Readit NewsI am interested whether anyone knows how precedented this sort of situation is. It seems like a certain portion of the spectrum was intended to be used for one thing, and now part of it might be sold for another purpose, causing the original users to have to adapt to the reversal. How often has this sort of thing happened?
stephendause commented on I'm dialing back my LLM usage zed.dev/blog/dialing-back... · Posted by u/sagacity
One point I haven't seen made elsewhere yet is that LLMs can occasionally make you less productive. If they hallucinate a promising-seeming answer and send you down a path that you wouldn't have gone down otherwise, they can really waste your time. I think on net, they are helpful, especially if you check their sources (which might not always back up what they are saying!). But it's good to keep in mind that sometimes doing it yourself is actually faster.
stephendause commented on Programming on 34 Keys (2022) oppi.li/posts/programming... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
My coworker has a similar setup and loves it. Personally, it feels diametrically opposed to the way that I like to use my keyboard. I don't even like holding Shift to type `{`, `_`, etc when programming. I wish I had dedicated keys for those and other common symbols. I don't mind moving my hands a few inches at all, but for some reason, it feels cumbersome to me to hold down a key to activate another layer. To each their own, of course.
If he's under the legal limit, does it matter if he had a drink?
Yes. You can be judged to be intoxicated even if you are under the limit.
This seems far from the best way to accomplish the goal, and has been turned into a big photo op, which to me comes across as a probable discount for publicity trade, indicating Boston Dynamics being surprisingly desperate for real world use cases. For all the progress in autonomous robots, maybe they’re actually in a sort of uncanny valley of generalization: more general than previously possible, but not general enough to unlock most tasks that previously couldn’t be automated.
What are more cost-effective ways of accomplishing the same goal?
stephendause commented on I reduced (incremental) Rust compile times by up to 40% coderemote.dev/blog/faste... · Posted by u/davikr
Awesome. I there any chance of this change or something like it getting merged into the rustc compiler?
stephendause commented on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) norvig.com/21-days.html... · Posted by u/janchorowski
A friend of mine in a senior role uses it all the time and says it 2-3x'd their productivity. He architects everything using experience but simple but time-consuming sub-routines are done via an LLM. He also uses it to create tests for his code and is quite happy with how it performs in these areas.
What language does he program in? ChatGPT and CoPilot have increased my productivity, sure, but I don't know if they've multiplied it by 2, and definitely not 3. I mostly program in Rust, and while they are good, they still often produce things that don't compile. Iterating back and forth to get something that works takes time, and it feels to me like sometimes doing it alone would've been almost as quick.
I could possibly be way off in my estimations, though. A true comparison would be having me do a task with and without it, but of course once I've done it once, the next time I will do it faster.
Adopt who? There is almost no children available for adoption, only highly handicapped children who needs an auxiliary family.
Might be easier with a donor egg, but where are you going to get that? Egg donation is highly regulated and many would find it hard to get a donor. Of course this solution also requires a donor egg, so you'd already need to have that available.
This is not true, at least in the United States. For one thing, there are many children in foster care who want to be adopted. It is also possible, though difficult and expensive, to adopt infants from mothers giving up their children for adoption as well. I am not saying it's an easy option or that everyone should do it, but it is an option.