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- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 1 week ago:
LLMs are great at language problems. If you’re learning the syntax of a new programming language or you’ve forgotten the syntax for a specific feature, LLMs will give you exactly what you want.
I frequently use AI/LLMs when switching languages to quickly get me back up to speed. They’re also adequate at giving you a starting point, or a basic understanding of a library or feature.
The major downfall is if you ask for a solution to a problem. Chances are, it will give you a solution. Often it won’t work at all.
The real problem is when it does work.I was looking for a datatype that could act as a cache (forget the oldest item when adding a new one). I got a beautifully written class with 2 fields and 3 methods.
After poking at the AI for a while, it realized that half the code wasn’t actually needed. After much more prodding, it finally informed me that there was actually an existing datatype (LinkedHashMap) that would do exactly what I wanted.Be aware that AI/LLMs will rarely give you the best solution, and often give you really bad solutions even when an elegant one exists. Use them to learn if you want, but don’t trust them.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 weeks ago:
I expect he’ll ask Grok and believe the answer.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 3 weeks ago:
If you’re trying to calculate it, then it’s quite difficult.
If you just want to use it in a computer program, most programming languages have it as a constant you can request. You get to pick whether you want single or double precision, but both are atomic (a single instruction) on modern computers.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It sounds like your driving instructor wasn’t any good. A good driving instructor will never put you in a situation that you are not ready for. They never should have allowed you to get a licence until you felt safe.
If you feel like you’re not in control then you’re right - this accident is proof of that. If you want to try driving again, I highly recommend getting a good driving instructor first - one who won’t put you in situations you can’t handle.
If you can get everywhere you need to without driving, then you can save yourself a lot of money by not paying for a car, insurance, or registration.
You always have the right to say no, and you can always say “not now”. Maybe wait a few more weeks before making a decision.
- Comment on Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things 4 weeks ago:
It was a rubber coated metal bullet fired at close range.
You do not shoot someone unless you want them dead.
- Comment on Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds 1 month ago:
Just wash your dishes in a landfill.
- Comment on Should try again tomorrow 2 months ago:
You should try talking to me instead. I’ll still interrupt and talk over you, but I’ll also repeatedly apologise for it.
- Comment on Go Private? 2 months ago:
I often send links to friends who probably don’t have a Lemmy account. Keeping everything visible to everyone would help me.
If there is a reasonable concern about server resources/costs, then I would be willing to give up a little convenience.
- Comment on New community request - Amber Electric Users 4 months ago:
I believe they are all residential. There might be a few small businesses, but nothing huge.
- Comment on New community request - Amber Electric Users 4 months ago:
See my other comment reply for more context.
Amber is currently an Australian only electricity company, and the users are unusually involved compared to other energy retailers.
I think targeting wholesale pricing specifically instead of just Amber could be better. For the foreseeable future the two user groups would be identical, but a wholesale group would also encompass any emerging wholesale providers.
- Comment on New community request - Amber Electric Users 4 months ago:
The difference with Amber is the variable energy prices that can change every 5 minutes and vary between -100c/kWh and 2000c/kWh. Many users take advantage of these prices with custom battery automation, or want to know how Amber’s default automation (Smart-Shift) will behave in certain circumstances. There are very few options for whole home automation yet, so many users are developing their own, or asking for help using early access systems that are not yet user friendly. The automation and control of solar, home batteries, car charging, and deferable loads has led to a large amount of discussion that is centered around wholesale prices.
The group could be renamed to include all users of wholesale electricity prices. The suggested name is because Amber is currently the only electricity provider in Australia, so all discussion of wholesale prices and the effects of it has been in Amber groups. Because these groups are all non-searchable, the same questions have been asked many times by many people. A forum space like Lemmy would provide more resources to those just wanting a quick answer to a common question.
- Submitted 4 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 6 comments