harry8

Oh dude. You gotta link it after that. I'm asking.

You can write the above and I can respond. The quality of each response is visible to everyone. Your ideas and mine are actually getting reviewed here, now, at least to some degree. Or it can be seen that they are not getting reviewed or indeed there's a non-zero chance that it can be seen that one or both of us is a muppet. Anyone else can chime in and be ignored, or celebrated or anything else.

This is nothing like academic journal peer review, where you can't see the failed submissions for the paper and why. You have no clue if the reviewers were interested in the topic, diligent, drunk or playing politics "support papers from these institutions because they're the good guys, undermine those because they are or aren't from Europe." You have no idea if the paper has since failed to replicate on multiple occasions. You have no idea if you are the first person to actually read the paper and when you have you thoughts, no matter how insightful, well articulated and supported by evidence, those thoughts do not matter to the publication process of that paper, which has been peer reviewed.

Public review by the knowledgeable who care is a very different thing to so called "peer review."

Here, many if not most qualify as peers.

It should be unsurprising if comments here, made in public, capable of being challenged are far higher quality than official "peer review" which has really become a bit of a joke. Has been for quite a long time, to be fair. (And unsurprising if not, it's a web forum).

Peer reviewed and published means precisely excrement in a world where papers are not retracted and failures to replicate are refused publication by the "prestigious" "peer-reviewed" journals that published the original.

Intelligent, reasoned, knowledgeable review going back and forth with the author in public makes "peer review" seem just as silly as it usually is. Review by peer professor's indentured servants aka PhD students is often actually higher quality, if wildly dishonest and quite frankly disgraceful.

We now live in a world where LLMs can produce papers. Actual research is a little more interesting, with or without LLM. The journal peer review system doesn't seem to be helping.

The best training comes from LLM users. Loads in software to train on.

Not so much in accounting, which is a much easier problem.

Software devs eagerly trained their replacement.

At least as many as the number of times I've tried to claim someone else's words and phrases as my exclusive intellectual property in order to profit, because I believe the latter is zero.

I'm used to libraries being release builds so NDEBUG is defined and assert() is compiled out - in debug builds of client code. I'm not understanding what you mean by "standard interface."

What is an assert handler? Is it a debugger for the dump so you can get a backtrace and examine things that way? $ gdb ./prog core Your macro finishes by calling abort() so you have that.

The value of being able to print an arbitrary string, with whatever current variable values you like is not nothing. Printing out a backtrace (if you can with your codebase) is also really useful. Obviously your own macro will print file, line and function. assert(a == b); triggering tells you almost nothing about the failure, why the check was there, what failed etc. It really should.

How does language design evolve where LLMs write the actual code?

doesn't everyone write their own assert macros?

    ASSERT(cond, "msg %s", str_contents); //#ifndef NDEBUG logic
    ASSERT_ALWAYS( ...); 

check the condition, write out the msg, maybe dump a backtrace if that works in your codebase, call abort();.

assert() is just kind of nasty, why use it?

precondition in the function sig is just "We know you don't document and nobody reads it if you do." Which is great, but not worth the control you get writing your own ASSERT_ALWAYS() and being able to s/_ALWAYS//if the performance in release matters.

Alternative for music:

owntone + shairport-sync

Owntone holds your collection on the sever and can stream to airport, airport2, dlna.

Shairport-sync turns a raspberry pi zero 2w, or orange pi zero 2w into an airport {1,2} speaker. Or use a (super cheap) esp32 airport 2 from aliexpress.

Can sync every room in the house with owntone OR "I want my phone or laptop's sound to come out of the speakers in this room"

Owntone has access to your paid spotify account if you want that. Can stream to your phone with http (remotely with wireguard vpn). Also has mpd controls if you want those and can use apple remote app on your phone if you like that.

Owntone, pihole and wireguard is reason enough alone to put an old laptop into service as a home server.

8 years to now may not be indicative of what's to come.

People with script-kiddie level skills now have access to nation-state level attack expertise via LLM.