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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • My philosophy is that anyone familiar with the code shouldn’t need the comments to understand it, and anyone who isn’t should be able to with the comments.

    This means that I have semi long names like “this_variable_varies” would be about the max name size I would use. But I also use plenty of small functions and I use comments to explain big chunks of code with just a simple goal and method description.

    I sometimes find my code a bit overly verbose, but I know I would rather see that then some code that I need to de-obfuscate mentally.




  • I got xiaomi, opened it up and disconnected the Bluetooth / wifi card. Connect it to a linux device and now it is a shitter version of a dumb tv. It’s crazy how smart tvs really really suck at being dumb. But it does work once you get used to some annoying quirks.

    Tip: connect a cheap air mouse/keyboard to it as a remote











  • That is actually missing an important issue, hallucinations.

    Copying from SO means you are copying from a human who might be stupid or lie but rarely spews out plausible sounding hot garbage (not never though) and because of other users voting and reputation etc etc, you actually do endup with a decently reliable source.

    With an LLM you could get something made up based on nothing related to the real world. The LLM might find your question to be outside of it’s knowledge but instead of realizing it it would just make up what it thinks sounds convincing.

    It would be like if you asked me how that animal that is half horse and half donkey is called and instead of saying “shit i’m blanking” I would say “Oh, that is called a Drog” and I couldn’t even tell you that I just made up that word because I will now be convinced that this is factual. Btw it’s “mule”

    So there is a real difference until we solve hallucinations, which right now doesn’t seem solvable but at best reduced to insignificance (maybe)