bertylicious

Alright then, if you absolutely must have a society were people get paid 10M a year, then let's agree to pay all cleaning staff, hospital staff, garbage collectors etc etc 10M and the rest gets enough to live a decent life. How about that?

There just aren't that many countries that ever claimed to be communist.

You speak like a privileged person, so you're probably born somewhere in the western world. Judging from the current time, I'd say Europe. My guess is your parents left socialist (i.e. not communist) Eastern Germany when you were little and you keep telling people that this was your great escape from communism ever since.

It's not distracting, it's an important detail underlining the ridiculousness of this decision.

Maybe it's just me, but I think innovation awards are for people with scientific mindsets. Jobs obviously didn't have one.

What exactly did he invent though?

Disclaimer: I wholeheartedly hate all the systems they call AI these days and I hate the culture around it for technological, ecological, political, and philosophical reasons.

I won't future-proof my career against LLMs at all. If I ever see myself in the position that I must use them to produce or adjust code, or that I mostly read and fix LLM-generated code, then I'll leave the industry and do something else.

I see potential in them to simplify code search/navigation or to even replace stackoverflow, but I refuse to use them to build entire apps. If management in turn believes that I'm not productive enough anymore then so be it.

I expect that lots of product owners and business people will be using them in order to quickly cobble something together and then hand it over to a dev for "polishing". And this sounds like a total nightmare to me. The way I see it, devs make this dystopian nightmare a little bit more true everytime they use an LLM to generate code.

I'm very much impressed with this. I have never seen a programming language that allowed me to de/serialize functions. Let alone calculate the inverse of a function. If you're saying one or more languages with these features already exist then I'm very interested in names, links or references.

This depends a lot on what an eval step actually is. Could you give us an example or a reference to compare it to?

Seems like people down-voted you for this "outrageous" opinion, but I agree. The people that do all the important work in our society (nurses, garbage collectors, cleaners, customer support, etc.) should get the highest income.

The idea itself is so regressive and shaming, I don't find it surprising at all that the political right is drawn to it.

I made the same mistake once. The only thing that helped against this burning sensation was washing my hands with benzine cleaning solvent. I reckon Schnaps would also have helped.

Yes, I'm familiar with latex. That's why I was asking.

Using an LLM to reformat/restructure your matrix data makes sense to me and this was the missing detail from your original post.

I would be too paranoid about hallucinations and opt for a script still, but that might just be personal preference.

Do you mind revealing the name of your "financial servic application" so we can stay clear of it?

How do you generate "all the latex" in a latex document with "natural language"? What specifically did you generate? The whole research paper? What "boilerplate" are you talking about?

This is what Horkheimer and Adorno called "instrumental reason" ("instrumentelle Vernunft").

What do you mean not available? It's the same vaccine for men and women AFAIK. Or do you mean it's usually not paid for by health insurance? I (male) don't remember if I had to pay for the vaccine myself when I got vaccinated, which to me indicates that it wasn't that expensive.

I wanted to see how it looks and what exactly it does without reading too much. Since you're offering a free trial I went for that. It was annoying that I had to create an account first, but I can see how that might be necessary. But now the page is asking me to pay even though I just want the trial you advertised? That's just sketchy. Other obstacles: no PayPal. Maybe this app really is just a wrapper around an LLM chat and that's why you're not showing it?

Edit: I can't even delete my account? This app seems just super sketchy now. My impression is that it's either a scam or build by someone lacking the necessary experience and skills.

> I very strongly suspect that my non-verbal (performal) IQ is much higher (around 130) than my verbal IQ (around 100).

I very strongly suspect that you're overestimating yourself.

> A better way to implement CQRS is to separate commands/queries from their handlers and utilize an in-process messaging service to dispatch the command/query objects to their respective handlers.

I hate this pattern from the very bottom of my heart. Now I cannot simply follow the call of a function with the help of my IDE anymore, no, I'll have to awkwardly search for a handler that processes the query/command in question. Figuring out what a specific API endpoint actually does in such an architecture is a cruel nightmare of indirection and boilerplate. And all that because some overambitious dev desperately wanted to build a "high-level task execution pipeline" for the joy of it...

I really recommend doing the "Build your own git" challenge on CodeCrafters in order to gain a deep understanding of git internals.

https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/git/overview

> freedom produces more wealth than totalitarianism - which the US won

> The problem with China is that the argument is much harder to win

> What gets me is that this is not something to win on the battlefield

Authoritarian state capitalism already won this fight. Everybody is realizing that the marriage between liberal democracy and bourgeois capitalism is coming to an end.

For Western societies, the only remaining ways to assert dominance are 1) war & violence, 2) becoming more authoritarian themselves, or 3) a radically new way Western societies organize production and the distribution of wealth.

Banksy doesn't really exist and all his paintings are actually an elaborate marketing campaign we don't understand yet.

The title very much sounds like clickbait even if the article didn't turn out to be.

I don't agree. One can easily imagine how the "a bool for every edge case" approach won't scale for long when extending an existing code base. Regardless if the language or IDE makes you see the names of the booleans or not. I think the author's point is not so much about the names but about abstraction and concepts. Slapping another bool parameter onto a function and bifurcating its behavior with an `if` is easy to do, but hard to refactor once this has been done a couple times to that function.

That's exactly the kind of thing I always hated about .net -- how the absence of a REPL forces me to create an executable for even the tiniest things. LINQPad solves this beautifully. Not sure if index ranges are inclusive or exclusive? Open LINQPad, double-click tab bar to open a new tab, type `"0123"[..^2]`, press ALT+X, done. I'd never go through the hassle to create an executable with VS for that, so instead I have to look up the documentation which is much more boring. And what's even better: countless times I was wondering what happens inside the framework and because LINQPad comes with ILSpy (I believe so, maybe you'll have to set it up) you can just F12 a framework method to see its source.

> If we come into contact with a significantly advanced life form it would certainly lead to ineffable destruction.

This is such a very human thing to say. Why are you humans always projecting your own insecurities onto others like that? We've been among you for millennia now and the only ones destroying your species are you yourselves.

"Async void methods will crash the process if an exception is thrown"

This is news to me. AFAIK one of the problems is that exceptions in that method will go unnoticed because they never reach the root thread when they occur. They might only become visible, wrapped in an UnobservedTaskException, when the process shuts down.

Edit: Maybe the author meant that the unhandled exception will cause an invalid system state and thus cause other exceptions? Or maybe I'm just completely wrong here.

Edited: wrong parent

I reckon there were a lot more "firsts" involved in Apollo 11 or the JWT mission.

You don't even realize how objectifying your wording is, do you?

How do you mean? Do you mean source code? What's vague about that?