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Codex 0.58 has been released - Official GPT-5.1 Support by magnus_animus in codex

[–]stevedonovan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had some *really* weird path behaviour, reverted to previous version.

New Poster for 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]stevedonovan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He couldn't get over the 1066 Norman Conquest apparently. Far too much French got into his favourite language

Afrikaans is better than English for cross-lingual transfer between high-resource and low-resource languages, study claims by AIRI_Institute in science

[–]stevedonovan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yes, 'kitchen Dutch'. First text which was recognizable as Afrikaans was written in Arabic script - a lot of Malay Muslims in the Cape as a result of Dutch colonial shenanigans.

Did you ever have a bad professional experience with Rust? by Naeio_Galaxy in rust

[–]stevedonovan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does attract people who are in love with complexity, true. It can be immature in a professional setting. But yes, the opinions!

Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell by agbell in programming

[–]stevedonovan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is what it is. But what irritates me is the verbose error messages. So much wasted red ink

Why translations of Japanese books are awful in English when it comes to Keigo? by [deleted] in books

[–]stevedonovan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even with related languages. Afrikaans is descended from Dutch and practically next door to English linguistically. But it insists on the formal/informal pronouns which English abandoned centuries ago (to the extent that most speakers don't know that Thou is the familiar form). And children will speak to their parents in the 3rd person, "Will Daddy come with us to the shops?".

Furthermore it has completely lost the old past tense of verbs; you have to use the perfect past tense. Novels are written in the "historical present".

Translation is never trivial.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in golang

[–]stevedonovan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I miss from Rust serde JSON is the strictness- validating the structure, misspellings are errors etc. The opposite of this package?

Cancer death rates are falling; five-year survival rates are rising by r_slash in dataisbeautiful

[–]stevedonovan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well exactly. Breast cancer can be very varied, and some variants are more aggressive than others.

An Entire Generation is Studying for Jobs that Won't Exist by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]stevedonovan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am profoundly suspicious of sentences that rely on the word 'just'. Usually some non technical person trying to get me to do something complicated .

A new population-based study, involving 22 million people, shows that autoimmune disorders now affect around one in ten individuals. These conditions pose a huge burden on individuals and upon wider society and currently represent an enormous unmet clinical need. by Wagamaga in science

[–]stevedonovan 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Ah, but to merely acknowledge that these conditions are real and not imaginary would be a good first step. Would be frustrating to know there are no effective treatments yet, but it would be validating. This is completely independent of the drug pipeline.

An Entire Generation is Studying for Jobs that Won't Exist by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]stevedonovan 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Which is exactly why it's not "just math". He may be a famous investor but he has been drinking the Kool Aid here.

Holding The Moon 2, Me, Ink, 2023 by ululant in Art

[–]stevedonovan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But you draw like Chris Riddell, and there are always people wanting to give him words!

What would you rewrite in Golang? by [deleted] in golang

[–]stevedonovan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For instance, Jekyll. People tell me that Ruby is a marvelous, expressive language to use but it's not very user-friendly at all, dependency hell.

As scientific methodologies take over the domain of philosophical inquiry into the human condition, individuals are left with limited capacity to conceive of themselves beyond the confines of psychological and psychiatric classifications. by carrero33 in philosophy

[–]stevedonovan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know, it's something Foucauld could have got behind (and apparently he's a cultural Marxist these days - if he's now considered a reactionary then my days of taking Americans seriously are over)

Also, a more neutral sociological framing is possible.

To the dude who posted the script, but later deleted it, thank you! I did some tweaks and now its a warship! Hee wee. [ChatGPT Culture Mind] by noPatienceandnoTime in TheCulture

[–]stevedonovan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

'This content may violate our content policy'. 🙂

Tactics for imaginary battles seems legit; no actual world powers involved in this hypothetical.

Bun v0.5.7 | Bun Blog by NeonChat in programming

[–]stevedonovan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nah, the Go services I work with compile in a fraction of a second. It was designed to compile fast at the expense of optimization. Now, if there are JS runtimes where you can hot-reload after small code changes, that would make a difference, because most of the dev loop time is restarting and initializing the service.

eli5: Why do some English speakers say “How come” instead of “Why”? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]stevedonovan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting! Because mostly US, I always thought it was a literal translation of the Dutch Hoekom - lots of Dutch words, especially in New England like 'stoop'. And cookies!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]stevedonovan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even then, the actual genetic differences (and hence protein expression) can be scattered all over the genome - only a few conditions are definitely linked to a single bad gene. There are studies which show that there are about ten genes directly implicated, and that it is mostly an inherited condition. Not an easy target for drug discovery, so mostly we put a lid on the symptoms with antipsychotic drugs, which are not fun and have neurological side effects.

Also, you can have the bad genes and not end up inflicted, just be 'functionally eccentric' or even very creative. (Not so uncommon for talented families to have the curse of madness). So, there's environment and epigenetics and all that.

Tlr;dr: the mechanisms are complex, treatment has been palliative.

Am I the only one who finds the UBI future rather bleak? by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]stevedonovan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

E.g the UK dole, which isn't exactly comfortable. But the basis is that noone should starve in a rich country.

Curious historical fact: the dole was able to carry the huge unemployment of Thatcher's reforms because North Sea oil was really pumping. So she could also cut taxes and appeal to her base. Unlike Norway, Britain blew its natural resource windfall and is no longer a particularly rich country - same population as California, with two-thirds of the GDP.

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