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há 8 diasdiscuss

Yes but all of those things are independent of the size of the country, which is the point.

há 9 diasdiscuss

Do you imagine an infrastructure project in ANY country is managed like a project in a small company?

há 9 diasdiscuss

> - The United States is 85 times larger than Switzerland. The entire country of Switzerland is the size of a small US state. Covering the US with broadband is much harder than Switzerland.

I see this argument come up a lot with regards to all kinds of infrastructure, and the thing is it simply _isn't true_.

What matters is population density, GDP per capita, geography, and will. A countries size doesn't matter since twice the area will, all things being equal, also give you twice the workforce to make it happen. In fact the only change a larger area typically makes is better ability to make use of economies of scale, which makes things _easier_.

The only correlation between larger countries and trouble with infrastructure is that a large country is more likely to have large areas with nearly nobody in them, but these areas also typically account for a vanishingly small percentage of the population so they don't really count when people are talking about bad infrastructure.

há 17 diasdiscuss

The difference is that the US companies are using it as a means to an end, they need to make just enough profit that the investors don't all get cold feet before they get to AGI. The Chinese companies on the other hand are trying to be profitable immediately, which means that they're going slower to save development costs.

há 2 mesesdiscuss

Just because the users were already sick when they started using ChatGPT doesn't mean that ChatGPT isn't exacerbating the issue. Sickness isn't a boolean condition. A big problem with LLMs in general when it comes to people like this is that they are too sycophantic, they don't push back when you start acting strange and they're too gentle about trying to validate you.

há 2 mesesdiscuss

In my experience AI can write _something_ from scratch, but often edge cases won't be handled until I go through and read the results or test it. Usually when I'm writing by hand I will naturally find the majority of edge cases as I go. By the time I've read through the results and fixed said edge cases, I usually would have been faster just doing it myself.

há 2 mesesdiscuss

Agile cannot go over budget or scope because those are failures of planning. Agile is the methodology that was developed specifically to counteract those problems with planning. Projects that use Agile can go over budget and scope but they never do that because they are using Agile, rather they use Agile because they might do that.

há 3 mesesdiscuss

Which is fine, the average bike thief is not going to expect to need them.

há 3 mesesdiscuss

Yes, there's a reason it was abandoned as a KPI almost as soon as it was introduced. Just because AI is writing the code instead now doesn't magically make it a good metric.

há 3 mesesdiscuss

You should have kept reading.

  For performance-sensitive scenarios where case types include value types, libraries can also implement the non-boxing access pattern by adding a HasValue property and TryGetValue methods. This lets the compiler implement pattern matching without boxing.

há 4 mesesdiscuss

If Windows update does something weird what do you do?

há 4 mesesdiscuss

> In many ways the quality of care in the US is far better than what folks get elsewhere, which in part is probably why there isn’t a total patient rebellion

How sure of this are we really? Other countries mostly have problems with emergency departments being full, but that's less because those emergency departments are worse and more because in the US people aren't going, they just stay home and hope they don't die.

há 4 mesesdiscuss

Actually you're right, I was going by the source code which was in the link of the comment you replied to, but I missed that that was specifically for divExact and not just primitive division.

há 4 mesesdiscuss

More specifically, Zig will return an error type from the division and if this isn't handled THEN it will panic, kind of like an exception except it can be handled with proper pattern matching.

há 6 mesesdiscuss

Have you ever had a concept you wanted to express, known that there was a word for it, but struggled to remember what the word was? For human thought and speech to work that way it must be fundamentally different to what an LLM does. The concept, the "thought", is separated from the word.

há 6 mesesdiscuss

I have seen people say something along these lines what feels like every month for the past year.

há 7 mesesdiscuss

The point is that it's a litmus test for how well the models do with niche knowledge _in general_. The point isn't really to know how well the model works for that specific niche. Ideally of course you would use a few of them and aggregate the results.

há 7 mesesdiscuss

I think ideally you need to practice both slow AND fast. You need to practice slow so you can notice and work on small details that can be skipped over with speed, and you need to practice fast because some things are legitimately different at speed and you won't learn how to deal with them only going slow.

há 7 mesesdiscuss

The problem with publicly disclosing these is that if lots of people adopt them they will become targeted to be in the model and will no longer be a good benchmark.

há 7 mesesdiscuss

The problem with integrating a chat bot is that what you are effectively doing is the same thing as adding a single bookmark, except now it's taking up extra space. There IS no advantage here, it's unnecessary bloat.