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by troupo 10d ago
> Probably not a good idea since they break encapsulation by exposing internals of the class. And thousands of manual get/set functions don't? Thousands of lines of builders don't? Object initializers are that plus much be
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by troupo 10d ago
> They really aren't, and they are IMHO an antipattern since they break encapsulation. They don't. Java had to come up with the extremely verbose builder pattern for the exact same thing. And withers are basically the same tedi
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by troupo 10d ago
> Are you referring to generators? Both I guess. Main thing is https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collecti... which seems to be everywhere in the language and the library. > I believe t
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by troupo 10d ago
> a bit smaller language with a bit more IDE auto complete, but where you never have to think about what exactly does a line do. If you need IDE to autocomplete, then you definitely spend more time to understand what a line does ;)
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by troupo 11d ago
Some of those ways come from just plain object initialisers. Which are amazing and sorely needed in Java. That's why you get `new List<T> { };` Because it could be `new ComplexObject { <fileds and properties> }`. Same for `
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by troupo 11d ago
Granted, I havent' used either for a couple of years, so my knowledge is a little rusty. Yes, some of them are "just syntax sugar", but man oh man does it make C# such a pleasant language to work with. Used to work at a compa
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by troupo 11d ago
> Java has a faster release schedule to get features out sooner While still being behind on most features?
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by troupo 11d ago
Instagram is filled with ads, and it sucks. Facebook? Same. Xitter? Same. Youtube? Enshittified beyond measure. Google? Unusable. So tell me. Where are these great amazing services supported by ads?
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by troupo 11d ago
Just because you can use minor players does not mean Google isn't a near-monopoly. By all accounts Google Search is 85-90% of global search engine market share. Chrome is "only" 70%. Edit For anti-competitive purposes and a
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by troupo 12d ago
The quoted sentence still leads to the same answer: no. Because there's no "discounting of opinions". They are running a separate LLM to "score" opinions. And the result is still "no" regardless of "l
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by troupo 12d ago
Without reading the article (doesn't matter if it's pro or contra): no, of course not. It shouldn't even be a debatable question.
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by troupo 12d ago
> What does that mean? It means exactly that: it has near-monopoly on search. On mobile the situation is close to to complete monopoly. > Woudl you say HackerNews has a monopoly on tech chatter? Sure seems dominant, but nobody is forc
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by troupo 14d ago
> Silicon design does not have the same time scale than software. "Neural Engine" has been a part of iPhones since 2017 . So, in development since at least 2013, possibly earlier. And it targeted the rather well established, k
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by troupo 14d ago
There are two motions you can do. One is the "smile". When you smile, your ears (mostly the lower part, the lobule) go up. You can isolate the muscles that pull the skin/ear and donit without smiling. The other one is the &qu
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by troupo 14d ago
ML research was a rather known quantity, or the separate "Neural Engine" CPU explicitly aimed at existing ML pipelines wouldn't exist. However, very few used it for anything, even within Apple. I feel like it was a huge waste
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by troupo 14d ago
> I see where you are coming from but the argument would be stronger is Google Chrome refused to open illegal streaming sites etc. Why would it be stronger? Google has a near-monopoly on search. > If I ask Siri to give me a link to il
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by troupo 14d ago
> Being second or third in AI usage is worth a lot, one's private data matters very little in comparison. what does this even mean
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by troupo 15d ago
For some reason I forget Android TVs :) In my mind it's always Samsung, LG, Roku etc. :)
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by troupo 15d ago
All apps on smart TVs are browser apps. Some, like Youtube, get special privileges (that is, can run their own app), but also need to run some kind of UI since TVs have no standard UI libraries. Youtube decided to run a stripped down versio
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by troupo 15d ago
> Is it because the models are inherently not deterministic This is the main reason (and yes, many modern compilers and CPUs carry some non-determinism which actually quite well explained and specified). > But then, will it not get be
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by troupo 15d ago
I constantly do various greenfield side projects for myself and friends. I feel like need much more precise instructions much earlier in the process now than when I was building in February.
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by troupo 15d ago
Anthropic broke their models in spring, denied it, gaslighted everyone who said so, and then all but admitted it: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem (basically doing Anthropic things). > I hon
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by troupo 15d ago
> Instead of simply saying 'implement themes in my product' you need to be specific, in fact more specific than usual. Around February you could get away with very vague prompts to Claude. I feel like models have regressed sinc
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by troupo 15d ago
> Is it likely to get better with time. Also yes. There are no signs to show that. If anything, the new models produce worse code, only significantly faster
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by troupo 15d ago
People keep saying that "models are just compilers, and I don't see you complsining about compilers". Which is such a bullshit argument
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by troupo 16d ago
Quote: "Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the
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by troupo 17d ago
> The problem isn't that the LLM generated that text, the problem is that a human didn't read it properly and ask what that meant and fix it before pushing. The amount of garbage AI generates quickly overwhelms the human. The w
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by troupo 17d ago
If it was "very clear", OpenAI wouldn't be threatening the researcher with "it's very bad for your career" or state "we can't tell you if it was trained on user input". Additionally, according to
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by troupo 17d ago
I feel like all Looney Tunes movies are that: not too funny and drawn out. A complete aside: nothing wrong with that. A forgettable afternoon entertainment is also fine. And it ahouldn't be delegated to Illumination near-monopoly on it
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by troupo 17d ago
> What the OpenAI person involved is claiming is that they wanted the outside researcher(s) to put their name on OpenAI's work > If true, that's generous and beyond the level of generosity one should expect "We highly l

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