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  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•top 5 unsolved problems in computer scienceEnglish
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    3 days ago

    That would be cool, but human brains are weirdos. If you’re already copying text, you could’ve edited or annotated it, for example. For example, if it’s an opinion you don’t entirely agree with, you might feel obliged to say so, because you have the ability to do so when it’s a text post.

    If you want to call that irrational, I’m not arguing against that. I’m just saying it’s the reality we live in and I’d like to have tooling to deal with that better, because I would also prefer text to not be screenshotted.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•top 5 unsolved problems in computer scienceEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, really unfortunate that that’s not possible. Always having to take a screenshot and then type out letter by letter what’s on the screenshot, that can be quite annoying.

    But even if copying text was possible, the reason people post pictures of text is to give proper attribution, but also to distance themselves from the content, so that it’s clear that they don’t necessarily hold the exact same opinion or that they might not have all the knowledge to defend the statements in the post.

    Cross-posting could fill that same roll without screenshotting text.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•IPv6 for self hostersEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I don’t have much experience with IPv6 yet either, but as I understand, the primary benefit is that you can get rid of a lot of the crappiness of IPv4, which you might just deem ‘normal’ at this point, like NAT and DHCP. It does happen quite a bit, for example, that we’d like a unique identifier for a host, but with IPv4, you need to store a separate UUID to accomplish that.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoProgramming@programming.dev•The Copilot DelusionEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I think, they meant the opposite. Extending your workday until 3 AM means you’ll be your least productive at that point. Whereas if you’re coding on a passion project at 3 AM (and you’re reasonably rested), then it’s often the most productive time of day, because there’s no distractions, nothing else to be doing…

  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoProgramming@programming.dev•The Copilot DelusionEnglish
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    11 days ago

    The thing is, your attempts at eliminating boilerplate can be pretty bad and take pretty long before they’re worse than writing out the boilerplate in full.

    Boilerplate code is by itself a problem. If it’s just scaffolding, i.e. you’re not duplicating logic, then it still makes code harder to read and annoying to maintain.

    If you are duplicating logic, then it’s a maintenance nightmare. You fix a bug in one version of it, now you gotta update 14 other versions which the LLM dutifully generated with the same bug.
    Or worse, it wasn’t dutiful (much like a human typically isn’t), so now you’ve got different bugs in different versions of it, as well as different fixes over time, and you quickly lose track which version is the good one.