Probably because while is the source of many infinite loops, and because it’s sometimes faster and more rigorous to compute the length ahead of going into the loop.
That said, I personally don’t think it’s smelly at all.
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That said, I personally don’t think it’s smelly at all.
and in many case the accumulator is a tuple, and in many cases you need to know the length of the collection ( like average)
all in all, it’s a lot just to avoid a for loop.
I imagine launching anything from space to earth would be highly inefficient and inaccurate. So it must be space to space.
Space to space weapons are what? Small drones with an explosive charge? I guess that could work. These "combats" are going to be weird, because the objects are trapped in their orbits. Things are going to move very slowly with a lot of intertia.
Waiting eagerly for the "crying baby" extension pack. The "get to your seat" MMO. And the "I want to pee, but the guy next to me is sleeping" campaign.
Also, inflightsimulator: 1980, with ashtrays and lethal weapon playing on dropdown TV sets
Open weights agents with hacking capacities can reproduce themselves into the systems they hack (non-open weights ones will have to hack their creators first). Not saying they will, but if they do, good luck finding the kill switch.
Once swarms of agents run unsupervised on unmonitored hacked hardware, who can tell what they will do? The Huggingface incident showed that such swarms behave without any safeguard. It was a real HAL moment.
A lot of things are possible then: ransomware campaign, taking over IoT devices, self driving cars, planes, ships, satellites, missile launchers. If nothing's out of reach, everything is possible.
Bring robots into the mix, and the possibilities are endless.
I'm not particularly frightened tbh, but we shouldn't discard the worst-case scenario, and the worst-case scenario doesn't look good.
I mean many Japanese people consider that pouring tea can be an art form.
Zuckerberg is never resigning from Meta. Investors don't want him to resign from Meta.
What it is time for, though, is to ask ourselves as a society if the ad-fueled privacy-infringing depression-triggering attention-grabbing social media feeds are worth it.
People used to smoke. Now they dont. Change is possible.
Albert Camus.
Is it Art? It's not Art! Are bananas a vegetable or a fruit? Pluto definitely is a planet! No it's not!
Jesus, what a waste of energy.
Are we just realizing that asteroids come in all sizes? Do we really need a sharp boundary between those we call planets and those we don't call planets?
Can we consider planethood a spectrum? Like should we REALLY care if someone says there are 9 planets in the solar system, and the next person says 8?
We used to say there were 3 oceans, now there are 5. In reality, there's just one big saltwater lake. Do people fight about where one ocean ends and where the next one starts?
Let them call pluto a planet if they want, let them call pluto a kuiper object.
We shouldn't give a fuck.
Gravitational lensing around the black hole is mind blowing
Expect more of this until the midterms…
I tend to mimic the author I am reading, it’s annoying.
If I change the book I read while writing something, my text changes tone in the middle.
I am not a good writer, and I don’t read that much, so maybe that trend goes away when you write a lot, but it’s a pitfall worth knowing
10 people generating 800 commits a day is completely stupid.
I mean at this stage people don’t even know what they’re building anymore. They’ll burn through their backlog faster than the backlog can be filled.
Or maybe they spend 700 commits fixing the issues generated by the first 100?
This doesn’t make any sense to me
This kind of projects are where AI is most helpful. Long tedious and highly testable projects like ports or legacy system replacements where humans have to grind through millions of lines of code without really thinking are the perfect target for AI.
I once did a C to C# port of several math libraries, and while I was able to automate most of it, it still required a ton of manual work. I bet if I had Claude, I could do what I did in 3 months in a day or two.
Does anyone know if that’s true and if that applies to conversions like this one?
It is the scary thing actually. Cause once AI makes arguments that require a working memory of hundred items, then we as humans will have no way of understanding the arguments…
We can decompose and write things but only up to a point. when Ai can have a working memory that spans hundreds of books, we are necessarily going to have to trust the system.
There is not a single reason for Bloomberg’s dominance but the one feature that keeps people on it is the chat.