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by zulban 1y ago
I don't "bypass" Chrome when they want to melt my brain with their business model, I use Firefox. I don't "bypass" Windows when they want to melt my brain with their business model, I use Linux. No idea why so
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by zulban 1y ago
Every browser has occasional big issues. If you haven't seen one yet in (insert browser name here) then you just haven't been around long enough.
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by zulban 1y ago
If you have to buy a back massage in bulk as backups, doesn't that means it's crap quality? Are your standards that low?
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by zulban 1y ago
"Yeah but most of the time you learn a language because it changes your way of thinking." For you and I maybe, but no. This is the HN bubble speaking. Most people learn a programming language to get a job or to do something they w
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by zulban 1y ago
If we're talking about "real applications" it absolutely matters. Almost nobody is writing "real applications" with ocaml, overwhelmingly so. That at least suggests there's great reasons why not. Anyone asking
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by zulban 1y ago
No. Not even a little. Look at the latest stack overflow developer surveys. It will tell you how much the international community chooses to use (or not) ocaml. To your question, that's people deciding whether it's worth learning.
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by zulban 1y ago
"that feels really contrived to me and not like anything I'd write in a real application" If that bothers you, you shouldn't be learning ocaml. Look at the latest stack overflow developer surveys. A vast majority of deve
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by zulban 1y ago
Good luck defining social media in legislation.
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by zulban 1y ago
Neat project. How do you deal with idealism versus reality? For example, if we ask an LLM to write a "realistic short story about a CEO", we do not necessarily want the CEO to be 50/50 man or woman because that doesn't r
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by zulban 1y ago
Yes. The internet has also created a ton of email spam but I wouldn't say "we've never seen a single valid contribution to our project that had internet help". Many millions of developers are using AI. Sometimes in a goo
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by zulban 1y ago
You wouldn't say "the Google search engine contributed to an open source project". Similarly, many millions of developers are using AI. Sometimes in a good way. When that results in a good MR, they likely don't even ment
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by zulban 1y ago
Shame they need to put up with that spam. However, every big open source project has by now had good contributions with "AI help". Many millions of developers are using AI a little as a tool, like Google.
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by zulban 1y ago
Selection bias. My mom was a head trauma nurse and told me never to snowboard, skate, drive a motorcycle, rockclimb etc. She now sits on her safe couch all day, retired, watching the news and growing more bitter daily instead of living her
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by zulban 2y ago
I have three choices: 1) full-time in-person education, quitting my CS job 2) full-time online education, quitting my CS job 3) full-time CS job and doing a part-time master's online Option #3 is the best for my CS education and growth
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by zulban 2y ago
I currently have a full time job in government as a computer scientist. I'm also taking an online master's at georgia tech and it's fairly good so far - no other way I could study supercomputing. Why would I leave an AI job w
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by zulban 2y ago
It doesn't seem you read the article completely. It is pretty long.
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by zulban 2y ago
Interesting proposal. Maybe if race or sex or height or eye color etc isn't given, and the LLM determines there's no reason not to randomize in this case (avoid black founding fathers), the backend could tweak its own prompt by pr
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by zulban 2y ago
"Show me the man and I'll show you the crime." If overnight, people suddenly start getting arrested and thrown in a pit for speeding, you shouldn't think "ah, they were breaking the law". If you agree there&#x2
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by zulban 2y ago
Thanks.
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by zulban 2y ago
My mistake. More than one a day on average: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081 We don't need to debate over "what is a mass shooting" in Canada or Europe. Also, please don't discount
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by zulban 2y ago
Similar story out of Canada. Pretty white Canadian lady (usually an untouchable class of people) with good paperwork thrown in a pit for weeks: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det
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by zulban 2y ago
I wouldn't say I'm afraid. Yes there's mass shootings nearly daily but statistically rare to impact a tech conference. My number one reason not to go is the USA threatening the sovereignty of my country (Canada) daily, as wel
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by zulban 2y ago
"stir up controversy" There is no popular controversy - almost nobody notices or cares when these things happen.
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by zulban 2y ago
There's also a ton of false positives with spellcheck on scientific papers, but it's obviously a useful tool. Humans review the results.
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by zulban 2y ago
People said that in 2016, and 2020 too. These are the administrations the USA elects, that is permanent.
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by zulban 2y ago
Your career isn't going to go very far if you have no strategies to overcome roadblocks and deadweight employees in a large org. "Let it torpedo itself" and then what? Find a new job any time you encounter stupid obstacles? T
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by zulban 2y ago
This is a public forum. If they don't want to talk about it then why are they talking about it?
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Clearly, they are facing very similar physical restrictions. Not in weight but in bytes. If they want to carry many TBs on a phone in 2025 but then complaining that they can't install a 100mb app, yeah, they are carrying too much in th
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by zulban 2y ago
If your phone's storage is at 99.994%, you can't blame that on pointless 100mb apps in 2025. Have fun with that.
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by zulban 2y ago
If you have a place to live, you shouldn't carry all your belongings with you in a backpack when you go outside. Similarly, a phone should not be your archive of all your media.

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