In the context of Trump et al doing rape, I don’t think the distinction presented by Kelly really matters. Any amount of sexual assault and abuse is too much.

In what way does it matter here? Is some amount of trump rape acceptable? Is it beneficial to anyone other than trump et Al to split this hair?

Lowering indent levels is nice in functions. Early returns mean you don’t have to think as much. “If it got here, I know foo isn’t null because it already would have returned”.

Yeah some comments are not useful

# returns the value as a string
return str(user.id)

Some comments are

# returns the user id as a string because ZenDesk's API throws errors if it gets a number.
# See ticket RA-1037
# See ZenDesk docs: https://etc/
return str(user.id)

Does Japan not have the fervent anti intellectualism that we have in the US with our right wing? And it’s not in bed with racism to fuck public education together?

I bought a fancy desktop PC recently so I’m not in the market. Otherwise I would consider it, but only if the desktop environment was usable for general computing. I believe it is, but I’m not sure if its version of Linux would be best for like software development.

That is a bizarre and ungenerous conclusion. Do you think adults having sex with 15 year olds is okay? What point are you trying to make?

Switching to Linux requires a certain level of technical skill and patience that the majority of people don’t have.

It does. However, it was a technical news website so I assumed the audience had a higher than average technical affinity. This seems to have been a bad assumption

That said, installing Linux is easier than people imagine. Most of the time you download the image and follow some short instructions.

Admittedly, the minority of the time you might have to troubleshoot.

Briefly imagined a world where conservative Christians are hard-line on giving to the poor and hospitality.

“Jesus said give your wealth to the poor and follow him. I don’t see a need to change that!”

Just remove all violent people first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference

A distinction without a difference is a type of logical fallacy where an author or speaker attempts to describe a distinction between two things where no discernible difference exists.[1] It is particularly used when a word or phrase has connotations associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid.

For example, a person might say “I did not lie; I merely stretched the truth a little bit.”[2]

Some other tech website did an article recently about how to unfuck windows as much as possible. Like four pages of tricks, registry edits, third party tools.

People in the comments were like “you know, Linux is free and is getting very user friendly.”

People were mad. People really want to stick to windows.

No idea why. I’m running basic pop!_os and have no real complaints.

There are state sanctioned kidnappings in the middle of the day. It’s not safe here.

Plus, something like 20-40% of people are proudly pro trump. That’s a lot of idiots and selfish turds. They’re not all concentrated in Texas and Florida, either. I see a trump flag on one of my regular walks in Brooklyn

Gop is like a clock where only the minute hand is stopped and the hour hand is flapping all over. Sometimes it’s kind of correct, but not for the bigger picture.

Communication aims at information exchange,

Metadata is data. Skipping small talk is exchanging less information.

One of my jobs went to microservices. Not really sure why. They had daily active users in the thousands, maybe. But it meant we spent a lot of time on inter-service communication, plus local development and testing got a lot more complicated.

But before that, it was a single API written in Go by an intern, so maybe it was an improvement.

My old job was a bunch of… idiots? Class traitors? Cowards?

Management would make noises about arbitrary deadlines and they’d all be like “we better work late tonight and through the weekend!!”

Did all that work and got nothing for it. Most of them still got laid off. Management still owns the company.

Not surprising. Capitalism wants money. Most people don’t care about things like “Art” or “long term”.

Conservatism is a bad world view. Rigid patriarchal authority will lead to abuse.

Based on not much? Lol what. Finding venues and hours of operation is the go-to example of LLM failures. The other day whatever Google slaps on the top of the search results lied to my friend’s mom about something like that, and we had to remind her not to trust the AI.

Plus, the topic isn’t friends. The topic is someone you just met for dating. Dating is full of strategies to bail early so you don’t waste your time or theirs. If someone told me they were a huge fan of reality tv, that’s a minus for me.

For LLMs specifically, it is the wrong tool for finding facts. If someone told me they were writing their JavaScript in Excel I would also question their decision making.

thinking you are somehow the arbiter of intelligence.

You just made that up. Are you an LLM?

I think a lot about the guy I worked with that said he was going to Palantir. We were like “but what if they have you doing awful things?” He was like, big shrug. He was always friendly to people in the office, but I guess that’s as far as it went.