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Something I haven't yet seen mentioned, but that is going through my mind. To me, it doesn't even seem like OpenAI got any better at producing GenAI images. Instead, it seems to me like they now simply removed a whole bunch of guardrails. Guardrails that, for example, made AI images shitty on purpose, so to be "safe" and allow people to kind of recognize. Making all of this "safe" was still very en vogue a few months back, but now there was simply a big policy/societal change and they are going with the trends.

This then allows their pictures to look more realistic, but that also now shows very clearly how much they have (presumably always) trained on copyrighted pictures.

I have a question that maybe someone here knows. It has been noted multiple times in the comments here that at this point, one should just use tokio as the async runtime. (From my limited experience, I agree)

The async Rust book [0] says this about runtimes:

> Importantly, executors, tasks, reactors, combinators, and low-level I/O futures and traits are not yet provided in the standard library. In the meantime, community-provided async ecosystems fill in these gaps.

Notably, it says "not yet". My question is if someone knows if there are actual plans to incorporate any (existing) async runtime, and if so, whether there is a timeline? Also, is tokio in the talks to be the runtime, or is this still open?

[0]: https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/08_ecosystem/00_chapt...

Here are some notes I recently found online on this by simonw: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/23/datasette-gunicorn/#be....

It seems to me like they removed the warning on SQLite, so I guess they tested it and it works fine. But I didn't research this any further so far.

Is this for sure all paid with tax money?

Here in the alps, if you have an injury hiking and need a helicopter ride then you are required to pay for the ride (normally a few thousand euros). I assume it's the same if you're lost.

And I would assume it's the same on high sea...

> One of the points of all of this is to reduce the risk of something like FTX happening. That's why those guys are in the Bahamas, not in Germany.

You cannot possibly be serious. Wirecard happened only two years ago.

So, while the thinking might goes that all this is for something like FTX, it's obviously not succeeding.

I think the other commenters here really don't get what you mean or have never been to a retirement home. For people that really don't understand how this is not a good example: retirement homes reek of death. Even if you yourself are still fit, most people there won't be. This means that even though you would have the (mental/physical) capacity to enjoy your time there, you first need to find the few people that have that as well. Compare that to a college dorm, where almost everyone wants to socialize...

It really isn't just about mindset! Sure, that will have something to do with it, but it's really a minor part, and even then, it will be much much much harder to have a positive mindset there then in a college dorm. (Again, I'm not saying it's not possible - I'm really just trying to make people empathize with older people that don't want to go into a retirement home. I think that it's a really reasonable thing not wanting to go there)

Are you really sure that is the case here? I think everyone that starts working with git is a bit hung up by its complexity at least for a year, if not more.

It seems to me that, as it should be, every professional SW dev has managed to work with git at some point in their life, then. Because git is simply what you will most likely use nowadays.

But still, everyone remembers how hard it was to start out. Which is why, I think, these blog posts about git are so popular all the time.

An ML, like SML or OCaml? Neither of these has any better tooling. Really the only viable candidate would be F#, no?

This is actually not such a good example I think. A better example would be that you have a small improvement to an existing algorithm, but you know that another group across the globe is also working on/with that algorithm and maybe they also found out the same improvement as you did. If that is the case, then it will be a race on who publishes a paper about that first.

If you're not first, there's no reason to publish a paper anymore. And you just lost a good paper... (And paper count is really almost all there is in academia, at least that is what it seems to me sometimes)

You do realize that it's the exact same way in the EU, if not worse? In the EU, a company can't even hire you if you're from another EU country where your company doesn't also have a seat there...

> Opposition to nuclear power isn't a political

Sorry, I don't get this. Of course your opposition on something can be based on ideology. That is the case if your opposition is more based on your history and tradition than on current facts.

I personally think that there are enough facts to say that nuclear is not really a great option, but I also think that the Green's opposition is based more on ideology (i.e. because they have been historically against it) than on facts. For me, that is evident when they talk more about nuclear risks in general than about financial considerations.

> During undergrad, I found I rarely reviewed my class notes, and when I did they weren’t very helpful.

That's interesting, because I almost wanted to make the exact opposite point. I'm actually right now in the process of revisiting my notes, and I think it helps me a lot. Not because they are super useful in and of itself (After 1-3 months have passed now, I understand the stuff deeper now, obviously) but because they help me piece the stuff together.

Anyways, the reason why they then get useful is because I have an extrinsic motivation to read them! (Exams are coming up)

That does in no way make it easier to read them, but it helps in actually reading them.

Then, reading notes and really understanding something will always be hard. I think there is also quite some research ouf there that finds just this: If you really want to understand stuff, you need to put in the effort. It kinda needs to hurt...

This is why I don't think these personal wikis / note -taking tools help too much, especially if one is, like me (and probably most people), more a person who in their downtime maybe likes to read something new and interesting, but better keep that on the light side - it's supposed to be downtime anyways, no?

That leads me then back to the extrinsic motivation: If for example you're a researcher and use Roam (or whatever) exclusively for that (that means restraining also from putting notes in there that have little to do with your actual research), I think the benefits would be much more clear. To be honest, though, that is just a guess. I'm not a researcher myself and I have n't been using note-taking systems for a while now, because of the points explained above.

Tangentially related, but has anyone here read his other book, "Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention". I loved "Flow" (his main book) so I wanted to read something else from him, but somehow it was just not the same. In the Flow book, I understood which concepts I should understand as a reader and the background of them, including individual stories, was very coherent. I can't really say the same about the other book. I would be interested what others think about this.

But... what the OP writes are strong conventions, no?

Coming from Spring or Java EE:

> implementations that could literally be a lambda function (on receive message, write row into DB) are a festival of multiple tiers of objects, mappers, mediators, IoC frameworks, wrappers, Nuget packages, etc., etc.

Spring or Java EE is a strong convention, so IOC is one automatically as well (both make use of that heavily). Hibernate would be the next strong convention, therefore mappers are, therefore we will have multiple tiers of objects. Wrappers will also be needed in a language like Java. About the rest of this list I can't say much now, but I would argue that lots of what this person is doing is based on strong conventions in the enterprise world. And it goes on:

> Everything is in multiple projects. Simple constants (like: API routes - '/api/foo/bar') are indirected into files containing those strings, so there's a huge cognitive overhead and much clicking around to make sense of it. God help you if you don't use an IDE.

Coming from Java again, everything won't be in multiple projects, but in multiple Maven modules instead. AFAIK that is good practice, or, if you want: a strong convention. Stuff like API routes will indeed not be saved in a code file, but in an openapi file instead.

IMO then, what this person was doing was actually following strong conventions. Yes, these are often also specific patterns, but what is the difference, specifically for these things listed here?

It seems to me much more that the person was probably "limited" more by the language. I think there are fairly good reasons for all of these, especially when working with more than ten people - in a language like Java. And in this case you will have to use Java (or something similarly famous) because otherwise you won't find a replacement very quickly that is fairly cheap. Now, maybe the person would not have needed all this in such a small project that is just for one person. But who knows, maybe the project grows. Or maybe this person was simply familiar with this and could get this down fastest. All in all, I think there are many good reasons to decide to make a project with patterns/conventions like this.

This is what I like about it so much (I'm currently reading it)! I'm by no means a fan of Adam Sandler, and also not so sure that he would be the best modern analogy, but in my opinion, the book gives the vibe of a very early, written sitcom. Everything Don Quixote does is so absurd, and so many people around him realize it but just play it off or are simply baffled.

For my own enjoyment I have however seen that the translation that I use is really important. I'm reading it in German, and the new translation by Susanne Lange is much more pleasant to read than some other older translation I have in digital form.