Hum… but your quote indeed uses “treat”, I am no expert, but I feel it might be the verb form of “treatment”…

Thank you! This is very helpful.

Sorry, the language my original post might seem confrontational, but that is not my intension; I m trying to find value in LLM, since people are excited for it.

I am not a professional programmer nor do I program any industrial sized project at the moment. I am a computer scientist, and my current research project do not involve much programming. But I do teach programming to undergrad and master students, so I want to understand what is a good usecase for this technology, and when can I expect it to be helpful.

Indeed, I am frustrated by this technology, and that might shifted my language further than I intended to. When everyone is promoting this as a magically helpful tool for CS and math, yet I fail to see any good applications for either in my work, despite going back to it every couple month or so.

I did try @eslint/migrate-config, unfortunately it added a good amount of bloat and ends up not working.

So I just gived up and read the doc.

This is interesting, I would be quite impressed if this PR got merged without additional changes.

I am genuinely curious and no judgement at all, since you mentioned that you are not a rust/GTK expert, are you able to read and and have a decent understanding of the output code?

For example, in the sway.rs file, you uncommented a piece of code about floating nodes in get_all_windows function, do you know why it is uncommented? (again, not trying to judge; it is a genuine question. I also don’t know rust or GTK, just curious.

Then I am quite confused what LLM is supposed to help me with. I am not a programmer, and I am certainly not a TypeScript programmer. This is why I postponed my eslint upgrade for half a year, since I don’t have a lot of experience in TypeScript, besides one project in my college webdev class.

So if I can sit down for a couple hour to port my rather simple eslint config, which arguably is the most mechanical task I have seen in my limited programming experience, and LLM produce anything close to correct. Then I am rather confused what “real programmers” would use it for…

People here say boilerplate code, but honestly I don’t quite recall the last time I need to write a lot of boilerplate code.

I have also tried to use llm to debug SELinux and docker container on my homelab; unfortunately, it is absolutely useless in that as well.

There should only be class wars, but unfortunately I doubt the Russian invasion is a class war.

The image is taken from Zhihu, a Chinese Quora-like site.

The prompt is talking about give a design of a certain app, and the response seems to talk about some suggested pages. So it doesn’t seem to reflect the text.

But this in general aligns with my experience coding with llm. I was trying to upgrade my eslint from 8 to 9, and ask chatgpt to convert my eslint file, and it proceed to spit out complete garbage.

I thought this would be a good task for llm because eslint config is very common and well-documented, and the transformation is very mechanical, but it just cannot do it. So I proceed to read the documents and finished the migration in a couple hour…

For many Cuban Americans, the change in U.S./Cuban immigration policy is “a real surprise,” says Ana Sofía Peláez, executive director of the Miami Freedom Project, a Latino civic and education organization that deals with immigration, among other issues. “There’s real disbelief that Cubans can be targeted.”

Sorry what? Who do you think these racists target?!

lualatex?

In general only click on a link if you trust the domain. A URL usually looks like this: https://first.second.third/… And only the second and the thrid word between dots are important.

For example: https://suspicious.google.com/ is in general fine, since the second and third word is google.com . However, https://lemmy.legit-lemmy.world/ is unsafe, because the second and thrid word are legit-lemmy.world, but not lemmy.world.

There are ways to smuggle unsafe asset under legit URL, usually by uploading them on google drive, github etc. The good rule of thumb is to never run anything on your computer unless you are absolutely sure it comes from trusted source, like from official website.

Official download webpage tends to have very descriptive and short URL, like

• https://zoom.us/download
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11/

If you see long random strings on the download webpage then it is likely unsafe, for example:

• https://drive.google.com/Bt57Fgh90jkU=

It is also broken by Windows at every Windows update.

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My standard for “good” practise is: if everyone adapt said practice, then the world would be better off.

Even though the effort of a single person can be futile; if I cannot chance my behavior for a cause I believe in, how can I expect the rest of the world to do the same?

If he is gonna spend public money to worship himself, I at least expect the statue to be slightly higher quality than this piece of crap.

Sorry, blah blah research purpose.

I don’t see the link to the original article, but here is the link https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/8/1370

Yes, my gender is Estonia.

Do you mind also post the reference?

One of my colleague like to have roasted potato with vegan mayo. So he is having potatoes cooked in oil together with potatos emulsified with oil.

Took me a several click to get to the source: https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/4/3/real-time-federal-budget-tracker It has detailed budget breakdowns so it is decently convenient to explore.

I have done a very brief scrolling, here are some interesting findings. All the following data are year-to-date, comparing 2024 to 2025, adjusted for inflation:

Ups:

• despite mass firing, spending on federal employee salary has slightly gone up (by 4 billion, from 79 to 83 billion), which I assume is either current admin paying themselves, severance, or sign-on bonus to hiring back their fired employee.
• DoD and DVA spending has collectively gone up more than 20 billions.
• Unclassified spending up aroubd 20 billion, from 70 billion to 89 billion, a near 30% incease, curious what those are.
• Federal Highway, Railroad, and Transite are collectively up couple billion.
• DOJ, DOE, DOC has surprisingly gone up in spending. DOJ in particular gone up 1 billion, from 7 billion to 8 billion.

Downs:

• NIH and CDC are either slightly down or remain the same. It is worth noting that NIH and CDC collectively account for around 20 billions total spending, the same amount as the increase in DoD and DVA spending.
• Department of Education down 10 billion from 90 billion to 80 billion.
• USAID gone down 2 billion, even though it only accounted for total of 6 billion of spending in 2024.
• Homeland Security spending, surprisingly, down half a billion from 5.5 to 5.
• USPS down 1 billion, from 14 billion to 13 billion.