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va1a

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    Comment #48177881

    I've noticed, as a student, that many college students - particularly those not in STEM/engineering fields - have an almost irrational hatred of AI. It's to the point where they'll…

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    Comment #46876237

    And yet, it still takes 5 minutes for my canvas preview to load, and one in 20 times it crashes the whole app.

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    Comment #46862091

    More realistically I think you'd need something like "Now write your post in the style of a space pirate" with a 10 second deadline, and then have another LLM checking if the two p…

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    Comment #44974319

    Is this meant to detract from their situation? These tech stacks are mainstream because so many use them... it's only natural that AI would be the best at writing code in contexts …

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    Comment #44956153

    It's a hardware wallet that just looks cool. Where's the "black mirror vibes". There's not much nefarious tech here.

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    Comment #44618210

    Fun video, you can really feel the 2012 in it too.

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    Comment #44618156

    More specific shenanigans aside, JavaScript will always be the king of unintuitive syntax. Some of these f-string tidbits are very much strange, but you'd have to be implementing s…

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    Comment #43813574

    Every now and then since deleting my account I click on a link to an X post and am reminded I can't read the replies, and then I am thankful again to my past self for deleting my a…

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    Comment #43798810

    It's interesting, this concept of "just following orders" recurs so much in almost all contexts. War behavior really seems to be the baseline of human interaction. https://en.wikip…

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    Comment #42468940

    Fair, but in the context of scripting, which seems to be the focus of this article, how often are you dealing with complex library code? When I write scripts for file manipulation …

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    Comment #42467685

    > but the Python API isn't all that wonderful, and dynamic typing means that I spend too much time debugging I don't know, this just seems more like inertia. "I'd rather stick to w…

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    Comment #42394350

    Didn't know about pep 750, that's really cool that there's a push for native templating. I just hope we see a gradual stepping away of "everything clientside" and the JS framework …

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    Comment #42222725

    The Knights of the Sun

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    Comment #42152420

    Maybe even in a game period. Beautifully done remake.

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    Comment #42120951

    Yeah it seems like this would also increase airflow. Is there any possible issue with just having it upside down all the time?