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Comment · 24 days ago
In a (maybe un-) related note, Docker is basically this but for using C/C++ libraries. In 40 years no one was able to solve the mess
Comment · 24 days ago
Well, I've always thought we are stuck in a local minimum when it comes to programming languages. Like, programming shouldn't be this hard and shouldn't require so much boilerplate after almost a century. If the actual important logic can be inferred pretty well from markdown specs, that means most of what we write in JavaScript, Go, Java is redundant.

Hopefully someone smarter than me is working with trying to develop a new programming language given what we know to be possible with LLMs

Comment · 1 month ago
Honestly every developer needs to increase those default limits, they are too low for modern development... So you are just crippling them and a proof of that is they keep getting this error while in their regular workflow
Comment · 2 months ago
Using AI is a pretty good indicator that the reader will need to exert more effort than the writer did. Unless the reader also decides to use AI to summarize it, but then what's the point?
Comment · 4 months ago
Would be nice if people published the prompts, thoughts and responses of the LLMs together with the code, in order to fight against these restrictions... Instead of just publishing the final result and talking vaguely about how they prompted the LLM in a Hacker news comment or Twitter thread

If LLMs are the new compilers those are the actual source code

Comment · 5 months ago
Yeah I'd love to see a cookie cutter project with all of the best practices of the boilerplate files
Comment · 6 months ago
I think the issue is about our not believing what religious people themselves tell us about their reasoning
Comment · 6 months ago
At least the compiler was free
Comment · 8 months ago
Yeah, I grew up poor in the 3rd world (not quite Chad level though) and even the upper class culture of my own country was almost alien for us and vice versa... Imagine the 1st world.
Comment · 8 months ago
Yeah, as soon as you don't need children to help with your work, they don't make much sense in the capitalist individualistic society. That women still choose to do it, honestly... I see as a triumph of the human spirit
Comment · 8 months ago
Who do you think is their perceived neighborhood in time and space?

(edit) And moreover, they still need their children to help with their work... So honestly, any analysis that doesn't take this huge confounding variable is just silly

Comment · 8 months ago
People compare themselves to their perceived neighborhood in time and space, not to peasants from 5 thousand years ago.
Comment · 8 months ago
Funny how you don't realize you fit perfectly into the description of one of the groups that know exactly what is going on.
Comment · 9 months ago
That's not how it works. Two bodies are in thermal equilibrium if there's no heat transfer between them: that's the zeroth law of thermodynamics. If you're colder than 2.73K in deep space, you will absorb the heat from the Cosmic Microwave Background. If you're hotter, you will irradiate heat away. So it does have a temperature.
Comment · 9 months ago
Honestly back when I was still in college one and a half decade ago, it was quite clear the whole Nvidia-only ML and AI libraries weren't a good idea

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