Thanks!
https://jakec007.github.io/2020-06-28-how-we-trick-rocks-to-think/ fun, accessible-for-non-experts related article
Today we’re going to explore how the thinking rocks that power your computer are created.
I'm probably part of the problem because I got the survey on my Mac and not my Linux machine…
Same, I'd prefer to see this from programming.dev. Subbed anyways, because aside from changing my wallpaper I left my PC at a totally default look and would like to pressure myself to change it by following this community.
I figure this community could benefit from an ad in the many Linux communities on Lemmy.
Getting certain programs to work on my Linux machine does take extra time as opposed to if it were Windows, but it's counterbalanced by all those times I'd have to look up how to get the WiFi option back and try every single thing on the list because it was never just one simple solution that worked each time… also I don't get hit by unwanted forced updates, and now I update voluntarily without fear of even more unwanted telemetry being stuffed in there.
But if I just wanted to browse the web, check my email, shop, and do my banking, Linux would work out of the box better than Windows 11.
Oh thank goodness I am not the only one. Just the way I, an American, read things, and my cynicism about people trying to replace devs with AI says top (trying to hire real devs) goes first and bottom (fired everyone) second; title and the fact this was posted in Programmer Humor implies it's bottom first and top second.
OP should try the !opensource@programming.dev community instead.
Also, just for fun, it is technically programming, just not the computer kind ;)
Broadcast programming is the practice of organizing or ordering (scheduling) of broadcast media shows, typically the radio and the television, in a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or season-long schedule.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_programming
Radio programming is the process of organising a schedule of radio content for commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting by radio stations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_programming
So I guess social media post programming is the process of organizing a schedule of post content.
Also, what do you mean, OP, by "do you have perfect recall or an average human byte"? Are you thinking of information in terms of bits and that people can only keep a limited amount of things in working memory at a time?
Your comment made me curious, so I looked around the website and found this.
Our dataset documents Texas death row inmates executed from 1976, when the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, to the present.
On one level, the data is simply a part of a mundane programming book. On another, each row represents immense suffering, lives lost, and in some cases amazing redemption and acceptance. In preparing for this dataset, I was deeply moved by a number of the statements and found myself re-evaluting my position on capital punishment. I hope that as we examine the data, you too will contemplate the deeper issues at play.
Just a warning for folks who might not be in a good mental spot for seeing this in their SQL tutorial right now, or even just if it wouldn't be to your personal tastes. It's not your average school exercise but with morbid flavoring, the site really integrates its data. It provides a lot more information about capital punishment than you strictly need to solve the database problems. That works nicely with their intention of "Exercises should be realistic and substantial".
Likewise, the exercises here have been designed to introduce increasingly sophisticated SQL techniques while exploring the dataset in ways that people would actually be interested in.
I'd understanding actively pressuring someone to share their salary being a faux-pas. Admittedly, just sharing your own may make some people feel pressured to share theirs out of reciprocity, but just sharing your own salary generates nowhere near the same amount of pressure as outright telling someone "share your salary or you're a bad person on the side of The Man!"
I hope the amount of people sharing their salary increases and talking about it becomes normalized.
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I think it's both.
It sits at the fast and cheap end of "pick three: fast, good, and cheap" and society is trending towards "fast and cheap" to the exclusion of "good" to the point it is getting harder and harder to find "good" at all sometimes.
People who care about the "good" bit are upset, people who want to see stock line go up in the short term without caring about long term consequences keep riding the "always pick fast and cheap" and are impressed by the prototypes LLMs can pump out. So devs get fired because LLMs are faster and cheaper, even if they hallucinate and cause tons of tech debt. Move fast and break things.
Some devs that keep their jobs might use LLMs. Maybe they accurately assessed what they are trying to outsource to LLMs is so low-skill that even something that does not hit "good" could do it right (and that when it screws up they could verify the mistake and fix it quickly); so they only have to care about "fast and cheap". Maybe they just want the convenience and are prioritizing "fast and cheap" when they really do need to consider "good". Bad devs exist too and I am sure we have all seen incompetent people stay employed despite the trouble they cause for others.
So as much as this looked at first, to me, like the thing where fascists simultaneously portray opponents as weak (pathetic! we deserve to triumph over them and beat their faces in for their weakness) and strong (big threat, must defeat!), I think that's not exactly what anti-AI folks are doing here. Not doublethink but just seeing everyone pick "fast and cheap" and noticing its consequences. Which does easily map onto portraying AI as weak, pointing out all the mistakes it makes and not replacing humans well; while also portraying it as strong, pointing out that people keep trying to replace humans with AI and that it's being aggressively pushed at us. There are other things in real life that map onto a simultaneous portrayal as weak and strong: the roach. A baby taking its first steps can accidentally crush a roach, hell if the baby fell on many roaches the roaches all die (weak), but it's also super hard to end an infestation of them (strong). It is worth checking for doublethink when you see the pattern of "simultaneously weak and strong," but that is also just how an honest evaluation of a particular situation can end up.