Google blew it. They could have stood back and said: "Ha! Microsoft is so desperate for hype, it is irresponsibly linking LLMs to Bing. Google instead stands for reliable search and won't do that." But instead, Google did. They knew better. They all knew better. LLMs have no sense of meaning. They should be nowhere near the expectation of credibility.
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I'm amazed at the level of near religious reverence some people put into The Process in software dev. As if simply doing The Rituals of The Process will magically make good software spring out of teams on time and under budget.
IME the biggest determining factors in success are:
Do project leaders have a clear vision of what is to be created?
Fail at point 1 and you get scope creep, surprise changes in direction, technical debt and chaos
Fail at point 2 and you get confusion and serious morale issues along with needing to redo major work
IMO A process can help. Good communication is required to keep everyone on a large team moving in the same direction. Fit the process to the team/project don't try to force the team to fit The Process
Ah, it's Skulls day. Explains all the Warhammer goodies popping up left and right.
I do like the look of the co-op side that Space Marine 2's getting. You can tell it's by the World War Z game devs what with the differently-jacked-up classes and the rivers of extremely explodable monsters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvlCVDb7PY
Something I love about Mother's Basement trash anime videos is that Geoff distinguishes quite clearly between unwatchable garbage and hilariously over the top salacious trash.
Last boost: I'm surprised folks have earnestly proposed putting RAII into C.
IMO C is more or less a (surprisingly) thin layer of syntax over a particular piece of hardware's instruction set. All its type system really gives you is a nice way to map blobs of memory to something useful to humans without needing to worry as much about CPU specific concerns like alignment.
To add RAII to C would require fundamentally changing how it deals with data.
Saw an article about some dude claiming to be the inventor of Bitcoin and being found to be a fraud. Got me thinking.
Given when it was invented I'm thinking the original writer of the Bitcoin paper was probably a channer that hung around /prog/
A relatively obscure 4chan meme was the idea of "Satoshi" as some kind of programming enlightenment thing. That plus the general financial/political ideals behind crypto (inflation bad, regulation bad etc) also points to older chan culture.
I could easily see Satoshi Nakamoto being a pseudonym for some channer that lived on /prog /g /a and /diy for their manifesto to solve all the world's problems and make a libertarian utopia. All with programming.
Take a meme add a relatively generic Japanese surname and boom pseudonym achieved. The lack of understanding of human factors, RE blockchain in general, would fit a channer too.
@sergi@mogwai_poet I ate at an all you can eat hot pot place in Malaysia that had whole shrimp. It was darkly amusing to see the huge pile of heads left after the meal
