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Kotlins coroutines are super super super underrated imo. I loved working with them so much before ai. Fuck ai.

Sorry my ignorance, but what does AI have to do with you not being able to use kotlins concurrency model?

Well it uses their emoji so you can see them. At least on my phone using brave. Iirc firefox doesn't reliably render them but I'm not sure

No emoji in Firefox or Chrome here. Firefox does render emoji reliably, no need for the FUD. On Windows, Firefox even renders flags, which the OS does not due to Microsoft's previous issues with countries complaining about maps with disputed borders.

Emojis are not a good solution here anyway (or anywhere where you care about the glyph appearance rather than the meaning) because their presentation isn't fixed.

Fennec (F-Droid's Gecko) renders it all greatly.

I found 2 things helping a lot: 1. Use the desktop app instead of the terminal. It really helps with text readability and structure. 2. Avoid opus 5 - 4.6 and 4.8 work much better. 4.6 being by far the easiest to read and also just a good collaborator, you should try it again. Fable also if you can afford it.


Opus 5 writes absolute garbage, I do have the skill in question installed and it did not help much. Me and everybody on my team downgraded to 4.8 - instant improvement.


Severance is a truly amazing tv show


From the first lines I’ve thought the post was set in the series (probably because of the name Mark), but apparently there’s no connection here.

(Though thinking about it... severed people do play a similar role in Severance as LLMs do in our world, don’t they?)


I discovered the show recently and thought that was a part of the point, but apparently the show's development long predates LLMs!


Looked it up – the pilot script is from 2015, wow! (“Attention is All you Need”, the paper GPT-1 was based upon, is from 2017.)


> Though thinking about it... severed people do play a similar role in Severance as LLMs do in our world, don’t they?

…

What?


In case you haven’t seen Severance, here’s the premise: “severed” people in the series have their mind split in two personas basically, with separate memories and personality traits. The work persona, an “innie”, is then tasked with a dull job, while the “outie” gets the salary for it. https://www.severance.wiki/severance_procedure

In reality, we’re tasking the LLMs with dull work, and use their output for our benefit. It’s a stretch, yeah.


Well imagine what it would be like to experience the experience of an LLM.

Just imagine they are conscious for the time they are autogressing.

Wouldn't it be like the experience of the Severed?


It's only a change on paper, in reality it was unrealistically low for a long time


Is that ever since 1.8 made the whole game engine vastly less efficient? The game used to run with 256MB.


> The game used to run with 256MB.

These are system requirements - not how much the game actually uses.


There's modpacks, e.g. fabulously optimized. It makes mc playable but 256MiB basically gets you to the Java runtime nowadays.


Less efficient but faster, which is a fun combination. At least they seem to have improved FPS.


That's probably because you got a new graphics card some time in the last 10 years.


The stuff they're rendering has to come from somewhere.

They go hand in hand, the bigger the render area, the more game has to be simulated at once.


Not true. Render distance and simulation distance were decoupled years ago.


It's possible to simulate less than you can see, but it's pretty undesirable. The recommendations scale with this.


SPD has no integrity either way


Let's just remember that spd unironically thought the CumEx expert Scholz should be given the highest position in the government.

After that debacle I honestly cannot understand how anyone with even an iota of integrity can vote for them again and think any of them would ever act in the interests of their people


"After that debacle I honestly cannot understand how anyone with even an iota of integrity can vote for them again"

Well, there is actually a very old song about them, here in a new version (that is also already quite old by now)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vFL0QWxugI

But the answer is probably lack of real alternatives.


The slogan "Wer hat uns verraten? – Sozialdemokraten!" has a rather long history. Coined by communist during the 1918 November Revolution, it referenced the social democrats at least tentative support of the suppression of the communist revolution and the murder of Karl Liebknecht und Rosa Luxemburg.

During Weimar times it was popular with both right-wing and left-wing forces. The Nazis - who sent social democrats to the concentration camps - also used it in their propaganda.

As much as I disagree with many of the things today's social democrats say and do, it's worth remembering that this slogan was popularized and predominantly used by anti-democratic forces. It's not a particularly fair thing to throw around carelessly.


FUCK the US government. That's it, I am rooting for China now


Isn't composition (react style) better for GUIs anyways?


That’s a good point.

Usually when people say to prefer composition over inheritance, that does not apply to the inheritance found in GUI, but as an alternative way to share behaviors as a property, « has a » instead of « is a », like has a role instead of being a user, admin..

That do not work well with GUI, where hundreds of of components are reusing common containers, widget behavior, it would be very verbose and painful to always declare common behaviors, data.

I think, React is cheating because it’s based on the web which already provide DOM node components and JavaScript, a GC language where most rust issues do not apply, there is already an underlying composition framework, the problem is that it is not easy to reproduce in rust.


It does on COM, but FOSS tends to disregard learnings from commercial platforms.

See VB 5 and 6 (when VBX got replaced by COM), and anything WinRT, UWP, WinUI.

The work Microsoft has been doing on windows-rs translates quite good into Rust, unfortunately the team doesn't like using designers.


There is also a specific kind of human that produce the slop on their own, without the need of an ai. Eg you ask a simple question and they talk for 5 minutes


5-30% is what a sizable amount of people upgrade their hardware for


looks at ancient desktop rig still doing everything I ask of it

Huh.

I wonder if they're the same people who complain that they don't have enough money to live.


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