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staunton
·11 माह पहले·discuss
People have been going nuts all throughout recorded history, that's really nothing new.

The only scary thing is that they have ever more power to change the world and influence others without being forced to grapple with that responsibility...
staunton
·11 माह पहले·discuss
> you would think they would put your name in the system prompt

They probably do, along with "pretend to not have any personal information about the user".
staunton
·11 माह पहले·discuss
Don't forget the "nature partner journals", which people also call (and cite as) "Nature XY"...
staunton
·11 माह पहले·discuss
> labor is what they most have to offer, so that is what they will trade

What will they eat? Whose land might they be allowed to grow their food on?
staunton
·11 माह पहले·discuss
Also a lot of errors would be called "typos", not errors. Such as some edge cases missing in the theorem statement which technically makes the theorem false. As long as there's a similar theorem in the same spirit that can be proven, that's what the original was all along.
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
Have you ever read the (full) text of any bill that has been passed during the last couple of decades? How about reading all of them?

So are you proposing people vote on them without reading them? Or that we write very short bills aimed at a non-lawyer audience, effectively leaving most decisions up to the interpretation by courts? Or something else?
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
What does it mean "to make filling out your taxes"??
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
> should also be caught in code reviews

Assuming they even have code reviews - in your experience, in a situation where the person writing the code didn't check if it already exists, the reviewer will check that and then tell them to delete their already finished implementation and use that existing thing?
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
> models deployed in critical applications such as finance, law, and healthcare.

We went really quickly from "obviously noone will ever use these models for important things" to "we will at the first opportunity, so please at least try to limit the damage by making the models better"...
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
Most musicians (i.e. non-famous ones) get most of their income from teaching students. I don't think such a model makes sense for developers

(though who knows, maybe at some time in the future there will be significant numbers of people programming as a hobby and wanting to be coached by a human...)
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
Addiction is a matter of degree. There's a bunch of polls where a large majority of people strongly agree that "they spend too much time on social media". Are they addicts? Are they "coosing to use it"? Are they saying it's too much because that's a trendy thing to say?
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
> We've been through this before in the 70s-90s.

What do you mean?
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
> if people thought social media was bad, they wouldn’t use it.

Do you think Heroin is good?
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
Would you say Log4j is an internal or an external dependency?
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
> interfaces

You mean obsolete and subtly wrong comments buried among preprocessor directives in some far-upstream header files?
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
I'd guess that's mostly because C has been around long enough to be chosen for it and people who are into that kind of thing don't urgently need more than one contest, regardless of language...
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
Agreed. Does any of that contradict something I wrote?
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
Objections:

- it's possible to transfer knowledge, as demonstrated by the fact that human civilization exists. It's not always easy, doesn't always succeed, and reading is a part of that, but it's possible and happening. I'm confused about your intended meaning in claiming otherwise.

- It's very difficult to distinguish between (especially one's own) understanding and a false impression thereof. To an overwhelming degree, the main realistic way is applying the knowledge, which is easiest when far removed from the activity of reading.

- One's upbringing, environment, social circle, etc., strongly influence one's propensity for reading, both for work and for pleasure. People change, especially as long as they're young, but even adults do in a major way according to conditions.
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
Well, if you're using GRPC anyway, and have the protocol buffers already... It's hard to resist the temptation after a few hours of installing broken package versions.

Incidentally, I suspect this is the spiritual origin of microservoces...
staunton
·12 माह पहले·discuss
Set them up, each in its own container, and use GRPC to communicate between them...

(Not even kidding, I've seen people do this)