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I always bring up the example of how the atomic nucleus is taught: Elementary school: Stuff is actually made out of tiny little balls you can't see. Middle school: Those tiny littl…

>now i do the same but cant do more than yell at the LLM to do better. Don't forget to add "Make no mistakes" to the prompt

Always love reading Derek Lowe's writings. One thing confused me, though: >These authors find that it has potent activity against the ion channel TRPM8, and that goes for other 7-n…

>what it is that is considered valuable. I fear we humans are on the losing end of that reconsideration.

>"huh this is actually 90% what I would have written" The last 10% is always the hardest part, though

>What is windows actually good at? The only reason for me still running Windows is for games. But even that is changing rapidly nowadays. I'm still on Win10, even though it's EOL. …

Who knows? I'm an engineer, not a psychic.

>Strongly recommend Outer Wilds. Falling into the black hole the first time was one of my most scared moments in gaming. I was totally panicking lol The Outer Wilds is one of the g…

>because one is tired of typing I consider typing to be secondary to software engineering, but I do concede that for those cases that typing really is the bottleneck, LLMs can cert…

That I disagree with, though. First of all, Go is a garbage collected language, so can't be compared to C. C is a language that is able to target basically every platform under the…

You're right, but that doesn't mean those assembly programmers are suddenly forced to write React. Being an expert at assembly probably means you're an expert in low level programm…

>My big problem is that nobody is working on truly innovative programming languages anymore. How many languages are truly innovative? I'd say the most recent example is Rust, as yo…

>It's like an old ASM programmer telling himself that his obscure assembly knowledge will surely still give him great advantages as he is forced to switch to React.js development. …

>Software engineers feeling down should think about software designed to track medication administration, or validate their tax calculations, or to decide whether to flag you for a…

"Can websites please stop the trend of giving error messages that are like "OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters…

You mean the same company that allowed CDs/DVDs/USB drives to automatically run binaries by simply adding autorun.inf?

>But what I find increasingly common is that I run into these kinds of frictions even when I do behave as a normie. Often, this friction is on purpose. A good example is how websit…

If it forces me to sign in, I'm not trying it.

The same goes for telephony. I reject all phone calls by default, unless I'm expecting a call.

It's only considered "godlike" by those satisfied with mediocrity

>Now you can do something with your time besides writing pointless one-off doo-dads. This is such a disgusting statement that goes against the very core of what open-source stands …

This has been the standard for a long time. What surprises me is that they're not even putting in the effort to hide it anymore.

Compilers and AI are not the same.

>2. There's a strong superposition of "things are bad" and "we are still the best"; These can be reconciled by good old xenophobia: "Yes, things are horrible, but the way they do i…