I would argue that without consistent and enforced type hinting, dynamically typed languages offer very little benefit from type-checking at runtime. And with consistent, enforced type hinting, they might as well be considered actual statically typed languages.

Don’t get me wrong, that’s a good thing. Properly configured Python development environments basically give you both, even if I’m not a fan of the syntax.

Hasn’t been updated since 2018. Does it still work?

Oh, I know you can, but it’s optional and the syntax is kind of weird. I prefer languages that are strongly typed from the ground up and enforce it.

Python is easy, but it can also be infuriating. Every time I use it, I’m reminded how much I loathe the use of whitespace to define blocks, and I really miss the straightforward type annotations of strong, non-dynamically typed languages.

There’s inevitably going to be some rebounding from this. It’s probably true that the large language models these companies are betting their businesses on can do some of the things entry-level grads do, but we’ve already seen several of them fail because their MBAs didn’t realize that just barfing out code is only one part of what developers do.

Source: Am developer, currently working with LLMs and related tech, none of which would be able to get anywhere without someone like me doing the work.

I’d feel bad. But not if it was just the Kremlin and other government buildings while they’re occupied.

I really, really hope there’s a “next time” to do better in, but at the moment I’m not particularly confident there will be.

We’re pretty thoroughly fucked.

For fuck’s sake, it was created by an act of Congress. This should be a no-brainer. Either the president’s job is to execute on the law as determined by Congress, not to just overrule it by fiat, or we have a king.

It’s… Well, it’s 100% fraud.

I’m more than ten years old, so I can remember all the way back to the Before Times. 2015. President Obama.

Try to imagine the response from Republicans if Obama had hired people this fucking stupid. Try to imagine the clusterfuck that would have rightly ensued if his advisors had used an insecure and easily hacked messaging app to illegally circumvent the Presidential Records Act.

Now try to picture those same Republicans applying the same standards to Trump. Doesn’t work, does it? It’s like trying to imagine a square circle.

For LLMs, yes.

Thank you. As useful as LLMs can be under certain circumstances, they are not the only type of AI.

Here’s the thing: They’re actually a natural fit for it, because if anyone ought to understand the use cases, strengths, weaknesses, and implications of a technology, it would be a university that’s centered around research on technology.

So they looked carefully at this guy’s paper, realized he was making outrageous and unsupportable claims about what AI could do, failed to reproduce his results, and concluded he was full of shit. That’s what we really should be able to expect from MIT.

I use Opera on a Mac for all my Bing-based Edge-recommending needs.

RFK Jr. strikes again. I’ll never understand why people like him can’t grasp the idea that the difference between medicine and poison is often dosage.

The amount of fluoride in these tablets is nowhere near unsafe levels. It’s not even close.

I’d buy one for about tree-fiddy.

This isn’t for AntiOutsideAktion. This is for anyone else who stumbles on this thread, so you can be absolutely clear on what happened.

1. I responded to the question posed in the headline as follows: “Yes. They have been for years now. Our far-right are a bunch of fucking idiot assholes, and easily manipulated.”
   My comment was accurate. Despite years of concerted effort by Russia’s defenders and proxies, their troll army is well-documented, and their targeting of right-wing idiots in the United States is equally well-documented. It happened. It’s happening now.
2. In response, AntiOutsideAktion said this: “Anyway now that I’ve explained how my domestic political opposition are easily manipulated, let me explain to you how everything bad that’s ever happened is the fault of the outside enemy.”
   That is a disingenuous and obvious strawman of what I said. I never claimed “everything bad that’s ever happened is the fault of the outside enemy.” The fact that our right-wing dipshits are so easily led astray is entirely on them.
3. So I called him out on that.

The end. That’s what happened. And that’s why I’m not even remotely interested in his takes on anything else, and he’s going on my otherwise-mostly-empty block list after I post this comment.

✅ lemmy.ml.
✅ Strawman of what I said.
✅ Posted two days after my comment, yet immediately received an upvote.

Yes. They have been for years now. Our far-right are a bunch of fucking idiot assholes, and easily manipulated.

Jesus. We’re gonna have a surgical residency dropout and anti-vaccine nut as our surgeon general.

That’s fucking insane.

One step closer to just erasing trans people.