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by Uehreka 1y ago
> Supercharge Your I’m totally fascinated by AI coding stuff, but please don’t have an LLM write marketing copy and then shovel the first draft onto the internet. Particularly in a README which should be primarily technical. The use of “
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I keep seeing the same “middlebrow dismissals” of LLMs in HN comments, it’s getting pretty repetitive to have to cover all of this over and over, but here goes (I recognize GP is only saying one of these, I’m just trying to preempt the othe
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> Not sure what AGI has anything to do with it. Judging from the tone of the article, they’re using the term AGI in a jokey way and not taking themselves too seriously, which is refreshing. I mean like, it wouldn’t be refreshing if the a
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Third blind man touching the elephant here: the other commenters are wrong ! it’s not about bit depth or linear-to-gamma, it’s the fact that the human eye can detect way more “stops” (the word doesn’t make sense you have to just look it up)
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I don’t know about that. Me and everyone I know use Uber as a verb but then always order from Lyft. I used to do it for the political reasons, but at this point it’s mostly just muscle memory. When I do open the Uber app the prices are usua
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> I think this is a pipe dream. There's a lot of money behind Unity and Unreal, that buys a lot of developers. I don’t think it’s a pipe dream. I watched Blender slowly build up from a “nice thing for hobbyists” to “actually kind of
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> If you know someone building a better Godot let me know. I'll try it this weekend. Three.js is better than Godot. Yes, even though it doesn’t have a real editor. Yes, even though it’s exclusive to the web. It is a useful and funct
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Idk that I’d say it’s in 3rd place. My guess would be that something like Source Engine is 3rd. Having worked with Unreal, Unity and Godot, Godot is extremely rough. It has a terrible scripting language, an abysmal script editing UI, all wh
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> I expect this will improve over time. I’m starting to wonder if it will. There seems to be this pattern that an awesome T2V model will come out and everyone starts clamoring for an I2V model and then when the I2V version drops a couple
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Is that even knowable? Like, I know they called it “The Astonishing, Unfailing, Bell System” but if they had an outage somewhere did they actually have an infrastructure of “canary phones” and such to tell in real time? (As in, they’d know
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I built my current computer last fall. The Ryzen 7950X was on an awesome sale for black Friday and after looking at the math buying a 9950X just didn’t make sense. So I got the 7950X and 96GB of DDR5 RAM (2 sticks, so I can double later if
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Chrome’s developers didn’t have to say anything. Anyone who’s been trying to build on the latest web features (for me, particularly WebGL, WebRTC, WebGPU and IndexedDB) over the past decade has been bitten by Safari over and over again. The
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I love this guy’s review of the Molekule air purifier where he rips it to shreds while detailing his methodology. If nothing else, I definitely trust this guy.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Love the attention to detail, I can tell this was a lot of work to put together and I hope it helps people new to PC building. I will note though, 12GB of VRAM and 32GB of system RAM is a ceiling you’re going to hit pretty quickly if you’re
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> We memed so damn hard. I still don’t get this obsession that startup founders have with “memes”. Like I get it, everyone loves internet jokes, but when I hear CEOs use the verb form and talk about it like it’s a core strategic practice
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> Not everyone is just cranking out hacked together MVPs for startups Now here’s the fun part: In a really restrictive enterprise environment where you’ve got unit tests with 85% code coverage requirements, linters and static typing, the
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> NO. YES! Sometimes. You’ll often hear the term “zero-shot generation”, meaning creating something new given zero examples, this is something many modern models are capable of.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I don’t get why people act like terms like “Principal Engineer” have an agreed-upon specific meaning that can be used in cross-company discussions. At most places I’ve worked the titles were a duct taped hierarchy born of “we needed to give
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I don’t trust that any modern company would actually “use the surplus to subsidize products for poorer consumers”, that sounds like the kind of College Economics fact that isn’t actually true in the real world.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
That’s what his llm CLI is? I’ve been waiting for this release so I can take my existing notes on best practices coding with LLMs (which I’ve been doing for both work projects and side projects) and try some experiments with rolling a codin
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> a single 4090 costs $3k What a ripoff, considering that a 5090 with 32GB of VRAM also currently costs $3k ;) (Source: I just received the one I ordered from Newegg a week ago for $2919. I used hotstocks.io to alert me that it was avail
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Not only did the iPhone 9 never exist, the iPhone X was a huge paradigm shift in design and capabilities. That was the phone that introduced edge-to-edge OLED screens to the iPhone line, as well as the IR camera that enabled FaceID and the
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by Uehreka 1y ago
In the short term perhaps, but even without carbon pricing the raw electricity prices will probably tamp down the enthusiasm. At someone point it’ll become cool for activist investors to demand to see ROI for AI features on earnings calls,
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by Uehreka 1y ago
There’s no rule that increased demand will necessarily stimulate green energy production, only that it will stimulate energy production. And getting people to care about climate gets tougher, not easier, when energy demand goes up.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> The web has been contaminated ever since SEO. Maybe AI will kill the web. So it goes. This statement kinda blows my mind. You contemplate the destruction of the web, the single most world-changing invention of the last century, possibl
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Their use does not come with a large environmental cost. The average American lifestyle has a “water footprint” of 1200 “bottles of water” per day. 10-50 ChatGPT queries == 1 bottle of water. If you decide to use ChatGPT but shorten your da
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by Uehreka 1y ago
After the number of times I’ve seen people invoke the HN guidelines to trample good spirited discussions there should be a guideline against quoting the guidelines.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Nah, this is definitely one of those just-so stories that’s too cute to be true. Like it sounds like the person who came up with it started with the idea of using American cultural stuff to tell soldiers apart (which maybe happened in some
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> Yes, there were tons of jobs that required you to have a smartphone, and still do. I remember my second job, they'd give out Blackberries - debatably not smartphones, but still - to the managers and require work communication on t
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by Uehreka 2y ago
I don’t really catch your drift. Part of the reason I’m digging in on this is because you picked a perfect counterexample as your example. AOC came from a working class background, was elected on the basis of grassroots organizing against a

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