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by brainwipe 5mo ago
Met him at GenCon UK in the 1990s. His Doc-From-Back-To-The-Future energy was absolutely mesmeric. He had five towers of D10s in a plastic tubes. Three towers was the standard dice we all had in our bags and two were towers of his Game Scie
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by brainwipe 5mo ago
I code modern C# during the day and Unity for fun and I found this a really good roundup. It's also worth noting that Unity does all sorts of OO-breaking filth before passing to IL2CPP.
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by brainwipe 7mo ago
XML was much better than what was there before - which was a different standard for every endpoint and often no structure at all. XML allowed you to use tools to build automatically. We have other better tools now but back then it was like
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by brainwipe 8mo ago
I own my grandfather's slide rule, he was a master toolmaker for Rolls Royce (aerospace engines) in North London during WW2.
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by brainwipe 1y ago
The title is irritating, conflating AI with LLMs. LLMs are a subset of AI. I expect future systems will be mobs of expert AI agents rather than relying on LLMs to do everything. An LLM will likely be in the mix for at least the natural lang
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by brainwipe 1y ago
Two things! - Videogame, you live inside a mechanical ladybird called a Clomper, which you control by making pipes to power machines with steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2349380/Clomper/ - Building
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by brainwipe 2y ago
I was asked by an SME to code on a whiteboard for an interview (in 2005? I think?). I asked if I could have a computer, they said no. I asked if I would be using a whiteboard during my day-to-day. They said no. I asked why they used whitebo
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by brainwipe 2y ago
I've accidentally been using an AI-proof hiring technique for about 20 years: ask a junior developer to bring code with them and ask them to explain it verbally. You can then talk about what they would change, how they would change it,
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by brainwipe 2y ago
It's scrubbed for today: Blue Origin on Twitter: https://x.com/blueorigin/status/1878715911563313651
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by brainwipe 2y ago
Wonderful! My PhD was in stream anomaly detection using dynamic neural networks in 2003. Can't wait to go deep through this paper and find out what the latest thinking is. Thanks, OP.
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by brainwipe 2y ago
This has been my life for the last 10 years and I know who my children really are. They're evil and I love it.
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by brainwipe 2y ago
The only one that directly annoys me is not being able to have threaded comments at the PR level. https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/552 You can do it with "quoting", which is fine if there ar
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by brainwipe 2y ago
Then I would ask anyone to keep building on knowledge rather than training for an arbitrary benchmark. Filling your short-term memory with knowledge to be then dumped straight after will get you a good exam mark but doesn't mean you ha
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by brainwipe 2y ago
Exams are a poor measure of proficiency. Proficiency is gained by doing and stretching a skill over time. You can measure that in small increments than a periodic exam. At the end of a period, a student would have a body of work to demonstr
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by brainwipe 2y ago
IMO education is still built around Victorian structures and needs to be reworked from examinations downwards. Examinations are an exercise in being good at examinations, not proficiency in the subject. Once you strip that away the you wind
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by brainwipe 2y ago
Not the case universally. My son's school in south-central UK does everything via Google Docs or apps specially built for distance learning. If it weren't for Minecraft mods, he'd have no concept of the file system.
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by brainwipe 2y ago
Articles like this remind me how little the browser environment has moved on in recent times. Now all the work is done by the frameworks.
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by brainwipe 2y ago
Independent researcher without academic address; can't get in. Best of luck.
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by brainwipe 2y ago
I give it 6 months before someone goes to trial for sharing AI-generated CP and is acquitted.
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ESET antivirus breaks Node.js without warning(forum.eset.com)
3 points by brainwipe 2y ago|2 comments
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by brainwipe 2y ago
ESET started scanning SSL certificate chains for nodejs, which is a good feature. If you're using node without a full chain then it will block the requests. Unfortunately, they did so without warning, which broke our GitHub Actions Run
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by brainwipe 3y ago
All of the above! Additionally... I think AI companies are trying to steer the conversation about safety so that when regulations do come in (and they will) that the legal culpability is with the user of the model, not the trainer of it. Th
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by brainwipe 3y ago
Thanks for the tips! I'll admit not having done enough research yet - you've helped me do some shortcutting.
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by brainwipe 3y ago
Article is 3.5 years old, best put the year in the title, OP! I think the definition of serverless is too narrow (AWS lambdas/ Azure functions) and that serverless is really "I want to build apps, not manage infrastructure".
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by brainwipe 3y ago
Having XSLT flashbacks. Send help.
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by brainwipe 3y ago
Additionally - the BBC would put "how to code" programmes on the TV. That's how my neighbour got started when I was knee high.
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by brainwipe 3y ago
Trying to program the web front end like you do the API backend feels like an antipattern. I'm all for productivity but you eventually hit issues that cannot be resolved because the client/serverness of your solution has been abst
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by brainwipe 3y ago
The piece of paper is the nub. You really need that to convert it to some other ID, cos no-one really checks. Ideally, it needs to be signed off by an institution that your local passport office accepts. For my latest UK passport, I had to
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by brainwipe 3y ago
For journal publish, yes but not for doing the actual work. If you find something interesting, you can go fast.
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by brainwipe 3y ago
"At this stage, it’s still unsure that it will achieve such levels where no human is necessary" Wishful thinking. You might be unsure but the copywriters struggling to find work might disagree.

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