[-] ollien@beehaw.org 22 points 6 months ago

If you ask the FSF, open source is a bigger set than free software, mostly to do with restrictions on the uses of the code

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html.en

[-] ollien@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

I'm no expert, so take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt.

Fundamentally, a LLM is just a fancy autocomplete; there's no source of knowledge it's tapping into, it's just guessing words (though it is quite good at it). Correspondingly, even if it did have a pool of knowledge, even that can't be perfect, because the truth is never quite so black and white in many areas.

In other words, hard.

[-] ollien@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Does anyone have the recipe on hand? I'm curious what it actually recommended but I couldn't find it with a cursory Google search

[-] ollien@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Tangential, but my last employer (US based) outsourced L1 IT to a call center in India, and it was maddening. They didn't know very much beyond the script, and often you just had to say the right words to get your issue escalated, but it would always take a day or so to get called back. It drove me nuts as an engineer, but I'm sure it works fine for people who are less familiar with computers.

[-] ollien@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I've found that the chat agents are much less able to "be a human" and help you out, it feels like talking to a chatbot sometimes. It's a lot easier to get someone to empathize with your problem over the phone, IME

[-] ollien@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Mastodon actually lets you follow hashtags, which is a nice compromise, but it definitely isn't curated so you gotta pick which hashtags you follow kinda carefully.

[-] ollien@beehaw.org 42 points 1 year ago

I think it scratches a similar itch as most techbros: "if I can solve this hard problem, all problems are easy!" It's a mentality I see constantly, especially on the orange site.

[-] ollien@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the recommendation of Liftoff! I really didn't like Jerboa but liftoff seems like a nice app.

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submitted 1 year ago by ollien@beehaw.org to c/ruby@programming.dev

Hi all!

What do you guys use for completions in VSCode? I'm driving into ruby right now and have been a bit underwhelmed by what I've tried.

[-] ollien@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

What about taping a piece of cardboard between frame and the door jam? This would prevent the door from fully "closing". Of course, this does mean that leaving the screen door closed with the glass door open will have a notably "unscreened" portion.

[-] ollien@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

The idea of a security tool using the same name as one of the most serious security vulnerabilities of the last decade is very funny, lol.

[-] ollien@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even as someone with Rust experience, I found the experience of attempting to add a change to be frustrating. Aside from the fact that there's quite a bit of unidiomatic Rust (which I can't be too mad about, but does mean there are a lot of function signatures that just aren't what I'd expect and caused me some pain), the compile times for even small changes are long. After just changing a struct initializer, running cargo check took nearly a full minute, due to all the dependencies between the crates.

[-] ollien@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I find it funny you put Elixir In the same boat as Assembly. It's not that complicated of a language, it just has interesting process mechanics.

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