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LtWorf··on Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"
I'm the author of typedload. For json-type of data that is loaded in dictionaries you can do A LOT of validation at runtime automatically if you define the types.
LtWorf··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Where is the comparison with USA link? You are so full of links and yet miss that one? How odd…
LtWorf··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
> Imagine i posted this comment as a response to every single other comment here.

I don't know you, this is not a social. If we were friends and you did that I'd unfriend you and be done.

The alternative being having human moderators, which socials don't want to have because it costs money.

LtWorf··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
Socials should do no scoring whatsoever. Once you score you are editorialising which means you should have a director that is liable for everything published.

If you don't want that, no editorialising, let people see just the people they follow or what their friends share and that is it.

Can't have it both ways.

LtWorf··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
Facebook has to follow the law like everyone else… I know they don't like to but…
LtWorf··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
Facebook marked a video where a famous Italian author was saying what he was going to vote and why as "fake news". Of course he's opposing the current right wing pro-USA government.

edit: yes please, as usual, keep downvoting factual information.

LtWorf··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Now compare those with any USA town and you won't even see a pixel on the chart.

The rape definition in Sweden is extremely broad. If you had read your own link you'd know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden#Unreliable_data...

LtWorf··on Go Concurrency Distilled
Memory safety ≠ memory efficiency.
LtWorf··on Go Concurrency Distilled
But if you happen to call a blocking syscall everything breaks.
LtWorf··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Anyway what he really really glossed over is that "Arabic" (or the Arabic languages as would be more correct) speakers will also speak Swedish.

At the same time it is very unlikely that the English speaker will learn Swedish, so English speakers are more of a threat to Swedish than Arabic speakers.

LtWorf··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Yeah the elon musk robots, sure.
LtWorf··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Lol. In Sweden almost no bus driver or helper for old people was born in Sweden, let alone builders.
LtWorf··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
What happened to the swedes? I'm in sweden right now and there's no zombie apocalypse or anything weird going on…
LtWorf··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
> Japan is an island

So is Sicily… and yet it's quite diverse…

LtWorf··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
"Arabic" is hundreds of different languages.

It's like saying "anglosaxon" and grouping english, german, swedish, danish, norwegian as one single language.

LtWorf··on We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
AI is literally owned by james bond type villains.
LtWorf··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
But they had won the war.
LtWorf··on F-Droid 2.0
So you will think really hard about what you're doing instead of just hoping :D
LtWorf··on F-Droid 2.0
It's full of malicious apps on google play. There are none on f-droid.

The logical conclusion is that fdroid should be allowed and google play banned by default.

LtWorf··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
It was in a gmail promotional video years ago already. Person A would use AI to turn their summary into email and person B would ask the AI to go back to the summary.

They knew it was going to be like that from the beginning.

LtWorf··on Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
First of all, programming isn't necessarily a very skilled task as being a mathematician.

Secondly, I've encountered compiler bugs many times, so it is very helpful.

That's the difference between a senior and a junior: the junior goes to the senior and the senior figures it out. You can remain a junior at any age.

LtWorf··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
So, the typical one sided approach to morality the western has?
LtWorf··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
Doesn't really matter, they can track you in several ways.
LtWorf··on Astra for Law
BS. Last time I hired a lawyer he advised me on settling rather than going to court, even though he'd have made much more money going to court.
LtWorf··on How to Write with an LLM
In the simpsons there was a load bearing poster in their home, IIRC.
LtWorf··on How to Write with an LLM
On Debian we recently voted whether to permit or forbid llm usage (spoiler, AI usage at will won).

One person was arguing that they need llm because english isn't their first language and then it helps them write better and be understood. I was incapable of reading their (extremely long) email of arguments; I tried but my mind just went elsewhere as my eyes were moving through the lines.

At the very end there was a disclaimer that llm had been used to "aid" in writing that very email.

Poor guy thinks he's communicating better but all he's doing is making his emails completely unreadable. It's a sad state of affairs.

LtWorf··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
People who want to be scammed.
LtWorf··on Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
I think at least a couple do have cafes here in Göteborg
LtWorf··on Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
There's often smelly people napping in Sweden. I presume their housing situation isn't the best. Or they are not mentally capable of cleaning themselves.
LtWorf··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
Are we also going to invade USA to make them stop attacking iran, venezuela and so on?
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