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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Machine learning is just a specific field in AI. It's all AI. Anything that attempts to mimic intelligence is.

All the things you mentioned are neural networks which are some of the oldest AIs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Got to practise firing cannons mate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Exactly. Look at the state of it. We definitely should have taken that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's why we don't like c

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Seems sensible. Check the output of AI tools before posting. Be pretty stupid not to proof read it at a minimum.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

At the end of the day web sites cost money. There needs to be a way to fund them.

People 100% aren't going to pay to access every random website they want to visit. So what you'd end up with in a world without ads is only the big corporations being able to run a website.

Back in my day (lol) ads were based on the website not the user. When you set up ads you selected keywords for your website and those were used to select ads.

Like you'd visit a programming blog and get ads for computer games and porn. Made total sense. You're still targeting your target audience just not the individual.

Targeted ads are obviously way more effective and therefore generate more money. But it's not the only way.

The alternative is to set up some system where you pay a monthly fee and it's divided amongst the websites you use. But that seems like an equally bad privacy nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can also optimize this a bit.

You can use Activator.CreateInstance instead of reflecting and invoking the constructor.

You can also call MethodInfo.Invoke, you don't need to create a delegate.

Also worth noting that Source Generators have replaced the need for reflection in many cases.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

In the UK unless your parents are particularly poor it is not that common to support them.

We have a socialised pension that most should be able to live on. And most people have private or government pensions as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I was talking more generally about LLMs here

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I've found they're great as a learning tool where decent docs are available. Or as an interactive docs you can ask follow up questions to.

We mostly use c# and it's amazing at digging into the MS docs to pull out useful things from the bcl or common patterns.

Our new juniors got up to speed so fast by asking it to explain stuff in the existing codebases. Which in turn takes pressure off more senior staff.

I got productive in vuejs in a large codebase in a couple days that way.

Using to generate actual code is insanely shit haha It is very similar to just copy pasting code and hacking it in without understanding it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It has an orange end and triggers on it which marks it as a toy gun. So they'd be fine most likely. But it's still a stupid move.

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