ModernMech

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by ModernMech 10d ago
When I was 9, long ago in the dial-up age, I dialed into a long distance number within our area code and we got a $100 charge for my using Active Worlds. Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about that anymore.
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by ModernMech 10d ago
Implementation became cheaper but it’s still not cheap. I’m working on an implementation for a runtime that’s been going on for 4 months of 24/7 constant Sol and now Astra work. When things go wrong it costs my time, which is my most v
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by ModernMech 11d ago
I can see this being a one-shot thing because the brief is pretty light; beyond broad strokes, you haven't specified much for it to actually do. Any UI that's also a webapp would satisfy this brief, but that's exactly what I
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by ModernMech 11d ago
> Rather, most of it holds true most of the time. But not enough. I see it be wrong about things all day every day. And yet, IME it's correct enough for it to be controllable. It doesn't have to hold up all of the time, it just
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by ModernMech 11d ago
Depends what you mean by end-user. Power users of AI aren't using these things to build applications for users, they're using them to do all the things they couldn't do as mere mortal programmers. Like the other poster detail
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by ModernMech 11d ago
This one shot thing I just don’t understand. The way I’m using it, it takes weeks of constant prompts because it never does exactly what I ask no matter how well I specify. I just don’t see how it’s possible to one shot anything unless you
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by ModernMech 11d ago
This kind of shaming is getting tired. At the end of the day, the people claiming their code quality is better without ai, while everyone else has low standards, aren’t providing any evidence of their supposed superiority.
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by ModernMech 11d ago
- is it understandable Yes you can ask the agent anything about it and interrogate it until you understand. - is it maintainable Yes it’s easy to ask the ai to add new features or to refactor it entirely. - how much work is adding new featu
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by ModernMech 11d ago
The AI machine can write better code. It can also write an interpreter which implements function calls by instantiating a new interpreter + entire standard library per function call. Or it will build a 300kloc cathedral of scaffolding and
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by ModernMech 12d ago
ikr, that's the first thought I had too. Looking forward to Warcraft Adventures next. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft_Adventures:_Lord_of_t...
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by ModernMech 12d ago
Found a presentation related to that chart, contains more context: https://chapel-lang.org/chapelcon/2024/chamberlain-clbg.pdf
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by ModernMech 12d ago
Has this caused tangible problems?
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by ModernMech 12d ago
No matter how much code it has “seen” during training, it still makes mistakes during inference. Therefore AI is most well-suited to write in languages with feedback loops that catch mistakes earlier. Moreover, no matter how good it is at w
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by ModernMech 14d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/AIprogrammingLanguage/
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by ModernMech 14d ago
> However it was not to the degree where this guy's response was warranted at all. Not one bit. Agreed. > so is the conclusion that Snap is perfect for what it's intended and that there is no room for criticism or opposing v
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by ModernMech 14d ago
> My belief is that learning is done best when there is a connection to something real, not just a simulation or an exercise. Okay but you're stacking your unsubstantiated belief based on a sample of just you against an entire field
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by ModernMech 14d ago
> like Snap doesn't really provide a way to understand how stuff is actually done... So I don't see how it'd be very useful for e.g. learning CS when it's not really something you'd see in the real world The poin
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by ModernMech 14d ago
Here's how teaching kids goes without scratch: "This is python, we use it to do professional development work. Here's VS code, we use it to do professional development work. Let's learn them." 6 year olds: "Oka
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by ModernMech 15d ago
Yes! Thank you, this has been irritating me from day one with agentic AI, I don't think it could be nearly as good as it is without all the well-designed tools humans have spent decades developing from PLs, to VCS, to the Unix philosop
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by ModernMech 15d ago
> believed this post was good and valuable enough to be posted publicly. I mean, it made it to the front page of HN didn't it? Probably served its purpose just fine. Not all writing is supposed to be impressive or good. Some of it i
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by ModernMech 15d ago
They attribute their success to their school and then donate to the school. Alumni donations are how universities stay afloat.
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by ModernMech 15d ago
> I don't see the cascading hierarchy of enrichment. If there wasn't a hierarchy of enrichment then rich investors would not be interested in AI at all. It's the only reason there's 22 million lying around to start tr
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by ModernMech 15d ago
They gave Trump presidential immunity partly because the remedy for addressing any perceived lawlessness, they figured, is provided by the impeachment process. If impeachment is forclosed as even a possibility, the president is truly immune
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by ModernMech 16d ago
> no human has broad enough knowledge and enough time to try them all. The other part is, humans don’t really want to fund other humans doing this. Very few want to be a math major; and of those that do, fewer complete a grad degree; and
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by ModernMech 16d ago
It could be “The Wrong Trousers”, that’s the only way ;P
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by ModernMech 16d ago
Yeah I wish they made a Macbook that color, it's pretty nice.
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by ModernMech 17d ago
SPOILER WARNING: There is huge spoiler for Silo in this ad if anyone is watching the show. Don't view if you don't want to learn the ending to Season 1.
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by ModernMech 17d ago
Seems like at this point each year the biggest new feature is a new color.
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by ModernMech 17d ago
I'll have to try it for a PCB circuit because that's where I'm going next. Were you asking it to use specific software to build the circuits?
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by ModernMech 17d ago
lol I didn't get access until Monday (I was at 0% since Friday and my reset was Sunday at 11pm), so go figure.

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