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[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

That's not how LLMs work either.

An LLM had no knowledge, but has the statically probability of a token to follow another token, and given an overall context it create the statically most likely text.
To calculate such probability as accurently as possible you need as much examples as possible, to determine how often word A follow word B. Thus the immense datasets required.
Luckily for us programmers, computer programs are inherently statically similar, which makes LLMs quite good at it.
Now, the programs it create aren't perfect, but it allows to write long, boring code fast, and even explain it if you require it to. This way I've learned a lot of new things that I wouldn't have unless I had the time and energy to screw around with my programs (which I wished I had, but don't), or looked around Open Source programs source code, which would take years to an average human.

Now there is the problem of the ethic use of AI, which is a whole other aspect. I use only local models, which I run on my own hardware (usually using Ollama, but I'm looking into NPU enabled alternatives).

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Being a developer, I don't care if someone else uses my code. Code is like a brick. By itself it has little value, the real value lies on how it is used.
If I find an optimal way to do something, my only wish is to make it available to as much people as possible. For those who comes after.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is a member since 2004, adopted the euro as its official currency since 2008.

But it is in a rather complicated situation since half of its territory is occupied by Türkiye (Turkey).

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Drones were launched toward an EU nation (Cyprus). As an ally and one of the main EU military powers, France couldn't just turn a blind eye.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They don't make money on the hardware, but on the games sold.

Selling unlocked console would put them at risk of getting cannibalized by Steam.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Probably, but I won't touch that shit unless I have no way doing otherwise.

Edit : As an example, I got an "add or update" stored procedure that start line 5, and ends line... 226.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, you can do pagination, but you need two request : one to select everything, the second to only return the results between id x and id y. Needless to say, the performances are far from ideal.

But in recent version you do skip and take x, which is far easier to write. But my codebase date back to the 2000's, and it uses the old ways.

As an example, an SQL request to filter on an handful of parameters, and paginate, easily amount to 40-50 lines of SQL. And that's the easy ones, because some request uses multiple view, in which case I wouldn't be surprised to find a request doing more than 100 lines of SQL, maybe without even factoring the view in.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I work with a client using an Oracle DB. You have to do multiple request to even do something basic as pagination 😂.

They improved it over the years, but given the choice, I'd advice for anything else than Oracle. I'd even prefer MS Sql, which, given I'm pretty anti-MS, is a miracle.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

To rethink something, it would require to think first.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Because heat diffuse at a limited rate. More heat won't magically make it faster.
Increasing the heat will continue cooking an already heat soaked layer, unable to radiate that heat to the inner layer fast enough.
At best you'll get an overcooked exterior, at worst a carbonized one. In both case, the inner layer will be barely warm, and raw, of course.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There really is an xkcd for everything 😂

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Sound more like you learned the hard way what "abusing the system" mean.

 

Hi friends,

There was many threads lately on that topic, and despite attempts at making all those threads follow the community rules, looks like it will be better to make a megathread in order to avoid drowning other topics under the constant updates about this.

You find bellow multiple sections, containing as much info as possible on every aspect of this topic, including the latest news (as well as older ones), and how to participate in fighting it (if you wish to).

The moderation, even if we do have our own personal opinion on the topic, will try to stay as neutral as possible, which mean all opinion (for or against) are welcome, as long as it respect the rules, especially rule 2.

As a special exception to rule 4, memes are welcome in the comment section, as I saw some good ones in various other topics, as soon as they respect rule 2.

Latest news

Older News

There are probably more, I just posted those which were on c/games

How to participate to the phone campaign

The current campaign focuses on calls to payment processor, and a petition.

Ressources

GoG bundle

MasterCard statement

Breakdown of the situation

The petition on change.orghttps://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-what-we-can-watch-read-or-play
One-tap dial phone numbers, by u/TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone

One-tap dial phone numbers:

Master card


Visa


PayPal


Stripe (unconfirmed)


Script:

I’m calling to urge [company name] to immediately end the policy that unfairly targets the adult content industry. I’m also asking that [company name] sit down with stakeholders- specifically sex workers and adult content creators- to develop solutions that ensure equitable access to financial services, create stability, and reduce harm for sex workers.


Call strategy to be as annoying as possible without abusing call center workers, by u/Pro@programming.dev - source : https://lemmy.world/post/33614184

Strategy in Practice:

194
History tends to repeat itself (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
 

I mostly used /e/os, so no slow charging, nor battery limit (until recently). I'm still leaning toward upgrading to the FP6 (still hesitating), this phone will either become my rom testbed, or my mother phone once hers die.

 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/post/36744

This an an interview with Ross Scott and Steve from the GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy side channel.

⚠️⚠️ Sign here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home ⚠️⚠️

"We got together with Ross Scott of Accursed Farms to discuss the Stop Killing Games initiative that he is presently spearheading. The Stop Killing Games initiative aims to preserve games in a reasonably playable state even after the game's publishers and/or developers abandon it, helping ensure consumers keep some level of what they have paid for rather than having all access revoked and the game destroyed."

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Stop Killing Games
03:26 - The Basics
05:55 - Games Make It Easier to Dismiss
07:17 - Where's Stop Killing Games Now
13:58 - Technical Alternatives to Stopping Service
19:47 - How Would a Law Work
23:50 - Momentum
27:18 - UK Petition
31:45 - Misconceptions
35:51 - Benefits for People Outside the EU
39:36 - Next Steps

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