59nadir

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by 59nadir 10mo ago
I think the bigger part of those studies was actually that they were a clear sign that whatever productivity coefficient people were imagining back then was clearly a figment of their imagination, so it's useful to take that lesson wit
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by 59nadir 10mo ago
No, I wouldn't say it's super complex. I make custom 3D engines. It's just that you and I were probably never in any real competition anyway, because it's not super common to do what I do. I will add that LLMs are very m
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by 59nadir 10mo ago
I make custom 3D engines and the things that run on them.
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by 59nadir 10mo ago
I'm going to go ahead and assume that we don't do the same type of work, we aren't likely in the same pool anyway.
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by 59nadir 10mo ago
People thought they were doubling their productivity and then real, actual studies showed they were actually slower. These types of claims have to be taken with entire quarries of salt at this point.
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by 59nadir 10mo ago
As far as "programming skill" goes, writing "good and idiomatic" Python is pretty bottom of the barrel. I don't think the GP is all that off, most people who are famous for some programming-adjacent skill (or even p
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by 59nadir 10mo ago
YC companies have pretty much always been overhyped trivial bullshit. I'm not surprised it's even worse nowadays, but it's never been more than a dog and pony show for bullshit.
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
> To the point where I recommend people who are dabbling in GPU work grab a Mac (Apple Silicon often required) since it's such a better learning and experimentation environment. I don't know, buying a ridiculously overpriced co
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
> I'm having to pick up some perl now, and while I don't interact with the community, it surely _feels_ like it was written by wizards, for wizards. Obscure, non-intuitive oneliners, syntax that feels like it was intentionally
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
That's interesting; I feel like like it's the opposite: What used to be great work is basically unfathomable today and what used to be regular productivity is seen as almost superhuman. People get almost nothing done nowadays and
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
> Good at self-promotion == just good in most cases for most practical purposes whether it's factual or not, arguably. This does not seem true to me. Most popular programming YouTubers are demonstrably great at self-promotion but te
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
While I understand that people might downvote the parent post because it seems in bad taste and touches on a culturally sensitive thing, haven't we all wondered this? Why is it that the poor give relatively more generously than the ric
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
I had this issue a few years ago with certain applications and came to find out that it had to do specifically with them using GTK. I googled for it and found the fix, and after all the same apps started practically instantly. Could this be
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
> There's no way someone that works with real code all day could spent an honest few weeks with a tool like Claude and come away calling it "hype". someone might still not prefer it, or it's not for them, but to claim
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
> A whole new class of problems just became solvable. This is almost by definition not really true. LLMs spit out whatever they were trained on, mashed up. The solutions they have access to are exactly the ones that already exist, and fo
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
In Swedish the G wouldn't be silent so it wouldn't really be all that much like "wonderful"; "vanderfugel" is the closest thing I could come up with for how I'd pronounce it with some leniency.
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
They will spend less time on PRs from LLM spammers like you (for anyone who wonders, just Google his username and check the PRs made to OCaml/Zig/Julia), so if anything they freed up resources.
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
I think it's probably a great filter for getting people who are actually interested in contributing. Lowering the bar for contribution hasn't really turned out to be useful in any real sense, in my experience.
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
GitHub (or any repo host) is/was pretty much the only thing I care about when looking at people's applications, because it's the only thing that has anything to do with incontrovertible reality. I certainly don't give a
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
God forbid we'd have to actually look at the code itself to figure out whether something is good.
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
> In a follow-up discussion, I committed the "sins" of referring to him as a man, and saying things like he is not a woman, and there are only two sexes. Sincere question: Why were you not able to just think "Oh, ok, some
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
> Yes, and the US system is the envy of the world and is responsible for the overwhelming majority of wealth generated in the US over the past few decades. Can you elaborate on this a bit? It's very easy to read uncharitably without
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
I've found it has less idiosyncrasies, is slightly less tedious in general and provides a lot of the same control, so I don't really see much of an upside to using Vulkan. I don't love the stupid OO-ness of DX12 but I haven&#
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
You mentioned "Google" and Firefox, one of which is a browser. I clarified that I'm not interested in the web as a target, not to dismiss your entire suggestion but rather to clarify that that particular part doesn't int
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
Personally I'm not interested in the web as a platform. The APIs themselves I'm interested in, but as a target I think the web needs to die for everything that isn't a document.
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
I'll check out WebGPU at some point, I guess. I've written our rendering layer in all of the major APIs (OpenGL, DX12, Vulkan and Metal) and found it very instructive to have all of them to compare at the same time because it real
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
OpenGL is fine, it has the same issues now it had before but none of it really comes from "old age" or being deprecated in any way. It's not as debuggable and much harder to get good performance out of than the lower level AP
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
OpenGL still exists, runs and works fine on the two platforms that matter. I think its death has been overstated quite a bit. With that said we decided to focus on DX12 eventually because it just made sense. I've written our platform l
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
For what it's worth my experience with Metal was that it was the closest any of the more modern APIs got to OpenGL. It's just stuck on an irrelevant OS. If they made sure you could use it on Windows & Linux I think it'd f
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by 59nadir 11mo ago
Too late for an edit now, but `vkdx` in the note here is supposed to say `dxvk`.

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