[-] expr@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago

It has to do with countably infinite sets.

The analysis on Wikipedia does a better job of explaining the concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel#Analysis

The whole point is that it's something we can prove mathematically that is highly unintuitive.

[-] expr@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago
[-] expr@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

Celebrities often pay for full time nannies and such. It's pretty unlikely that they are actually taking care of the kids themselves.

[-] expr@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

It's not replacing anyone. It's just an excuse for the usual capitalistic bullshit that they would be doing anyway.

[-] expr@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago

It's not complicated at all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome. Not really something that's education-specific, in this instance (though I suppose it's commonly used in entry-level programming classes since it's a simple concept).

[-] expr@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

sigh

I'm so tired of repeating this ad nauseum. No, it's not going to take your job. It's hype train bullshit full of grifters. There is no intelligence or understanding, nor have we come anywhere close to achieving that. That is still entirely within the realm of science fiction.

[-] expr@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

There's a difference between having a preference/orientation and outright saying "no trans people" on your profile, imo. The former is totally fine and I think the vast majority of people think the same. If you did the latter, I would definitely remove that. It's unnecessary and can make people feel shitty. Just swipe left on people you aren't attracted to, and if you find a dealbreaker while talking to someone, politely disengage.

In general, I find it's best to avoid putting any kind of negative thing in your bio. Both because you run the risk of making people feel bad for no reason, and because psychologically, you want people to associate you with positive things about you, not the things you dislike. Most people have a lot of dealbreakers that are far too numerous and exhausting to enumerate anyway. Just asses for yourself, and if you don't like something about someone, move on.

[-] expr@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Yes, but speed limits change. There's no way of reliably knowing what the current speed limit is without wireless communication.

[-] expr@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

That's fine, but fox news isn't a source.

[-] expr@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

Most all distros alias vi to vim already, so it makes no difference.

[-] expr@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am an actual (senior) software engineer, with a background in ML to boot.

I would start to worry if we were anywhere close to even dreaming of how AGI might actually work, but we're not. It's purely in the realm of science fiction. Until you meet the bar of AGI, there's absolutely no risk of software engineering jobs being replaced.

Go or Chess are games with a fixed and simple ruleset and are very suited to what computers are really good at. Software engineering is the art of making the ambiguous and ill-defined into something entirely unambiguous and precisely defined, and that is something we are so far from achieving in computers it's not even funny. ML is ultimately just applied statistics. It's not magic, and it's far from anything we would consider "intelligence".

I do think we need legislation targeting ML, but not because of "omg our jobs". Rather we need legislation to combat huge tech companies vacuuming any and all data on the general public and using that data to manipulate and control the public.

Also, LOL at "how much code development is straight up redundant". If you think development amounts to just writing a bunch of boilerplate as though we were some kind of assembly line putting together the same thing over and over again, you're sorely mistaken.

[-] expr@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

I'm in the US with an Android and have never actually encountered this, only heard about kids bitching about it. Adults definitely don't give a shit. It's very childish behavior.

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