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4개월 전discuss

Hypomania is very irritating, and can actually mess up a person's life. It's a neurotic defense mechanism that's opposite to depression

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5개월 전discuss

You could write in the language you are most eloquent in and prompt a bot to do a faithful translation.

Post both versions

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6개월 전discuss

Except for the power-to-weight problem. Would need very big wings!

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6개월 전discuss

Codex generates solid Rust in my experience. Just needs a little style guidance

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6개월 전discuss

It was my first taste of Swift, and has destroyed any lingering curiosity I had about it.

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7개월 전discuss

Yep, there's always syntax, whether it's 'friendly' or not.

And it still isn't natural language, where you can paraphrase, use synonyms etc. Good job for an LLM

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7개월 전discuss

But are they writing? In that specific sense of high prestige communication? Sounds like stolen aura.

Now, code by Gen AI is straightforward in comparison. Coding is not writing poetry, even if the lines also don't reach the right margin

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7개월 전discuss

"This post could have been a tweet", and so on.

It's a lovely metaphor for the soulful business of doing something really well, even if there is no 'market' for that kind of quality

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8개월 전discuss

I've been getting great results from Codex. Can be a bit slow, but gets there. Writes good Rust, powers through integration test generation.

So (again) we are just sharing anecdata

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9개월 전discuss

Heh,I read SF as San Francisco; point remains true. Except the Valley wants to force a future, not describe it

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10개월 전discuss

It's not inconsistent to say there's a financial bubble and also genuinely think it's a new era for software development.

There aren't enough programmers to justify the valuations and capex

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10개월 전discuss

These are a few well-chosen dependencies for a serious project.

Rust projects can really go bananas on dependencies, partly because it's so easy to include them

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So the cognitive reality of being a billionaire is now available to everyone?

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But this is one thing that Gen AI is genuinely good at, constructing computer programs under close human supervision. It's also the most profitable (but not enough to justify valuations) Also, it may be a big thing here but its pretty niche in the larger scheme of things

The article is about it encroaching in the domain of human communications. Mass adoption is the only way to justify the incredible financial promises.

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So much for the old thermonuclear ramjet idea....

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This is how Option works with ? in Rust. But short-circuiting in an expression does make sense

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Is this not more a Cargo thing? Cargo is obsessed with correct builds and eventually the file system fills up with old artifacts.

(I know, I have to declare Cargo bankruptcy every few weeks and do a full clean & rebuild)

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Ah, Elon paying attention to hid companies again!

Context poisoning is not a uniquely LLM problem

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I agree, it's hopelessly over-cheerful and tries to be cute. The pizza metaphor fell flat for me as well

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2년 전discuss

Ah, Edge/Bing went through this phase recently. A split personality, where sensible stuff appeared on the left, and Copilot laboriously typing on the right. I disabled it, really did not add anything to the experience.

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'The difficulty is the point': teaching students how to really read

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