Deestan

@ Deestan @lemmy.world

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23h ago

My mom says that people who don't have "value" don't deserve to live and that "depression" is just an excuse for laziness. What's is your rebuttal for it?
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Deestan @lemmy.world 23h ago
I think you are looking for people to say your mom is a bitch.
She very likely didn't say that in those words. If your intent was to understand her better in order to come up with counterarguments, you should not strawman whatever she said into oblivion.

1d ago

How I Left YouTube

It's baffling how people in the US accept and even adopt the language of NDAs being trade secrets. They aren't. It's a weapon to make it harder for people to leave.

2d ago

Who is an artist or public figure you still enjoy despite them being cancelled for bad behaviour?

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Deestan @lemmy.world 2d ago

Yeah people can complain Torvalds was rude all day, but fuck me if the people he yelled at couldn't be aggressively disrespectful in bringing half-assed work to the table and doing damage or at best wasting other's people time.

2d ago

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

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Deestan @lemmy.world 2d ago

TBH he probably knows he is lying, but is making confusing claims in order to push some other agenda.

Probably firing core people to save money while maintaining plausiblish deniability that this won't do irrepairable damage.

Or just to get himself approval for amassing subordinates for a little kingdom, by displaying an ambitious "plan".

2d ago

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

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Deestan @lemmy.world 2d ago

The expensive autocomplete can't do this.

AI markering all wants us to believe that spoon technology is this close to space flight. We just need to engrave the spoons better. And gold plate them thicker.

Dude who wrote that doesn't understand how LLMs work, how Rust works, how C works, and clearly jack shit about programming in general.

Rewriting from one paradigm to another isn't something you can delegate to a million monkeys shitting into typewriters. The core and time-consuming part of the work itself requires skilled architectural coding.

3d ago

Oh ye of little faith

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Deestan @lemmy.world 3d ago

Um actually this is a possible result of the Boltzmann effect. I did not read the theory properly but I am verysmart and anything that makes me feel superior is basically correct.

3d ago

How much are you willing to inconvenience yourself to save money?

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Deestan @lemmy.world 3d ago

One time i eight'd to save money.

3d ago

How much are you willing to inconvenience yourself to save money?

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Deestan @lemmy.world 3d ago

Eight

4d ago

Building a PC

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Deestan @lemmy.world 4d ago

If it was possible I surely would have for my last two computers. At least mine came with nubs and corners that enforced one orientation.

4d ago

AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

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Deestan @lemmy.world 4d ago

Yeah what you say makes sense to me. Having it make a "wrong start" in something new is useful, as it gives you a lot of the typical structure, introduces the terminology, maybe something sorta moving that you can see working before messing with it, etc.

4d ago

Building a PC

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Deestan @lemmy.world 4d ago

One time it worked to quickly turn off and pull out the smoking chip (cpu cache extender) flip it 180 degrees and try again. No apparent permanent damage.

4d ago

AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

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Deestan @lemmy.world 4d ago

This was a very directed experiment at purely LLM written maintainable code.

Writing experiments and proof of concepts, even without skill, will give a different calculation and can make more sense.

Having it write a "starting point" and then take over, also is a different thing that can make more sense. This requires a coder with skill, you can't skip that.

4d ago

AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

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Deestan @lemmy.world 4d ago

I've been coding for a while. I did an honest eager attempt at making a real functioning thing with all code written by AI. A breakout clone using SDL2 with music.

The game should look good, play good, have cool effects, and be balanced. It should have an attractor screen, scoring, a win state and a lose state.

I also required the code to be maintainable. Meaning I should be able to look at every single line and understand it enough to defend its existence.

I did make it work. And honestly Claude did better than expected. The game ran well and was fun.

But: The process was shit.

I spent 2 days and several hundred dollars to babysit the AI, to get something I could have done in 1 day including learning SDL2.

Everything that turned out well, turned out well because I brought years of skill to the table, and could see when Claude was coding itself into a corner and tell it to break up code in modules, collate globals, remove duplication, pull out abstractions, etc. I had to detect all that and instruct on how to fix it. Until I did it was adding and re-adding bugs because it had made so much shittily structured code it was confusing itself.

TLDR; LLM can write maintainable code if given full constant attention by a skilled coder, at 40% of the coder's speed.

4d ago

Building a PC

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Deestan @lemmy.world 4d ago

There was a glorious time in the 90s when PC building had enough stuff going on and not yet enough safeguards that I could actually put things in wrong and start a small fire.