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Go do you fascist shit in Canada you fucking Canadian fascist fuck. Fuck yourself.

I’m not who you were responding to, but where tf did this come from?

Didn’t a limit already pass? It’s an insane limit, to be clear, but 350 single-family homes is still a limit.

Ideally we’d see that limit get stricter over time, but it was a R-controlled congress, so getting that at all is wild.

My hopes are about as low as they can get with this, but I hope I’m pleasantly surprised (assuming anything gets released).

But transgender rights are human rights. There is no trans agenda beyond equal rights. The only response to Republicans attack on transgender folk is that transgender folk deserve equal rights.

This exactly.

Does this issue cause a lot of fighting? Maybe. When you consider the position someone has to take to fight against basic human rights for a category of people though, you start to question whether that same person’s other opinions are worth any consideration.

Other issues still exist of course, but a meaningful conversation about them can’t be done with people who would advocate for pure hatred. There’s no “middle ground” worth considering when that’s a person’s position.

Historically speaking, advocacy against a group’s right to exist was called “religion”. That’s still the case today. You can’t argue that someone’s religion is wrong, regardless of how full of shit they are. People treat their religion as their identity, so even discussing it is perceived as an attack to most people.

Imagine an ideology centered around whether a group of people should be allowed to exist. Now imagine being on the side of it that argues that they should not be allowed to exist.

what we are really advocating for is the right to self-determination and ability to make our health decisions free from government interference

It’s amazing how much overlap there is between transgender rights and womens’ rights. The right is so obsessed with trans women that they’d make taking a piss in a public restroom into a witch hunt.

Just to name an example, the SAVE act was supposed to combat “voter fraud” by putting up barriers to vote for transgender people. The same barriers also sat in front of married women who had changed their legal name.

JavaScript takes yet another approach. It doesn’t have an equivalent of the Character.isWhitespace() method, but we can use the \s character class in a regular expression

\s might be the most obvious whitespace test, but the expectations are a bit more ambiguous when it comes to regex. Every regex runtime is different, so without looking it up, you’re going to end up with behavior you might not expect.

Instead, if you want to match Unicode whitespace, you should use \p{White_Space} in Unicode-aware mode (u or v flag).

I haven’t looked through any other runtimes, but something tells me the inconsistencies won’t stop at these three.

According to the docs, Rust’s char::is_whitespace checks if the value has the White_Space property, and regex does the same in Unicode mode (which is the default).

I liked Zed a bit, but I ran into some bugs that made me switch back to my previous editor. I think I’ll give it more of a shot in the future once it’s a bit more mature. Otherwise, I enjoyed how responsive it felt, and having a single toggle to completely turn off AI features was nice.

For Kate, I view it as an alternative to Notepad++. It’s quite a bit more powerful than N++, but to me feels like it fits in around the same place you described between simple text editor and advanced coding IDE. It’s a great default for people who tend to modify a lot of config files.

If they’re all generals who happen to be attorneys, then I guess.

States employ attorneys general, though.

Should be “Attorneys General”, not “Attorney Generals”. There are multiple attorneys, not generals :P

Wrong language, but close enough lol. Not Brazilian (I’d love someone who is to verify this), but from what I can see online, you probably want “adeus” (or “tchau”?).

The LLM when you tell it to rewrite it in Rust.

It’d be the Avenged Fold7.

No, there is no space there.

The main problem I have with the bulk of Anti-AI opinions is that they are simply that: opinions, backed up with parroted “facts” many of which are baseless, untrue, blown out of realistic proportion, etc.

This is, to an unbelievabe extent, true of the “Pro-AI” crowd (in particular those selling AI). It’s to the extent that the economy is inevitably fucked once investors start pulling out. AI CEOs lie regularly about the capabilities of their products.

In any case, “pro-AI”/“anti-AI” is a political approach to AI, and politics revolves entirely around opinion. If you truly want “facts” then you have to be willing to accept facts that you disagree with as well.

It is a fact that many bugs have been found with AI, yes. It has provided value to a lot of people.

It is also a fact that for all the good AI has done for people, it is also an unregulated bullshit emitter. Shit, just the other day, I tried asking Kagi Assistant a question, and it gave me an answer in Chinese. My question was in English. It had nothing to do with languages. But if you want numbers, these AI companies publish their benchmarks publicly, so go look at those and consider whether “correct 80% of the time in a benchmark the model was optimized for” is good enough to always trust.

Finally, it is a fact that AI companies have done irreparable harm to the world on an enormous scale, socially, ecologically, politically, and so on.

Am I the only person that thinks fixing kernel bugs discovered with AI is a good thing?

No. A bug is a bug.

Even everyone saying Linus went full AI… Like… What? IMO he’s being practical. It IS a tool, and there ARE a lot of things it should not be used for, but using it to patch things before human verification happens is a pretty sensible thing to do.

Using AI to fix a bug is different than fixing a bug found by AI. Even in Torvald’s vibecoded patch, he introduced a new bug, then asked the reviewer to take over the patch and went on vacation.

Would love to hear from someone who has been programming for a long time and isn’t all just “AI bad because AI bad”.

While I get where this is coming from, being dismissive of people who you disagree with doesn’t exactly inspire healthy discussion. If you want genuine opposing opinions, those will only come from those you disagree with.

I got curious and checked my own usage. Averages around 700MB or so for the past few months. It spiked one month because I was using my phone as a hotspot for a work call.

Unsurprisingly, Google Play services uses the vast majority of my data. Fucking Google. I have unlimited, so it’s whatever, but still.

So if I don’t? I’m not being understanding or welcoming; I am the enemy.

I don’t know who said this to you, but I don’t think it was anyone in this thread, was it? You can use whatever terms you want. It just happens that “stimming” exactly describes the behavior.

Do I have repetitive habits? A few … if I’m packing cigarettes, it’s 9 or 13 times. Not for any reason, just muscle memory; not a compulsion. I’m pretty sure just about anyone has done something while waiting, annoyed or bored like twirling a pencil or tapping a foot. I still rub the ears of my stuffed Snoopy while falling asleep, and sometimes subconsciously during the day.

This wouldn’t be stimming, then. Stimming is more of a compulsion than just repetition. It helps someone feel more comfortable, especially when feeling sensory overload. A common type of stim I’ve seen is “shaking maracas” (as we call it, or shaking your hands). This isn’t a typical habit, but rather a necessity to relieve discomfort or anxiety.

Because apparently I’m the first adult to have it pointed out that I’m neurodivergent.

I’m confused by this. For what it’s worth, I was diagnosed literally last month, and I’m an adult. I was pointing out that a lot of autism material is directed toward working with and diagnosing children because diagnosis of adults is a much more recent thing.

I can’t speak for the videos themselves because I don’t know what videos you were watching. If they were toxic or unhelpful, then try some other resources. It’s not supposed to be some fancy “club” or in-group or whatever. If someone’s acting like it is, then they’re not worth your time to listen to.

If you’re looking for resources for Autism (which I’m guessing from context), most resources will be geared around diagnosing children because more research has been done in that area. Even for adults, specialists often use your childhood as one of the factors to determine whether to diagnose you. That might explain some of the infantilization you’re feeling.

Third complaint: Excessive use of domain-specific terminology (e.g., “stimming,” “soothing”) instead of plain English. That’s fine for a seminar, but all it does for me is hit me over the head that these are terms I should use and cherish. Fuck that.

I’m curious what terms you’d prefer here. For example, “stimming” is the term that describes a category of repetitive behaviors. It’s not about cherishing the terms, it’s about using precise terminology.

This seems like a problem that can be approached entirely in embedding space. Find embeddings for words that you want to avoid, then filter your dictionary to remove anything too close to those.

No need to go through full text gen or anything, though if you want to go that route, a classifier like Jev (or OpenJev/etc) would be best.

the classic language models before LLMs existed

Which models are you referring to here? Earlier versions of GPT (like GPT-2)?

There are small LLMs like Phi 4 Mini that you could look at. Those were part of the “small language model” craze (SLMs).

If you want meaningful commit messages though, nothing beats handwritten messages. Commit frequently and the messages should be short and easy to come up with.