JCTheDenthog

In JetBrains I limit AI suggestions to just the rest of the line I'm currently writing, tends to work a lot better for me. I also use the older ML models.

I agree completely, and I think most debates/arguments around simulation theory and similar ideas are largely pointless, though they can at least be fun sometimes.

>If you are in a sim, then the sim execution is an expensive process, it produces heat and consumes energy.

If simulation theory (or similar ideas) are real, it's entirely possible that the "real world" running the simulation operates on completely different physical laws than the simulation.

>I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work.

Got any examples you can share?

I mean, that does sound pretty crazy. Specific wars are often ill-advised or largely pointless, but "stop doing war" presupposes that all other countries in the world will also "stop doing war", otherwise what you're suggesting is just unilateral surrender under the guise of stopping war.

Only in certain fucked up moral systems. Though I guess Confucianism would be one of those:

>The Duke of She said to Confucius, “Among my people there is one we call ‘Upright Gong.’ When his father stole a sheep, he reported him to the authorities.”

>Confucius replied, “Among my people, those who we consider ‘upright’ are different from this: fathers cover up for their sons, and sons cover up for their fathers. ‘Uprightness’ is to be found in this.”

-from the Confucian Analects

Purely rumor, but supposedly Valve put tons of pressure on them (no idea by what means, again this is all rumor) because they wanted support for the Steam Machine release.

Those are all for security vulnerabilities, OP is talking about bugs with functionality.

>the latter is obviously subject to prompt engineering, hallucination, etc -- but so can a human pipeline!

...which is why we write deterministic code to take the human out of the pipeline. One of the early uses of computers was calculating firing tables for artillery, to replace teams of humans that were doing the calculations by hand (and usually with multiple humans performing each calculation to catch errors). If early computers had a 99% chance of hallucinating the wrong answer to an artillery firing table, the response from the governments and militaries that used them would not be to keep using computers to calculate them. It would be to go back to having humans do it with lots of manual verification steps and duplicated work to be sure of the results.

If you're trying to make LLMs (a vague simulacrum of humans) with their inherent and unsolvable[1] hallucination problems replace deterministic systems, people are going to eventually decide to return to the tried and true deterministic systems.

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

Because it's a huge pain in the ass to get set up (and requires paying Microsoft and providing them with all sorts of personal information). After initial setup it's not too bad, we have a few signed apps at my current employer.

"A well-balanced breakfast, being necessary to the health of a free State, the right of the people to keep and use Toasters, shall not be infringed."

Who has the right to keep and use toasters? The people, or the well-balanced breakfast?

>who enjoy the absurd fiction that a lower receiver is a firearm and the entire assembly they attach on top of it is just "gun parts"

It's the ATF and congressional Democrats (who are very much not "gun rights advocates") who created that "absurd fiction".

>everything gets a warning until the app has some minimum count of installs

Unless the devs sign their app

The Steam userbase would appear to disagree, with the recent reviews being mostly negative reviews (and the user reviews for Overwatch have hovered between mixed and negative for years now). And this doesn't appear to be from review bombing by some specific subset of players, the language breakdown shows reviews ranging from mixed to negative in all major language groups (English, Russian, Chinese, etc.).

No one forced them to migrate GitHub to switch to React. And the atrocious sleep bug in Actions long predates the AI gold rush.

>What's a bigger joke is Microsoft has Azure DevOps which looks like it might be abandoned?

My favorite was trying to figure out how to publish debug symbols with NuGet packages to Azure DevOps artifact feeds. Horrible documentation and I was never able to get it figured out.

>And "leared" -- the (unintentional?) pun made me click.

I assume it's a reference to the "Quality Learing Center" in Minnesota, one of the questionable daycares at the center of the alleged Somali daycare fraud scandal. Ever since some of the expose videos about it came out it's become a meme to say "lear" instead of "learn".

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And it's taxpayer funded, to boot. I definitely wouldn't be happy as an Austrian if I knew my taxes were going to something like this (meanwhile hobbyists elsewhere do projects like this on their own dime).

>Narrower 4x5 and 3x5 dimensions are possible, but would require sacrificing the M, dotted zero, and reduce U/V/Y distinctiveness.

I think 3x5 works well enough:

https://robey.lag.net/2010/01/23/tiny-monospace-font.html

A year or two ago I had a cashier ring up my zucchini as cucumbers because he apparently couldn't tell the difference. Young guy, looked barely 18. I have no idea if he overcharged or undercharged me as a result, but I didn't care enough to point it out because he seemed like the type who would have needed 20 minutes to figure out how to change it (or would have needed to call down a manager for help) and I didn't want to waste any more of my time (or his).

Because Mozilla is wasting money on something other than their core product, once again.

The maker of that documentary was a massive alcoholic, that's what caused his liver problems, not eating McDonald's.

Also the recentish addition of multiple line string literals makes dealing with Postgres's case sensitivity a lot easier to manage.

Depends on what you mean by ecosystem, it hasn't been trapped on Windows for about a decade now. The variety of third party libraries available is quite good, while the standard library is robust enough that you don't need NPM nonsense like LeftPad and IsEven and IsNumber.

Are there particular things about the ecosystem that you worry about (or have heard about)? Biggest complaint I would have is that it seems like many popular open source libraries in the .NET ecosystem decide to go closed source and commercial once they get popular enough.

Definitely not for all companies let alone all positions.

I would buy this argument if the Play Store wasn't already full of garbage and viruses and scams.

My favorite was when Google revealed Project Genie a month ago (which lets you generate video game worlds with AI, basically) and stocks for game companies immediately dropped. Anyone familiar with games and gaming knows that what Project Genie offers (essentially empty worlds with minimal interactivity that you can just kind of wander around in, and they struggle with simple things like object permanence if you look away) knows that this isn't real competition for actual games, but the markets reacted anyways.

By that logic Toyota should be liable if someone uses a Tacoma to ram a crowd.

Even the lowest estimates (the National Crime Victimization Survey) estimates annual defensive gun uses in the US at 60-80k per year. Highest estimates are at around 2 million.

But even then, most usage is at ranges, and far outstrips crime usage.