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yashap commented on People are just as bad as my LLMs wilsoniumite.com/2025/03/... · Posted by u/Wilsoniumite

Jensson · 9 months ago

I have never heard of 7 being a lucky number in western culture and your link doesn't support that. 3 is a lucky number, 13 is an unlucky number, 7 is nothing to me.

So I don't think its that, 7 is still a very common "random number" here even though there is no special cultural significance to it.

yashap · 9 months ago

Hmm really? Even on the Wikipedia page for 7 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7), one of the first things it says is “7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic.” And FWIW you can see the Wikipedia edit history, that isn’t a recent edit, nobody here is messing with it :)

“Lucky Number 7” is a common phrase, there was even a popular movie that played on this, “Lucky Number Slevin” (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0425210/). It’s one of the first numbers I’d think of as a “lucky number.”

yashap commented on A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon mcsweeneys.net/articles/a... · Posted by u/ohjeez

setgree · a year ago

in a slightly different vein: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-work-from-hom...

> OPERATOR: O.K., Robert, you understand that what you just described isn’t really lunch, right?

> ROBERT: It is lunch. When there are no rules, it is lunch, Cherise!

> OPERATOR: Did you at any point dip the green peppers in the peach yogurt?

> ROBERT: Probably. Sorry.

yashap · a year ago

This is great :) Also if anyone else is hitting New Yorker paywalls and can't read this, just disable JavaScript and reload.

yashap commented on Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h? chronotrains.com/en... · Posted by u/vortex_ape

yeputons · a year ago

The map claims a journey from Berlin to Bremen takes 2h57m. My last one took 6h 33m. And it was only a single connection in Hamburg. The Berlin-Hamburg ICE got stuck for a few hours in the middle of nowhere, then a few trains from Hamburg to Bremen got cancelled... The usual stuff.

yashap · a year ago

Ah brutal. Has it got worse recently? Been years since I’ve taken the train in Germany, but they used to be pretty good IMO.

yashap commented on Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h? chronotrains.com/en... · Posted by u/vortex_ape

portaouflop · a year ago

In Germany not so far because the train will be 2+ hours late

yashap · a year ago

Huh really? Whenever I’ve taken the train in Germany it’s been pretty punctual, and looking at the board that’s been the case for most trains. But maybe I just got lucky and/or it’s changed over time.

Flakiest trains I’ve experienced anywhere in Europe were in Italy - rolling strikes among train workers are crazy frequent and cause so many delays and cancellations.

yashap commented on Does current AI represent a dead end? bcs.org/articles-opinion-... · Posted by u/jnord

everdrive · a year ago

I hope so because I'm extraordinarily sick of the technology. I can't really ask a question at work without some jackass posting an LLM answer in there. The answers almost never amount to anything useful, but no one can tell since it looks clearly written. They're "participating" but haven't actually done anything worthwhile.

yashap · a year ago

I hope so, but for different reasons. Agreed they spit out plenty of gibberish at the moment, but they’ve also progressed so far so fast it’s pretty scary. If we get to a legitimate artificial general super intelligence, I’m about 95% sure that will be terrible for the vast, vast majority of humans, we'll be obsolete. Crossing my fingers that the current AI surge stops well short of that, and the push that eventually does get there is way, way off into the future.

yashap commented on JSON5 – JSON for Humans json5.org/... · Posted by u/rickcarlino

dragonwriter · a year ago

> For sure, but most YAML you actually encounter does not use JSON syntax

So what? YAML can be trivially mechanically translated between flow and block syntax.

yashap · a year ago

I want to be able to easily read and understand configuration without having to pop it into a converter. The YAML I encounter in the wild is ~80% pure block style, ~20% mixed (within a single file, mostly block style with some flow style). And I just find the block style hard to read, I have to either spend significant mental effort trying to understand where the objects vs. arrays are, or I have to pop it into a converter (to either JSON or flow style) to understand. Whereas JSON/JSON5, it’s immediately clear without any mental overhead.

yashap commented on JSON5 – JSON for Humans json5.org/... · Posted by u/rickcarlino

marcyb5st · a year ago

What's your take on prototxt files? In my opinion it is the most readable format since you don't need square brackets for repeated fields/arrays.

Additionally plugins let you link your prototxt file with the corresponding proto so you can spot errors right away.

yashap · a year ago

Don’t have any experience with them.

yashap commented on JSON5 – JSON for Humans json5.org/... · Posted by u/rickcarlino

AdieuToLogic · a year ago

> When dealing with large YAML files, I find myself frequently popping them into online “YAML to JSON” tools to actually figure out WTF is going on.

YAML is a strict superset of JSON, so defining the former in the syntax of the latter is fully supported by the spec. Perhaps not by every YAML library, to be sure, but those which do not are not conformant. From the YAML spec[0]:

  The YAML 1.23 specification was published in 2009. Its 
  primary focus was making YAML a strict superset of JSON.

0 - https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/

yashap · a year ago

For sure, but most YAML you actually encounter does not use much in the way of JSON syntax, it looks a lot more like this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/wp-content/uploads/sit...

Where arrays and objects just look too similar (IMO), white space is significant, most strings are unquoted, etc. And personally I find it quite difficult to really understand what’s going on there, at a glance, compared to JSON (or JSON5).

yashap commented on JSON5 – JSON for Humans json5.org/... · Posted by u/rickcarlino

stackskipton · a year ago

Those two criticisms of YAML are at bottom of my list. Space as delimiter and lack of strict typing is what screws me over on daily basis as SRE.

yashap · a year ago

Fair, YAML has a lot of usability warts, and those suck too. Although personally I really do hate how tough it is to tell apart arrays and objects, at least with the most common YAML array/object style.

yashap commented on JSON5 – JSON for Humans json5.org/... · Posted by u/rickcarlino

yashap · a year ago

I’m a fan of JSON5. A common criticism is “we’ve already got YAML for human readable config with comments,” but IMO YAML’s readability sucks, it’s too hard to tell what’s an object and what’s an array at a glance (at least, with the way it’s often written).

When dealing with large YAML files, I find myself frequently popping them into online “YAML to JSON” tools to actually figure out WTF is going on. JSON5 is much easier to read, at least for me.