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nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
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nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
Can we move on to the next grift yet?
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
True, but what percentage of phone owners will actually do this. Less than a fraction of a percent? The remaining 99 percent chuck their phone in a landfill when it gets slow.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
If you give an LLM a word problem that involves the same math and change the names of the people in the word problem the LLM will likely generate different mathematical results. Without any knowledge of how any of this works, that seems pretty damning of the fact that LLMs do not reason. They are predictive text models. That’s it.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
I find LLM’s to be much worse than the junior engineers I work with. I have tried copilot and I always end up disabling it because it’s often wrong and annoying. Just read the docs for the things you are using folks. We don’t need to burn the rainforest for autocomplete.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
Dog no they don’t lol. My family has been in both ecosystems over the years and by far the iPhones outlast the Android phones they buy both in quality and in updates.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
Yeah, it’s annoying, but the polyfill is like 3 lines.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
I think that would probably fall outside the norm. My information might be outdated, but I was under the impression that JavaScript usually wins in most algorithm benchmarks because the JIT is so good.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
I literally use BigInt on the backend every single day at work lol.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
I’m really tired of this discourse. The JavaScript ecosystem is the lingua franca of the web. Furthermore, while a segment of the programming community has sat around complaining, JavaScript has gotten really good and continues to improve every passing year. Incremental progress is the key to making progress, not giant paradigm shifts.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
WASM is slower than running JavaScript on V8 in almost all scenarios and will likely continue to be for a very long time. Also, many of us don’t want a compile step.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
The US government needs to fast track breaking up Google asap. Chrome needs to be torn from their festering lich hands, so that the web can be free of their self serving, and frankly bad, proposals.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
I gave up a few years ago and decided that I was willing to deal with any drawbacks of buying and playing games on consoles rather than dealing with Windows. I only have so much time to sit down and enjoy myself and I would rather not fiddle if I just want to play a game. It turns out that you can buy a PS5 and a Switch for less than the price of a decent midrange gaming rig.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
Insurance companies are best incentivized and informed to make themselves a requirement, take your money, and then resist all efforts to actually pay you when you need them.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
Yes, and that rethink should be that insurance of all forms is a racket.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
I live 2 hours away from the mountains of North Carolina. I grew up in the foothills. You have no idea what you are talking about. People aren’t rebuilding here, “over and over.” This was a climate disaster full stop. If we as a species don’t get our shit together and stop poisoning our planet this will keep happening.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
McDonald’s art.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
These projects really need to start standing up their own Gitea or Gitlab instances and mirroring to GitHub.

It also cracks me up every time I see legalistic apologists on this website backing up giant corporations.

A) Who cares about the law? It’s rarely moral. B) Which laws should we follow? The internet exists in every country.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
No I haven’t because it’s quite complicated. Databases are very much a solved problem. Unfortunately, this architecture is going to be nigh impossible to hire for and when it goes absolutely sideways recovery will be difficult.
nephy
·2 năm trước·discuss
I’m honestly not sure what you are talking about. In my experience, Redis is super easy to run and manage in production.