I’m not talking ecosystem or which I’d choose to build an actual project with, just on a pure language basis, C#'s typing system is more flexible and less verbose than Java’s, and unlike Java, C# actually treats functional programming as first class.
Java has certainly gotten better in both regards, but C# was really just a joy in comparison.
C# is just flat out objectively a better language, in virtually every single way
If you can’t imagine why this is bad, maybe read some Kafka or watch some Black Mirror.
Lmfao. Yeah, ok, let’s get my predictions from the depressing show dedicated to being relentlessly pessimistic at every single decision point.
And yeah, like I said, you sound like my hysterical middle school teacher claiming that Wikipedia will be society’s downfall.
Guess what? It wasn’t. People learn that tools are error prone and came up with strategies to use them while correcting for potential errors.
Like at a fundamental, technical level, components of a system can be error prone, but still be useful overall. Quantum calculations have inherent probabilities and errors in them, but they can still solve some types of calculations so much faster than normal computers that you can run the same calculation 100x on a Quantum Computer, average out the results to remove the outlying errors, and get to the right answer far faster than a classical computer.
Computer chips in satellites and the space station are constantly having random bits of memory flipped by cosmic rays, but they still work fine because their RAM is error-correcting ram, that can use similar methods to verify and check for errors.
And at a super high level, some of my friends and coworkers are more reliable than others, that doesn’t mean the ones that are less reliable aren’t helpful, it just means I have to take what they say with a grain of salt.
Designing for error correction is a thing, and people are perfectly capable of doing so in their personal lives.
Yes, they literally are. Or maybe you haven’t heard of human caused climate change?
But a) they don’t refuse, most will tell you if you prompt them well them and b) you cannot rely on them as the sole source of truth but an information machine can still be useful if it’s right most of the time.
My friends would probably say something like “I’ve never heard that one, but I guess it means something like …”
Ok, but the point is that lots of people would just say something and then figure out if it’s right later.
The problem is, these LLMs don’t give any indication when they’re making stuff up versus when repeating an incontrovertible truth. Lots of people don’t understand the limitations of things like Google’s AI summary* so they will trust these false answers. Harmless here, but often not.
Quite frankly, you sound like middle school teachers being hysterical about Wikipedia being wrong sometimes.
“Regurgitation without critical thought is fundamentally counter to the principles of science and engineering”
Their office is downtown, go down and ask to talk to someone. Don’t leave until they ask you to.
You have no obligation not to inconvenience them.
Search for the company on LinkedIn, click through its employees. Have them get a bunch of ‘Appeared in Searches’ notifications from LinkedIn. Make sure they feel seen by a bunch of their fellow citizens.
Try this on your friends, make up an idiom, then walk up to them, say it without context, and then say “meaning?” and see how they respond.
Pretty sure most of mine will just make up a bullshit response nd go along with what I’m saying unless I give them more context.
There are genuinely interesting limitations to LLMs and the newer reasoning models, and I find it interesting to see what we can learn from them, this is just ham fisted robo gotcha journalism.
PC Gamer regurgitating the abstract of a random research paper makes baby jesus cry.
Social media said Mark Zuckerberg was over and sadly I think neither are right.
Based on the shape, at first I it thought was one of the new mesh network streetlights, but after zooming in more I think you’re right, it looks like an antenna box for a wireless metering network.
I mean, yeah, I’m not saying don’t use one ever, there’s just a lot of people in here very confident that they’re essential.
And the only downside I would say, is that if you put a scratchable surface on top of an unscratchable screen, then your screen is going to look scratched up more often, during the period after the protector gets scratched but before you replace it.
Though this is a relatively minor downside if you are seriously risking scratching the glass underneath.
But like, what do you have in your pocket? My phone goes in my right pocket with my earbuds, my left pocket has my wallet and keys if needed.
If I’m doing construction work and have screws and drill bits and stuff on me I put them in my hoodie pocket, back pocket, mouth, or just put my phone down on the table nearby…
Like I get it if you had a purse or handbag you regularly kept it in but if it’s just from stuff in your pockets why do you always have sharp stuff in the same pocket?
This thread is mostly confirmation bias.
People who use screen protectors see them get scratched up and think ‘oh wow, thank God it saved my screen’, and then buy replacements, not realizing that their screen protector, be it plastic or cheap glass, is not remotely as strong as the Gorilla Glass underneath.
In reality they’re mostly just putting a scratchable surface on top of a relatively unscratchable one, and then get the impression they’re doing something when the scratchable surface gets scratched.
I’ve used my phone heavily for 2+ years and have incredibly minor, have to look for them, scratches, and that’s with fully dropping it on its face multiple times.
Honestly do not understand the purpose of screen protectors, I haven’t had a serious screen scratch since like gorilla Glass 1 days.
I’m pretty sure this thread is basically just entirely confirmation bias from people who don’t realize that the glass in screen protectors is far weaker than the gorilla Glass in your phone. A scratched screen protector is not necessarily a sign that your phone screen would’ve been scratched had it not been there.
No, that seems incredibly toxic.
Fair enough, though in this case it feels like it’s not making assumptions, but showing unawareness of the one-way nature of American controlled media.
Cities still need a way of knowing when streetlights burn out or are in need of service.
You can wait for people to report them out, hope the report is accurate, and then send workers out to try and find them and fix them (and it’s not exactly easy to figure out which light is burnt out during the day), or you can proactively send workers out to fix exactly the right light as soon as they break or show any signs that they might.