"Today I read yet again someone suggesting that using ChatGPT to rewrite code from one programming language to another is a great idea. I disagree: a programming language is an opinionated way on how to better achieve a certain task and switching between world views without understanding how and why they do things the way they do is a recipe for inefficient code at best and weird bugs at worse."
"I decided to test my theory with Google's Gemini - I've seen students using it in their actual coding (probably because it's free) making it a fair choice. I asked the following:"
"Convert the following code from Python to Elixir:"
The code looks equivalent, but it's only equivalent for the normal case -- if the input is bad, the Python and Elixir code behave differently. I think this is a good example of how LLMs can make translations that look correct but aren't in subtle ways.
#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #codingai
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PHILOSOPHICAL ROCK-AND-ROLL NOIR mystery has a fresh voice, memorable characters, and a powerful sense of place. Absorbing and satisfying read with a lot of nuance. A MINUS
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Reminder that donating to the Harris campaign through #MastodonForHarris isn't just about the total amount of money raised, it's about the number of donations.
Of course we aren't going to outraise these billionaires, but what all these people who are willing to throw even $5 at this thing are showing the political world is that this is a network full of people who are engaged enough in politics to put our money where our mouth is. You can't say Harris doesn't have any supporters here, nor can you say we are just sitting on the sidelines, when over 100,000 people have given her money.
And you know, if someone is willing to give you $5, they are most definitely going to vote for you. You might even be able to get them to volunteer, or strategize around what this large group is doing.
This is a show of power.
This is proof that, if they give this network a chance, it could be a good place to get support from.
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Yeah I already follow Tim, I guess I just didn't see it.
Oh well, maybe I can hit the next thing. Is anything else like that coming up? Any residual activity from it?
What a week!
I discovered the FediForum unconference on Mastodon and spent the next three days learning about ActivityPub, web fingers and hooks, and the history and politics of federated social media from some of the originators. I’ll have to level up my technical skills, again. I spent a few hours finding, learning about, and following folks across Mastodon instances and then closing scores of tabs.
#FediForum #Reflection #Ghost #Fediverse
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Today's the day Supergirl first met Lena Luthor.
(Comic art by Jim Mooney and Kurt Schaffenberger.)
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New blog post! This time I'm taking a look at fonts. I ran into a floppy disk containing a pair of extremely cute dingbat fonts - a tokusatsu helmet alphabet, and a set of decorative lucha mask characters. They're well-designed and very detailed.
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[thread] JD Vance
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance
* American politician, author, venture capitalist, Marine veteran
* served since 2023 as junior United States senator from Ohio (R-OH)
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JD Vance says he will keep calling legal Haitian immigrants "illegal aliens"
"I'm still gonna call them an illegal aliens," the Ohio senator said of his Haitian constituents
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#JDVance #RepublicanParty #GOP #ConspiracyTheories #conservatism #disinformation #populism #FarRight #xenophobia #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #extremism #Trumpism #MAGA #EnablingFascism #antiLGBT #discrimination #WhiteNationalism #racism #Haitians #Ohio
To Understand JD Vance, You Need to Meet the “TheoBros”
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again
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Before I was a mountain biker, or a trail runner, or a skier, or a mountaineer, or a caver... even before I was a rock climber, I was a backpacker.
This is a story about rediscovering that fact.
Investigations
Sep 12 2024
Ottawa-based company is key to keeping Israeli warplanes bombing Gaza
Around the world, peace organizations are targeting ‘sole-source suppliers’ of F-35 jet parts like Canadian Gastops to stop Israel’s assault on Gaza
by Derek Rasmussen, Lucy Uprichard & Martin Lukacs
#Canada #CanadianPolitics #cdnpoli #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #ceasefirenow
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Coded #python #hydravideosynth @hydra
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Someone suggested this the last time Grazing Private Lyin' was shot at: A dem needs to introduce a gun control bill called the "Save Donald Trump Act" and just see how many repubs reject such a thing. If they don't get on board, wouldn't Hair Furher put them on the shit list if they didn't support it?
La convergence des haines - conférence de Kylian DUCHEMIN
Une conférence très intéressante à l'initiative de @Hacking social
La convergence des haines, une histoire de narcissisme, de honte et d’idéologie !?!
Voici la conférence de K. Duchemin, doctorant en psychologie, que vous avez pu voir en live en juin dernier : afin de faciliter l’accessibilité et le dynamisme nous avons monté ce live.
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A ce que j'ai compris, cette instance allemande d'invidious dispose d'un script qui modifie automatiquement le proxy.... suffit de patienter 2mn et la vidéo est dispo. D'ailleurs, vaut mieux éviter de vouloir recharger la page web, le changement de proxy est auto.
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in reply to Wayne Radinsky (old account) • • •I'm not really up on the latest, but I'm pretty sure cross language translation is a major challenge. I doubt that it would scale up very well. Imagine going into a cobol shop and having gpt rewrite cobol into a modern language and modern modularization and abstractions.
But I can imagine developing some good gpt tools that would help untangle the usual spaghetti code of a legacy system. I have some long ago experience with doing that, and let me tell you, legacy information systems can be a god awful mess.