As someone with a small flock, this is empirically accurate.

It’s a surprisingly good comparison especially when you look at the reactions: frame breaking vs data poisoning.

The problem isn’t progress, the problem is that some of us disagree with the Idea that what’s being touted is actual progress. The things llms are actually good at they’ve being doing for years (language translations) the rest of it is so inexact it can’t be trusted.

I can’t trust any llm generated code because it lies about what it’s doing, so I need to verify everything it generates anyway in which case it’s easier to write it myself. I keep trying it and it looks impressive until it ends up at a way worse version of something I could have already written.

I assume that it’s the same way with everything I’m not an expert in. In which case it’s worse than useless to me, I can’t trust anything it says.

The only thing I can use it for is to tell me things I already know and that basically makes it a toy or a game.

That’s not even getting into the security implications of giving shitty software access to all your sensitive data etc.

Beer Hall Putsch

It would be such a shame if some people who lived near there read this article but disregarded all the warnings printed clearly on it.

They could absolutely attempt to parse the resumes, then ask you to verify the information instead of just having you enter it all again manually, but that would probably cost slightly more.

Alas, I cannot grow hair on the top of my head, so I must grow it on the bottom.

“It’s not an ethnostate! Also, you’re racist if you criticize our ethnostate!”

There’s also this: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/automakers-sharing-driving-data-brokers-102200724.html

Tl;dr: All the connected car stuff is collecting data on you and the data brokers are more than willing to correlate your data and package it all up for insurers, or whoever else wants to buy it.

Short answer: No, this guy is all the way up his own rear end.

Longer answer:

Author: “C is not ‘close to hardware’”

Also Author: “Successful one to one struct comparisons may require padding, which isn’t automatically applied!!!”

Like if you have an entire PhD on this stuff and you don’t understand how and why you need to pad, when you need to do it, and how to calculate the proper amount of padding, maybe somebody should’ve stopped you before you showed your whole ass on the Internet like that.

(Padding is applied to align chunks of data more closely to the size of memory writes possible in a given architecture, it is extremely system dependent and you use it in very specific circumstances that you, a beginner, do not need to understand right now other than to say that if the senior says thou shalt not fuck with my struct you better not)

In Boolean algebraic notation A+B+C literally means A OR B OR C.

I’m aware this isn’t a useful comment with regard to your original point, I just thought the coincidence was too funny to not point out.

Based on your looks I expected you to be smarter.

Modern nuclear technology is much safer than older stuff, additionally when the older plants are well maintained they are much safer than they’re made out to be.

This is one of those cases where pop culture doesn’t match reality and as a result people who are half informed do more damage to their cause by rejecting the good in pursuit of the great.

Correction: they make money

Let’s say that the ship is actually sinking, for arguments sake.

There’s a whole bevy of rats swelling out of those fetid waters, the smart ones jumped ship some time ago, given that there are only two viable options in the United States, where do you suppose that they will go?

How will that affect composition and policy of those that remain as The SS Trump slips below the murky waters?

We no longer have humor, it’s been beaten out of us by code reviews and merge conflicts.

DATA ABORT

The “normal” government machine is broken. Attempting to rely on long established norms as guardrails is not something that will turn out well. “The tables could be turned” is not an argument that applies to the current state of US politics.

The Republican party literally told the Obama white house that they wouldn’t even hold a hearing for his supreme Court nominee (Garland March of 2016) “because the American people needed to weigh in since it was an election year.” Which many people properly identified as complete and utter bullshit.

Then Republicans went from a nomination on September 29th, 2020, to a confirmation on October 26th, 2020, of Amy Coney Barret, who I’m sure is eminently qualified for the position.

Less than a month.

The Supreme Court is effectively meaningless as an institution attempting to maintain a facade of impartiality.

The “system” as it once existed is gone now. Republicans have been waging a war on public institutions for decades and they’ve won. It’s over.

Attempting to continue to play by the old rules doesn’t do anything but multiply the effectiveness of the grift.

Is Missouri the new Florida?

This is a sad story, but as a former Missourian it’s not super surprising.

There’s anger and distrust that’s festering there. A societal anger, not a personal one. It’s a personification and personalization of national politics.

I can’t describe the relief it is to not live in that environment anymore.

I am incredibly lucky.

Moving closer to Canada was not unintentional for me. We got our whole family passports after Biden won, I knew it was only a reprieve. All that said, we can’t afford to move again, if it happens we’ll be fleeing as refugees.

“John Brown Gun Club”