edinbruh
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- Comment on Current state of the internet 6 days ago:
You guys are all doomed. Telecom Italia is ranked 9 among ISPs, and it’s a tier 1 ISP.
Imagine your global communication infrastructure being dependant on fucking Telecom Italia.
- Comment on ✨️carboniferous trees✨️ 1 week ago:
How do we know what the trees looked like? I thought they got buried and crumbled into carbon or something
- Comment on Please be aware! 1 week ago:
There are many more interesting proposed approaches though. Like creating a religious cult around avoiding nuclear waste, all kinds of hostile-looking architecture, and my favourite is the idea of stocking waste in containers so durable that any people advanced enough to break into it would have to be advanced enough to know how to behave around nuclear waste
- Comment on It's important! 2 weeks ago:
He’s getting the french culture alright
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
Oh, it probably wasn’t about an existing language, but about some guy studying what would become high level languages. Like studying linkers and symbolic representation of programs
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
LLM are not the path to go forward to simulate a person, this is a fact. By design they cannot reason, it’s not a matter of advancement, it’s literally how they work as a principle. It’s a statistical trick to generate random texts that look like thought out phrases, no reasoning involved.
If someone tells you they might be the way forward to simulate a human, they are scamming you.
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
I don’t like it because people don’t shut up about it and insist everyone should use it when it’s clearly stupid.
LLMs are language models, they don’t actually reason (not even reasoning models), when they nail a reasoning it’s by chance, not by design. Everything that is not language processing shouldn’t be done by an LLM. Viceversa, they are pretty good with language.
We already had automated reasoning tools. They are used for industrial optimization (i.e. finding optimal routes, finding how to allocate production, etc.) and no one cared about those.
As if it wasn’t enough. The internet is now full of slop. And hardware companies are warmongering an arms race that is fueling an economic bubble. And people are being fired to be replaced by something that will not actually work in the long run because it does not reason.
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
I’ll try to find it later, I read he said that in a book from Martin Davis
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
Neural networks don’t simulate a brain, it’s a misconception caused by their name. They have nothing to do with brain neurons
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
If Turing was alive he would say that LLMs are wasting computing power to do something a human should be able to do on their own, and thus we shouldn’t waste time studying them.
Which is what he said about compilers and high level languages (in this instance, high level means like Fortran, not like python)
- Comment on Parents App'rule'ved 3 weeks ago:
Most restaurants serve alcohol and are good for kids. What’s your point?
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 3 weeks ago:
I think you can read the address in letters you find around in Central Executive
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 3 weeks ago:
Telephone exchanger. And as a consequence a lot of espionage occurred there, but just because it’s a big telephone exchanger, not because that’s its purpose.
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 3 weeks ago:
Nope, the oldest house is just on the other side of the street
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 3 weeks ago:
at the 33rd round you do
- Comment on fools! 3 weeks ago:
Where is part one of this meme? I need to send it to the group chat
- Comment on I love fucking pasta 3 weeks ago:
What the fuck is an Alfredo?
- Comment on OMG! Trumps! 3 weeks ago:
There is a meme trend of finding inexistent references to people and characters in unrelated stuff, and then pointing it out as a clickbait YouTube thumbnail. In this meme, I came across the verb “trumps” and interpreted it as the plural of the name “Trump”
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- Comment on Biased source 5 weeks ago:
But what about the surname? Grandoni basically means Very Big. The coincidences keep piling up for Mr. Very Big Dino
- Comment on It’s what’s for dinner! 5 weeks ago:
What a coincidence, I saw that for the first time this Friday
- Comment on Manic Stew 5 weeks ago:
Apathetic omelette
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 5 weeks ago:
I like many of your points, but your comment is facetious.
You said it yourself, “it’s good for someone trying to bang out scripts”… and that’s it, that’s the main point, that’s the purpose of python. I will argue over my dead body that python is a trillion times better than sh/bash/zsh/fish/bat/powershell/whatever for writing scripts in all aspects except availability and if that’s a concern, the only options are the old Unix shell and bat (even with powershell you never know if you are stuck ps 5 or can use ps 7).
I have a python script running 24/7 on a raspberry that listens on some mqtt topics and reacts accordingly asynchronously. It uses like 15kiB (literally less than 4 pages) of ram mostly for the interpreter, and it’s plenty responsive. It uses about two minutes of CPU time a day. I could have written it in rust or go, I know enough of both to do it, it would have been faster and more efficient, but it would have taken three times the time to write, and it would have been a bitch to modify, I could have done it in C and it would have been even worse. For that little extra efficiency it makes no sense.
You argue it has no place in mainstream software, but that’s not really a matter of python, more a matter of bad software engineers. Ok, cool that you recognise the issue, but I’d rather you went after the million people shipping a full browser in every GUI application, than to the guys wasting 10 kiB of your ram to run python. And even in that case, it’s not an issue of JavaScript, but an issue of bad practices.
P.S. “does one thing well” is a smokescreen to hide doing less stuff, you shouldn’t base your whole design philosophy on a quote from the 70s. That is the kind of shit SystemD hater shout, while running a display server that also manages input, opengl, a widget toolkit, remote desktop, and the entire printer stack. The more a high profile tool does, the less your janky glue code scripts need to do.
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 5 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest, I think modern python is cool. You just need to accept that it has some limitations by design, but they mostly makes sense for its purpose.
It’s true that the type system is optional, but it gets more and more expressive with every version, it’s honestly quite cool. I wish Pylance were a bit smarter though, it sometimes fails to infer sum types in if-else statements.
After a couple large-ish personal projects I have concluded that the problem of python isn’t the language, but the users.
On the other hand, C’s design is barren. Sure, it works, it does the thing, it gives you very low level control. But there is nothing of note in the design, if not some quirks of the specifications. Being devoid of innovation is its strength and weakness.
- Comment on MY EYESS 1 month ago:
My sister is an urologist. So for me this is basically what happens opening pictures on the siblings group chat
- Comment on don't look up :) 1 month ago:
Maybe we can get Disney to copyright this company into oblivion 🤔
- Comment on don't look up :) 1 month ago:
What the fuck is this bullshit? This is literally out of a Scrooge McDuck story. Not even a joke, I literally have it on paper
- Comment on *squints* 1 month ago:
I don’t get it, why is it funny?
- Comment on Altered World Event 1 month ago:
Nope, Alan Wake is voiced by Matthew Porretta (Darling) but acted by Ilkka Villi. Just like Alex Casey and Max Payne are acted by Sam Lake (the creative director of Remedy) but voiced by James McCaffrey (Director Trench)
