ironically I think that the only job that LLMs could effectively replace right now, without hurting a company’s bottom line, would be upper managers

because think about it: LLMs are fantastic at taking in a fuckton of data that they don’t understand, and confidently producing output that sounds really smart and insightful but has no substance whatsoever. that’s literally an upper manager’s entire job description

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oo never posted this one here

@fargate oohh thank you! I’ve been looking at mooc.fi and after I’m done with this Haskell MOOC I might try some of the others. although cses.fi intimidates me a bit more since a lot of it is in Finnish and it looks much more serious hehe

@fargate I think I was finding more advanced Haskell features on this site out-of-context lol - especially the typeclass related stuff

although using this I was able to figure out how to get a list of all operations that I can do on strings! if I search for [Char] I only find String constants, but if I search for Char then it brings me to Data.Char which is exactly what I’d want. although I don’t understand the “instances” section yet hehe. but everything else makes sense!

although, how do I find the equivalent of Data.Char but for [a] types instead? if you don’t mind explaining. I tried searching for [a] but that didn’t get me anywhere and this search intimidates me to be honest. I don’t understand what a lot of this stuff means hehe

like for example do I need to be able to use the dropdown to the left of the “search” button? that thing looks really complicated and there are so many options T_T and then when I search do I need to understand the text in green under each function, or the green text to the left under “packages”?

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@CIMB4 that sounds amazing. I definitely want to try it at some point, since Arch is being a pain in the ass lol

@goose ooh that’s a great term to know! thank you

also Haskell is fun to play with so far! it has lots of cool ideas like how operators are functions (so you can use them in polish notation if you want) and functions can be used as operators (specifically you can use them in infix-notation if you want)

I haven’t learned how to do anything practical with it yet but I think if I jumped right to the practical uses for it my brain would explode. I’m still coming to grips with basic stuff like, how to avoid off-by-one errors when you have to recurse instead of looping

also I still can’t read the documentation at all lol so I can only go back and reread parts of the tutorial that I’m following. that’s a bit of a problem but hopefully eventually I’ll learn how to read the docs

if anybody knows where I can find more tech tutorials/courses/etc. with built-in challenges I would love to hear about it! this is a dramatically better way for me to learn and I didn’t realize it was a possibility until now

a problem that I often run into when learning a new Tech Thing is figuring out how to apply the knowledge that I’m learning about, without asking myself to do something that’s too hard with my current knowledge. but this Haskell MOOC does all the work for me and that’s amazing

specifically it comes with a git repo that I can clone. for each chapter there’s a premade file full of stub code and comments that describe what the code should do. and I just edit the stub code in order to make it work. then there’s another file that I can run to unit-test those challenges. that way I instantly know if I did each challenge right

this is genuinely a lot of fun to do and it helps reassure me that I am actually absorbing the information that I’m reading

I really wish that there were more courses(?) like this for learning tech stuff. even just something at the end of each chapter like “here are some optional challenges that you might want to try at this point” would go a long way

@lycanmatriarch omg thank you - this is so validating to hear. I feel like Fedi is so incredibly Linux-oriented that for the most part they just can’t understand how anyone could have problems with Linux - and if they do have problems then they don’t understand how those problems could be difficult to solve - and it’s so frustrating

aaa now the Arch laptop fucked up my cloud storage too and I don’t even know why. I literally haven’t touched this stupid laptop in like 6 months and suddenly everything is broken