I suspect my oldest memory, of me getting into a booster car seat as a child, is no longer the actual memory, but the accumulated imaginings of me trying to remember that specific memory, masquerading as a memory.
An MQ-9 has roughly the same wingspan as an A-10 - they're not small birds. An MQ-9 needs to have a good sensor ball, ideally with both color and IR, gps jamming resistance, weapons integration with multiple types of…
Honestly software that gets a bunch of updates often gets more brittle and problematic over time, like how a person accumulates illnesses over time. Though I guess a software project or software team usually does get…
True - the biggest thing I want to catch in an MR is "will this change lead us onto a path that is uglier, buggier, less maintenanable". People will generally copy and follow existing patterns, so for example if you let…
Yeah, it's a bit of an awkward article. Just compare the paragraph headers to the paragraph contents - "Why a hex grid" and then the paragraph doesn't talk about hex grids. AI stylisms are not necessarily bad - short,…
Yeah my take is they wanted a language more resilient to slop-cannon code. Last I looked they had 900kLOC of Rust just after the Rust PR - I have no doubt there's a lot of garbage in those LOC, and Rust gives more…
>There is no meaningful way of distinguishing features from bugs. From a user perspective, a bug is when behavior deviates from reasonable expected behavior. From a dev perspective, a bug is when the code actions…
A common combo for this is (was?) C and Lua. Lua is intended to be a embedded language, so good for Interop, but also also high level and easy to use. There's a reason why Factorio uses Lua as it's scripting level…
Yeah, I think one issue is that AI fundamentally dgaf about you and your code base. They don't have a salary on the line, and from their perspective it's not some project they super care about. I think they're happy to…
Hah, I was just thinking that Python likely has a vast ocean of training data, but it's likely of lower quality, being much of it is written by beginners and those who aren't primarily programmers.
Ok, they're saying "let the job choose the correct tools and have that be the stack, don't have a stack and fit it into working for the job". Which to me sounds more reasonable than what I thought they were saying.
Apparently there have been IRGC and basij curfew patrols shooting at buildings / windows of people who sing or shout anti regime songs and slogans. Apparently they are also (at least in some cases) dressing as women to…
Yes I had the same thought. Imo brutalism is monolithic and unyielding. This is opposite, with the sturdy concrete yielding into plant overgrowth and exposed rebar.
I hear this a lot from a lot of my coworkers who like Java Spring - they trust Spring to do things right, more than themselves. On the other hand, I hate Java Spring because I feel like I don't trust it - it doesn't let…
> When it was carried out the invading force was defeated by unexpected resources and resourcefulness from the Iranian side, not entirely unlike what Iran has done during our invasion. Are you saying that Iran is…
If a scientist is doing more work to secure grants than doing science (my understanding is that this is very common), trying to justify their own existence, then I wouldn't be surprised that results get skewed towards…
To add to what the central city budget problem is - each new piece of street and road in LA has, on average, not paid for itself in terms of increased revenue from taxes or otherwise. So for each new street widening,…
I was bored and tried playing FF14 about a year ago. You need to do the usual download a launcher to download the game, fine. It asks you to log in before it'll download, fine. It crashes ~10% of the way through…
Tldr: Poland shot down Russian drones that entered polish airspace. Not the first time they've entered, but first time they've been shot down by Poland. I wouldn't be surprised if it is deliberate by Russia. Gray zone…
> When researchers attempt(opens a new tab) to recover [something like] a coherent computational representation of an Othello game board they instead find [bags of heuristics] Humans don't exactly have a full…
I really like the phone/desktop convergence concept. Mostly I think because I want the freedom / open experience of my desktop on my phone though, I think. But I think most folks interested enough in the concept are…
True that's a good point - if publishers were OK with micro purchases for their articles, we'd see some publishers try that out. Nothing's stopping the NYT and similar from trying a "pay as you go model". The fact that…
I use my USB-C port to listen to my wired headphones all the time, no problem. Phone jack is now redundant now that USB-C can output audio
Good point in the post about confidence - most people equate confidence with accuracy - and since AIs always sound confident, they always sound correct
Strange - I would expect a workplace that doesn't allow mics to also disallow bluetooth
I suspect my oldest memory, of me getting into a booster car seat as a child, is no longer the actual memory, but the accumulated imaginings of me trying to remember that specific memory, masquerading as a memory.
An MQ-9 has roughly the same wingspan as an A-10 - they're not small birds. An MQ-9 needs to have a good sensor ball, ideally with both color and IR, gps jamming resistance, weapons integration with multiple types of…
Honestly software that gets a bunch of updates often gets more brittle and problematic over time, like how a person accumulates illnesses over time. Though I guess a software project or software team usually does get…
True - the biggest thing I want to catch in an MR is "will this change lead us onto a path that is uglier, buggier, less maintenanable". People will generally copy and follow existing patterns, so for example if you let…
Yeah, it's a bit of an awkward article. Just compare the paragraph headers to the paragraph contents - "Why a hex grid" and then the paragraph doesn't talk about hex grids. AI stylisms are not necessarily bad - short,…
Yeah my take is they wanted a language more resilient to slop-cannon code. Last I looked they had 900kLOC of Rust just after the Rust PR - I have no doubt there's a lot of garbage in those LOC, and Rust gives more…
>There is no meaningful way of distinguishing features from bugs. From a user perspective, a bug is when behavior deviates from reasonable expected behavior. From a dev perspective, a bug is when the code actions…
A common combo for this is (was?) C and Lua. Lua is intended to be a embedded language, so good for Interop, but also also high level and easy to use. There's a reason why Factorio uses Lua as it's scripting level…
Yeah, I think one issue is that AI fundamentally dgaf about you and your code base. They don't have a salary on the line, and from their perspective it's not some project they super care about. I think they're happy to…
Hah, I was just thinking that Python likely has a vast ocean of training data, but it's likely of lower quality, being much of it is written by beginners and those who aren't primarily programmers.
Ok, they're saying "let the job choose the correct tools and have that be the stack, don't have a stack and fit it into working for the job". Which to me sounds more reasonable than what I thought they were saying.
Apparently there have been IRGC and basij curfew patrols shooting at buildings / windows of people who sing or shout anti regime songs and slogans. Apparently they are also (at least in some cases) dressing as women to…
Yes I had the same thought. Imo brutalism is monolithic and unyielding. This is opposite, with the sturdy concrete yielding into plant overgrowth and exposed rebar.
I hear this a lot from a lot of my coworkers who like Java Spring - they trust Spring to do things right, more than themselves. On the other hand, I hate Java Spring because I feel like I don't trust it - it doesn't let…
> When it was carried out the invading force was defeated by unexpected resources and resourcefulness from the Iranian side, not entirely unlike what Iran has done during our invasion. Are you saying that Iran is…
If a scientist is doing more work to secure grants than doing science (my understanding is that this is very common), trying to justify their own existence, then I wouldn't be surprised that results get skewed towards…
To add to what the central city budget problem is - each new piece of street and road in LA has, on average, not paid for itself in terms of increased revenue from taxes or otherwise. So for each new street widening,…
I was bored and tried playing FF14 about a year ago. You need to do the usual download a launcher to download the game, fine. It asks you to log in before it'll download, fine. It crashes ~10% of the way through…
Tldr: Poland shot down Russian drones that entered polish airspace. Not the first time they've entered, but first time they've been shot down by Poland. I wouldn't be surprised if it is deliberate by Russia. Gray zone…
> When researchers attempt(opens a new tab) to recover [something like] a coherent computational representation of an Othello game board they instead find [bags of heuristics] Humans don't exactly have a full…
I really like the phone/desktop convergence concept. Mostly I think because I want the freedom / open experience of my desktop on my phone though, I think. But I think most folks interested enough in the concept are…
True that's a good point - if publishers were OK with micro purchases for their articles, we'd see some publishers try that out. Nothing's stopping the NYT and similar from trying a "pay as you go model". The fact that…
I use my USB-C port to listen to my wired headphones all the time, no problem. Phone jack is now redundant now that USB-C can output audio
Good point in the post about confidence - most people equate confidence with accuracy - and since AIs always sound confident, they always sound correct
Strange - I would expect a workplace that doesn't allow mics to also disallow bluetooth