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What are AoS and SoA?

In the Matrix movies you can upload complex knowledge to a person in seconds. If LLMs could help with this even a little it would be useful. But alas, people like myself who are sl…

Libraries have been renting non-books for a long time. Different communities have different needs. It's not a big deal. Some libraries in the Los Angeles area lend sewing machines,…

That narrows it down to about 50 countries :)

I used Mathematica on a NeXT computer back in 1991. It was a beautiful machine to work on. I did a student project where I simulated the flow of the boundary of a plane region over…

> "...the level of pattern matching you can use when defining functions, as well as the high level of functional composition..." This sounds like your average functional programmin…

Actually, I'm running the backports kernel which is at 7.0 today. $ uname --kernel-release 7.0.10+deb13-amd64 If you run stable, Debian backports takes care of a lot of the popular…

One study (sorry, can't recall the source off the top of my head) claimed 20% of calories in the average U.S. diet was replaced by processed foods over that period. I'm over 50 yea…

New Honda Accord hybrids do not include a spare tire. The manufacturers copied the idiocy.

Can you say a little more about what you mean by "better"? How much faster is editing?

"juniors are useless": Maybe y'all should consider updating this hyberbolic language. Nobody is born a "senior developer", so surely all of your training as a "junior" is not usele…

The one math majors joke about is Serra’s A Course in Arithmetic, which is definitely not for young children.

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> The problem might end up being that the value created by LLMs will have no customers when everyone is unemployed. I'm not a professional programmer, but I am the I.T. department …

I once had a job mopping floors and was quite successful at it, even if I say so myself. Based on my experience, do you think it is reasonable for me to claim that I will eventuall…

I immediately did a "apt install units". Very cool!

Six is the smallest perfect number. Perfection is key here.

They were talking about instability. I had an old Radeon workstation card in my desktop at home for at least a decade, but with the most recent AMD drivers, Firefox (with hardware …

I don't game, but all my computers run Debian Stable, and my oldest child wastes considerable time gaming on Steam. I had to tweak one or two things for him early on, but it all se…

Maybe check out Scott Wlaschin's videos on YouTube. There is one talk for his book "Domain Modeling Made Functional" which, if I remember, was very clear and easy to follow.

> I don't think so. An LLM by default is not trained to be "good"; it's trained to be accurate. I wouldn't use the word "accurate" since it creates language based on probabilities.…

> An observation I've made about Rust is that because it eschews OOP, it tends not to "scale" to large development teams for single applications. Linux is written in C and "scales"…

I just tested both on the text "Look Dick. See Jane. Jane run home. I says you go home to. They eats dinner." LanguageTool does what I would expect. Harper does not. However, both …