prerok

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by prerok 5d ago
The trouble, as I see it, is that we still have to look at the code before we run it. Even if it is a one-shot script. And it's just because you never know if there isn't some "rm -rf ${undefined_variable}/" lurking
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by prerok 6d ago
I think it matters, because nowadays we don't look at assembly any more. I mean, I don't recall the last time I was tracking down a compiler bug but it's definitely been more than 15 years ago. We do have to look at the LLMs&
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by prerok 6d ago
Back in the day, the argument was that compilers produce unreadable assembly, so people used to writing assembly were arguing against the use of compilers. Compilers also had bugs, so we still had to debug the assembly to understand how to
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by prerok 6d ago
This assumes that there is excess power at some point. This will soon become unrealistic: we either need power for data centers during the day or charging vehicles during the night. The solution works only to keep a steady production of ele
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by prerok 14d ago
Not the OP but I guess the statement implied cultural and lingual unification which implies erasure of other cultures and languages. We do have to work on being understood across the cultural and lingual division but the differences should
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by prerok 28d ago
I don't really understand what you mean... are you saying that the entire industry is parroting a fantasy that they all know is fake. So, everyone is faking to get more funds? Unfortunately, I don't think that's true.
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by prerok 28d ago
It seems our experiences are different. Back then, when working with SVN, we had sites in various countries, with under provisioned VPNs between them. Loading up a single file history could take 15 minutes. I am not joking. Every single ope
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by prerok 29d ago
What I don't understand is, why not replace middle management, marketing, CTOs, CEOs and the like. Surely, LLMs are better at producing high quality looking slideware and vaporware than they are at producing software. Heavy sarcasm her
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by prerok 1mo ago
Not exactly decentralization but distribution was the main selling point. In comparison to SVN and other non-DVCs git did not need to continuously talk to the central server for history, "branch" creations, unlocking/locking
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by prerok 1mo ago
I agree with your criticism of "the good enough" and "done with taste" dichotomy. I would like to comment on this, though: > that only want simple, that finding the most blunt approach is the only way. It has felt tas
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by prerok 1mo ago
The future is Borg.
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by prerok 1mo ago
Well, yes. You can't just not show up for work and call in sick. Within the same day you have to call your doctor and explain the symptoms and they have to start the paperwork for the sick leave. Even if it is for a day. For a cold or
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by prerok 1mo ago
The sick leave has to go through the healthcare system. That said, there are doctors that would just blindly approve, but it's not exactly a norm. A lot of those sick days are also childcare.
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by prerok 2mo ago
Possibly, although I have to say that I get PRs now where it's clear it's a miss by the LLM and was generated by a human who did not take the time to understand the subject matter. In the past, a human producing humanslop would ge
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by prerok 2mo ago
If it happened just once, yes.
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by prerok 2mo ago
How is 5m easy to achieve? Asking for a friend.
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by prerok 2mo ago
This story is so silly it must be true. Thank you, made me laugh out loud.
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by prerok 2mo ago
The weather is an example of a non-linear dynamic system. Try as we might, we still cannot predict it really even a few days in advance. The stock market is much worse, even, so, no, it cannot be predicted.
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by prerok 2mo ago
Nah, let's just put a big sign "Kilroy was here", so they don't bother with the "mostly harmless" planet.
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by prerok 2mo ago
Not the OP but I guess what they are saying is that since this language is a subset of go and if you use it as such then an arena allocator cannot be used in the transliterated code. Maybe it's possible to force the transliteration to
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by prerok 2mo ago
Indeed, but I guess OP is saying that the panics are not supported in this language.
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by prerok 2mo ago
Heh, I like the analogy but my question was really why it was considered such a hassle. I mean we deal with daylight saving time all the time and I know it's not the same because the leap second affects UTC, not just local time zone, i
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by prerok 2mo ago
So, it's solving a real problem, why are we dropping it? I mean, why does everybody agree it's a bad solution?
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by prerok 2mo ago
I agree, I don't like it either. But... how would they then implement a world where you can wander everywhere? What it brings to the table is that you can wander across the world and not become terribly outmatched as soon as you wander
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by prerok 3mo ago
Thank you for the link. Chess is very much also a psychological game and that he resorts to such low blows is really petty.
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by prerok 3mo ago
Just came to say this as well. Happens in Europe too (well, obviously :) ).
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by prerok 3mo ago
Can you explain where this comes from? I mean, that's not even close to what the norm is in Europe. Though, to be fair, we don't normally count fuel into TCO and the reasoning is: if you want to go distances then you are always pa
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by prerok 3mo ago
I think it now has a slightly different lens. The DropBox argument was that anyone can build this in five minutes, so why use this? Now, with LLMs, the argument is that anyone can build its own. I have to say I find it pretty funny.
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by prerok 3mo ago
I remember reading an article in National Geographic of how crow's brains are much more interconnected than is the norm in mammals, i.e. IIRC they have a higher density of synapses between neurons. From that article, it seems that the
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by prerok 3mo ago
Right. Just use the LLM to generate it for you /s

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