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Texts, like it or not, do not respect our intentions and live their own lives... The developments are indeed disturbing, and I also puzzle over the ways to navigate the mess they c…

"To close the gates" is only reasonable when you're working (a) not for self-actualization, (b) not for fun, (c) not for learning, (d) not for public good or your understanding the…

It is indeed harder to skim, and I find myself much more relying on syntax highlighting and file outline when working in Ada than in C++. Not due to the lack of punctuation, though…

I strongly support your point, but the example is still sand-in-the-eyes for me. I hold that one symbol should not alter the semantics of a program and there should never ever be s…

Working in vehicle routing optimization for MSB, I would like to share a couple of insights/observations. 1. People can be very creative in solving their problems with your feature…

> If the malicious operator has a superhuman advisor, that will increase their ability Only when it comes to information processing. The inputs may (and will) be incomplete, incorr…

Then, AI's abilities are effectively limited by those of this malicious operator who has to understand and perform what the AI suggests and feed back the results.

> "Those human brains are just synapses firing. They depend on nature to survive. Not a problem" When it comes to AI we have just a lone detached brain, not in control over anythin…

But AI (as we have it today and in the foreseeable future) is nowhere near the definition of a species. It is an enormous _server farm_ doing series of matrix multiplications follo…

It is the same scale argument that allows you to publish a photo of a procession without written consent from every participant.

Probably so: I can't agree with that particular inference. 1. Very often we need generated SQL because writing SQL for primitive CRUD operations is hell tedious and error-prone (as…

Rows are tuples, not objects, and treated as such throughout the code. Only the needed data is selected in the form most appropriate to the task at hand, constructed in a hand-writ…

Doesn't it also mean that any non-trivial migration (e.g. which requires data transformation or which needs to be structured to minimize locking) has to be defined elsewhere, thus …

(not so much of a reply, but more of my thoughts on the discussion in the replies) I would say the topic is two-sided. The first is when we do greenfield development (maybe, of som…

At the microlevel (where we pass actual data objects between functions), the difference in the amount of work required between designing data layout "on paper" and "in code" is oft…

My perspective is that using NoSQL does not save time in data modeling and migrations. Moreover, one has to pay in increased time for these activities, because (a) in most cases, d…

Actually, that's the whole point of RDBs: that you can alter your data model (in most cases) just by a simple DDL+DML query. And it is with NoSQL that you have to manually download…