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Comment · 19 days ago
How do they avoid janky crap? Based on their previous few source code leaks, they don't.

Keep in mind that Anthropic is first and foremost trying to sell you something.

Comment · 26 days ago
Code can be efficient, code can be readable, code be maintainable... or none of those.

Art? While me and my colleagues had their own little style differences, I wouldn't call it art.

Comment · 26 days ago
Not really a good comparison, sometimes I still quickly use the washboard than load up the washing machine when all is needed is a quick rinse, or when the washing machine is running and I don't want to leave a mess.

I get what you're going for, but it's not a good comparison.

Comment · 1 month ago
Eh, I eat meat almost daily (chicken breast) and I'm fully aware of what entails the butchering of animals. Even had a pet rabbit at my grandfather's when I was a kid, that one day disappeared and the next day we ate rabbit meat. Just like when I cleaned up the squirrel that was torn in half by my cats, I see it all as a part of life.

Doesn't mean that I wouldn't prefer if it all came from grown meat, rather than the entire industry that we have now. If the taste, texture and looks are the same, why shouldn't we switch (if those 3 factors are the only important ones)?

Comment · 1 month ago
This was also exactly what I was taught in school when I was 10 years old. We also saw examples of other maps from other parts in the world that put their location front and center.

That this map is a derivative of "a decolonization map", should be clear to anyone that this is just political posturing and not anything of actual use.

Comment · 2 months ago
In the parts of Europe where I've lived, Western/Northern EU, the ERs nickname motorcycle as "donor-wagons".
Comment · 3 months ago
What's even more worrying is that I've heared plenty of people defend it as, "Younger generations are just intelligent in different ways compared to older generations."

I'm halfway through my 30's and this downturn started with my generation, halfway through the 80's. I hope I'm missing something, because I still need to see a benefit for lower attention spans, lower comprehensive reading skills and lower critical thinking capabilities.

Comment · 3 months ago
They're not banning code written and maintained with the use of LLM's. They're banning projects entirely created by LLM's and heavily (or solely) maintained by LLM's.

It's basically not allowing junkfood on their platform. Now that code is easier than ever to barf out, so will the amount of junk.

As for tossing out any and all crypto projects... how is anyone still willing to associate themselves with that pile of garbage?

Comment · 3 months ago
Everything we know and see has proven that progress is exponential.

Your statement that progress or intelligence is binary has no basis outside of intentional and ignorant pessimism.

Comment · 4 months ago
1. Is not a gamer's dream. It's terrible and you'll find out quite fast you're not interested in everyone's background and scream to most NPC's to shut the fuck up and get to the point.

It's just as terrible as injecting 'realism' in games for the sake of 'realism'.

Comment · 4 months ago
You can also paint by squashing flies against a wall. Doesn't mean it's a good, or efficient, idea.
Comment · 6 months ago
The full diversity of life sounds wonderful, as long as you're not the one suffering painful, disfiguring or crippling conditions.
Comment · 8 months ago
Babylon 5.

When people asked me what I preferred, "Star Wars or Star Trek?", I've always responded with "Babylon 5".

Comment · 8 months ago
I wonder what happened to the old addage of "only 10% of the time you actually spend coding, the rest of the time is figuring out what is needed".

At the same time I see people claiming 100x increases and how they produce 15k lines of code each day thanks to AI, but all I can wonder is how these people managed to find 100x work that needed to be done.

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