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  • [TestFlight Update] Mlem TestFlight Patch Notes 2025-09-13

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  • Is there a chance we could get an option for collapsing the bottom bar to a single icon in the left corner on scroll, similar to e.g. what Music and Podcasts do? :)

  • Wolf in sheeps clothing

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  • My goodness. What is your point? Don't bother trying to help the Palestinian people if you don't say exactly the right things? You think he'd have an easier time getting support for the bill if he used the word genocide?

    It must be nice to live a life of such luxury that you can care more about the phrasing than the actions.

  • OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’

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  • It literally says 5 in the screenshot but ok

  • Would you let Officer Jenny domestic abuse you?

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  • Like most of Europe for example.

    Well, only if you exclude its most populated country Germany..

  • C is one of the most energy saving language

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  • Yeah sure, you found the one notorious TypeScript feature that actually emits code, but a) this feature is recommended against and not used much to my knowledge and, more importantly, b) you cannot tell me that you genuinely believe the use of TypeScript enums – which generate extra function calls for a very limited number of operations – will 5x the energy consumption of the entire program.

  • C is one of the most energy saving language

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  • Only if you choose a lower language level as the target. Given these results I suspect the researchers had it output JS for something like ES5, meaning a bunch of polyfills for old browsers that they didn't include in the JS-native implementation..

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    An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate

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  • I'm an empirical researcher in software engineering and all of the points you're making are being supported by recent papers on SE and/or education. We are also seeing a strong shift in behavior of our students and a lack of ability to explain or justify their "own" work

  • Kritik an Grüne-Jugend-Vorsitzender Nietzard wegen "ACAB"-Sweatshirt

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  • more like MCETAPB (most cops enable, tolerate and protect bastards)

  • people keep talking about how "em dashes" are evidence of ai. i use them all the time. am i a computer now?

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  • At least on a Mac keyboard, the en dash is also alt+hyphen and the em dash is shift+alt+hyphen.

  • Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary)

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  • Even worse, the pilots and the airlines didn't even know the sensor or associated software control existed and could do that.

  • Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

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  • let's see if we can find supporting information on this answer elsewhere or, maybe ask the same question a different way to see if the new answer(s) seem to line up

    Yeah, that's probably the best way to go about it, but still requires some foundational knowledge on your part. For example, in a recent study I worked on we found that programming students struggle hard when the LLM output is wrong and they don't know enough to understand why. They then tend to trust the LLM anyways and end up prompting variations of the same thing over and over again to no avail. Other studies similarly found that while good students can work faster with AI, many others are actually worse off due to being misled.

    I still see them largely as black boxes

    The crazy part is that they are, even for the researchers that came up with them. Sure we can understand how the data flows from input to output, but realistically not a single person in the world could look at all of the weights in an LLM and tell you what it has learned. Basically everything we know about their capabilities on tasks is based on just trying it out and seeing how well it works. Hell, even "prompt engineers" are making a lot of their decisions based on vibes only.

  • Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

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  • I don't know if it's just my age/experience or some kind of innate "horse sense" But I tend to do alright with detecting shit responses, whether they be human trolls or an LLM that is lying through its virtual teeth

    I'm not sure how you would do that if you are asking about something you don't have expertise in yet, as it takes the exact same authoritative tone no matter whether the information is real.

    Perhaps with a reasonable prompt an LLM can be more honest about when it's hallucinating?

    So far, research suggests this is not possible (unsurprisingly, given the nature of LLMs). Introspective outputs, such as certainty or justifications for decisions, do not map closely to the LLM's actual internal state.

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  • kind've

    Ok not to be nitpicky but this is the first time I've ever seen the opposite (complementary?) mistake to "could of". That's actually kinda fun :D

  • Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch

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  • Well, I'm generally very anti-LLM but as a library author in Java it has been very helpful to create lots of similar overloads/methods for different types and filling in the corresponding documentation comments. I've already done all the thinking and I just need to check that the overload makes the right call or does the same thing that the other ones do – in that particular case, it's faster. But if I myself don't know yet how I'm going to do something, I would never trust an AI to tell me.

  • What's the point in getting married?

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  • (structuring inheritance) before the Jesus Club took over

    and then it took humanity another 2000 years to move away from inheritance in favor of composition. you'd think someone would've realized sooner that it's not always the right abstraction...

  • What would you like to be when you grow up?

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  • Language designer for a widely used programming language. Basically I want to be Brian Goetz

  • Most programmers just google it anyway

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  • What do you think the point of this post is, then? Comedic hyperbole only works if there is still some truth to it

  • Most programmers just google it anyway

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  • is everyone here a complete beginner? how do so many people relate to this? as soon as you need to do anything halfway interesting the thing just confidently spews nonsense.

  • Apple refuses to break encryption, seeks reversal of UK demand for backdoor - Ars Technica

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  • ? the feature is still available in the US