bborud · HackerTrans

14 dagen geledendiscuss

You do understand that you look somewhat ridiculous when engaging in the very behavior that the accusation of wooden matter up one’s rectum implies?

You are arguing my point for me by way of self-parody.

bborud

15 dagen geledendiscuss

I am flabbergasted. How self-absorbed does one have to be to be offended by someone re-using sections of a paper one has done earlier in a later paper?

No, seriously. If I write 5.000 words on a topic and then re-use 500 words I myself have written earlier without attribution because they are appropriate to the current article, how do you make that «bad manners».

I meant what I said about people who can’t see this without help earlier.

bborud

15 dagen geledendiscuss

I’ll grant you that there are good arguments in favor of your position. PHP, and then later JavaScript have both filled the world with more fragility and chaos than was necessary.

bborud

15 dagen geledendiscuss

The same morons who think that re-using something you have written before in academic work without quoting yourself is (self-)plagiarism for which you should be sanctioned?

(Yes, they are morons because no reasonable person would think this is fair. You need convoluted nonsense arguments to justify this)

bborud

15 dagen geledendiscuss

But surely the death of any large chunk of PHP leaving the stage is cause for applause and boisterous shouts of joy?

bborud

21 dagen geledendiscuss

This even extends to how some standards are written: deliberately complex and poor work just to make it frustrating and ensure a high barrier of entry. And of course there are either no test suites or testing against them costs a fortune.

This is the kind of thing politicians in a reasonable world would make illegal and subject to sanctions.

bborud

21 dagen geledendiscuss

You offer no concrete explanation of how AI will magically remove the language barrier. Have you ever taught a class? How, in practice would you make language go away? In concrete terms. Exactly how do you envision interaction between teacher and student and between students happening? Again, in plain practical terms that can be implemented easily?

Teaching isn’t just about delivering a monologue. Even at university level. It is about connecting and interacting with people. Or else people would derive no more benefit from education than simply reading a list of curriculum books and hand in papers.

How do you envision that this plays out, right now, with AI, when teaching at a K-12 and high school level? Which is much more demanding because you are doing far more than just throwing knowledge and facts at people.

You don’t know what you are talking about which makes you invent fantasies that have no contact with concrete, observable reality. But rather than realize that you are talking nonsense and perhaps educate yourself and think things through, you just carry on.

Again, look at what the original post was about, and what corner you have painted yourself into. Did you, at any point, ask yourself if you had gone off the rails somewhere?

bborud

21 dagen geledendiscuss

So let me see if I get this: we need AI in Norwegian schools so immigrants don’t have to learn Norwegian or English, or else child protective services will take away their children?

It isn’t so much that you and I disagree. It is more that you disagree with reality. To the extent you are aware of reality.

bborud

21 dagen geledendiscuss

So now you are arguing what? That the AI tools, that so thoroughly failed to educate you on education, should be used to teach immigrants in their mother tongue?

And keep in mind, if you move to a country you kind of have to accept that they won’t be able to offer you education in every possible language. In fact, learning the language is often a prerequisite for permanent residency.

I am not going to ask you how you envision that AI somehow magically solves this, since we have already established that education isn’t something you appear to know much about. The last thing we need is more speculation, fantasy or anecdote.

Have the courtesy of at least researching things online for more than 2 minutes before you expect to be taken seriously.

bborud

21 dagen geledendiscuss

One can certainly wish, but I am inclined to believe that RAM use isn’t just about sloppy programmers. I think it is, to a significant degree, about the kinds of problems we solve now that we have more RAM.

And not all exorbitant RAM use is about sloppiness. Sometimes you can trade more RAM use for lower complexity. Bugs and development time were expensive. RAM was not. So sometimes there is calculation rather than sloppiness behind certain types of heavy RAM use.

bborud

21 dagen geledendiscuss

The the only conclusion I can draw from that is that you know nothing about education and even less about Norway.

FYI: all Norwegians learn at least one foreign language in school. It is mandatory. That means you have to, in case that’s a big word for you.

If you so prefer you will have the option to learn one or two more in middle school and one or two more in high school.

By the time I was 15 I spoke three languages. Everyone at that age would know at least two. Some would know four.

Is it so much to ask that you at least consult the AI tools you speak so fondly of as tools of education before babbling about something you so obviously are deeply ignorant of? If nothing else then at least in lieu of growing a brain?

bborud

21 dagen geledendiscuss

So I take it you have some expertise in teaching? At what level? K-12? Middle school?

What, in your professional opinion as an educator, should schools do about AI in schools?

bborud

22 dagen geledendiscuss

Of course, the tunnel will be in non-euclidian space. So it is shorter on the inside than on the outside :-)

bborud

22 dagen geledendiscuss

Ask a Norwegian to dig a tunnel and they will turn into a gopher on meth. We are the undisputed champions of tunnels in terms of tunnel density. Show us a piece of rock and we'll put a big hole in it.

However.

Ask a Norwegian to fix a piece of road and you will be staring at a hole in the ground for 4 years while people will take turns leaning on a shovel in that hole while surrounded by at least 4 different categories of supervisor or inspector.

But to inject some realism: if they say 4 years they can probably do it in 5. And it'll take another year or so to fix fuck-ups that in retrospect will look stupid and thoughtless, but which are realistically unavoidable. We'll whine about it. A lot. And each week the whole country will be experts on something new. Like evil-sounding compounds for stopping water ingress or how to insulate wires. And then suddenly it starts working.

bborud

23 dagen geledendiscuss

It isn't so much about platform owned by political opponents as platforms now being political and/or that we always have to assume they come with a political agenda.

bborud

26 dagen geledendiscuss

> things could be worse

That's always true for all regimes at all times so it is a pointless NOOP-argument.

The attitude you communicate is essentially that "the small people" do not matter. It is precisely this attitude that empowered the regressive politicians to make life worse for everyone by weaponizing "the small people".

And if you don't think you're small people: it is just because events haven't gotten around to it yet.

Show some self preservation instinct.

bborud

28 dagen geledendiscuss

This is just thoughtless and sloppy of those who added this to the RFC. Adding complexity for zero real gain is poor discipline when it comes to protocols.

bborud

vorige maanddiscuss

I thought it was the 5G windmill lizard people this week. Do we not have the same edition of «The Nice And Accurate Tin Foil Hat Almanac»?

bborud

vorige maanddiscuss

To be fair, meaningful changes to life expectancy numbers tend to take longer to manifest.

For instance, if you cut preventive healthcare for younger parts of the population that will take longer to manifest.

I wish there were more modeling tools available to run what-if simulations on public data.

bborud

vorige maanddiscuss

No, you are right about it not being limited to Python. But for python the common courtesies I am used to right out of the box tend to require extra effort on part of the programmer. And «extra» doesn’t usually happen.

Even C, with its ancient, haphazard, ugly, fragile, awkward toolchain, can often trivially produce binaries that will just work with very little effort.

I have spent decades of my life writing tooling, libraries and infrastructure. And no matter where you go, developers only do the bare minimum if they can get away with it. That doesn’t mean they are bad people. It means tools and infrastructure has to be designed with acute awareness of reality.

Python has been around for 35 years. And it still hasn’t evolved things we should take for granted today despite its increase in adoption. To me that’s pretty fucking awful project governance.

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