va1a

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by va1a 5mo ago
I've noticed, as a student, that many college students - particularly those not in STEM/engineering fields - have an almost irrational hatred of AI. It's to the point where they'll mock you for using it, even when it pro
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by va1a 8mo ago
And yet, it still takes 5 minutes for my canvas preview to load, and one in 20 times it crashes the whole app.
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by va1a 8mo ago
More realistically I think you'd need something like "Now write your post in the style of a space pirate" with a 10 second deadline, and then have another LLM checking if the two posts cover the same topic/subject but ar
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by va1a 1y ago
Is this meant to detract from their situation? These tech stacks are mainstream because so many use them... it's only natural that AI would be the best at writing code in contexts where it has the most available training data.
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by va1a 1y ago
It's a hardware wallet that just looks cool. Where's the "black mirror vibes". There's not much nefarious tech here.
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How much would it cost to make an iPhone in America?(medium.com)
1 points by va1a 1y ago|0 comments
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by va1a 1y ago
Fun video, you can really feel the 2012 in it too.
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by va1a 1y ago
More specific shenanigans aside, JavaScript will always be the king of unintuitive syntax. Some of these f-string tidbits are very much strange, but you'd have to be implementing something specific to encounter them. Meanwhile over in
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by va1a 1y ago
Every now and then since deleting my account I click on a link to an X post and am reminded I can't read the replies, and then I am thankful again to my past self for deleting my account. I urge everyone to delete the app and their acc
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by va1a 1y ago
It's interesting, this concept of "just following orders" recurs so much in almost all contexts. War behavior really seems to be the baseline of human interaction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_o
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by va1a 2y ago
Fair, but in the context of scripting, which seems to be the focus of this article, how often are you dealing with complex library code? When I write scripts for file manipulation / simple automation, I'm usually not dealing with
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by va1a 2y ago
> but the Python API isn't all that wonderful, and dynamic typing means that I spend too much time debugging I don't know, this just seems more like inertia. "I'd rather stick to what I know best than this popular thi
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by va1a 2y ago
Didn't know about pep 750, that's really cool that there's a push for native templating. I just hope we see a gradual stepping away of "everything clientside" and the JS framework hell that exists today. I've t
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by va1a 2y ago
The Knights of the Sun
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by va1a 2y ago
Maybe even in a game period. Beautifully done remake.
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by va1a 2y ago
Yeah it seems like this would also increase airflow. Is there any possible issue with just having it upside down all the time?