Revanche1367

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by Revanche1367 5d ago
Gemini never went away, the models and chat app are still called Gemini. Antigravity (IDE and agentic platform instances) are for development unlike Gemini (chat app), which is general-purpose. Gemini CLI was targeted at developers but was
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by Revanche1367 8d ago
I’m not commenting on whether generative AI is especially resource-wasteful or not, but a lot of people online seem to have newly discovered the existence of data centers.
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by Revanche1367 9d ago
What might we call such languages?
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by Revanche1367 10d ago
“Teaching machines to love” That’s rich coming from the chief scientist of a company that definitely is or going to be fine with their AI products being used in wars of aggression and surveillance on people who have done nothing wrong. It’s
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by Revanche1367 12d ago
Join an industry where they need someone to blame when things go wrong.
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by Revanche1367 13d ago
Even if in the unlikely case UBI gets implemented, there is no way payment will be equal. Why would the rich give up their positions of power? They’ll just get more security and bribe politicians, enough to build private armies and fortress
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by Revanche1367 17d ago
A biologist with the surname “Wild.” That woman was meant to be in this field.
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by Revanche1367 22d ago
There is no reason why automating a server task cannot be a complex piece of software. I think you’re not aware of just what server automation is used for nowadays in countless cases. Also, Python is more popularly used in ML and web-develo
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by Revanche1367 22d ago
>language for "consenting adults". It doesn't try to prevent you from doing awful things so you can do great things. People who can't program well are given plenty of rope to hang themselves. This is exactly what I re
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by Revanche1367 22d ago
Totally agreed there, Python is my main language nowadays because of work but the inconsistencies and lack of some very easy to add syntactic sugar to cover up some of the ugliness (like your example above) in a backward compatible way is c
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by Revanche1367 22d ago
I’m not a regular JS user and haven’t touched the language in a long time, but I remember a (popular?) website for teaching modern JavaScript mentioned that some aspect of the function/macro that returns the type of an object was just
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by Revanche1367 22d ago
Long before AI work, numerical data crunching is what Python became popular for among non-computer scientists and this led directly to the AI use cases. The reason was obviously the lower barrier to entry without having a software engineeri
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by Revanche1367 22d ago
A lot of Python design decisions have felt weird and off to me but they’ve long justified it by saying that it’s those little ugly design choices that make the language so usable and effective in practice compared to more well-designed lang
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by Revanche1367 23d ago
The issue with this in practice is that the rate at which code is produced is often substantially higher than what any human reviewer is capable of processing mentally. Example from my workplace: pull requests that were already too long bef
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by Revanche1367 24d ago
I think the latter is likely their primary concern. Certain models making hackers more effective doesn’t change that black hat hacking will still be illegal and that’s always been the prime deterrent against capable hackers. While there is
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by Revanche1367 24d ago
I got the AI ultra plan for gemini, the models are lower quality than claude and codex for sure but it comes with a pretty high limit for my purposes and I haven’t reached the weekly limit yet after about 3 weeks of usage. I have enterprise
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by Revanche1367 24d ago
Some users on HN in recent months started describing Anthropic as having become a “token merchant” and I think that moniker is quite apt.
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by Revanche1367 24d ago
Comments on this very thread would indicate otherwise.
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by Revanche1367 24d ago
As my mathematical statistics professor told us on the first day, “statistics is not mathematics.” It’s a good idea to remember: if a branch of the subject x is called “mathematical x,” then x in general is not totally mathematical and can
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by Revanche1367 1mo ago
Very fitting then!
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by Revanche1367 1mo ago
Think of the potential layoffs of highly paid employees! But, I think it’s also based on what they are being used for, most LLM users are still mainly SWEs or similar as I understand and there’s a ton of data to train them for coding.
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by Revanche1367 1mo ago
Indeed. I feel that although many people try to learn new languages, the intellectual stimulation provided by doing so is understated. Especially learning languages very different from your native language (grammatically, morphologically, e
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by Revanche1367 1mo ago
I only use LLMs for explaining things if the subject is one I’m deeply familiar with and can independently and easily verify the facts. Doing so with new knowledge areas is very risky for obvious reasons. For example, “explain how the code
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by Revanche1367 2mo ago
Live by the non-determinism, die by the non-determinism.
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by Revanche1367 2mo ago
If our govt officials are willing to betray their citizens for money to China, what’s the point of preferring to give them power over us instead of giving it to China?
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by Revanche1367 2mo ago
Yes, definitely agreed on that.
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by Revanche1367 2mo ago
In my experience, Gemini 3.x wasn’t just getting a bad rap, it was significantly worse in practice. It could analyze codebases and report back from a one-shot prompt as good as Claude or Codex but any slightly complex task that carried on f
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by Revanche1367 2mo ago
That might be his reason but Prof. Yaghi is from a Palestinian refugee family and born in Jordan. There are probably more than a few reasons he might not feel welcome in the US at the moment.
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by Revanche1367 2mo ago
Hi, I had a quick look through your blog via google translate and fwiw, you seem like a very talented developer to me. Speaking as someone from the US (originally from continental Asia) in a very similar situation to yours (except for the A
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by Revanche1367 2mo ago
Ah, the old “only western people have morals, everyone else just cares about how it looks” argument. And where did you get this super objective assessment that eastern peoples only care about “saving face”? Couldn’t be a stereotype populari

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