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To be clear, I’m not anti-AI. [...] If you want to autocomplete [...] But if you want to use FOSS trusted tools like Zed, OpenCode, Pi, Nanocoder, etc. [...]
isn't he just contrasting 2 use cases of LLMs?
I find this hard to parse, maybe because English is not my first language. Do senior SWEs provide more value than they provide principles, or do they provide more value than principles do?
Perlis's 10th epigram feels germane:
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
> they'd evolve so completely that you'd become a different person anyway.
How is that a bad thing?
The point isn't that it's bad, but that it's equivalent to dying and then someone else taking your place. So if it's OK for your character to change fundametally over the span of your life, then it must also be OK for you to die at some point and yield the stage to the next generation.
There are some semantic debates going on in this thread about the term "bullshit". But there is a clear definition. The paper Stallman links to uses bullshit in the Frankfurtian sense, that is, talk without care for the truth:
The liar, Frankfurt holds, knows and cares about the truth, but deliberately sets out to mislead instead of telling the truth. The "bullshitter", on the other hand, does not care about the truth and is only seeking "to manipulate the opinions and the attitudes of those to whom they speak"[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Harry_Frankfurt's_con...
why not both?
So the thing about disneyland with the death penalty that attracts you is the death penalty? Geez...
Is it so bad to stick with a product that works? I use a Cherry KC200 MX specifically because it is a simple office keyboard.
Presumably the LLM also wrote the blog post. At least, it generated a file named OCAML_DWARF_BLOG_POST.md: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/files#diff-bc37d03...
More like 3.5 years, right? December 2021 through May 2025.
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It's a bit more than that.
We'll implement basic context switching, paging, user mode, a command-line shell, a disk device driver, and file read/write operations in C.
Is that an innovation of Mahayana or Vajrayana Buddhism? I've only read Theravada texts, and in those, good and bad Karma are clearly differentiated. Attaining a pleasant rebirth is considered a wholesome pursuit that the teachings of the Buddha are supposed to help you with, though it is considered a lower pursuit than attaining Nirvana (the hierarchy is pleasant current life < pleasant rebirth < Nirvana, and the Dhamma claims to be the supreme authority on all 3).
When the col is seven, there are a lot of diagonals going from top right to bottom left. When col is five, from top left to bottom right. Are runs of consecutive sexy primes also this frequent for larger numbers, or does that pattern break down at some point?
Quoted in the well-tempered plot device:
Our relationship / is beautiful / because / it is ours / because / it relates / to us.
Indistinguishable from Rupi Kaur. There is nothing new under the sun.
Maybe this is cope, maybe it's my dislike of modern fantasy, a genre that keeps repeating the same narrative elements to get the same reactions out of the reader, but I found the stories kinda bland, and to me they all seemed like something ChatGPT could have written on a good day. Compare them to Behm-Steinberg's Taylor Swift [0], which has a far more interesting premise, significant character development, and good style (to be fair, story number 6 also has relatively good style). Or to Samatar's The Huntress [1], a poetic piece of flash fiction that is willing to leave much more ambiguity and really shows what's possible in terms of style.
[1] https://tinhouse.com/the-huntress/ [0] https://gulfcoastmag.org/stories/2015-barthelme-prize-winner...
Is "degenerate" the word that comes to your mind when reading about the Levine family's game night?
Great stuff. Growing up, I played both chess an poker seriously. Chess mostly in person: in a club, at tournaments and league matches. Poker mostly online, for real money (age verification wasn't taken very seriously at the time). Though I've spent more time on chess in total, poker has had a bigger impact on my outlook on life. It constantly confronts you with your own cognitive biases and teaches you how to deal with uncertainty and variance, two very important things people by default kinda suck at.
"Wie man mit Fundamentalisten diskutiert, ohne den Verstand zu verlieren: Anleitung zum subversiven Denken", by Hubert Schleichert
Impressive project, and I always love reading about the communities that form around competitive games.
It feels kind of sad to admit as a chess player, but "Najdork variation" is one of the funniest typos I've seen.
Why are speech pathologists more often injured or ill than ambulance drivers, police officers and freight agents? That does not at all match my idea of that line of work.
Current opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who will probably win the snap elections in February, has even before the court ordered the warrant called for Germany not to obey it. But of course, it's easier to take strong stances when you're not part of that government that has to act on them yet. We'll see.
The original by Bent Larsen is "Long variation, wrong variation"
idlewords mentioned some good ones. While English doesn't have many moods, it still has relatively many verb forms (just take a look at past tenses: I ate, I've eaten, I had eaten, I was eating, I have been eating, I had been eating...). In most contexts, only one of them is idiomatic, and knowing which one takes a lot of studying. Also, English has a fixed order for adjectives [1]. AFAIK, this is unusual cross-linguistically - at least in my native language, "big red ball" and "red big ball" would both be idiomatic. If you're really curious, you can take a look at the contents of an English grammar for advanced learners. What gets a lot of chapters, probably trips up a lot of learners. [2]
[1] https://www.espressoenglish.net/order-of-adjectives-in-engli... [2] https://assets.cambridge.org/97811076/99892/frontmatter/9781...
And Vietnamese is still one of the luckier languages out there, having a nation state behind it with all the media that comes along with it. A large majority of the world's languages don't even have that.
Thanks, that was a great read and resonates a lot with me. Looking back, most of my learning new languages, getting in shape, playing the guitar, and making new friends was structured procrastination.
This whole discussion is about double standards.
Hypothetically, if all a programmer did was, once a quarter, come in in person to maintain some piece of software that created $300k of value per year for the company, is that a problem for you?
Would it though? Presumably a finance company's claw back clause is there to protect it from you taking its trade secrets with you to its competitors, not from you tweeting "looks trashy lol" in response to a product launch of theirs, or you mentioning to a friend that your old boss was kind of a dick.
Today, King Min is more commonly known as Menes, an upper Egyptian King who ushered in 3000 years of dynastic Pharaonic history by conquering the Nile Delta and thus uniting for the first time all of Egypt. He was as ancient to Herodotus as Herodotus is to us today (2500 years each). It is humbling just how deep Egyptian history goes.
Is it the Aurora or is it the Eurovision finals? We may never know...