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Cheaper than fixing bugs due to illegal key access.

Cheaper than get() masking bugs in your code or dict generation.

But yes let's prematurely optimise for speed in a slow-by-default language by writing bug prone non-idiomatic code. OK.

Do you get all your info exclusively from Wired headlines without reading articles?

Or you know, test if the key exists before using it. The key could exist and be None, representing a legitimate None at that key. Or the key might not exist and asking for it is a bug.

Use a defaultdict if you must have all keys optional. Using get() everywhere is buggy because it masks illegal key use.

I made lots of cash undoing the Indian outsourcing mess.

Ive also been deep in AI. Not only is AI inadequate for well engineered software, I think treating programming as a language translation task between spec and code boring. They're even worse for research, rabbit holes and bad lines of reasoning.

Im amazed people don't see how much smoke and mirrors even the frontier models and harnesses are using to mask the fact that they're reasonable sounding bullshit machines.

That sounds like my childhood and teen years. It feels so far away culturally. I miss the sub culture and counter culture.

Have you considered it isn't?

Save your "you're holding it wrong" if you're not going to suggest how to hold it.

Cult speak escape hatches are intellectually lazy.

Not really. I have the above and my partner has pots/mcas. They're nothing alike.

This is all true. My ADHD is hugely related to and impacted by diet. I also get headaches, brain fog, and all of the above if I eat gluten.

Bodies are fun.

Yes the whole bootcamp ring was a con job. Shame on them.

Not sure if the "Made in England" Dr Martens are Solovair made but they're the brand you want. Solovair continue to make good boots after DM moved production and whatnot to crap factories and methods.

Four MONTHS?!

Most of the dolts I interviewed in the UK had a 6 week bootcamp behind them and called themselves "JavaScript Experts". No joke.

I hope Hurd has its day. Maybe in 100 years or something.

Programming language evolution has always been the pursuit of abstractions that enable expressiveness and simplicity.

Your comment boils down to "I'm smart", which in the end, isn't terribly smart.

Having simplicity and expressiveness as a goal, and a general direction of achieving things through lazy means is at the heart of mathematics and engineering.

Celebrate laziness and a want for simplicity. True simplicity is hard, but worth going after even where it threatens the notion that you're the smartest person in the room.

I think you're right and it is sad to see. I think had they stuck to their guns, the language might not feel like it has lost the point.

You're being reductive. It isn't just one copy of the book. It is using the book to enable, in some part, value to be generated from it that goes in the pocket of a rent seeker (AI business) and not the author.

Inability. Inability to stay on topic.

You're at least an American. That checks out.

Way to prove their point.

Even if true, this kind of response is unhelpful and fosters dismissal of your point. This kind of attitude more broadly paints AI advocates as cultists because they refuse to engage beyond "you're doing it wrong".

How about give pointers on "doing it right?"

Right, and...?

Just because many things can do something doesn't negate a discussion about one of the things. Your point (which it barely is one) isn't really interesting or useful.

Turn off Fox news

Other than misplaced nihilism what's your point?

Recruiters are never your friend. Ever.

In the UK the government put up ANPR cameras to enforce a clean air zone.

People with electric saws love pulling them down.

They're only as permanent as their protection.

Nobody should be strong armed in to training models whose intention is replacing them.

Technology has become a societal torture device and AI is the largest power grab in history.

How dare humans be able to leverage their reasoning for a wage. To the machines I say!

I think intent, rather than target, is implied and important.

You should see the abuse my motorbike gets. Poor thing.

They also own a lot of the venue infrastructure across the industry such as catering, tour buses, security,...

They have leverage with venues they dont own and a monopoly across industry verticals.

Sickening situation for music.

I ride. No way in hell I'd ride in the US.

Not doing much to beat the accusations of circular dealing are they?

I suspect it was considered many times, but the sheer computation scale would make it feel like obscene brute force. It feels like the right shape but too wild to think about implementing.

I think as time went on, and hardware got better, it seemed more reasonable to actually think about a viable implementation of what I think was a widespread intuition anyone in ML had that everything's context is everything.

It just seemed like a theoretical thing until hardware caught up. Maybe. Perhaps I'm applying a retrospective excuse to why it took so long.

I have a rule for myself. If I think something is silly or stupid, I assume I don't understand it. I usually find I do not understand it, and it no longer seems silly when I do understand it.

In this case too, you think it is silly because you don't understand it. Your assumptions are wrong, making it seem silly.