ModernMech

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by ModernMech 9d ago
The dangerous you're talking about have been around for a long time, have been depicted in many forms over decades in all kinds of popular media media, have actually impacted people which has birthed reforms and new safety measures, an
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by ModernMech 9d ago
Consent. We've consented to people learning to drive. Everyone is aware of those risks and they act accordingly. Often, to make other drivers aware of the driver's learning status, it's customary to affix a sticker to the car
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by ModernMech 9d ago
> You are beta testing fsd even if you don’t want to be. Exactly, that's precisely the wrong way to do ethical, responsible engineering. It's one thing to put your own life in the hands of a beta test, but it's another to
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by ModernMech 9d ago
Will be talking about this in my robotics class. Here's my current indictment of FSD, hasn't been updated in a year but I'll add this one to the list: 2016 - Self-Driving Tesla Was Involved in Fatal Crash, U.S. Says - https:
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by ModernMech 9d ago
None of that addresses whether Facebook is intentionally trying to sow discord and make people depressed and anxious for profit.
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by ModernMech 9d ago
That price is paid by us, not Zuck and his shareholders, so it was at no cost to him. Such is the problem with capitalism. Actually the rise of fascism has been great for Zuck and his shareholders, they'd like to see more of it.
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by ModernMech 9d ago
> People get by with the existing programming languages and models, that seems to be fine. People like what they like, and they have trouble with anything other than imperative structured programming. It’s been a pain over the last decad
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by ModernMech 9d ago
Ya'll don't realize what the actual plan was. It wasn't to use the mob to overthrow the government, it was to use the mob to delay the certification of the vote. Which they did, but it wasn't for long enough. They were g
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by ModernMech 9d ago
The only people capable of overthrowing the government like that are white conservatives. Anyone else would have been gunned down on the approach.
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by ModernMech 9d ago
I wrote a programming language because I wanted to express the way my brain works and to help people understand the way certain people think about the world. Art or craft?
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by ModernMech 9d ago
Yes you are you left out the rest of the sentence: > … and an actual terrorist organization. A group is not “an actual terrorist organization”. You’re trying to say all groups committing a crime against the government are actual terroris
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by ModernMech 9d ago
Jan 6 was an attempt to convince the American public that the 2020 election was stolen, and to keep Trump in power. Today, more people believe the 2020 election was stolen than on January 7th, Trump is in power despite causing an insurrecti
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by ModernMech 9d ago
Yes, Silicon Valley became Wall Street and that basically ruined it completely. Soon as the term brogrammer was coined it was over.
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by ModernMech 9d ago
I think a discussion about programming being an art is incomplete without bringing into scope live coding, where you write code that produces music in front of an audience; Processing, a programming language for artists; and literate progra
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by ModernMech 10d ago
Writing can be thinking. There's a huge presumption that if someone is banging away on a keyboard they're doing work because you can hear and see them doing stuff. But that's the whole plot of The Shining -- Jack despite al
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by ModernMech 10d ago
Babies being born into slavery served the slave system just as much as grown men slaving in a field. Slave was a legal status in a system, not a job title. A baby born into slavery is a real slave, not a fake slave. Either George, who e
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by ModernMech 11d ago
There’s a trap here though: the LLMs if you let them will spend all their time maintaining that test suite, they can become quite rigid in the way they design them. So it’ll write some code, break a test, which breaks a contract so then it
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by ModernMech 11d ago
I’ll be the second then. I’ve found it’s very good at creating debt but equally good at resolving it. The thing is the default mode is creating debt so you have to intentionally pay it down. Refactors that used to take me a month now take a
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by ModernMech 11d ago
It really doesn't matter what you personally know, that's not the point.
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by ModernMech 12d ago
That's not the point, it's that people who were slaves died in a time when color TVs existed. This woman died in 1964! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_J._Cooper That's not long enough ago to call it a
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by ModernMech 12d ago
Yes right indeed, edited.
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by ModernMech 12d ago
It's recent enough that people living today knew former slaves. That's not ancient history at all, so I think the comparison is not good. I'm sure Brazil also has to deal with fallout of their practices, but I don't see
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by ModernMech 12d ago
Genghis Khan died 800 years ago. The last American to have born into slavery died in the ~1970s~ 1960s.
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by ModernMech 12d ago
> in no way unique or even exaggerated in Julia I wouldn't say this is true really. Julia does have some unique properties which cause these issues other languages just sidestep. The dynamic dispatch system is really magical when
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by ModernMech 12d ago
Yes that was the basic trick they learned from Matlab, said to be a billion dollar company built off a single operator: \ Which, for anyone who doesn’t know Matlab, is the solve operator; it calls out to a big algorithm that chooses an appr
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by ModernMech 12d ago
This is why AI is better at writing code than humans. They just write code and don’t complain about things that don’t matter, like indexing; or another classic, spaces vs tabs. Humans must learn to get past these things.
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by ModernMech 12d ago
Nearly all languages for non coders are this way including Excel and SQL and Scratch.
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by ModernMech 12d ago
It’s a stealth ad for Dyad.
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by ModernMech 13d ago
> What makes you think all Republicans would? It doesn't matter when the guy leading the charge is an actual insurrectionist, who was caught trying to twist the arm of Georgia's governor to throw the election for him. What&#x27
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by ModernMech 13d ago
Fascinating! I think that’s the main difference is my usage is probably tool-bound, meaning it writes some code but then there’s a long period of verification where it compiles things and then waits for the compilation and CI to complete be

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