jamiltron

The use of IQ tests is already suspect, but then I saw that the author is tracking the political leanings of LLMs by using that silly economic/authoritarian political compass - so they seem pretty committed to "tracking" useless noise.

Neurodiverse is a wider collection than autism. It's useful to describe a variety of circumstances without needing to enumerate through them.

privilege, noun

a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.

And I'm glad you're privileged enough to be here posting today, boasting of the wealth your workers generate for you :-)

"A small investment" and the ability to take on risk sounds like a significantly privileged position the average worker is not afforded.

That's not what that means at all. Founding a business requires a significant investment of capital.

And as someone who has coded both Python and Ruby on the job, and most recently Scala, I find the amount of time I'm debugging runtime errors much less in Scala, which is very valuable.

I also don't feel the amount of code I am writing to be all that significantly larger than what I was writing in Python/Ruby.

> And makes your code 20% longer

Not necessarily true, especially if you are using a language with type-inference or you are able to encode your logic in types.

Additionally - what do you think unit tests are? They aren't additional code you have to write?

I'm not someone who thinks types completely reduce the need for testing, but I absolutely do not get why dynamic language fans are like "Uhg, I HATE having to write types", but then end up basically reimplementing a type system in a much more verbose testing framework.

You do realize that significantly more complex software has been written for decades without the use of generics, right?

But that's what makes Threes superior, for me - the needing to add 1 and 2, and the fact that they don't match each other makes for a more difficult game that requires much more thought. The fact that you can make matches with the basic tile that has the highest percentage of popping on the board every moves means that there are less consequences to not making the optimal move each turn.

That's just my opinion of course, but 2048 seems annoyingly easy - so much so that the up right down left repeat strategy is very valid to score a somewhat decent score when compared to some players.

2048 is most definitely a clone.

Nope. Games are widely varied in their scope and delivery. I am fairly confident there is no single target.

"We'd like to support the editor on Linux some day" is not "editor support is planned for the future."

I assumed since she is part octopus, she probably just got out of the ocean or something /shrug