Well, I’m generally very anti-LLM but as a library author in Java it has been very helpful to create lots of similar overloads/methods for different types and filling in the corresponding documentation comments. I’ve already done all the thinking and I just need to check that the overload makes the right call or does the same thing that the other ones do – in that particular case, it’s faster. But if I myself don’t know yet how I’m going to do something, I would never trust an AI to tell me.

(structuring inheritance) before the Jesus Club took over

and then it took humanity another 2000 years to move away from inheritance in favor of composition. you’d think someone would’ve realized sooner that it’s not always the right abstraction…

Language designer for a widely used programming language. Basically I want to be Brian Goetz

? the feature is still available in the US

That’s not quite right. In bytecode, lambdas are significantly more efficient than anonymous class instances. So while the lambda implementation is semantically equivalent, characterizing it like you have is reductive and a bit misleading.

Man, the onion buying infowars was the one good news story this entire month… of course we can’t even have that

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This article seems to imply they’ll withdraw charges for all parties, but the statement reads like they will only withdraw charges for the people confirmed dead…? Which is it

• yellow
• male
• round face, beard, brown hair, mid 20s (I think probably some internet-famous person whose name I don’t remember)
• small plastic ball filled with air
• a simple square table with a natural wood top and legs

That was my first thought. But then (before reading the questions) I also imagined other similar scenarios like with a soccer ball and my desk at work, lol.

My experience with this experiment was kind of like when they play memory flashbacks in movies, I could see the ball being pushed and falling, but with jump cuts and the timing was off. Detail-wise I’d say it was kinda like what you got from AI image generation when Dall-E first came out two-ish years ago.

I don’t think I have the most visual imagination out there but if aphantasia is one end of the scale I’m pretty far to the other side.

I bet this is going to be some sort of gotcha about how people didn’t feel the need to “deprogram an extremist liberal”, so obviously everyone is out to get the poor poor conservatives who just want to be vile in peace

This is a decent explanation of gradient descent but I’m pretty sure the meme is referencing the color gradients often used to highlight when something is AI generated haha

is that the one that says “fuck the color blind” because if so hey!! that’s not nice

Mmh, I see what you mean. Fair enough!

…what? How do you expect them to demonstrate their intelligence within the span of a single comment, without telling you? This “comeback” doesn’t work if their intelligence constitutes actually relevant context.

The artists I like don’t put out CDs with their music so no.

Apple Music allows you to add arbitrary audio files to your cloud-synced library. I believe it will even generate streaming revenue for the artist if the file is recognized to also be in the catalog of iTunes Match (but I’m not sure on that one).