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by zephen 7mo ago
> The argument is correct, or it isn't, no matter who said it. Yes, but we all have insufficient intelligence and knowledge to fully evaluate all arguments in a reasonable timeframe. Argument from authority is, indeed, a logical f
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> Software is immediately disqualified. Symbols have no physics. Many physical processes are controlled by software.
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> One would as sensibly dismiss the concept of an assembly line as "how to build a car if you cannot." I agree, but I'm not sure this says what you think it does. The people on the car assembly line may know nothing of e
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by zephen 7mo ago
> I'm guessing it means that your use of the website is not contingent on you accepting I don't think it says that at all. Because "accepting" is the right word for this interpretation, as you point out. "Appro
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by zephen 7mo ago
A statement that "If you're not a lawyer then I'm not." is blunt, not particularly polite or not. In any case, (a) it's not a request, and (b) if you truly want to control the narrative, then perhaps you should just
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by zephen 7mo ago
> I will not argue with you about how obvious it is. Good. Don't. Because it is exceedingly plain, if concise, English.
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> Right? Why include that? The law automatically applies. Including it in the license is just redundant. Perhaps not. The law, as automatically applied, often include implied warranties.
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In Python, you'd have to add parentheses for this example to parse.
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Yeah, symmetry is overrated. Git's merge is already symmetrical for two branches being merged, and that, in and of itself, often leads to problems. It's completely unclear that extending this to multiple branches would provide a
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Obviously, that's a really short expression. So, the question is, if you have a long expression, should you have to worry too much about either adding parentheses, or making sure that your line break occurs inside a pair of parentheses
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As another American, I submit you really haven't been paying attention.
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The only thing worse than the overuse of AIs is the ever present handwringing and finger-pointing of people who wrongly believe they are infallible AI detectors.
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There are a few examples of technologies that only found their application later, such as the glue in post-it notes. And to be fair, Steve Jobs was a master of taking things that had been invented elsewhere, and making them work well enough
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> All of these occulted skills, that we literally can't explain why they work are akin to gamblers superstitions. Yes, it's hard to see how, at this moment in time, "Anybody can write code with an LLM" is so different
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by zephen 7mo ago
Curiosity is good and helps with your personal development, for sure. OTOH, tfa specifically said: > I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools. I've tried a bunch of them. Some are good. Most are a bit shit. Few are use
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I don't doubt you, but I'm out of the loop. Who does this?
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Thank you. Correct ordering is, indeed, important. For example, "burn, then rape, pillage, and plunder" never works out quite right.
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> Imagining future possibilities and implementing software to account for them are two different things. True. > The argument here is to validate those possibilities before acting on them. I agree this should be done. It's not c
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Linus has the same problem as corporate America, but at a slightly different level. He needs some group of really smart, self-selected programmers, where corporate America is looking for a larger group of somewhat less intelligent programme
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> If you see a bad starting point picked by someone else, by all means, point it out if it will be problematic now or in the foreseeable future, because that's a bug. Can't disagree at all, but many people push back in the name
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> Audit trails are commonly neglected coz somebody didnt ask the right questions, not coz somebody didnt try to anticipate the future. But how do you ask "the right questions" without imagining many future possibilities and the
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> poor programmers is a belief that theyre special snowflakes who can anticipate the future. Some of us are actually reasonably good at anticipating the future, and don't mesh well in environments where people claim to care about qu
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by zephen 7mo ago
This is being overlooked, downplayed, or simply not understood, by many commenters. It is exactly like the proverbial monkey or rat pressing a bar for a food pellet to come out. If the pellet unerringly drops, and is always tasty and nutrit
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Will the diffs be small enough for people to even usefully wade through them?
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> "the code actually compiles, runs, and produces the correct output." I mean, I guess I interpreted the chart in tfa to indicate that this doesn't always happen.
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> Seems to be that just like scrum Any methodology or tool, really. Eventually, we're all just participating in cargo cults. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
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There are multiple reasons why binary repository managers like Artifactory exist. And, arguably, the primary reason that perforce is still popular in some domains is that it works well with both large and opaque objects. Once you've de
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Don't worry! It'll only get better, as the amount of ouroboros training data explodes. Weren't we taught that recycling is good?
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"Finding Neo"
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I think the phrasing is fine. It's self-aware. It acknowledges that stupidity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. "Looking stupid" is not the same as "being stupid." It could be very smart indeed, depend

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