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  • It do be like that

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  • Don't worry, cult membership is flexible.

  • AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst

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  • That's how it works. It has a fairly profound psychological effect on people where they can easily be convinced that it's beneficial, when the actual reality is that we have absolutely no evidence of that being the case. On the contrary, we have a growing body of evidence that it has a great deal of negative effects, like decreasing productivity, cognitive decline, widespread social issues arising from their use, and more.

    As to your point, they haven't actually fundamentally changed at all since the original transformer model paper was written in 2017. The only thing that has changed over time is the number of parameters and the datasets (that is, vacuuming up and stealing all content on the internet). But it does the same thing as it's always done, which is simply generate the next token by taking the token with the greatest probability across a probability distribution created from the combination of the tokens it's seen before. Note that this is simply a maximum, so if all of the tokens in the distribution have a low probability, it will still take the max, resulting in hallucinations, fabrications, illogical conclusions, and so forth. That has not, and quite simply cannot, change. You would need a fundamentally different technology for that, and quite frankly, one that exists purely in the realm of science fiction.

  • Biblically Accurate Java Class

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  • Not sure what you're trying to say. Are you saying this is a good thing?

  • YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox

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  • Because people want to be free from being bombarded by AI slop.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • Are you actually arguing that the US should take Greenland? What in the actual fuck?

  • found a linuxbro out in the wild

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  • What are you talking about? What citations?

  • F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email

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  • What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?

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  • I certainly wouldn't call that "well-traveled" and bragging is kinda dumb in general, but it is worth pointing out that the US does have a huge diversity of different cultures, demographics, and environs in different states (so much so that they can often feel like different countries), so it's perhaps not as quaint as it sounds. It's not like traveling within a European country. Much closer to traveling within the EU.

    Still would never call that being "well-traveled", though.

  • The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It - Daniel Beskin's Blog

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  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • Nulls are absolutely pervasive in Java and NPEs are not avoidable. At minimum, most of the ecosystem uses nulls, so most any library will have nulls as part of its interface. Null is an inhabitant of every type in Java (even Optional, ironically). You cannot escape it. It's a fundamental flaw in the design of the language.

    Btw, you also can't escape it in Typescript, either, due to unsoundness of the type system and the fact that many types for libraries are bolted on to the original JS implementation and may possibly be inaccurate. But still, it's a lot less likely than Java.

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • Why are you talking about functional programming? Python sure as hell isn't FP.

  • It's really not that hard!

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  • Setting aside the fact that that is not even remotely true, do you think Linux = Red Hat? What about almost every other distro being run by volunteeers?

    I've only ever seen redhat used by government and some corporations. As far as the broader community goes (especially the foss community), they are a pretty minor player.

    It's honestly insane that you can sit there and shill for Microsoft these days. They've always been pretty evil, but now they've gone so far off the deep end they're even driving away people who have been all-in on Microsoft their whole lives. Even non-tech people are getting simply fed up with all of the spying and intrusive, AI-infested bullshit. Linux marketshare has been steadily increasing over the last couple of years, and it doesn't look like it's slowing down anytime soon. And all of it is, ultimately, because Windows is forcing people away.

  • oof

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  • Eh, git is never really that fucked. If you understand how it works, it's generally not hard to get back to a state you want (assuming everything has been committed at some point, ofc).

    I would much rather people try to spend some time trying to understand and solve a problem first. I had a "senior" engineer who would message me literally every morning about whatever issue he was facing and it drove me absolutely nuts. Couldn't do anything for himself. Unsurprisingly, he was recently laid off.

    My time should be respected.

  • self-report

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  • vim is definitely cooler than neovim.

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    cat posttitle.txt | grep meme

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  • cat file.txt | grep foo is unnecessary and a bit less efficient, because you can do grep foo file.txt instead. More generally, using cat into a pipe is less efficient than redirecting the file into stdin with <, like grep foo < file.txt.

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  • I mean, among people that use terminals, it's very normal. Commonplace, even.

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  • Because that's a perfectly normal and reasonable thing to do?

  • When you have to checkout the master branch

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  • Wtf are you talking about? It doesn't have a fucked up name origin at all. It was named "master" as in "master recording", like in music production. Proof: https://x.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577.

    Master/slave concepts were never a thing in git. The whole renaming thing was really fucking stupid. Caused plenty of breakage of scripts and tools for absolutely no good reason whatsoever.

  • Libxml2 Becomes Officially Unmaintained After Maintainer Steps Down

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  • It's great for non-HTML markup, like https://hyperview.org/.

    A lot of the hate is undeserved. It has had awful paradigms built around it (like SOAP), but that doesn't make XML inherently bad by any means.