- spiderxxxx parentNo, they gave the cannibal ants a link to a new food source. Imagine you're living in your house, your neighborhood, and there's this large pit in the center, where the cannibals live. They're 30ft down so they can't get out, so you don't have to worry. Then someone puts a ladder down to them. Start of a horror movie if you ask me.
- From what I've seen (at a fortune 100 company) they made the supposedly "best" employees fully remote, and they neglected to tell the others that there were "limited slots" for fully remote and thus they had to come in to work. After a few months of coming in for work, they then laid off those employees, as not enough people quit for that to happen. To be fair, I was given a severance, but it still sucks. And the office was in bad shape, bathrooms poorly maintained, cafeteria in disarray, with substandard food (compared to before). The reason they're trying to get rid of employees is to make their stocks look good. We did better during covid by all measures, when everyone was working remotely.
- Aerospace already has software standards for certification like DO-178C which is critical for certification from the FAA. You don't have to be licensed to write the software, but if it doesn't meet standards required for certification, well you have to fix it.
- That's not even the point. Also IQ tests are normalized for individuals in their same age group. If they're comparing them to people, then what age group people are they comparing with? Also the tests are timed, so IQ is more a measure of how quickly something can be figured out, which really doesn't apply to computers. The whole idea that you can apply an IQ score to an LLM is ridiculous.
- There's so many photos of just her staring off into the distance, and only one photo with her presenting the actual thing that she's supposedly famous for. I don't get the point of just all these random photos of this girl.
- fossil is great, and I wish more companies used it. It's so simple, has everything you need, documentation, bugs, email alerts, chat, a forum, a wiki. It's all there. Having to go to jira to manage something, confluence for something else, git for source code and bug tracking, it's all a mess, when you can use something like fossil. Yet all I hear when I mention fossil is "never heard of it, not using some toy project, sticking to what I know".
- >From what I was told, Python was originally seen as a Swiss Army knife for sysadmins.
Yea, I was a sysadmin around 2000 (before that too) and I knew it as such.
>between 2005 and 2006, two important things happened:
Somewhat - I used it in 2001 for Plone which is based on Zope, which was somewhat popular around that time. Writing all the web stuff with Python made sense, since Plone provided a CMS and could include a wiki. Adding on some sql calls to it in python just made sense. The competition was between PHP and Python, though there were some other less popular choices. Ruby on Rails definitely was getting a lot more popular around those times. PHP didn't start getting popular around 2005, if anything, people started using Python more, and started criticizing the crappy code that was circulating in the PHP community.
In any case, it was a fun time, but what's the point of looking back like that?
- I think you may be mistaking Society of Mind with a different book. It's not about lisp or "good old fashioned AI" but about how the human mind may work - something that we could possibly simulate. It's observations about how we perform thought. The ideas in the book are not tied to a specific technology, but about how a complex system such as the human brain works.
- I've been programming in python for over 20 years. An LLM creates code that sometimes works, but it definitely doesn't meet my standards, and there's no way I'd use the code since I couldn't support it. People who have less experience in Python might take that working code and just support that with their LLM, still having no clue what it does or why it works. That's probably fine for MVP but it won't stand up in the real world where you have to support the code or refactor it for your environment.
I tried to use an LLM to write a simple curses app - something where there's a lot of code out there, but most of the code is bad, and of course it doesn't work and there's lots of quirks. I then asked it to see if there are libraries out there that are better than curses, it gave me 'textual' which at first seemed like an HTML library, but is actually a replacement for curses. It did work, and I had some working code at the end, but I had to work around platform inconsistencies and deal with the LLM including outdated info like inline styles that are unsupported in the current version of the library. That said, I don't quite understand the code that it produced, I know it works and it looks nice, but I need to write the code myself if I want a deeper understanding of the library, so that I can support it. You won't get that from asking an LLM to write your code for you, but from you using what you learn. It's like any language learning. You could use google translate to translate what you want, and it may seem correct at first glance, but ultimately won't convey what you want, with all the nuance you want, if you just learned the language yourself.
- >That’s a disingenuous argument. You don’t know what you don’t know. Literally. A completely self guided high school graduate following random online materials will not learn nearly as much on their own. Or they will go down rabbit holes and waste countless hours, and not having an expert unblock you or guide you down the right path would waste a lot of time.
Citation needed. There's great books out there that provide a lot of guidance down a particular path. I'd say a lot of them do, and I can't imagine online learning sources would be worse. There's online communities for learners for specific subjects that are full of people offering good advice.
- Washington has "committed intimate relationship" which does confer community property and is similar to a "common law marriage" so if people think that being in a long term relationship and not getting married is a way to "protect their property" then that's a fallacy.
- Not just farmers, pilots, and anything that flies long distances will be hugely affected.
Pilots rely not just on forecasts, but also warnings like turbulence, icing, thunderstorms, low visibility, etc. Without precision, and relying on other sources will cause a higher risk of encountering unexpected weather. It will increase costs, as they'll have to subscribe to alternative weather services, emergency responses will be affected as well. Need a helicopter to medevac someone? Well, better hope they updated their weather subscription, and that it covers the area you need to be evcuated from and to. It'll also increase delays due to the adverse weather events encountered unexpectedly.
- I don't think the result of this study would stop people from getting tattoos, but if you're on the fence, then perhaps it could sway you. Either way, it can provide information to doctors to perhaps screen them more often for skin cancer, or people to get screened, given that it might show a higher risk.
- Would have to be a branch that was spliced, and wouldn't be 150 years old, apple trees don't live that long.
Either way, the worst office snack IMHO is the apple, the person sitting next to me, taking a big bite, munching with their mouth open.
- You don't ask for the requirements. You ask what they're trying to do, or what problem they're trying to solve. Sometimes I have to ask "where is this data going" or "what do you expect the end result of this to be".
- * for IOS devices (at first)
- You can buy any Nissan leaf since about 2013 and you get vehicle to home as well. No need to spend 50-55k.
- "FSD" is not running red lights, the so-called "driver" is. Ultimately you are responsible for what your car does, when you are in the driver's seat. If you allow it to run red lights, it's on you.
- there's 8 million pixels in 4k, so if you're trying to graph 8 million points, might as well just fill up the screen with a single color and call it a day. If you have 8 billion, well you can graph about 0.1% of that and fill up every single pixel of the screen, but then you're just looking at noise. To be able to show connections between nodes, you'd need maybe 9 pixels per node, so that's around 900k nodes you might be able to graph on a 4k screen, assuming a maximum number of connections between nodes is 8, and the connected nodes are adjacent. So now you're at about 0.01% can be graphed on yor display, and that's not even very usable and there'd not be a lot of information you could glean from that. You could go to 81 pixels per node and you'd be able to connect more nodes to a graph, and maybe you could make some sense of it that way, but you'd only be graphing 0.001% and at that point, what's your selection criteria? Your selection criteria for nodes would have more of an impact than how you choose to graph it.
- I don't get the whole societal focus on these 'grade school kids attending college classes' type of "genius kids". They are advanced for their age, but that's about it. When you get in the real world, nobody cares about your age, just what you can do, and nothing seems to indicate that those kid wonders are any better off than anyone else.
- If it's easy, then there's probably not a lot of value in doing it either.
- Why? What specifically caused you not to seek out alternatives? PyPy and libraries with CFFI seem to work okay together, but it can run python native code nearly as fast as C, so I always look for a pure python solution rather than depend on a C library.
- You are comparing miles to number of taxis, and some vague frequency of accidents vs an inexact statistic. I appreciate you trying, but I believe accident statistics are normally based on "per million vehicle miles traveled". If you're trying to make a statistic, you should probably use that basis.
- Nalanda university was the first, not Bologna, having predated it by more than 600 years.
- They've been marketed better. I wouldn't say they are more effective. Still, if you have a problem and your doctor prescribes you a drug, you should ask if it's the most tested, reliable drug, or just the latest.
- I agree, most people watch the movie for the story that unfolds. Few are looking at things like framing the subject, the pull of the focus, subtle lighting differences between scenes, they are interested in the story, not the art of filmmaking. The people offended by this are the ones that are crying about the art being taken out of it.
- could it detect a twist instead of a bend?
- Ok, step back a bit... I have a file selected, I have a key called 'enter' - if I press 'enter' what would you expect to happen? I'd expect to 'enter' the file - by opening it or 'entering' the file. I wouldn't expect it to 'enter a new name', because that's an editing function.
Now, my mac has enter marked as 'return'. Let's follow the same logic, assume I have a file selected, what should 'return' on a file do? Return it to where?
- No, you do phishing of your own employees to identify employees who need more training. What would be the outcome of doing it to your customers?
- I stopped using ad blockers and just don't visit sites that have intrusive ads. The number of ads that a single page has now is ridiculous. I can't believe people make their pages look this way. Try disabling your ad blocker on some of your favorite sites, you'll be surprised.