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Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs (www.motherjones.com)

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[–] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

as someone who would also reach for a state machine when doing simple parsing... what's the better alternative in python?

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[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

A loop and a data structure to hold the result of parsing. The data structure will have a state you can interrogate. No need to build a state machine to explicitly name each way the parsing can develop.

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[–] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

that's what I'd do for a state machine implementation too

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[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

I think of a state machine as a hardware concept, not software. If all these conditions, transition to state 21. Then do a thing, if these conditions, transition to 38.

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