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I agree but to be fair, often people could have asked an AI to get their answer. Especially seniors are prone to this (thinking the AI could not possibly know this or other biases)…

One honestly caveat:

Hard to say exactly what went wrong from outside, but a frontier model not being able to implement a simple CRUD feature after 3x8 = 24 hours of work isn't "it can't do this". Let …

The article is not about generative AI at all.

Predictably, now office workers and engineers (including here) will say "What I always knew - LLM's can't think, be creative, don't have nuance. My job is safe!". I predict the art…

Sometimes it makes up strawmans where it implies you wrote or implied something insanely stupid and then "corrects" this. My interpretation of it is that it has been taught to give…

Titanium dioxide is now an IARC 2B suspected carcinogen.

Btw titanium dioxide is now a suspected carcinogenic. It is illegal in food in the EU now.

Wrong there are plenty of other ingredients. In fact one of those ingredients that is permitted in EU and not US is ecamsule. It is quite nice, it absorbs the UV photons by switchi…

My concurrency knowledge is a bit rusty but aren't spinlocks only supposed to be used for very brief waits like in the hundreds of cycles (or situations where you can't block... li…

But if that is so why this focus on the few clock cycles of dispatch?

I don't understand this focus on micro performance details... considering that all of this is about an interpretation approach which is always going to be slow relatively speaking.…

The worst is when the only 'dismiss'-option is "I will do it later"... even if you have no intention of ever doing it... essentially forcing you to lie. It has been a while since I…

Well it also means it could be a good time to buy so you won't have to pay even more overprice for the same performance years down the line. I just bought one a good month ago. My …

Yes I agree, I was just responding the article's "“We cannot reverse a mutation once it occurs, ..." I don't think that is entirely accurate. Also, I think it is a dynamic process,…

"The young tanning bed users had more skin mutations than people twice their age, especially in their lower backs, an area that does not get much damage from sunlight but has a gre…

I have always enjoyed it. I have even gotten comments "can you really do anything in such a short period of time" but i have found that even 20 min sessions on a commute can be eff…

> . As for writing, well, I have been working on this little blog post, on and off, no joke, for six years. But the screenshot says the md file was created in 2009, so that would b…

"When VACUUM runs, it removes those dead tuples and compacts the remaining rows within each page. If an entire page becomes empty, PostgreSQL can reclaim it entirely." Is this true…

It is often not just about the difficulty of estimation the time for specific tasks but also what the assumptions put in were. Sometimes these assumptions werent written out explic…

How many additions have there even been outside of AVX-x? And even AVX-2 is from 2011. If we ignore AVX-x the last I can recall are the few instructions added in the manipulation s…

I have also had to work with this in many contexts... Deeply embedded systems with no parsers available and where no "proper" ones would fit. So i have hand written but basic parsi…

What's up with the Galileo hate? Even if he couldn't derive the area of a cycloid, doesn't give justification to condemn a whole scientific career (Galileo is the most overrated fi…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy Essentially: you advance a claim that you hope will be interpreted by the audience in a "wide" way (avoid = eliminate) even t…