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The '—' gave it away. No one types this character on purpose.
I do all the time, but might have to stop. Same with `…`.
In the words of Michael Bolton, "Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."
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#412Fun fact. I posted that post into Claude and asked if it was AI. Claude totally trashed the post.
Perhaps for your next post you could ask Claude for the definition of a "fun fact".
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> Much like how curly braces in C are placed because back in the day you needed you punch card deck to be editable, but we got stuck with it even after we stared using screens. Can you expand on this? What do curly braces have anything to do with punch card decks being editable? What do screens?
Each punch card was it's own line of text. By putting the final curly brace on it's own card, and hence line, it meant you could add lines to blocks without having to change the old last line. E.g. the following code meant you only had to type a new card and insert it. for(i=0;i But for following had to edit and replace an old card as well. for(i=0;i This saved a bit of typing and made errors less likely.
I'm dubious of this explanation because C itself largely postdates punched cards as a major medium of data storage, and some quick searches doesn't produce any evidence of people using punch cards with C or Unix.
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Unfortunately that seems to be the norm now – people literally reduce themselves to a copy-paste mechanism.
To be honest, I do not understand this new norm. A few months ago I applied to an internal position. I was a NGO IT worker, deployed twice to emergency response operations, knew the policies & operations and had good relations with users and coworkers. The interview went well. I was honest. When asked what my weakness regarding this position I told that I am a good analyst but when it comes to writing new exploits, t…
I posted a job for freelance dev work and all replies were obviously ai generated. Some even included websites that were clearly made by other people as their 'prior work'. So I pulled the posting and probably won't post again.
Who knew. AI is costing jobs, not because it can do the jobs, but it has made hiring actual competent humans harder.
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#415More than half of the ads I get on Youtube these days are shovel-sellers with messages like
"We have reached a point where anyone can build an app without knowing how to code".
So obviously this kind of thing is going to happen. People are being encouraged by misleading marketing.
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#416I wonder how many university degrees have been passed using ai?
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* Trying 20.54.123.42:443... * Connected to api.openai.azure.com (20.54.123.42) port 443 (#0) * ALPN, offering h2 * ALPN, offering http/1.1 * successfully set certificate verify locations: * CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8): * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake,…
Fascinating trace — what you’ve essentially demonstrated here is not just a failed TLS handshake culminating in a 500, but the perfect allegory for our entire discourse. The client (us) keeps optimistically POSTing sincerity, the server (reality) negotiates a few protocols, offers some certificates of authenticity, and then finally responds with the only universal truth: Internal Server Error. If helpful, I can follo…
CURLOPT_EXISTENTIAL_DREAD struck fear into my heart. Working as intended.
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#418Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be honest, I do not understand this new norm. A few months ago I applied to an internal position. I was a NGO IT worker, deployed twice to emergency response operations, knew the policies & operations and had good relations with users and coworkers. The interview went well. I was honest. When asked what my weakness regarding this position I told that I am a good analyst but when it comes to writing new exploits, t…
I posted a job for freelance dev work and all replies were obviously ai generated. Some even included websites that were clearly made by other people as their 'prior work'. So I pulled the posting and probably won't post again. Who knew. AI is costing jobs, not because it can do the jobs, but it has made hiring actual competent humans harder.
Plus, because it's harder to just do a job listing and get actual submittals, you're going to see more people hired because who are hired because of who they know not what they know. In other words if you wasted your time in networking class working on networking instead of working on networking then you're screwed
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#419Crazy how he doubled down by just pasting badger's answer into Chat and submitting the (hilariously obvious AI) reply: > Thanks for the quick review. You’re right — my attached PoC does not exercise libcurl and therefore does not demonstrate a cURL bug. I retract the cookie overflow claim and apologize for the noise. Please close this report as invalid. If helpful, I can follow up separately with a minimal C reproduc…
Unfortunately that seems to be the norm now – people literally reduce themselves to a copy-paste mechanism.
We're that for genes, if you trust positivist materialism. (Recently it's also been forced to permit the existence of memes.)
If that's all which is expected of a person - to be a copypastebot for vast forces beyond one's ken - why fault that person for choosing easy over hard? Because you're mad at them for being shit at the craft you've lovingly honed? They don't really know why they're there in the first place.
If one sets a different bar with one's expectations of people, one ought to at least clearly make the case for what exactly it is. And even then the bots have made it quite clear that such things are largely matters of personal conviction, and as such are not permitted much resonance.
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Seems to me like people have to push back more directly with a collective effort; otherwise the incentives are all wrong.
What I don't get, is why people think this action has value. The maintainer of the project could ask an LLM to do that. A senior dev. I can't imagine Googling for something, seeing someone on (for example) stackoverflow commenting on code, and then filing a bug to the maintainer. And just copy and pasting what someone else said, into the bug report. All without even comprehending the code, the project, or even runnin…
I read a paper yesterday where someone had used an LLM to read other papers and was claiming that this was doing science.