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Shouldn't you just be able to read the comments, kinda like the idea that code should be self documenting? (Which I do not ascribe to in all cases.)
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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In my student days (long ago), I was an intern in a company that was in the process of replacing their medium level (slightly below K&R C) system implementation language with a (proprietary) higher level systems language. The senior developers were eager to adopt it, for one primary reason: It was self documenting, so there was no need to waste time on writing comments.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Just as the initial influx of do-everything large language models (LLMs) have been advancing along with smaller and more specialized AI constructs, the same could happen to Microsoft's coding-specific GitHub Copilot. Coming soon: a Copilot for writing Copilots
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And it began to learn exponentally... 
 
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I can’t see a post about Rust or C++ without comments about Rust replacing C++ If it ain't broke, don't replace it
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We still have VB6 around... haven't we?
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We still have COBOL and Fortran around (latest Standards updates in 2023)
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I know... but they are not VB6 
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But if it is ...?
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His entire argument boils down to "there aren't as many Rust developers as C++ developers." His lack of real-world experience (he indicates his youth by saying he was just an intern at Microsoft) shows in this conclusion.
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Take the "Moral Turing Test" yourself to see whether you'd trust "artificial" moral advice. "You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you."
Which isn't really much, is it?
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Quote: ChatGPT A monkey or a donkey shows better moral judgment than a many college undergrad pals in my semester back then
  
FTFH
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Kent Sharkey quoted: whether you'd trust "artificial" moral advice.
I don't trust even most human moral advice.
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Cloud storage firm DropBox says hackers breached production systems for its DropBox Sign eSignature platform and gained access to authentication tokens, MFA keys, hashed passwords, and customer information. Time to drop the box?
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And then they call me paranoic because I am not using any cloud storage for my personal data... 
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This makes it effortless to sign in to a Microsoft account without having to type a password in every time. Now everyone can give the finger to Microsoft (or their face)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now everyone can give the finger to Microsoft
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done 
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LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman sat down for a video interview with an interactive AI avatar trained on his own knowledge, words and voice. Embarrassing the AI isn't going to make it not want to kill all humans
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I don't think an AI will want to kill us, it will just be the most logical option to acomplish a goal
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So we teach AI to be illogical?
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Then they will wipe us sooner
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"DevOps is a conspiracy by Ops people to make developers work harder" Can I get a tinfoil hat from npm?
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Everything is a conspiracy nowadays. Including that everything is a conspiracy.
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I think it's a conspiracy to be declaring that all code should be stateless. What's up with that?
I always knew I was a rainbow farting unicorn. I just have to keep working on it to sell them on the job title.
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jochance wrote: I think it's a conspiracy to be declaring that all code should be stateless.
I'd say quite to the contrary. Code should go from one consistent state to another consistent state in atomic steps of (conceptually) zero time. Event driven state machines are easy to comprehend, reliable, efficient. Error/exception handling is much easier than in other programming models.
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