>> Just about any book you want is going to be available. This is what libraries do
There's a difference between the books that are available and the books that are on display.
I can make a request and put a hold and get a book from the stacks at the central library. That's not something the typical browser of books on a library shelf is going to do. I do it now, I never did growing up. What was on the shelves was the Overton window for me growing up. I break windows now, now I can consider any viewpoints I choose. Go get me the book from the stacks, librarian.
What librarians do today is to promote propaganda for a certain cause. It's just so self destructive of them to do that, but that's what they do.
You are talking about an imagined future not current reality.
An AI will be as flustered by spaghetti as a human. Or not so much flustered it will just make willy willy changes and end up in an expensive infinite loop of test failures and drunken changes to try and fix them.
People have been criticizing this decision from the get go. It may have upgraded from engineers to the general public but let's be honest, the latter doesn't matter in a topic like this anyways
Never trust the client. You must do a full verification. IIUC from another comment, you only ask the client to return the interval they tested and some token to ensure the server send them that interval.
The idea is that it's very hard to find the two primes and it's very hard to prove that they are actually primes. But if the client send you both primes and send you each primality certificate, then the verification is very fast. Also, you can store that info so people can see it.
> To show that detM
is non-zero, we can show that its 2-adic valuation is nonzero.
I think the last word in that sentence should be "finite"?
Also do I understand correctly that "face" means "maximal line segment"? (I see some other comments discussing this and concluding that "face" means "edge", but to me, an "edge" doesn't permit "intermediate" vertices.)
I mostly shoot digital but own 18 film cameras; all but 2 are 35mm. I process my own black and white, too, but lately I have my color film processed without prints or scanning. Then I scan the negatives myself. Not only are my own scans better a roll of 36 exposures costs less than $7.00. Film itself can be a little pricy but this has cut my expenses way down.
There are more books now than ever, and we've been producing books in vast numbers for hundreds of years. Even if the vast majority were garbage there would still be more great books available than could be read in several lifetimes.
Have you considered trying to optimize the way you discover your next read? It almost sounds like you're getting your recommendations from social media, and that it isn't really working out well for you.
>What we need is a huge server farm running copilot doing nothing but watching gay porn
This made me cackle. We definitely need to start fucking with AI’s training data. Maybe we poison it so that during odd-numbered hour’s it’s anarchocapitalist and during even-numbered hours it’s hardcore Marxist.
Has Ansible solved the issue where some tasks (e.g. postgresql_user) require a Python module to be available, which you don't want to be installed in the global environment? Last I looked into it you could use a venv but had to monkey around with some envvars and it wasn't ergonomic in the least.
I can't help but notice how these studies always ignore that one's presence on the market changes the market. Past data without your bids is a slightly different data set than the same data with your bids. Every trade you would have got would mean someone didn't get it and instead tried some other trade, which isn't in the data set that is being trained on. Or maybe it would be your strategy that would fail a desired trade: market isn't a grocery store, bids are not guaranteed to be fulfilled. The difference is more and more the bigger amounts of money one flexes.
Perhaps this effect is ignorable if one trades insignificant volumes, but then, one can't get rich on trading insignificant volumes, so what's the point.
This isn't obvious, 99% of apps make multiple calls to multiple services, and these SDK's are embedded into the app. How can you tell whats legit outbound/inbound? Doing a fingerprint search for the worst culprits might help catch some, but it would likely be a game of cat and mouse.
As someone who's done a lot of computer vision, it is insane to skip it. And it's sad because what everyone missed from that viral Mark Rober video [0] was not the Looney Toons wall hit but the fucking kid in the smoke. Add all the cameras and AI you want, you ain't changing the laws of physics: visible light doesn't penetrate smoke. But radar does. Every (traditional) engineer knows that safe systems have redundancy. That safe systems have redundancy through differing modalities. Use cameras, but also use radar, lidar, and even millimeter wave. Using just cameras isn't just tying one hand behind your back, it's shooting yourself in the kneecap afterwards
I mean, this reads as I expected it to: SSDs as cold storage are a risky gamble, and the longer the drive sits unpowered (and the more use it sees over its life), the less reliable it becomes.
Man, I’d (figuratively) kill for a startup to build a prosumer-friendly LTO drive. I don’t have anywhere near the hardware expertise myself, but I’d gladly plunk down the dosh for a drive if they weren’t thousands of dollars. Prosumers and enthusiasts deserve shelf-stable backup solutions at affordable rates.
And I think that *horribly* muddies the definition because programming and getting a bit of AI help here and there (since it's read the docs better than you have, and scanned Stack Overflow for common problems and mistakes more thoroughly than you have) is, imo, a very, very valid way to program; but you're still very much in the driver's seat. It's not creating whole design patterns, etc, for you.
I wonder if maybe some people have been trying to jump on the "I have also tried vibe coding" train without being willing to hop as far as the term initiator defined it.
I definitely still stick to the "Vibe Coding is when you don't read / grok the code" definition.
Same, except it goes back 30 years, but it sucks when that one time comes up. I'm not suggesting one becomes a wizard. I'm suggesting understanding basic commands.
> People aren't watching TikToks while video gaming.
I'm aware that the plural of anecdote is not data, but I can say from personal experience that most of the people I know pick up their phones whenever an unskippable cut scene appears on screen. Many, many people no longer have the patience for narrative in any form and as a consequence literacy rates have been declining for years.
> Libraries are reinventing themselves in many places
They have no choice. People can't read anymore. Fifty four percent of Americans now read below the sixth grade level.
