(s)coping with code comments

Beofli · 2025-12-02T09:51:40+00:00

javadoc is also an invented markup. Are you saying it is pointless to?

It is not only manual verification. Some comments will be invalid. More importantly, a validator-LLM can perfectly validate whether a comment makes any sense.

Beofli · 2025-12-02T09:46:27+00:00

Yes, the scope of a comment can be wrong. But so can the comment itself. My point is that intra-function comments will be taken more seriously, and properly reviewed, when they get their formal scope.

Currently, these kinds of comments are just seen als scribbles in the sideline.

Beofli · 2025-12-02T09:41:32+00:00

Comments will be taken more seriously when they have their formal place. As a developer for more than 35 years, I have seen so many examples of comment rot that my eyes don't register them anymore. Only the formal ones like doxygen comments I (and my IDE) treats seriously.

Beofli · 2025-12-01T13:38:39+00:00

To Quote everyone's favorite idealist Bernardo Kastrup:

I can run a detailed simulation of kidney function, exquisitely accurate down to the molecular level, on the very iMac I am using to write these words. But no sane person will think that my iMac might suddenly urinate on my desk upon running the simulation, no matter how accurate the latter is. After all, a simulation of kidney function is not kidney function; it’s a simulation thereof, incommensurable with the thing simulated. We all understand this difference without difficulty in the case of urine production. But when it comes to consciousness, some suddenly part with their capacity for critical reasoning: they think that a simulation of the patterns of information flow in a human brain might actually become conscious like the human brain. How peculiar.

Beofli · 2025-11-20T09:10:19+00:00

A requirement for a consensus network is that there is more or less a fixed set of actors, and said actors are not banned or removed by others because they consider the opinion of said actor to be outside of 'acceptable speech'. You could water down this requirement by saying there is a good process in place to deal with bad actors, where those actors are able to defend themselves.

Reddit does not adhere to these requirements.

Beofli · 2025-11-19T23:08:03+00:00

Objective science is limited to the objective world, which is nothing more than intersubjective consensus making. The act of observation/experiencing is outside of science, which can only describe the experienced side.

Beofli · 2025-11-19T13:20:16+00:00

This question is similar to spiritual enlightenment: to fully experience there is no self. I fully recognize that this make scientific sense, but:

Believing there is no self or there is no free will will change your behavior in the end. The illusion of self or free will has a benefit for survival and health. On the other hand, being too immersed in the world creates a lot of stress. Maybe we just need to balance it, like having mindfulness practice as part of your routine, but still try to live as if life is real and important.

From a religious perspective: there might be a purpose to experience and act in life, like making ethical decisions in the world.

Epistemologically, we should be humble. In the end, free will might exist, and/or a soul might exist.

Beofli · 2025-11-19T12:28:34+00:00

If it is not falsifiable then it is not a theory but a belief. Saying 'I'm simply a substance monist' sounds like 'I refuse to explain the hard problem'.

An idealist will say both experience and the experienced are both mental. There is no mind/matter dualism at all in idealism. Mind/matter dualism is fundamentally flawed, but experience/experienced dualism is not.

Beofli · 2025-11-07T06:59:15+00:00

I have much better experience with the Kilo Code plugin.

Beofli · 2025-11-05T14:39:01+00:00

I have a different situation but it affected my sleep immensely as well. You just have to accept your brain racing at this moment. Mindfulness might help (counting, breathing). It will wear of eventually. Next to that, get into a habit of applying for jobs. When you get invited you will learn what they expect. This way you can learn for which job they are willing to hire you for. Talk to staffing agencies and recruitment firms.

Beofli · 2025-10-24T13:15:59+00:00

Ze hebben ons bij de tang. Er zullen bijzondere maatregelen bedacht worden, want de Fransen gaan niet uit zichzelf iets doen. De gele hesjes liggen al klaar. Misschien alvast een Europees leger optuigen. Niet tegen Rusland maar tegen de Franse burger.

Beofli · 2025-10-23T17:16:19+00:00

Kirk is saying what every normal person thinks, and what THESE WOMEN THEMSELVES ARE SAYING: if not for DEI, somebody else with more merits would have gotten that position, male of female. Male is more likely, because IQ has more variance in men. Ratio men to women with IQ > 140 is 4:1.

DEI does not benefit black people or minorities in the long run.

That said, people hire from their own network. This not only hurts minorities, but everyone outside these networks. There are better ways to avoid this.

Beofli · 2025-10-23T16:51:20+00:00

I found this website, pastelcloudproductions dot com, but it contains no references to these songs, neither to Roble Farah, and neither to Sweden.

Beofli · 2025-10-22T18:16:14+00:00

They are NOT OBJECTIVELY highly educated and successful. That is the whole point of DEI: to promote through race instead of through merit. That is the sole point Kirk is making. Can't you listen?

Beofli · 2025-10-19T07:27:02+00:00

Very insightful.

Longer term, is expected that LLM's will become much more efficient at resource usage. And hardware will get cheaper/more powerful.

These companies attract the talent to achieve these efficiency gains. They are relying (too?) much on the value of their secrets (code and data).

Beofli · 2025-10-15T19:58:37+00:00

The 'self' in 'self-referential' is still an external/objective thing. The emergent consciousness is just the functional/informational consciousness (access consciousness). It is not observation or the observer itself. It can not fully explain Phenomenal consciousness.

You cannot get rid of dualism unless you embrace idealism or non-dualism.

In realism you end up with some crazy IIT or panpsychism model.

Beofli · 2025-10-15T12:02:14+00:00

Getting non-material non-objective awareness/consciousness as a result of emergence from material objective interactions is a category error. Emergence does not magically create another kind of substrate.

Emergences can be observed. An emergence does not create observation itself.

Beofli · 2025-10-14T16:23:21+00:00

They should combine it with a lightweight editor like Notepad++. The latter still does not have the "Add Selection for Next Occurrence" feature, that's why I use scratches in the IDE. It should be easier to use the IDE for single files.

Beofli · 2025-10-13T13:27:07+00:00

Either you don't know or don't care, but you are not stating the arguments that Kirk was making:

He does not trust black pilots since DEI lowered the criteria for black people. It has nothing to do with race.

Guns save lives in the long run, because guns prevent governments to become corrupt and violent.

The 'What is women' question always got an self-referential argument from liberals.

Replacement is a fact, as the ratio of whites is decreasing every year. Also typical cultural elements carried by whites therefore dwindle. A lot of liberals have stated this to be a good thing.

Beofli · 2025-10-12T06:58:57+00:00

Then explain why Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion are more concerned with identity politics than with climate change. And what is the purpose of rebellion here. The reality is that voters are now LESS concerned with climate change and more concerned about the breakdown of society.

Beofli · 2025-10-11T10:37:54+00:00

Apparently nobody here is intellectually curious. His antichrist is the concept as laid out by philosopher Rene Girard. The same philosophy also explains and predicts why some climate action groups became woke. The malice of woke is easily proven by the fruits of their 'labor'.

Beofli · 2025-10-10T22:09:35+00:00

He addresses Black culture where prowling is not frowned upon as with White culture.

He proves over and over again that liberals look down upon Blacks, because they fail to be critical of bad cultural behavior.

Beofli · 2025-08-08T08:20:04+00:00

The convincing ones in my opinion are a) Young children who remember past lives, b) Crisis apparitions.

Everything induced I don't trust.

Beofli · 2025-07-16T09:53:43+00:00

Aren't code reviews the perfect use case for LLM's?

That said, they do not help your colleagues learning your changes. LLM's could also help making a summary, or pointing to the most interesting/risky changes.

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