I agree which is why we need to get all these evangelical nuts actively trying to destroy the world so that Jesus come back out of power. No more death cults!.
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wudangmonk commented on Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra terathon.com/blog/poor-fo... · Posted by u/ibobev
This explains very nicely why despite working through lots of GA resources, I never quite grasped it. It’s logically incoherent!
The author has books on Geometric Algebra so it makes no sense to assume that he is going against GA as a whole.
wudangmonk commented on Man versus Horse Marathon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man... · Posted by u/harporoeder
Indeed interesting, and it does not surprise me that a human can beat a animal carrying a heavy load (a human) in an endurance event given we are hairless sweaty mammals optimised for endurance rather than speed. Adding a proportional burden for humans (maybe 10kg) would give horses a huge advantage.
It seems the race is also long-term optimised for humans to win. There are a lot more human competitors (> 10:1 ratio). The prize fund increased by 1000 pounds per year until a human won, no doubt attracting faster and faster athletes in increasing numbers.
The course has also been varied making year on year comparisons difficult.
In order to make the race interesting it needs to have a balance between the two, make it too short and the horses will always win, make it too long and the humans will always win.
wudangmonk commented on Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools thenewstack.io/devs-need-... · Posted by u/argoeris
We have the tools and ways to express architecture. The problem is no one is bothering to actually learn it and do it well.
Everyone seems to look for answers involving not having to spend any time learning anything new.
UML, BPMN, 4+1 view, it can do it all. Just learn it and make sure everyone else in your team does too.
Honestly ALL diagrams are a dead end, any system where there is no single source of truth will be a big hassle to maintain and therefore will not be updated which makes the whole thing useless.
The only which I can see working as it has already proven itself for certain tasks is something like the blueprints from the unreal engine but where each node represents something big enough to warrant its own node without any no low level details like variables, conditionals, loops etc. Otherwise you end up with literally spaghetti code.
The whole concept of the devil is problematic. It prevents reconciliation of self and denies us the chance to do better. It cheapens choice and absolves wrongdoers of responsibility for choosing correct action.
Blaming the devil for incorrect action is merely following sin with sin and hiding it all behind a lie. Stand up, take responsibility for your actions and do better. You are not a child to hide behind your mother’s skirts and blame an invisible made up evil for your actions. You are a self, responsible for your choices and accountable for your actions.
There is no devil whispering in your ear, that voice is you. But the angel on your other shoulder is also you and you alone get to choose.
The problem is omniscience. With that, not only do you need a villain to take the blame, you also need a special ability called free-will that gets around the omniscience issue. Otherwise the only conclusion is that your god is both good and evil and chooses who gets to experience which.
wudangmonk commented on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful tulach.cc/writing-gui-app... · Posted by u/wild_pointer
> The result should be a single .exe file with no or minimal dependencies and a size of less than 40MB
Computers come with a modern browser now. Instead of a .exe file, could it be, let's say, a single .html file with inlined image/css/javascript?
So much time spent on creating many different web frameworks to try and replicate the snapiness of native applications when the solution was to make native applications use web-tech so that both are equally slow. Mission accomplished! Genius!.
wudangmonk commented on My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust (2021) ceronman.com/2021/07/22/m... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
I know nothing about rust but if you are struggling against the borrow checker because you want to implement something like linked lists or anything it doesn't want you the obvious solution is to allocate all your memory upfront and create your own allocator where you pass around indexes and thus bypass the borrow checker completely. I think this is what the author does? not really clear as he seemed to be constantly struggling with the language even after that.
I gotta say its not selling me on rust if bypassing the borrow checker with my own allocations still results in having to jump through so many hoops and struggle against the language.
Buffett this, Buffett that. People could do better than idolise someone whose wealth came from parasitic speculation on productive activity.
I got a chuckle out of having the 'expert' be Buffet and the subject be finance. I don't think there is a worse example of a subject that lacks first principles and where vocabulary is used to obfuscate and give it a veneer or credibility. Why not pick astrology? those guys will give insight and agree with each other at a higher rate than anyone in economics.
wudangmonk commented on Mexico’s anti-avocado militias theguardian.com/news/arti... · Posted by u/cyberlimerence
> If Idaho suddenly did this people would freak out, would call it communism, and attack.
Well, of course. People would start taking control of their own lives, and we don't want that. What would come next? The right to control their own body? How ludicrous.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/23/1246611...
It doesn't really make sense to compare it to something in the U.S where both parties fight over meaningless stuff like who can go into which bathrooms and which books you can burn.
In Mexico the local government is the problem since they are often part of the cartels so the only way to change things is for these communities to setup a local milita, kick out the goverment/police and put a very utilitarian government in its place.
I'm using chatgpt daily, but cannot imagine it doing any real software development work for multiple reasons.
It's great as a non offensive stack overflow replacement, but just look at aider benchmarks (amazing work by the way): most capable models really struggle to make basic changes to a real code base.
Does anybody actually using it in practice believes the hype? I thought the hype is just another theatre for investors
EDIT: just some points taken from: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/#code-editing-leaderboa...
- The metric "Percent completed correctly" maxes out at 72.9% with gpt4o, while at the same time, giving out correctly formatted output only 96.2% of the time.
- Benchmark suite is based on https://github.com/exercism/python, which very likely is a part of the training material already! In real code bases, no LLM would have the advantage of seeing new or proprietary code
Its useful for small trivia answers, stuff you might ask google about and read a short paragraph about it as long as it the answer seems reasonable enough.
For coding I have long given up on it. I only see it useful for people that want to do small scripts in languages they are not familiar with or to write toy examples of web/mobile apps.
For art I can sort of see a workflow in adding details to textures and using existing images and 3d assets to guide the generation of images. This is all just my speculation so I could be completely wrong just like the person that knowns very little to no programming thinking they will be able to code whatever they want with it.