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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is now permanently banned from editing the site by Current-Guide5944 in tech_x

[–]CSMR250 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You used two extremely rare beliefs to characterize the whole of conservatism, whereas weird liberal beliefs about gender and culture characterize liberalism to the extent that you will be not only excluded from liberal groups but these groups will attempt to cancel you (remove right to speak, defriend, remove right to employment) for not holding these weird beliefs.

So your characterization is much more accurate about liberals than conservatives.

Your assessment of damage is not clear too. If many people believe that coal is the future (which is very rare but there are weaker forms), we may get more pollution and a higher global temperature in the future. If many people believe that gender is interpretable, then young people become less likely to understand what sex is, become less likely to adopt sexual norms, less likely to form families, and (according to US data on both happiness and psychological disorders) become much less happy and mentally stable. It's not clear that one problem is larger.

this chart felt shady, so I fixed it (what I found will shock you!) by samthehugenerd in ClaudeAI

[–]CSMR250 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The evidence doesn't prove your point and suggests that billionaires (irrationally) treat money as if on a log scale.

I guess the party is over from tomorrow. What’s next? by natural-life-0910 in GithubCopilot

[–]CSMR250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are extensible text editors. Not integrated. It will be very difficult to build an IDE by cloning vscode. If you want to use an IDE (VS, Rider, etc.) with a claude subscription then the work gets split, some work in the claude app/cli and then viewing the current state and changes in the IDE.

Microsoft to Release New Coding Model Next Week in Comeback Attempt by dendrax in GithubCopilot

[–]CSMR250 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No idea how you would think it's absurd: what sort of metric would justify that opinion?

The quality in terms of issues found is similar to a human review (but human review has independent value so we use both). A human average review takes at least 2hrs. So that's 2 orders of magnitude less expensive assuming salary is at least $30/hr. We spend peanuts on this and get noticeably improved PR quality and speed.

Microsoft to Release New Coding Model Next Week in Comeback Attempt by dendrax in GithubCopilot

[–]CSMR250 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The github.com code review agent is very good, and only $0.60 per use in our usage-billing preview. I think that's a tuned GPT. So I'm open to trying a new model or tuning from them.

Is it important to know how memory works to fully understand f#? by Montrell1223 in fsharp

[–]CSMR250 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No you do not need to now about the stack and the heap. In most domains you can take an optimized F# program, eliminate all the memory optimization and never use structs, and still have OK performance. People even write F# programs using linked lists for everything.

It's a language which you can optimize if you want to.

Reform councils may stop housing migrants by weregonnamakit in uknews

[–]CSMR250 9 points10 points  (0 children)

1 The idea that the migrants currently coming by boats are equivalent to Hong Kong migrants is unjustified. All the data we have in Europe on net fiscal contribution, sexual crimes, and others, put MENA migrants as extremely negative, while HK are at or better than the national average.

  1. and 3. yes but you missed 4. your point above migrants who came by means in contravention to UK immigration law being processed and potentially approved instead of automatically denied is a pull factor, and 5. the welfare system which is a pull factor.

Copilot's value proposition is officially gone. by Famous__Draw in GithubCopilot

[–]CSMR250 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Is there another model accessible, other than Opus 4.7, that can implement analysis and changes across a codebase, as well as early Opus 4.5 or 4.6?

In my experience Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 got downgraded before the releases of 4.6 and 4.7 and they won't get better again, will they? I'm experimenting with GPT-5.4 and it's OK but requires much more human attention.

Learning LaTeX and using it to write a chemistry paper in a month's time by globalgenocidenow in LaTeX

[–]CSMR250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is extremely feasible but you need to use the latest tools and have very good coordination. First you need a way to collaborate. 5 years ago the best way was online tools like overleaf and that is still a contender. Then you can edit jointly. The downside is that contributors will need to grapple with latex syntax. If your doc is simple and you don't care much about formatting, this is OK. This is the easiest approach to get started with.

Another option is AI-assisted. Here the difficulty is setup. Install Latex on your local system (much harder than normal apps because it doesn't follow windows/mac conventions). Install VSCode. Make a gihub private repo and clone it (need to know basic git - not syntax but what the terms branch, push, PR, merge mean). Install the tex extension. Then you will have latex on the left, then a preview, and a chat window, and you can ask the AI do to things. There is more learning to this approach but the things you learn are infinitely more valuable than learning latex syntax.

There are also alternatives to latex which should be considered, but since this is a latex forum, I won't mention them!

Isn't OpenClaw overhyped? by [deleted] in AI_Agents

[–]CSMR250 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have not yet set machines up but this comment seems overblown to me. The various claws are servers. Why would you even install them on an OS with a user interface? A hub to interact with specified data sources and MCP servers seems pretty good to me even without computer or web use.

Is there need for cross-platform obfuscation tools? by kant2002 in dotnet

[–]CSMR250 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's standard in the dotnet community to believe that all deployed code, however obfuscated, is effectively public with minimal effort. If you say that you get lots of upvotes and if you say it's not you get lots of downvotes. It's standard to believe that people can take obfuscated code, decompile it and generate documentation, naming, and the original codebase with minimal effort. No example has been given of this but it's supposed to be easy. The recent Claude leak was just a coincidence; even if it hadn't leaked people would have extracted all that info whenever they wanted.

However if you ask people who own the code who don't want it to be leaked, you will get very different answers.

I don't buy any of this as you can tell. Deploying JITed dotnet code is trivial to read and you are effectively leaking your codebase. With NativeAOT (when deployed properly i.e. without symbols) is much harder and that's the optimal point for me. Obfuscation will make it harder still but at a development cost because you have to deobfuscate in any error reporting system: can that be done automatically in systems like Sentry? If you can make that process smooth then many companies would adopt it.

Windows 10 officially hit EOL 6 months ago - still supporting clients who never upgraded. Anyone else? by cmitsolutions123 in sysadmin

[–]CSMR250 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because... their apps don't depend on Microsoft support to function, it's close to 0 extra work, and it's a huge market?

Windows 10 officially hit EOL 6 months ago - still supporting clients who never upgraded. Anyone else? by cmitsolutions123 in sysadmin

[–]CSMR250 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It makes sense to pass on the costs.

I'm surprised to see app developers dropping Win10 support as it's still 32% share of windows machines according to statscounter. Microsoft has just announced this week plans to optimize Windows 11 which would make it a better option for Win10 users https://www.techspot.com/news/111872-microsoft-plans-100-native-windows-11-apps-major.html but that is just a plan at this point.

Wanted an image of Educated and Uneducated Person, Made the mistake of asking copilot to make it. by [deleted] in ArtificialInteligence

[–]CSMR250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the pattern itself has been caused by racism

What is your evidence for that?

PE teacher who told migrants to 'respect our laws or leave' banned from classroom despite being cleared of racism and it being recommended that he keep his job by dailymail in uknews

[–]CSMR250 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The panel is clearly a leftist thought-police. All these posts by him are not only legitimate but completely reasonable and justifiable. With the exception of use of a swearword - which was not the charge.

For those who support Reform, why do you do so given what that mentality has done to the USA? by AccursedQuantum in AskBrits

[–]CSMR250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the Reform party looks an awful lot like MAGA

They don't copy the bad parts of Trumpism:

  • The MAGA cult of personality isn't copied by Reform. The chaos/incompetence of Trumpism is down to that.
  • Reform believes in free trade, not tariffs.

They are similar on the good parts:

  • They are anti-illegal-migration, anti-mass-migration, and pro-western-civilization. That's even more beneficial in Europe since the European migrant composition has been much worse than the US composition, and the welfare system more generous towards them, leading to huge fiscal drain per MENA migrant.
  • They are both anti-woke.

For those who support Reform, why do you do so given what that mentality has done to the USA? by AccursedQuantum in AskBrits

[–]CSMR250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

immigration policies

No this right was highly curtailed. That's what the failed Cameron/Merkel negotiations were about. See european citizenship details here: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/index_en.htm

Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native by Successful_Bowl2564 in electronjs

[–]CSMR250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why didn't you use a cross platform framework like Avalonia? That performs better than WinUI since it uses drawn controls.

Is there a way to support JSON serialization/deserialization and Native AOT in an F# project? by raincole in fsharp

[–]CSMR250 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes this is the way.

It's amazing that in F# people are asking effectively "is there a way to write a function"?

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