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by tasuki 4mo ago
> It's just because the `def xxx()` part gets executed once when the module is loaded so the default arguments get created then. I understand as much. > It's not really a design choice. That explains it then. Pretty damning
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by tasuki 4mo ago
Either that or it was sarcasm. What do you think more likely?
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by tasuki 4mo ago
I'm a parent. Is there really no useful prevention?
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> happen to be working over the past couple days in typed Python for the first time. It's kind of nice. I like it. I like me a good type system and have always hated about everything about types in Python. What do you find nice and
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> It's not an all or nothing thing. It kind of is? All the partial-typing systems are too complex and usually broken in various ways. Compare to eg Elm or Gleam which are typed and super simple.
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by tasuki 4mo ago
I find the Elm-adjacent people generally have above average taste, so that's a signal for me.
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> when the LLMs get good enough to just write memory safe code in unsafe languages There is, and always will be, a huge difference between "because a LLM said so" and "here is a proof this is memory safe".
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by tasuki 4mo ago
Yes I know as much, but why? Is it for speed? Python is slow anyway, so no big deal. Incompetence? Malice perhaps?
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by tasuki 4mo ago
We have basically achieved AGI, but typing on mobile is still an unsolved problem. GBoard's dictionaries for Czech and Polish are still missing many usual declensions...
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by tasuki 4mo ago
Why does it happen?
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> Maybe you are right, maybe not.. About what precisely?
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> Somebody will be left holding the bag eventually. I think so too. I also thought that about Facebook: IPO around 40, swiftly down to 20 - I was laughing about stupid retail getting wrecked. Now it's around 600...
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by tasuki 4mo ago
Children surely help you get your shit together. Otoh if you don't have your shit together, adding children into the mix is a little unfair to the children.
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by tasuki 4mo ago
Why do you think people have children then? Is that not (perhaps a bad) attempt at hedonism? I've heard (esp women) say "I can't be happy unless I have children". Then they have children, and... it often turns into &quot
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> If anything your social life can blossom. Yes, if you value spending time with parents of same-aged children. My social life is still fine, but the people I spend my time with are competely different. Not better, nor worse, just entir
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by tasuki 4mo ago
The relativity of viewpoints was already fully presented by the original story. If one has read and understood the "They're made out of meat" story, they already fully understood the point made by "They're made out
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> if AI coded software works correctly, maybe it doesn't matter? The problem isn't the amount of code, it's how fitting/unfitting the abstractions are. Wrong abstractions are bugs in waiting. If there's much code
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> To take just one example: today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did from 2021-2025. Oh I have no doubt. With 8 times the number of bugs too? Have they solved flicker in Claude code yet?
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by tasuki 4mo ago
Some are more made up than others though!
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by tasuki 4mo ago
I feel the original story contained in it the whole point of this one, and then some. This did not add anything, just rephrased it so rather than humans viewed through the pov of aliens it's LLMs viewed through the pov of humans. Well,
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> having a notion of self. Are you referring to the "why do I have to be Bing" fiasco?
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> reasonably assume that your experience is similar to mine You could be the only conscious being in the universe and all of us just zombies: you have no way of knowing. What's it like to be a monkey instead? Dog? Bat? Tree? We don&
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by tasuki 4mo ago
No one asked about that. The question was about KDE Linux.
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> If I had to write an essay tomorrow, I'd get an LLM to do it based on bullet points that I prompt it with, and a style guide on "how to write an essay like me". And the person reading the essay would ask their LLM for bu
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by tasuki 4mo ago
This has been going on for thousands of years...
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by tasuki 4mo ago
Then I don't understand how the money from the sale of the agricultural equipment is "clean". Surely someone can think to ask: "where did you get the money to buy all that agricultural equipment?"
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by tasuki 4mo ago
I guess I don't really understand it. I understand how a bank robbery leads to dirty money - the bank has the serial numbers. In what way is money from selling drugs "dirty"? Why does it even need laundering?
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> Stalling out on promotion has always happened. I don't get this framing. No one is owed a promotion. (Unless that was explicitly promised of course!) Me, I'm worse than stalled out: I'm earning one tenth of what I used t
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by tasuki 4mo ago
> Today, we look at how an AI tried to blackmail a developer for rejecting its code. People keep mentioning this, but I never see the actual blackmail part. The LLM just wrote angry and somewhat mean comments on the internet. I know I&#x
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by tasuki 5mo ago
Oh, I thought how stupid it was to return the flight based on Bluetooth device name, which is just a random string identifying a thing. But I think it's also strongly discouraged to bring devices called bombs on a plane?

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