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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a wasted opportunity. The angle should have been "Top secret military plans intentionally leaked to the liberal media". The MAGAs would have sent poor little Pete to prison and the cabinet would be eyeing each other with distrust for the next four years.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (7 children)

This is rhe same reason I will never buy a house on slab: gotta hammer up the floor, fix, repour and refloor if you ever need those pipes down below.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Whoa I never considered AI inbreeding as a death for AI 🤔

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Consistency is NOT the most important thing. Correctness is. This guy has been in the trenches flinging shit too long. I work with vendors and do my best to use the subset of their product that actually works correctly. I don't want new features to work like shit just because the old ones did too.

[–] [email protected] 139 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

Cheaper & faster development by leveraging large libraries/frameworks, but inability to automatically drop most unused parts of those libraries/frameworks. You could in theory shrink Electron way down by yoinking out tons of browser features you're not using, but there's not much incentive to do it and it'd potentially require a lot of engineering work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Maybe these schools will be forced to go mask-off and drop all their nonprofit academic programs to focus on football, their true cash cow.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

It's not that they're doing something special, it's a cultual attitude thing. Finns feel content that they have enough, and aren't upset they don't have more. They consider that to mean "happy" for the purpose of these kinds of surveys.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Why is the village depopulated, if there's a huge industrial zone nearby presumably with lots of employees? I was thinking workers might want to buy or rent low cost housing near their workplace if the land is zoned for it and you could get electric and a well, then build some simple small housing. But if they're not buying in the village, might not be a great idea unless there's something wrong or lacking with available properties in the village.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The alternative to no social security, medicare, etc is the kind of human experience you see in a country like India which also doesn't have those sorts of programs. The disabled or old and poor end up either having to depend on their children, if they have any, or living on the streets begging and hoping for charity NGOs to help them.

And so, many areas become rife with poverty and disease. They're not safe, clean places to live let alone raise your kids. India ended up full of little gated communities because of this problem.

That's what America would become without social safety nets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They look delicious. Like you could take a bite.

Hold onto em in case you get hungry 🫄🏻

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Why don't I just Google. It's the same data after all.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Try porting a very small bit of behavior into a new tiny library or module that is Typescript based and independently published. Enable the strictness checks in tsconfig - really, really resist the urge to use any, and enforce that any is disallowed in tsconfig. Familiarize yourself with its utility types that really trip new authors up. "Record" comes to mind here, and others that involve generics if you haven't before worked with generics. Some of the type error messaging can be pretty obtuse - don't be afraid to paste them into an LLM (or use Copilot enhanced Intellisense) to explain what it actually means. IMO the type violation messaging is a weak dev experience point for new authors, so don't sweat it if you occasionally "struggle to make the squiggles go away".

 

Playing complex strategy games for many years, one of the things that irks me the most is that hard AI levels often just give the dumb AI cheats to simulate it being smarter. To me, it's not very satisfying to go against cheating AI. Are any games today leveraging neural networks to supplant or augment hand-written decision tree based AI? Are any under development? I know AI can be resource intensive, but it seems that at least turn based games could employ it.

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