At this point it would seem that the cause for the current outages goes beyond the original DNS issue.
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This is one the reasons I find it so silly when people disregard Zig «because it’s just another memory unsafe language»: There’s plenty of innovation within Zig, especially related to comptime and metaprogramming. I really hope other languages are paying attention and steals some of these ideas.
«inline else» is also very powerful tool to easily abstract away code with no runtime cost.
As someone who uses D and has been doing things like what you see in the post for a long time, I wonder why other languages would put attention to these tricks and steal them when they have been completely ignoring them forever when done in D. Perhaps Zig will make these features more popular, but I'm skeptic.
diegocg commented on OpenAI is taking GPT-4o away from me – despite promising they wouldn't community.openai.com/t/op... · Posted by u/Mzxr
This makes me sad. AI is a product, these days being mentally healthy should imply having the emotional ability to be aware of that. If you become emotionally attached to a commercial product you should seek for help.
with web search, is knowledge cutoff really relevant anymore? Or is this more of a comment on how long it took them to do post-training?
I wonder if it would even be helpful because they avoid the increasing AI content
diegocg commented on AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference seuros.com/blog/aws-resto... · Posted by u/mhuot
I would say that the lesson here is that cross-vendor replication is more important than intra-vendor replication. It is clear that technology can (largely) avoid data losses, but there will always be humans at charge
diegocg commented on Python performance myths and fairy tales lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I didn't read with 100% focus, but this lwn account of the talk seemed to confirm those myths instead of debunking.
Yep, for me it confirms all the reasons why I think python is slow and not a good language for anything that goes beyond a script. I work with it everyday, and I have learned that I can't even trust tooling such as mypy because it's full of corner cases - turns out that not having a clear type design in a language is not something that can be fundamentally fixed by external tools. Tests are the only thing that can make me trust code written in this language
diegocg commented on AI is propping up the US economy bloodinthemachine.com/p/t... · Posted by u/mempko
Others have already said it, but it needs to be said again: Good god, stop treating LLMs like oracles.
LLMs are not encyclopedias.
Give an LLM the context you want to explore, and it will do a fantastic job of telling you all about it. Give an LLM access to web search, and it will find things for you and tell you what you want to know. Ask it "what's happening in my town this week?", and it will answer that with the tools it is given. Not out of its oracle mind, but out of web search + natural language processing.
Stop expecting LLMs to -know- things. Treating LLMs like all-knowing oracles is exactly the thing that's setting apart those who are finding huge productivity gains with them from those who can't get anything productive out of them.
The problem is that even when you give them context, they just hallucinate at another level. I have tried that example of asking about events in my area, they are absolutely awful at it.
In any high quality codebase I’ve worked in, git bisect has been totally unnecessary. It doesn’t matter which commit the bug was introduced in when it’s simple to test the components of your code in isolation and you have useful observability to instruct you on where to look and what use inputs to test with.
This has been my experience working on backend web services - YMMV wildly in different domains.