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Agile goes on about how if you aren’t connecting-with-customer, while you’re coding, then you’re doing exactly what that article is bitching about.

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He speaks about spreadsheets being malleable-documents…

IF you do any calculating & basic-programming’s something you’re OK with, then PLEASE invest in understanding https://plutojl.org/

& if you decide to dig-in, then please try a good book ( the Design Patterns one is good ) & hit Exercism, & you’re good to go.

MASSIVELY better than spreadsheets, in my view.

Mind-you, I think Julia’s better than spreadsheets AND Python, because it’s cleaner, stupendously faster in execution, etc…

& that suits my aesthetics just fine.

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It isn’t only local to Australians:

The Reverse Cramer Index was a fund which did the exact-opposite of what a TV “guru” was telling people to do.

Notice that its returns, before it shut down, were in the green:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SJIM/performance/?guccounter=1

You can’t harvest the money of the mislead-sheep unless you’re misleading them & fleecing them efficiently, right?

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As the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, pointed-out: “you can’t orient to 2 contradictory-nature gods”, though he paraphrased the principle, some…*

IF someone in academia cares more about their-career, their-status, their-profit, etc, in any variant of institutional-narcissism, professional-narcissism, economic-narcissism, etc,

THEN the “learning institution” simply “cannot afford” to put learning 1st.

IF they care more about the next-generation’s learning, more about quality-of-research, more about next-generations DOING research, etc, then they’ll hire the grad-student & demonstrate how to limit/harness LLM’s so that they don’t compromise/undermine either education, autonomous human meaning, or science.

Actions speak louder than words, though, among those with honesty/integrity.

So, do whatever you want: & be judged on that, in the end, right?

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( the “*” was simply…

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ROTFLMAO

REALLY??

They ALSO are leaving-out all the LLM-introduced bugs, vulnerabilities, back-doors, & other shenanigans!!

Sometimes moderate ludditism can be a GOOD thing.

Ask the security-geeks why they generally refuse to use electronic locks on their homes!

See correctly, not “fashionably”.

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They’re wrong:

The actual problem is that they presumed that they’d be insta-embraced by the market, when in fact they have to market & grow their customer-base, same as normal businesses do.

Which is … executive-narcissism? corporate-narcissism?

Something like that.

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DarkTriad using political-process to highjack the world, is all it is: totally inevitable.

Filtering-out DarkTriad types isn’t something that wavering political-will can do to the degree of being stratically-secure: it HAS to be done by the system, itself.

Filtering-out evil from authority is a systems-question, NOT a political one.

This is just The Great Filter, is all: world-species-puberty.

World-breaking technology/industry, AND frustration-rage at feeling crowded, & one’s individual-rights being overwhelmed by collective-responsibilities, & then TANTRUM/POGROM to make the animal-reacting part of our unconscious-mind & ego have what IT wants.

The process’ll be finished by the 2080’s, it looks like.

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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nazi+eagle+insignia&iar=images&t=fpas

Those wings remind me of the Alligator Alcatraz grim-reaper insignia, somehow, too.

Well, at last they’re being honest, for a change, in that single item.

“Peace Prize” recipient, my arse.

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Why wouldn’t they be??

Sociopathic/psychopathic values ought be proud of sociopathic/psychopathic accomplishments.

Same as altruistic-values ought be proud-of, or at-least-happy-with, altruistic accomplishments!

What pleases one is inherently of one’s values, always…

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Humankind is now in Metaphase,

soon ( March/April, looks-like when the Middle-East goes kablooey ) to be in Anaphase: Regional Consolidation Stage, of The Great Filter’s 1st Yang Stage, aka the “White Serpent Time” in the American Indians’ religion, & the “White Horse Time” in the Christian’s book of Revelation.

Telophase will be complete in 7y after Anaphase begins, then

Cytokinesis, 2 mutually-exclusive "humankind"s occupying the same planet, & the global-deathmatch begins, aka the “Red Serpent Time” & the “Red Horse Time/WAR”, ie The Great Filter’s 2nd Yang Stage.

Humankind’s whole-species-equivalent-to-puberty: the mathematically inescapable Great Filter.

It’s our collective unconscious-mind’s ego & ignorance that’s the cause of it, btw, not the “religions”.

The “religions” are only “makeup” on it: styling, not the root-problem/cause.

Humankind’s species-collective-ignorance/ego is the root-problem/cause.

All worlds with people like us go through the same growing-up-test, The Great Filter.

Some survive, statistically…

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Sorry, but the most brilliant move in corporate history is the acting on Value Investing, as Buffett & Munger do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_investing

I think their belief that the market-cycle “cannot” be predicted, is hogwash, but Value Investing is THE killer-app, in corporate history.

Having the C-suite understand & be loyal-to Value Investing means your company is MUCH more likely to be around, in the future.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrine_(programming_language) already allowed programming in Korean, ttbomk…

Which is good: the more the better, right?

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Interesting!

Looks like a critical improvement, but…

it’s still Oracle one is trusting with one’s core infrastructure, & Postgres ISN’T Oracle, & so I still don’t see why people would go with MySQL rather than something which isn’t Oracle?

I remember reading, a few years ago, that Oracle had engineered it so that, due to licensing, it was no-longer-possible to guarantee that FLOSS ( MariaDB ) was MySQL compatible: they’d locked-down some key part of it, making it closed or proprietary, or both…

Just leave all such “relationships”, & pay up-front, instead of forever…

https://mariadb.org/when-oracle-drops-the-ball/

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TechnARCHY, not -ocracy: it’s feudalism, just by tech-elite, not everybody-voting-as-equals which the -ocracy suffix would imply…

Feudalism by a slightly-different standard, & technologically-enforced class/caste system: unbreakable concentration-of-rights-authorities-wealths-and-privileges to the owners/rulers.

Yeah, it’s inevitable SO LONG AS government is by & for “the owners”, as that Aussie bizman called the economic-rulers of the world…

shrug

It’s theoretically possible for government to be evidence-based, objective, for the good of the world, etc, but that would take far more spine than the ideologies would permit, far more than the political selects-for-DarkTriad process would permit.

Human-narcissism being the relentless underlying mover-&-shaker of the whole thing.

The change required is more fundamental… probably more-fundamental than humankind would allow.

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There are some nice ones, there…

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Good information to know: things have changed a bit, in the last few years, then…

( Kingston has improved, apparently )

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NASA did work on turboprops being much more efficient than turbofans, years ago.

2 things I remember from their paper ( 1 of zillions: trying to re-find a particular paper can waste days )…

1. blade-flutter can destroy the thing, at those high-speeds & high-energies
2. the MORE blades, within limits, the more efficient, & that was measured, so near-transonic props seem to behave DIFFERENTLY than low-subsonic ones do ( where fewer blades == more efficient )

Generally, the lower the pressure-difference between the suction-side & the pressure-side of a prop-disc ( because you made the prop-disc bigger ), the greater the efficiency, you ideally want the speed-difference of the air to be limited between before & after, to something like 7x or less, AND you have to limit the suction-side-of-the-blade air to below transonic, or the shockwave can damage your blade,

so using an open rotor/fan, with MUCH bigger prop-disc, should be a no-brainer…

I know Boeing was researching into it, & them & Airbus both seem to have decided that slipstream-straightening blades/vanes, just behind the fan, gets enough spiral-energy converted into straigh-back energy, that it’s worth doing

( as opposed to the massively-more-complicated counter-rotating props ).

You can see those flow-straighteners sticking out of the nacelle ( that isn’t idiotic-AI-bogosity: that isn’t a 2nd-prop, that is flow-straightening vanes )

I suspect that Hondajet-style engine OVER the wing would be required, … to get the things far-enough from the ground…

… but then you have a different problem: in a go-around situation, where you HAD been landing, but now you need to be climbing…

with engines above the wings, when you increase thrust, now you nose-down.

Which would need countering, just right, EVERY time.

It’s Airbus, though, so they’ll probably put some software system in to do that for the pilots?

Just some things which normals wouldn’t have noticed, so you can get more understanding out of what’s going-on, is all…

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They can’t:

To do-so would break everything-established out there…

That is why switching languages, which KEEP fundamental-mistakes ( like having wrong-bones in an organism: it’s a for-life thing ) & just keep having to work-around everthing, while the mistakes keep accumulating…

The mistakes in Python’s architecture prevent it from EVER working as efficiently as Julia … & there’s nothing they can do to fix that.

The mistakes made in Julia make me want to scream, & I’m not even a useful programmer ( the inconsistent parameter-sequence paradigm, pioneered in C, has been carried-on in Julia. Humbug ).

The book “Focus”, by Al Ries, identifies that it’s consistent that incumbents are blindsided by evolution.

“Aspirin’s position as THE over-the-counter painkiller is secure.” … until Tylenol came around, & wiped it,

then Tylenol/acetomenophen got nuked by Advil…

C&C++ are getting nuked by Rust, gradually.

Python OUGHT be nuked, by Julia.

Class-hierarchy-oriented-programming ( which is more-brittle than true OOP ) ought be nuked by Functional programming.

IF you begin making a leopard with the skeleton of a hippopotamus, THEN … you’re screwed: that can’t ever ever ever work right, right?

Mistakes multiply into each-other.

To make the perfect programming-language, you’d have to make NO mistakes in its architecture, its patterns, etc, ALL of the fundamentals would have to be wrongness-free…

Which is why there simply isn’t such a thing, yet: nobody’s done the mind-fixing to be able to make them capable of not-making-mistakes at that scale, see?

Remember Norton Utilties?

Peter Norton was a former Zen monk.

His seeing the right-answer was partly the result of all those hours sitting in meditation.

You can’t break wrongness/brokenness from programming, without 1st breaking it from one’s-own-mind, right?

It’s actually a 2-prong battle, not a single-prong one…

but who is going to pay anybody to develop their mind AND their code, both, together, for years?

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I don’t know about that, but there was an article on TheRegister, a year or so ago perhaps, on some company which was using LLM’s not for generating code, but for auditing code, to flag back-doors, etc, & the guy from the company told the Reg that the stuff the LLM they were using was flagging, was problematic ( like copying user-credentials to some specific server on the internet… )

There are a couple of code-specific LLM’s, & systematically using all of them to audit every project that one is reliant-on, & then checking what they flagged, to see if that is serious or just a mistake ( by LLM or by a coder ), that might increase the discovery-of-problems enough to make it very worth our world’s time/effort.

From what I’ve read about LLM’s, though, you’d have to have problems divided into specific kinds, & you’d have to have examples of that specific problem in a few different languages, to show the LLM, as examples, before you could rely on their finding that-problem in a code-base…

Keep the question small, precise, specific, provide examples, & tell it to ask questions about anything it isn’t clear about before answering, so you aren’t relying on it answering some question you didn’t mean…

IF it removes backdoors, & other malware, then I don’t care if it’s human or derivative: results matter, right?

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