patrick451

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by patrick451 2mo ago
If there were fewer laws, there would be less to disambiguate.
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by patrick451 2mo ago
None of it
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by patrick451 2mo ago
There is no point discussing these minutia, ever. Just ban discussing them in PRs and then you don't need an opinionated bot rife with false positives to "fix" them.
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by patrick451 3mo ago
The boom in datacenter construction is driven mostly by the AI boom and most of us are sick everything AI too. We don't want to read AI slop, watch AI videos, talk AI customer service or visit a vibe coded website.
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by patrick451 3mo ago
The vast majority of Americans prefer roads being dedicated to vehicles. I live in a town that is stealing drivable roadway for bike lanes. It's a total wast of tax dollars. There is never anybody in this bike lanes. Because even in th
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by patrick451 3mo ago
> Which is really no different from someone choosing to terminate. If you std::abort(), you'll get a useful stack trace in the core dump. If you crash from an unhandled exception, you don't. That's a pretty huge difference
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by patrick451 3mo ago
No, they are doing everything they can to ensure that only the people who are legally allowed to vote are the ones voting.
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by patrick451 3mo ago
You are failing to make an argument for why stable sorting is objectively the correct choice. Just because something doesn't match your expectations doesn't make it wrong.
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by patrick451 3mo ago
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand, or which framework you used. They care that the product works. If I wanted to care about what users want, I would have been a founder or salesman, not an engineer.
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by patrick451 3mo ago
> Sure, both languages offer both generic comparison sorts†. But the defaults matter and as always in C++ the defaults are wrong, here it's reflected in naming. Why, exactly, is the c++ std::sort "wrong"? There are tradeof
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by patrick451 4mo ago
I work in a FAANG. My sense is that most of my teammates are loving the AI. Personally, I hate the AI tools and the hype around them and what it has turned this job into. My own morale has never been lower in the 7 years I've been ther
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by patrick451 5mo ago
We should not treat this as an acceptable strategy. If we do not have a viable mitigation for the risks of AI, then AI should be banned from public usage, just like nuclear weapons.
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by patrick451 5mo ago
Exactly. At the very least, we should be treating AI like nuclear weapons. It can exist but it should be locked away and never used.
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by patrick451 6mo ago
> Sure, we built something in 2 mos that would have otherwise taken us 6 mos, but now I'm fixing the mess that we caused. You didn't actually build it in 2 months.
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by patrick451 6mo ago
There are countless other stories about the AI's spouting complete bullshit. This easily wastes as much time as they save.
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by patrick451 6mo ago
Context: I work in robotics. We use mostly c++ and python. The entire team is about 200 though the subset I regularly interact with is maybe 50. I basically don't use AI for coding at all. When I have tried it, it's just half work
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by patrick451 6mo ago
This comparison is useless until rust commits to a stable ABI.
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by patrick451 7mo ago
> The first thing you need when you make something new is making it work, it is much better that it works badly than having something not working at all. It is better for something to not exist than for a shitty version to exist. Softwar
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by patrick451 7mo ago
Tiny suggestion: make the visualization for torch.zeros and torch.ones have the same y-axis limits so the difference is visually separated.
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by patrick451 7mo ago
At least you can read the switch statement. One of the worst features of c++ is all of the code that gets generated for you automatically.
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by patrick451 7mo ago
No human needs to have seen an elephant standing in the road before to know that you should not drive through an elephant standing in the road. These are not "long tail" events as the waymo says. It's a big object in the road
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by patrick451 7mo ago
Ideally, we would just ban AI content altogether.
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by patrick451 7mo ago
After you have owned a car for five years, can I come steal it?
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by patrick451 7mo ago
It's basically the same dynamic as hedonic adjustment in the CPI calculations. Cars may cost twice as much now they have usb chargers built in so inflation isn't really that bad.
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by patrick451 7mo ago
If I create something, I should get to dictate how it is used not just until I die but for eternity.
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by patrick451 7mo ago
Until the EU gets their act together on free speech, it's high time the united states hits them with aggressive economic sanctions.
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by patrick451 8mo ago
This game thinks buffalo and bison are the same thing and elk and deer are the same thing. Which is absurd, they even require buying different tags when hunting.
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by patrick451 8mo ago
I don't think it's fine for large companies to intentionally lose money to drive smaller competitors out of business. In fact, I think this practice should be illegal and that all who participated should be in jail.
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by patrick451 8mo ago
These are just bad contractors. I used to work for a remodeling company. We came in under time on the vast majority of projects because the guy who ran the company knew what he was doing and built slack into the schedule.
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by patrick451 8mo ago
Python3 drops support for older versions of python3 all the time. Every single release comes with a bunch of deprecated and removed features. There is a very strong chance that a python 3.7 codebase is totally broken on 3.14. Almost no lang

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