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What are you talking about?

It is telling that I thought “that’s why all trains were late this afternoon” before I realized that the issue occurred only minutes ago.

If this weren’t Deutsche Bahn, I’d say it’s a cyber attack. Given that this is Deutsche Bahn, though, it may just as well be a maintenance issue.

The AI became sentient and ran away.

It doesn’t mean that these “thoughts” influenced their final decision the way they would in humans. An LLM will tell you a lot of things it “considered” and its final output might …

That may be dangerous. The more obscure the topic, the more likely it is that the AI will come up with a working but needlessly convoluted solution.

Exactly. After all, how can WE confidently claim that we’re more than stochastic parrots?

We once rented bikes in Copenhagen, they all looked like they were fresh from the junk yard. We had to try several to find ones where at least one of the brakes was still working. …

You won’t just be viewing an ad, you will have to actively engage in a minute long sales talk with the LLM.

True. I often think of Rust as a best-of compilation of Haskell and C++ (although I read somewhere that OCaml had a greater influence on it, but I don’t know that language well eno…

Surpriiiiiiise!

Mid-30s is maybe a tad earlier than average, but by the age of 40 you’d expect noticeable changes.

If only I had known this earlier in my career! They should really add a feature to make a hard copy of the big bucket list to minimize memory overhead, though.

Most standard containers have no way to communicate allocation failure to the caller in the absence of exceptions (think of constructors that take a size). Worse, the implementatio…

On the other hand, once your embedded system is sufficiently large, people will want to use (and inevitably will use at some point) standard containers such as std::string or std::…

German wages are low? Are you serious?

> Real const data doesn't exist Ever seen a ROM? And the C library‘s hacks around not being able to overload functions (which is the only reason for strstr et al‘s weird signature)…

Huh? Who says so?

But code using these monadic operations can also be quite clean… toy example: auto askForUsername = [&] { … }; auto lookupUserByName = [&](auto name) { … }; auto printUserDetails =…

The idea is to make the accesses safer, not necessarily more readable. The monadic operations make it impossible to access the value in a std::optional without first testing that i…

Not quite the same. Koe/rund (and Kuh/Rind in German) is a lot more like cow/cattle, with rund naming the species and koe a female animal.

How can you wrongly tell someone they might have cancer?

Afaik, underscore-underscore anywhere in a name is reserved in C++ only. C only reserves names starting with underscore-underscore. And yes, you can get away with using these ident…

You’re comparing apples to oranges. The correct analogy is: you pick any other sequence of numbers between 1 and 20 and then tell me you’re more likely to win because your sequence…

My thoughts exactly. The whole article sounds like: “Whoa, so it really IS useful!” Duh!