For anything more complex, you'd have to describe it in such a level of detail that you might as well just be writing code at that point.
I think this is kind of the heart pf the matter, though I disagree with you as to extents.
The earliest compilers changed code from something like "MOV AX, 1" to the exact processor opcodes using the exact registers you specify as a programmer. Today, almost nobody ever needs to use assembly language. I think the last time I used it was in school, writing a Towers of Hanoi calculator!
Then we have languages like C that are a step more abstracted. Especially in the early days of C, and before things like pipelining, threading, etc., became so prevalent, a good C coder could more or less predict the exact assembly code that given C code would produce.
Of course there were other early languages, like LISP, that were far more abstracted, and as we move forward to modern languages, almost all of which implement some degree of functional programmming, that tie between assembly code and the code you write is impossible to discern.
Essentially, our programming languages keep getting more and more abstracted.
LLMs are, imho, the next step in this evolution. They are not perfect. They are still improving--very rapidly--but we seem to be on the precipice of a world where a programmer describing a problem algorithmically to an LLM can get very solid results.
Think of the LLM as a new type of compiler that compiles english into instructions. It's almost the realization of Larry Wall's dream with Perl!
The horror that many programmers feel today is akin to what the assembly experts felt at the unoptimized code streaming out of compilers.
I rarely speak in absolutes, but imho, anyone who says this technology is crap is just ignorant. We are 1-2 years in to see what LLMs can do. What will they be like in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? Even with simply linear improvements, LLMs are going to have a huge impact on coding for the foreseeable future.
If you say that, then you are speaking from a position of ignorance, inexperience, or both.
Another thing I'll add you can do that I have found VERY useful.
You can paste in SQL table schema for multiple tables. You can then post in some queries and say "optimize this SQL query, given the above tables."
I had one very complicated query with like 10 tables, weird conditionals, weird aggregates, etc., and I just could not make the thing perform any better. A friend tried too.
ChatGPT did an amazing job optimizing the query. It was amazing. Out of about a dozen queries I tried this on, chatGPT got 2-3 MUCH faster, ~2 faster, and then did nothing for the rest.
Yes, I find it very useful for speeding up a lot of rote coding. You've got to be a good coder to start with to use it effectively, and you need to be able to break down a problem algorithmically. As long as you have those skills, GPT can be great.
As an example, I had to create a small website w/ backend recently. This was something with a very specific function and it was going to be used by small (less than 10) people, but it would be immensely helpful for solving a problem in their workflows.
My prompt to chatGPT was more or less
"Write javascript code, using modern idioms, to make restful AJAX calls using POST, and DELETE. The target URL is ______. Here is the HTML of my form:
[paste in raw html from my form]
Make sure the that AJAX code hgas full error checking and sanitization of inputs.
After getting a response to the POST, parse the return value as JSON. If the value of ___ is ____ then display message "abc def".
etc
I'll look at the code it generates, and tell it to fix any issues, and then I'll add more complexity "Now make it handle this case, where the POST value is .... " (you can honestly start to get pretty vague once you are a query or two in).
Then I can say "Generate code in _____ language use MySQL bindings to implement a backend to implement target URL _____.
.
I guess you could say I'm using it like an advanced templating engine. You can keep these queries going a long way it's pretty nice.
"Pearson, a former men's rights activist ...."
A trans-since-2022, former men's right activist, who has had AIDS for 18.5 years. This is...strange.
Figured it had to be an Arrested Development reference--too perfect!
Someone needs to put a stop to the far-left radicalization pipeline of reddit. This needs laws, deplatforming, and congressional hearings.
While this is /s, it's really sad to skim through this guy's descent into madness.
For my daily Rome thought...
One of the great and legendary heroes of Rome was a man named Gaius Mucius Scaevola.
The quick version of the story is that when Rome was besieged by the Etruscan king Lars Porsena, Mucius snuck into the camp to assassinate Porsena. In the king's tent, he killed the wrong man and was immediately captured. While looking at Porsena, Gaius said "I'm just one man willing to die for Rome. There are a hundred others just like me. I may have missed my mark, but one of the others will not."
And, saying this, he stuck his right hand into the fire, unfliching as his hand was burned beyond recognition or repair.
Porsena was horrified by this and returned Mucius back to Rome, sending a message of treaty at the same time. (Mucius earned the name Scaevola--left hander--as an honorary name.) Porsena didn't want to fuck around with that kind of dedication.
I watched the video of the self-immolation. Not the same. Horrifying, but not the same.
become maimed
Yeah, he's dead.
I hadn’t considered it, but Michigan is a huge swing state, and I wonder if Biden’s support for Israel might end up screwing him in the general election as a result.
It could sour some voters on Biden for sure, but American politics is largely a contest of which party can pander harder to Israel. GOP doing/saying anything different?
Fitting, since the guy looks like a huge flamer.
There's always money in the banana stand!
Quite a few quality developers in that category.
"Burger Bill" -> "Burger Becky" (Space Invader champion, programmed a lot of early games, maybe most notably Bard's Tale, cofounder of Interplay, etc. Called Burger Bill because he used to keep hamburgers in his desk and eat them as needed.)
"Paul Jaquays" -> "Jennell Jaquays". Just passed away. Big name early D&D designer and artist, did a lot of the late levels of Quake 2, worked on Age of Empires, etc.
Jaquays is an interesting example of someone who publicly was a conservative--economically, socially, politically, and a Christian--but who flipped on all aspects one transed. (See old Paul @http://www.quake2.com/qworkshop/features/interviews/jaquays.htm ). Transed Jaquays ranted on twitter about how it's not fair Satanists don't get equal treatment with Christians.
i've seen some "people" a while ago claiming Pushkin was black, because his grandpa was presumably black
I wouldn't say that Pushkin was black, but he was absolutely mixed. His great-grandfather was a former African slave in the Ottoman court, purchased by Russians to bring to Peter the Great. That makes Pushkin 1/8 African.
One of Pushkin's daughters (who was 1/16 black).
Genetics are fascinating. One of my friends had a black African dad and an English mom and he looked like, slightly tanner than an average Euro and with slightly crinklier hair than an average Euro.
OTOH, I've known similar mixes who look almost 100% African as well.
If I put 60 million in a good returns account and built on that as an income over 10 years without ever taking any out that's almost a billion dollars.
I think your math is off.
To roughly calculate time to double with compounding interest, take 72 and divide it by your interest rate.
Let's say you can get 8% annually, which is very optimistic. 72 / 8 = 9 years. So, in 9 years your 60 million would become 120 million. Nowhere near a billion.
tl;dr you forgot her dog's bday so she breaks up with you.
I think you have the best and clearest explanation of it here. Fantasy of being desired by high-status male or avoiding responsibility? Hard to determine which one gets women off faster.
How does this compare to men going gay in prison, in the navy, etc?
That's exactly my experience as well. I've met a handful of older, pretty based lesbians who are clearly actual lesbians. One of them is a hilarious anti-masker who busted balls during covid. They're pretty chill and I get along really well with them all.
The vast majority of the younger (say less than 40ish) "lesbians," or far worse queer, bi, nonbinary, etc, are clearly the political variety. They're the ones who write shit like "why am I so attracted to men, why do I want to get dick so badly, stupid hormones messing with my brain."
The real lesbians seem to mostly hate these morons.
I think the US is slightly better about protecting the right to use cash than the EU is, but not much.
Oddly, or at least surprisingly to me, it seems Japan is much more cash oriented.
I'm fully expecting it to be gone sooner or later. Chinese-style social credit / social control is too tempting for authoritarians.
I bet even they have bank accounts that they pay into for tax purposes unless they've got some kind of deal setup with their local government.
I have heard that you can bring cash to an IRS office to pay tax.
she thought the appropriate response was to chimp out and destroy her racket
McEnroe sends his regards.
Her body looks much better than I'd expect for a woman who has her face and is damn near fifty years old.
"Black don't crack"
Hmmmm.......
Shockingly yes. He's also Jack Ryan, though I haven't seen any of that.
I loved the first two (with the first being better). John Krasinski was just great--his was a character that is all too often missing in media today. An everyday masculine presence doing everything to protect his family.
This looks so much more generic horror.
Lol.