xyz_opinion

5 ms·

1.
by xyz_opinion 1y ago
"Dave] is using bifacial solar panels– panels that have cells on both sides. In his preferred orientation, one side faces South, while the other faces North. [Dave] is in the Northern Hemisphere, so those of you Down Under would have t
2.
by xyz_opinion 1y ago
"My best guess is that we have another 12 months to enjoy some degree of confidence in our shared sense of reality." ...with no metrics provided to explain how this was arrived at, or why it's a better guess than others, etc
3.
by xyz_opinion 1y ago
yes, transforming xml. and it was useful. great! edit: zomg mcswell I see you're the person I was replying to in the first place, to this absurd comment: "First, who decided that XML was a good format to write a programming langua
4.
by xyz_opinion 1y ago
I dont have Spotify either. I have self determination.
5.
by xyz_opinion 1y ago
nah. its a transform for XML and its super useful when you need it. People such as yourself who claim its not a great programming language are probably not trying to use it for the right thing.
6.
by xyz_opinion 1y ago
XSLT is not a programming language. It's a declarative transform for XML, and when you need such a thing, it is extremely useful.
7.
by xyz_opinion 1y ago
!
8.
by xyz_opinion 1y ago
It wasn't at all difficult to tell that comment was sarcasm. The first clue was this line: > I present to you: underwater data centers! "I present to you" is clearly lighthearted, and then it gets rounded off with an excla
9.
by xyz_opinion 1y ago
That last one, he's never going to make it over that stretch of water
10.
by xyz_opinion 1y ago
"It was not even clear that we were so near to create machines that could understand the human language" LLMs don't _understand_ "the human language". They dont _understand_ anything. It would be really great if eve