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New Honda Accord hybrids do not include a spare tire. The manufacturers copied the idiocy.

Can you say a little more about what you mean by "better"? How much faster is editing?

"juniors are useless": Maybe y'all should consider updating this hyberbolic language. Nobody is born a "senior developer", so surely all of your training as a "junior" is not useless. There is always a disconnect between what younger people know and what older people expect them to know, so training is required almost universally.

The one math majors joke about is Serra’s A Course in Arithmetic, which is definitely not for young children.

> The problem might end up being that the value created by LLMs will have no customers when everyone is unemployed.

I'm not a professional programmer, but I am the I.T. department for my wife's small office. I used ChatGPT recently (as a search engine) to help create a web interface for some files on our intranet. I'm sure no one in the office has the time or skills to vibe code this in a reasonable amount of time. So I'm confident that my "job" is secure :)

I once had a job mopping floors and was quite successful at it, even if I say so myself. Based on my experience, do you think it is reasonable for me to claim that I will eventually develop techniques for cleaning the oceans of all plastic waste? Folks are criticizing the pie in the sky claims, not that they can do anything at all.

I immediately did a "apt install units". Very cool!

Six is the smallest perfect number. Perfection is key here.

They were talking about instability. I had an old Radeon workstation card in my desktop at home for at least a decade, but with the most recent AMD drivers, Firefox (with hardware acceleration turned on) would crash Gnome and the system when watching videos on YouTube. So I wasted money on one of those new Intel graphics cards to get the stability back (in addition to the time wasted diagnosing the problem).

I don't game, but all my computers run Debian Stable, and my oldest child wastes considerable time gaming on Steam. I had to tweak one or two things for him early on, but it all seems to work fine.

People who don't use Debian misunderstand Stable. It's released every two years, and a subset of the software is kept up to date in Backports. For anything not included in Backports, its trivial to run Debian Testing or Unstable in a chroot on your Stable machine.

I moved to Debian Stable ~20 years ago because constant updates in other distros always screwed up CUPS printing (among other things). Curiously, I was using Ubuntu earlier this year and the same thing happened. Never going back.

Maybe check out Scott Wlaschin's videos on YouTube. There is one talk for his book "Domain Modeling Made Functional" which, if I remember, was very clear and easy to follow.

> I don't think so. An LLM by default is not trained to be "good"; it's trained to be accurate.

I wouldn't use the word "accurate" since it creates language based on probabilities. For example, it occasionally does basic mathematics computations incorrectly. I'm sure the AI companies would say they are training for "accuracy" but the actual code they write says otherwise.

> An observation I've made about Rust is that because it eschews OOP, it tends not to "scale" to large development teams for single applications.

Linux is written in C and "scales" to large teams. If folks were willing, I think most of Linux could be written in Rust.

I just tested both on the text "Look Dick. See Jane. Jane run home. I says you go home to. They eats dinner." LanguageTool does what I would expect. Harper does not. However, both whine about two spaces after a period.

Edit: Alas, Hacker News also removes the extra space after periods.

Same here. I lived there 30 years ago, and my one speeding ticket in TN shows up first. I've had 2 or 3 "rolling stop sign" tickets in CA and can not find them.

I guess I'm naive, but given the current situation, wouldn't a smart person resign from DOGE? If I were smart and highly employable, like these guys, I would not want to be associated with all the indiscriminate firings of DOGE.

I used to do this with my wife, and it drove me crazy. Now we use a shared Google calendar, which works way better than prior solutions. Our unspoken rule: if there is an open time slot available, the first to enter it in the shared calendar wins. We're both responsible for entering all family-related appointments in the calendar as soon as they come up. There have been conflicts when either of us forgets to enter something into the calendar, but we just resolve the conflicts as usual. This was a game-changer from my point of view.

This is one of the most acronym heavy discussions I've ever seen. I searched "AIMA/PRML/ESL" to find the books, and the first result is a Reddit thread with most upvoted comment "Can we use the names of the books instead of all acronyms, not everyone knows them lol".

By the way, LaTeX and TeX existed long before PDFs were ubiquitous. A common workflow in the 1990s and prior was

TeX/LaTeX -> DVI -> PostScript -> printer

And DVI stands for "device independent", so the idea was you can take a DVI and convert it to any format. PDFs just eventually became the dominate format.

Typst is Apache licensed. I install it with "cargo install --locked typst-cli". The subscription model is for their web interface with storage. I write simple worksheets for a living, so I've been using it instead of TeX lately. (I've use LaTeX or plain TeX since around 1990.)

> That hardly looks regressive.

I know you're making a good faith argument, but you're twisting the definition of regressive. For example, if a country has one citizen with an income of 1 trillion, and one hundred thousand citizens with an income of $10,000 each, the trillionaire would still pay over 99% of taxes even if taxes were proportional.

The point is that with severe income inequality, it is fair that the super rich pay a very, very high proportion of taxes. The 40.4% seems high for the "top 1%" of the population, but if you replace "top 1%" with their actual average income, the comparison is less misleading.

Did you give up a pension?

This isn't true. He has books and lectures explaining the metabolic processes when eating refined sugar, and why it's bad for you. Nowadays it's pretty mainstream stuff. Nevertheless, can you give an example of one of his opinions which is "well outside scientific consensus".

> I’ve had to be pretty firm in the past with marketing teams that want to embark on a rebrand, and say however the design looks, it can’t include modal windows or animated carousels. And I think people think you’re weird when you say that.

Some small businesses create websites for branding only, and get their business exclusively offline. They just want to have a simple, static site to say "we exist, and we are professionals", so they are fine with the latest in web design.

> Unfortunately, I have only seen 3 models, 3B or over, handle RAG.

What's the unit "B" in "3B"? I can search for acronyms like "RAG" just fine, but you experts aren't making it easy for us beginners :)

Edit: Apologies, this is obvious. My brain needed a reboot for the new year.

Indeed, I just upgraded to kernel 6.13rc5, and now everything works perfectly! Just in time for New Years!

It can be one of many factors. Most of the criticism of Carter I hear from younger people is the same old "worst president ever, except for the Camp David Accords" trope I've been hearing for 40 years. None can ever explain why. On the other hand, Carter haters my age and older give detailed explanations of their distaste for him. (I'm not saying their explanations are sound, but they do give them.)

I think telling everyone you wish to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris is a pretty firm endorsement.

> It still irks me that Chinese LLM weights don’t know anything about Tiananmen Square, and western LLMs from Silicon Valley embed their own personal white guilt.

"White guilt" is not a thing. It's just talk. What useful information can a reasonable person expect to get from a disingenuous racist LLM query? (Other than reaffirming their beliefs with well-known racist tropes.) Fortunately, questions which are designed to appease racist egos are easily detected since they (apparently) occur so often.

Governments are going to be throwing billions at these LLM companies. Why jeopardize that by allowing your LLM to spew racist nonsense as fact? Perhaps this is what you mean by "white guilt"? Do note that this so called "white guilt" leads to white people (programmers/managers) making millions (billions?), and African Americans nothing. Maybe reconsider where you are assigning blame for these "transgressions".

> That's still censorship though.

But what speech was censored? And who was harmed? Was the language model harmed? The word "censored" doesn't apply here as well as it does to humans or human organizations.

> Instead of one evil, now you have two.

These are not the same. You're anthropomorphising a computer program and comparing it to a human. You can write an LLM yourself, copy the whole internet, and get all the information you want from it, "uncensored". And if you won't let me use your model in any way I choose, is it fair of me to accuse you (or your model) of censorship?

Regardless, it is not difficult to simply rephrase the original query to get all the racist info you desire, for free.