Argument by authority. Who uses LLM’s for what has no bearing on whether their net causal impact of them is sufficiently good for society to justify their continued existence or not.

Slash and burn farming is great - for the farmer doing it. Robbery is great for the robber, fraud is great for the fraudster. I didn’t pick robbery or fraud as random examples either.

Since he’s already figuratively living on another planet, maybe we should literally send him to one. Venus would be my personal favorite.

Someone really needs to inform him that he has the right to remain silent.

If someone investigated Trump and “found nothing”, that makes me question the investigators, not the one ordering the investigation.

The so-called President of the United States, ladies and gentlemen.

I wonder how (or if) they handle the tasks of the other R4000. Specifically stuff like ATRAC audio decoding.

Are y’all completely insane or just insanely complicit?

Disclaimer: I’m not Ruby programmer. I evaluated it once, saw no particular reason to use it instead of Python and promptly forgot about it.

With that said, the specific criticism(s) are:

• Poor performance. Sure. Ruby does appear to be somewhat slower than Python, but I’m more concerned about the peak memory consumption which is admittedly frequently pretty terrifying. Mind you, if I need high performance, I’m not likely to be using either Ruby or Python. It’s fine for automation scripts, rapid prototyping or experimentation, hypothesis validation, moderate data processing, analysis and visualization, but yes: If you build your (supposedly) hyper-scalable website on Rails or use it for the system software for your embedded device, you’re going to have a bad time. Every tool has its place (except Brainfuck). Don’t use a hammer when you should be using a screwdriver.

• The above also covers the railing against rails, about which I have no further comment as I’ve never used it. Maybe it’s nice, but if you’re working on something with more concurrent users than your homelab automation UX, there’s undoubtedly better alternatives.

…And that appears to be it. So it boiled to down to “performance”. Does that in and of itself make Ruby “not a serious programming language”. Well, if it does, then the same applies to Python. Does it mean that there’s probably a better alternative for any given application? Probably yes.

Thank you.

Maybe if I could read the article I’d have something to say about that. I guess we’ll never know, and that’s probably for the best.

Well, no. But I haven’t tried ‘zero’, ‘N/A’ or ‘Nunya’ either. As I’m not a US Governor and / or obscenely rich, my actions have actual consequences.

Oh, is that how ‘releasing’ information works now? Somehow I suspect the same standard won’t work for any government agency asking citizens for information. I doubt the IRS would accept ‘zero’, ‘N/A’ or ‘Nunya’ as valid entries on a tax return.

Most recently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

He claimed the new black and white marble is “very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!”.

That’d would have been much more persuasive if I had any confidence whatsoever that he knows what planet he’s currently on.