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This wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t used British English…

That’s what is weird to me - she is truly a believer, right? In the same way Hank and John are believers in their causes, even if it hurts other endeavours

Coolio, yeah! That is still not the easiest problem

Do you want the server side to be sth in rust or python or sth, or a whole TypeScript stack? Or like, a, “if I don’t have to worry about that, it would be cool”

Wanna come to the next c3 congress in hamburg between the years? you’d enjoy nerding there!

I do this if I also want to repost it. I like giving context to me 0.5 followers

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I do this if I also want to repost it. I like giving context to me 0.5 followers

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Because webdev seems insane without that context, I’m very aware of that fact

Also, I saw a like 2hr video of taoding completely miss the point of react and other webdev frameworks

So, if you want, I can give you a 2-3 paragraph primer on like “why is react” and “the one problem all web ui frameworks try to solve” (it’s state management and ‘reactive’ UIs)

Just for context

Also, if you’re trying out react, just to get you in the right mindset: it’s a mix of fp (you write code that takes in props and state, and returns some html) and normal imperative programming via event handlers and effects, where you mutate state

It’s weird, but you can get used to it!

If you have any other things you wanna think ahead before, super duper happy to help. Webdev stuff I actually know!

A bit late for me, can’t join :( But yeah, if you wanna prepare with sth, and stuff - happy to help :)

For modern web dev stuff, make sure you have node installed ahead of time (nvm is great). That’s just a requirwment.

Opinion: vite is really pleasant to develop with (live reload on save, <50ms!)

Move out now mamdani. Move into these two bedroom apartments in the same neighborhood that cost 400 dollars more a month. A woman and her CHILD are on the line

The enshittification of tech jobs Our last line of defense has fallen.

Hm, relevant reading to “why do devs do this” is also: doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

I love my BF, why would I want to cure my gay?

I somehow had not filed these two facts together.

But it’s impossible to tell which is which in the moment

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For me I thought the former, took break, switched jobs

Was the latter. Being unmotivated is a separate thing from adhd paralysis

I’m affirming that. Like, speaking a 2nd or 3rd language is valuable.

I speak 3 (though my french has gotten worse), and am learning a fourth.

Sorry if that didn’t come through, I’m sometimes* bad at communicating.

* often

I’m only speaking for myself and extrapolating from there

But yeah, there are many languages where LLMs and other machine translation tools aren’t great still

All of them can use it! LLM translations are far from perfect, and everyone saying otherwise is lying.

But they’re good enough for a lot of cases. Other stuff, not so much.

I wouldn’t want to read an AI translation of a novel. But for a simple product description? Menu at reataurant? Sure

Hm, I think an understandable metaphor is like, image generation: a LLM can help programming in the same way it can help you create images:

If you’re very bad, it can give you something that kinda maybe looks right? And if you’re good, it might be faster if you need a sketch, though worse.

I *am* scared of some subways, admittedly. Like, it’s weird to carry a $2000 laptop from my company on my back while next to me someone is injecting themselves with drugs.

Me no likes.

I still think subways should be expanded significantly, though! Like, I love subways. But sometimes I’m afraid.

It is one of these things that has an outsized influence, right? So yeah, I do think jewish people having a conversation about the isreali state with each other is important.

My goal is super simple: what’s the most effective way for less people to die? And for that, this convo is important af

Yeah, but if every single jewish person I followed was like “hey, palestinians are evil” then I’d have a much harder time supporting them.

It is only because people I already followed before who happened to be jewish (in many cases I didn’t even know) supported palestine, I felt comfortable w/ it

Understandable. I have seen that non-programmers can create things that approximate programming.

I have not observed a skilled programmer suddenly gaining any new capabilities with ai

Translation is one thing LLMs have a technolgical advantage (seemingly), and people are starting to use them a lot for this. No advertisment needed.

This is also something she mentioned seeing.

(Also, for reference, I'm bilingual, trilingual if you count my bad french, and 4 if awful 日本語 counts)

(she's really good at Japanese, as you can imagine), and she translated it at 2pm as well - she made the same mistake. It was 2am, and she was like "oh, of course, context"

Anyway, I compared all three in more detail, and ChatGPT was the best. Of course, human would be better

But yeah, point is:

And it said people should evacuate from "2:00"

GT translated it as "2pm", which is wrong, it was 2am in context. DeepL went for the conservative 2:00, and ChatGPT got 2am presumably from context (it guessed that consistently)

I showed it to the (human) international coordinator for the prefecture