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[–] aes@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair, but it's also just a way of saying that programming isn't a task for humans. (At least not in the correctness aspect)

[–] aes@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Could also be a capital thing, which is why I'm curious. Cycling some of our streets here in Stockholm is definitely like, "oh, you had the idea to fit that thing in here" at all the drivers.

[–] aes@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It'd be interesting to see it by weight of those cars. My impression is that Italy has a lot of really small cars, while we here in Sweden have a lot of the US-style Emotional Support Vehicles

[–] aes@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

"Thanks for sharing your story, which nobody knew to ask for", perhaps?

[–] aes@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The second part sounds like a thing phones should already be capable of, if it weren't for trying to charge for something. Or snoop on me. Or something worse I just haven't thought of.

Enshittification is such a downer. Oh, well, guillotines will fix it eventually, I guess.

[–] aes@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

So close! Get one that does poached eggs. It's basically like an ice-cube tray, but the cells are bigger so they fit a whole egg. Only downside is that you need to be quite precise when filling the water. (We use a kitchen scale and measure it to the gram, but it's perfect every time)

The exact model we have is the Cuisinart CEC-10, but I'm sure there are others.

[–] aes@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3umFrR0Bpu1fmXpO1PzDdh?si=NPMlzRCtTZGakiuikO8GEw

This. So much this.

I'm a member of Sveriges Ingenjörer. Fortunately, I've never needed serious union help, but it's probably because the background threat is more than enough. And the salary statistics alone are worth the dues!

[–] aes@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Axioms are not like the others, they're assumed to be true even before considering any evidence or even arguments.

[–] aes@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Yesss... You're not wrong, but I really do believe the solution we want is to be found somewhere in that direction. Considering the Google graveyard, the faang crowd isn't all that reliable either.

[–] aes@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a somewhat surprising position to see in the fediverse...

(I mean, I get what you're saying, and I guess someone should bring that to the party, but there is s different way)

[–] aes@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds reasonable, but a lot of recent advances come from being able to let the machine train against itself, or a twin / opponent without human involvement.

As an example of just running the thing itself, consider a neural network given the objective of re-creating its input with a narrow layer in the middle. This forces a narrower description (eg age/sex/race/facing left or right/whatever) of the feature space.

Another is GAN, where you run fake vs spot-the-fake until it gets good.

[–] aes@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Well, Rust has a lot of string flavors, and I like utf-8 being the norm, but there are a bunch of cases where enforcing utf-8 is a nuisance, so getting string features without the aggro enforcement is nice.

There's probably some fruity way to make this a security issue, but I care about ascii printables and not caring about anything else. This is a nice trade off: the technical parts are en-US utf-8, the rest is very liberal.

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