Ah yes, the astrological symbol of cancaurus.

No body wants to toil anymore!

I wonder if they could be made better by doing that parboil-freeze-deepfry trick that makes mcdonalds fries so good

doctors hate this one trick…?

I guess the mummy’s curse will be the patent trolls that keep greening the delivery mechanism to prevent generics from entering the pharmaceutical market.

Did you even read my earlier comment?

I explicitly meant “as”. It’s great as autocomplete. Not as an agent to complete programming tasks.

Well, this kind of AI won’t ever be useful as a programmer. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t reason. It cannot make decisions besides using a ton of computational power and enormous deep neural networks to shit out a series of words that seem like they should follow your prompt. An LLM is just a really, really good next-word guesser.

So when you ask it to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem, great it can do that. Because it saw someone else’s answer. But if you ask it to solve it for a tower than is 20 disks high it will fail because no one ever talks about going that far and it flounders. It’s not actually reasoning to solve the problem - it’s regurgitating answers it has ingested from stolen internet conversations. It’s not even attempting to solve the general case because it’s not trying to solve the problem, it’s responding to your prompt.

That said - an LLM is also great as an interface to allow natural language and code as prompts for other tools. This is where the actually productive advancements will be made. Those tools are garbage today but they’ll certainly improve.

Coffee with an absurd amount of sugar

Someone should make sure to take that snail’s keys before he leaves the bar.

Sounds like the bedrock-only part is just a visual update. If you’re on Java you already have access to shaders.

But still - fuck MS for making bedrock a totally separate game so they could avoid giving alpha buyers free in app purchases.

You monster

Oh. I’m going to go practice some of that now. Thanks for the link.

I switched from developing apps for sale to developing apps for use by internal customers. The dynamic shift was huge. I was always promoting fixes that would make our app more useful (and reducing technical debt) for our customers and I would get told no. Why? Because those fixes would often reduce income from services and maintenance.

Fuck that. The second I switched to producing for internal customers I was able to implement those changes and cut out huge amounts of shit that was left in place purely to cause external customers to purchase service contracts.

Customers DO know what’s right. VP of Sales DOES know what makes them money. The two things are often polar opposites.

Getting some Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson vibes

I used to use former child labor.
I still do, but I used to as well.

Is that a jim kb comic? Where’s the author’s signature?

I just uninstalled it on my work pc. I got fed up when certain applications saved a cache to somewhere in %APPDATA% that got backed up every Tuesday. The apps then saw the cache changed and attempted to reconcile the changes and corrupted my work.

Never again.