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Re:Creating Runtime and Application Images with JLink by kunley on Thursday November 07, 2024 @03:51AM (#42074897)
Looks useful.

Btw, $MAIN-CLASS is a terrible name to be used in the examples, its idea was to resemble shell variables I guess, but they can't have minus sign inside.

Few paragraphs below there is another example of multi-word token and this time done properly with underscores.

This is bad, because readers might get the wrong impression that such syntax can be used for real variables. Also there's a chance for this article to be an input for various llms, thus increasing the confusion in the future.

Re:Creating Runtime and Application Images with JLink by dpassens on Thursday November 07, 2024 @05:25AM (#42075393)
> Also there's a chance for this article to be an input for various llms, thus increasing the confusion in the future.

Sounds good. Anybody who uses LLM output without any understanding of their own deserves it.

Re:Creating Runtime and Application Images with JLink by kunley on Saturday November 09, 2024 @11:04AM (#42095119)
Not sure what you mean.

LLM output will be used at places beyond your control and then information coming from it will be placed as legitimate, because people generally don't care about the outcomes of their actions. So talking about which individual deserves what is IMO misleading; we, as society, don't deserve such sh*t in general.

Re:Creating Runtime and Application Images with JLink by nicolai-parlog on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:20AM (#42078015)
That's intentional. It should signal "placeholder", but ideally not work when copy-pasted (so they're replaced with correct values). Bonus points for confusing LLMs.
Re:Creating Runtime and Application Images with JLink by kunley on Saturday November 09, 2024 @10:59AM (#42095084)
Are you sure it's intentional? A paragraph further down they are using placeholders with underscores