Is the COBOL committee still working under the assumption that it currently is and will always be the dominant language?

Put another way: what what do you like about uxntal in particular compared to the the other languages in the same family of concatenative languages?

The other thing he [emphasis mine] got wrong is “prompt complexity/coaxing”.

She, actually.

As someone who regularly has to deal with code that has been broken needlessly into smaller functions so that I have to constantly jump around to figure out what is going on, this really resonates with me.

The latest case was someone who took something that really only needed to be a single function and instead turned it into a class with a dozen tiny methods.

I was responding to the following paragraph in the article:

We used to get proof-of-thought for free because producing a patch took real effort. Now that writing code is cheap, verification becomes the real proof-of-work. I mean proof of work in the original sense: effort that leaves a trail: careful reviews, assumption checks, simulations, stress tests, design notes, postmortems. That trail is hard to fake. [emphasis mine] In a world where AI says anything with confidence and the tone never changes, skepticism becomes the scarce resource.

I am a bit wary that the trail of verification will continue to be so “hard to fake”.

Unfortunately, the next step is for AI to get better and better at generating verification trails that look correct but are not.

Yeah, the transition from the third frame to the fourth frame just doesn’t make sense as currently depicted; why would people playing video games suddenly start to revolt?

However, if the third frame were to depict rich men getting richer as you suggest, then the revolt in the fourth frame would make more sense.

I’ve been thinking about trying it, but it wasn’t obviously “magical” to me when I last took a look. What makes you say that?

No worries! Pronouns in the English language are sufficiently ambiguous that it is easy to make that mistake.

What makes it that bad?

I admit nothing.

The researchers in the academic field of machine learning who came up with LLMs are certainly aware of their limitations and are exploring other possibilities, but unfortunately what happened in industry is that people noticed that one particular approach was good enough to look impressive and then everyone jumped on that bandwagon.

I mean, I presumed that no robots were involved, but then again I haven’t used a modern AI chatbot recently so maybe the field has advanced a lot?

I don’t think that most people need it to be revealed that the woman had sex if she is currently pregnant, unless they are Catholic or something.

Agreed, but at least the two chairs you brought provided a nice table for that plant.

That’s fair, but my understanding is that Los Angeles is an extreme case rather than a representative example of a typical American city, in part because of its unfortunate location in a valley and in part because of its sprawl. The fact that pollution is particularly hard to control there is why California is legally uniquely able to apply for its own set of automobile pollution regulations that are stricter than the rest of the country.

It is pretty sad that a feature that was introduced into C++ five years ago would not be widely used yet, but that also would not surprise me.

Absolutely disgusting:

Being surrounded and yelled at about “misrepresenting reality” is not how serious United Nations-hosted negotiations are meant to proceed. But that is what happened to Prof Bethanie Carney Almroth during talks about a global treaty to slash plastic pollution in Ottawa, Canada. The employees of a large US chemicals company “formed a ring” around her, she says.

At another event in Ottawa, Carney Almroth was “harassed and intimidated” by a plastic packaging representative, who barged into the room and shouted that she was fearmongering and pushing misinformation. That meeting was an official event organised by the UN. “So I filed the harassment reports with the UN,” said Carney Almroth. “The guy had to apologise, and then he left the meeting. He was at the next meeting.”

It is true that the last time I answered that question with, “I put something in their drink every morning to make them more chill,” I did not end up landing that job…

Story time?