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by slver 5y ago
It doesn't seem that logical statements matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27722154 What matters is just grabbing some pitchforks and cancelling someone.
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by slver 5y ago
If you look for racism, you'll find it, even when it's not there. Skin color is a function of two things: 1. Amount of environmental sunlight (latitude). 2. Amount of circumstantial exposure to sunlight (lifestyle). If the assumpt
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by slver 5y ago
You're describing features that many other animals have. Being bipedal, hunting, using projectiles, and so on.
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by slver 5y ago
Clockrate is not a bottleneck on how fast your computer is. It's just a synchronization primitive. Think about it like the tempo of a song. The entire orchestra needs to play in sync with the tempo, but how many notes you play relative
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by slver 5y ago
That's kinda the case with Copilot, or I'd just type: // Unify relativity with quantum mechanics. I'm trying to say Copilot is not a fundamental shift to programming. It's what programming already is,
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by slver 5y ago
Yes, it literally isn't a match. It's also not a match for a pepperoni pizza.
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by slver 5y ago
Programming is already conversational. I'm telling a computer what I want, it does it, I see what it does, and elaborate or correct myself where necessary. Repeat endless times, until product exists.
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by slver 5y ago
Well, "never" is a long time. Copilot is definitely no replacement for anything except copying from Stack Overflow for juniors. But in the long run, AI is us basically us creating our own replacement. As a species. We don't r
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by slver 5y ago
A lot of these edge cases are about theoretical concerns like "how many digits we need in decimal to represent an exact IEEE binary float". In practice a double is 15.6 digits precise, which Excel rounds to 15 to eliminate some we
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by slver 5y ago
Excel rounds doubles to 15 digits for display and comparison. The exact precision of doubles is something like 15.6 digits, those remaining 0.6 digits causing some of those examples floating (heh) around.
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by slver 5y ago
Business types hate dealing with programmers, that's a fact. And these claims of "we'll replace programmers" happen with certain precise regularity. Ruby on Rails was advertised as so simple, startup founders who can&#x2
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by slver 5y ago
So, nothing new, is your point?
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by slver 5y ago
It's very easy: don't use copilot code verbatim, and you won't have GPL code verbatim.
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by slver 5y ago
> And these are the hand picked examples. This product seems like it needs some more thought. Everyone's self-preservation instincts kicking in to attack Copilot is kinda amusing to watch. Copilot is not supposed to produce excellen
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by slver 5y ago
Google is interested in eliminating native applications in favor of web apps that it can control by providing analytics, SEO, ads, and so on. So they're very aggressive to introducing "app-like" APIs to Chrome even often at t
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by slver 5y ago
And ironically we have no types for units in most languages. Instead we need to wrap numbers in objects making them extremely cumbersome to work with.
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by slver 5y ago
The number of sets we can represent with fingers is 11, including the empty set. As for bijective base 10, it's interesting, but it's still not the base 10 we're using, so we can't quite blame this on our fingers.
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by slver 5y ago
The thing I can't seem to get across to you, is that you don't query a graph by specifying a join expression. Graph databases aren't built for that. So no, SQL is not "capable of querying a graph". It's capable
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by slver 5y ago
What customers hate is tier 1 support acting as a brick wall between them and the people with the solution to their problem. Or at least that's how they perceive it. While I don't shout at tech support, as I know what the script i
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by slver 5y ago
> Sounds like a customer support person just made up a reason. This happens a lot, I find. People just hate having no answer for you. So they make up one.
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by slver 5y ago
SQL is neither a graph or hypergraph query language, because relations don't define the graph (or hypergraph). The query does. Deriving a graph and querying a graph are two different things. A graph query language implies you're q
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by slver 5y ago
Everyone is thinking about a "shifted" base 10, yes. But every base starts with 0, there's no such thing as "shifted base" because then you literally can't represent 0. Also "zero fingers" is still a
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by slver 5y ago
Most of us are programmers here, you are just as used to hex. Also technically we don't have that many fingers. We have one more finger. We don't have a number digit for ten right? They go zero to nine. But out fingers go zero to
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by slver 5y ago
By keep up I mean in terms of standards. Edge was always usable, but you'll always get second-grade experience if apps switch to the "fallback mode" on your browser. Google is playing this game of quickly introducing standard
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by slver 5y ago
Typical speeds for "current G + 1" is always high and mysteriously gets significantly lower when "current G + 2" gets introduced. Rinse and repeat. I'm not sure how come everyone is so highly interested in this chur
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by slver 5y ago
If Mozilla no longer plans to move forward with it and use it, it's dead. Nothing can save it. So what does it mean "don't let it die". I mean are bunch of people supposed to develop a modern browser engine on the side a
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by slver 5y ago
> The amount of people who think that GitHub Copilot is a good idea is just frightening. Just shows how many people never thought about the semantics of their programs for even a second. I think it's an excellent idea. People who co
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by slver 5y ago
Poor thing has to move the other figures around so the knight can move. I have lots of sympathy for this machine.
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by slver 5y ago
> We need to get rid of the idea that websites are designed to work on any one technology. Otter-Browser uses QtWebKit. So it's still another entry using the "one" technology, WebKit (which Blink is a fork of as well). Ott
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by slver 5y ago
Technically it is. But in a very restricted way. Any graph, when you traverse it from a specific node, with fixed depth, and you don't explicitly work with node references, but rather node "values", looks like a tree that spr

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