Fraterkes

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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
Alright, I’m at the start of my career but do have a genuine burning interest in programming. Am I fucked or not?
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
I’ll chime in. I started learning to draw in my early twenties, couple hours a week. What helps a lot is joining a club, I’ve got a group in my town that just goes to a bar one night a week and draws and chats for 3 hours. Great way to ensu
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
The world's a scary place, but that's no excuse to make it worse.
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
Any resources for getting better at that skillset (high-velocity but largely stable ai-enhanced coding, if I understand you correctly)? I’m always pretty skeptical of these claims but I wouldn’t mind being proven wrong
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
I honestly think that a 1$ “deposit” to submit a pr for new contributors (to be returned if the pr is merged) could help with a lot of OSS problems
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
The part about ai contributions being demoralizing for reviewers because it could otherwise be an opportunity to educate a new contributor is pretty salient imo. Especially with so many people wondering what's going to happen to junior
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
Because we are, in our life, not always conscious.
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
I don’t know why I’m consciousness, but I know that I am. Other people are outwardly very similar to me, so I assume the same is broadly true inwardly. A rock is outwardly pretty similar to me; in that it exists in the world, has obvious ph
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
An LLM is a big equation that we solve to get textual output. If Ai proponents already believe an equation can contain consciousness, what about the Chinese Room presents a more compelling counterargument?
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
The assumption of this sort of argument, if I understand it correctly, is that consciousness is just an ordinary byproduct that appears (or grows gradually) somewhere on the spectrum of complexity. If that’s true, mastering language is basi
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
Do you have a source for the pupil dilation thing? Sounds fascinating!
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
"We believe in broad access, and we plan to make GPT‑5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna generally available in the coming weeks. As part of our ongoing engagement with the U.S. government, we previewed our plans and the models’ capabilities ahea
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
You guys are welcome: https://marcmajcher.github.io/jerrysmap/
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
It's funny how this (imo) almost feels like an inherently inert topic to discuss: Is it dumb of them to do this? Not really, they got unlucky with the timing and they already designed the machines. Selling them below cost to subsidize
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
Kind of a pity that we used up the phrase "a fractal of bad design" on php, it's so applicable to much of the stuff coming out of MS. I've been using PowerBi for a few weeks now and I'm sometimes impressed by the no
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
Why do you agree that Amazon shouldn't be the one producing the film if you don't believe there's any evidence them dropping it is related to the partnership?
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
I'm sorry, just to clarify: in your scenario where the app/company is suddenly vaporized from the face of the earth, if that happened to Bluesky right now it would effectively mean that >90% of content currently published usi
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
I’ll chip in here and say theres ime a world of difference between the amount of condescension and acerbic noise produced by Blow versus Casey. Casey comes of as grumpy but fundamentally pretty respectful in the stuff I’ve seen him in.
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
I, everyone here, has read all these discussions a thousand times now. I've tried to have a more nuanced view, I understand the excitement and I think there can be real value in automation being accessible to everyone. What matters to
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He Won't Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place [video](youtube.com)
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
This isn’t Rust-specific, but I’m always slightly surprised I don’t see more people talk about Pangui ( https://www.pangui.io/ ) (it not being out yet is a pretty good reason I guess). If the demos on the site aren’t vaporwar
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by Fraterkes 4mo ago
People in this thread writing conspiracy theories over the biggest language in the world requiring a bit of bureaucracy lends some credence to the idea that programming is not real engineering.
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by Fraterkes 5mo ago
I think people criticize that line in the zen of Python because Python has now become very maximalist. On it's own merits, I think "There should be one obvious way to do it" is much better, less clunky, than "There is an
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by Fraterkes 5mo ago
If I don’t word these critiques in the most diplomatic way possible, this immediately turns into a discussion about the prevalence of anti-ai sentiment on hn. Which would be boring.
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by Fraterkes 5mo ago
Gratitude was maybe the wrong word. As the article mentions, before ai I think larger PRs, while sometimes inconsiderate, at least implied some amount of care / effort / good faith. In my experience, that was often rewarded with t
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by Fraterkes 5mo ago
I've been looking a lot at Godot (another big open source project) PRs lately, and there's been kind of a surge of wholy ai-generated PRs (both code and description). This is agains project-policy, so people creating these PRs us
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by Fraterkes 5mo ago
Just out of curiosity, and without judgement, how much ai was involved in building this (ie was it vibed)? I'm trying to get a better idea of the kind of stuff people are making.
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by Fraterkes 5mo ago
But isn't that exactly what's going on here? An ai-company has created value by developing these models, and the public should capture that value via the instrument of government.
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by Fraterkes 5mo ago
This is neither here nor there: I was reading the about page of the author, and it contains a passage that slightly confused me: "My name is Chris and I live in Sweden. I have a beautiful, supportive wife whose love I will never be abl
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by Fraterkes 5mo ago
And it’s a win for the new group of drivers who ostensibly used to have a worse paying job. These dollars probably have more marginal utility for the people delivering doordash than for those consumers. If we want to be technical.

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