xigoi

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by xigoi 5mo ago
> copying pieces of code require much more work IME, it requires less work. You just grab the piece of code you want, whereas with braces, you need to count which closing brace is the correct one.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> Your leg example is drawn from human error. At least a human doctor tries to avoid such mistakes because they want to help the patient and could face liability if they do it wrong. > Socrates complained about writing 2500 years ago.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
You don’t divide a float by 256 by shifting it right eight bits; that would yield complete garbage. You subtract 8 from the exponent, then check if you got an underflow.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
We are seeing megacorporations (SlopenAI, Antslopic, Microslop, etc.) distributing derivatives of open-source code (their LLMs) without attribution.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
That’s not equivalent.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> FOSS has always been about just writing code and putting it out into the world where others can do as they please with it. Not true. Most FOSS licenses require attribution and many require derivatives to be released under the same lice
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Before LLMs, you could use the GNU GPL or other copyleft licenses to protect your code from being used to develop non-free software. Unfortunately, the courts have decided that LLMs are free to ignore licenses.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> i could definitely see this leading to some very funky looking chaining. At least for me, thing .doThis() .thenDoThat() .andFinallyThis() is much more readable than andFinallyThis( thenDoThat( doThis(th
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by xigoi 5mo ago
If your editor messes up indentation when copy-pasting, you need a better editor.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Why is `pure` a keyword that needs to be added, with impure being the default? This discourages programmers from marking functions as pure. I like how Nim does it, with `func` declaring a function (pure) and `proc` declaring a procedure (im
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by xigoi 5mo ago
“Vibe coders” don’t read the code their LLM produces. That’s the whole point.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Dodged a bullet.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Indoor smoking in restaurants used to be legal, we made it illegal. Slavery used to be legal, we made it illegal. Don’t say that it’s not possible to stop bad things that are already happening.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> We're going to cure cancers we haven't cured before “You’re absolutely right – I applied the invasive treatment to the wrong leg. Would you like me to try again?” > Kids that grow up today will be able to solve their own p
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Is there any mainstream model that is actually open-source (not just open-weight)?
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by xigoi 5mo ago
i’m not saying that Luigi did it, but someone did it and people are celebrating them for it.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
—slave owners at the start of the Atlantic slave trade
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by xigoi 5mo ago
But then sites could spy fn users without consent.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Let me guess, it’s the 4294967296th LLM wrapper.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
There is a little difference between this story and the Luigi thing, in that the man in this story did not commit murder.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
How is it not the motorcyclist’s fault? He voluntarily chose to get into a chase with them instead of obeying traffic laws.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Don’t give a fancy random text generator access to your computer.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Current AI models still make mistaKes all the time. https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:allu5vs...
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by xigoi 5mo ago
UTF-32 already exists, but nobody uses it because it’s much less efficient for most textual data than UTF-8.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
The fundamental technology is still the same, just with more fossil fuel burning. > because that's not going to stop, it will eventually become a problem for you. How? Will it stop being possible to cook without AI?
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Would you trust the tool that recommended putting glue on pizza to give you a good recipe?
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Also, the 1.1M limit is because of UTF-16. If UTF-16 was deprecated in favor of UTF-8, the limit could be much higher.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> And in C#, you can just type `await` and call an async function from a sync function. Yes, but not in JavaScript.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
In Rust, if you have a function containing an unsafe block, you do not need to use another unsafe block to call the function. Therefore, unsafe is not “contagious” like JavaScript’s async.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
They wrote a blog post about code that they have not even tried running. Whether it’s LLM-generated does not matter.

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