PeriodicallyPedantic

@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Because with federated services people don’t have to host an activity, you can join a federated instance that someone else maintains.

  The typical Twitter user balked at just selecting a mastodon instance when they signed up in the app… similar issues for reddit users looking to come to lemmy. If you think that they’re going to be willing to go and set up and manage their own server, even on a free hosting site, you’re wildly mistaken.

  If you don’t think you need the normies on your social network anyways, I have no polite way to tell you that most people want to join social networks with their friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe? But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

  I mean, it’s the best option you have, but that doesn’t make it a good option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ephemeral because now you’re demanding that everyone stand up their own web-addressable servers that the rss readers can search, if they want their own content to be searchable. Which isn’t going to happen. So in practice, it’s going to be either federated, or ephemeral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do we advocate for, and pour hours of development into, ActivityPub rather than

  Because that’s what the devs are interested in doing. If you’re going to ask anyone, ask them.

  a big thing you’re missing is discovery of old content and searching. You’re describing a purely ephemeral social network. Activitypub itself can’t solve that, but this is why federated networks exist instead of purely P2P.
  Maybe some people want that, after all Snapchat became popular. But it wouldn’t work for something like Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Switch is good if you only need to compare equals when selecting a value.
  Although some languages make it way more powerful, like python match.
  but I generally dislike python despite of this, and I generally dislike switch because the syntax and formatting is just too unlike the rest of the languages.

  Generally I prefer the clear brevity of:

  var foo=
      x>100 ? bar :
      x>50 ? baz :
      x>10 ? qux :
      quxx;
  

  Over

  var foo;
  if(x>100) {
      foo=bar;
  } else if(x>50) {
      foo=baz;
  } else if(x>10) {
      foo=qux;
  } else {
      foo=quxx
  }
  

  Which doesn’t really get any better if you remove the optional (but recommended) braces.
  Heck, I even prefer ternary over some variations of switch for equals conditionals, like the one in Java:

  var foo;
  switch(x) {
  case 100:
      foo=bar;
      break;
  case 50:
      foo=baz;
      break;
  case 10:
      foo=qux;
      break;
  default:
      foo=quxx;
  }
  

  But some languages do switch better than others (like python as previously mentioned), so there are certainly cases where that’d probably be preferable even to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  MicroHondas?
  Bro I think that’s just called a civic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, when you gotta pick a value from a bunch of options, it’s either if/elseif/else, ternary, switch/case, or a map/dict.

  Ternary generally has the easiest to read format of the options, unless you put it all on one line like a crazy person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bah

  Ternary is just a compressed if-elseif-else chain with a guaranteed assignment.
  If you format it like a sane person, or like you would an if/else chain, then it’s way easier to read than if/else chains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The microFloridians translate it for him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, their own process that they made for being given a house is so expensive, I feel so bad for them!

  Why are you defending them so hard? You just have to look at their quarterly financials. They’re making out like gangbusters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But if you don’t pay, they get the house. There is no risk of loss, only risk of not maximizing profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the impression I get too

  But it’s plausibly deniable enough because you can still get decent credit score if you pay off your credit before you pay interest. It’s a numbers game for them, I expect, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you need to pay us interest because we’re taking the risk. Also you need to give us a down payment to offset our risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re not gonna be able to afford this apartment after a few years of 10% rent increases, and we don’t want the inconvenience of evicting you when that time comes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The first time I applied for a loan, I didn’t have a credit card yet. And they were like:

  How can we know you’re responsible with money?

  Because I haven’t needed credit in the past and I’m still alive, idk? Having enough liquidity to not need credit would seem to suggest I’m good with money.

  But maybe your parents are paying for everything

  Ok? How does using a credit card change that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So you can try your prompt again. Also to avoid getting stuck in loops of repeated text. And if your temperature is low, the LLM won’t produce very novel results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lest I checked, this was a free country

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s why it’s necessary for it to be non-deterministic. Without non-determinism, there is no error recovery if it chooses the wrong token somewhere in the middle of the completion. That’s much less useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If all you’re using it for is to find the relevant parts of the relevant documentation, then a vector search would do as well.
  What an LLM can do is synthesize readable docs out of poor or missing docs. When it isn’t hallucinating, that is.

  But I don’t actually see anyone using LLMs just to cut through the docs, they’re using it to code. And the results I’ve seen are pretty mixed. It does seem to help ramp up in a new area, but it also seems to become an impediment to moving past the ramp-up phase.
  Beginners can now produce beginner code at 2x the speed, and senior folks can now produce beginner code at 3x the speed. But nobody is producing senior level code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Code is the highest level from which deterministic output can be derived.
  It is the unambiguous spec of the application.

  I’ve seen talks from people at openAI talking about how you should treat prompts as specs, and that a good spec can generate the code you need, so the important thing to keep is the spec (prompt).
  But LLMs are necessarily non-deterministic, it’d be like every time you compiled the code, you got a different app that fulfilled the same purpose. That’s not really useful.
  And if you make the spec unambiguous enough that it always generates undistinguishable apps, well then congratulations, your prompt is just as complex as the code is, except you don’t have any kind of static checking and compiling takes orders of magnitude longer. You might as well just be writing code.

  Now will coding look very different in the future? Maybe. I hope not, but it’s looking like it will.
  But I don’t think we’ll get to a place any time soon where people write prompts and never fuck with code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely lemmings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ButtsMcFarts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, keep proudly displaying your ignorance. We’ve got time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In amongst then pack, it seems

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easy to judge from like 30 minutes in public, until you have an autistic kid and no support network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My child is autistic.
  The only way to get him to be calm in a restaurant was to give him earphones and play something comfortingly familiar.

  Now that hes a bit older, it’s a bit better. But he still frequently needs something similar in those kinds of situations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But you also watched new grounds and shit like goatse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't trust cowboys or people doing cowboy voices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making a custom pc case for my next home server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re going to have a problem keeping your power supply floating in the air like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Laser ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A later touched me as a kid!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Macaroni and cheese⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Taste? I’m talking about behaviour