instead of a concrete FS type, starts to look like duck typing. In python a functions use of v.read() or v.write() defines what
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by sirsinsalot 1y ago
Follow the trail of the blog post and you end up with Python and duck typing, and all the foot guns there too.
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by sirsinsalot 1y ago
I'm more concerned about the fact I have no idea if the article and the HN comments are all AI generated or not. Can you tell if this comment is AI or not? What happens when social discourse is polluted by noise that is identical to si
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by sirsinsalot 1y ago
Don't forget AI being used to replace friends. AI being used for validation in place of a varied social group is scarier than anything I see on the jobs market. Asking ChatGPT if breaking up with your girlfriend is a good idea or not?
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by sirsinsalot 1y ago
> The DX provided by front end frameworks/libs is just unrivaled How? I spent 6 months exploring React, Vue, Node, Next,... The DX for all of them sucks. The documentation sucks. Everything is wrappers of wrappers of npm scripts of
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by sirsinsalot 1y ago
In this world where the LLM implementation has a bug in it that impacts a human negatively (the app could calculate a person's credit score for example) Who is accountable?
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by sirsinsalot 1y ago
I agree with this. There's so much snake oil at the moment. Coding isn't the hard part of software development and we already have unambiguous language for describing computation. Human language is a bad choice for it, and we alre

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