Vampiero

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by Vampiero 2y ago
Man that would be horrible UX, I wouldn't pay for that. I'd only use it if someone paid ME to do it
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by Vampiero 2y ago
> My theory was that in the age of multimedia platforms, text platforms tend to attract folks who specifically want to use text over multimedia. Generally text forums will select for folks with social or self-esteem issues. These folks a
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by Vampiero 2y ago
If that theory were true then, what about every website on the internet pre-2010? What about 4chan? See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias We're just built like that. Regarding text platforms suffe
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by Vampiero 2y ago
In hindsight it should have been fairly obvious that it would immediately explode into a combinatorics problem
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Is my code simple if all it does is call one function (that's 50k lines long) hidden away in a dependency? You can keep twisting this question until you realize that without the behemoths of complexity that are modern operating systems
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Setting up automatic testing alone tends to add its own layer of complexity. At least it's worth it.
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Yeah but programming isn't about solving problems that were solved millions of times already. I mean, web dev kind of is, but that's not the point. If a problem is solved, then it's just a matter of implementing the solution
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Every single game dev on Earth has been thinking that since the very first GANs, but the state of the art when it comes to generative AIs that are actually useful for asset generation is still pretty bad. Much like LLMs are still pretty bad
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by Vampiero 2y ago
It's a global phenomenon but it's only crazy in the US, like most things
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by Vampiero 2y ago
The only thing that defines portability is everyone adhering to the same standards. You say that the web is portable, but really, only Google's vision for the web is relevant, seeing how they have the final say in how the standards are
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Because kids can afford to spend 14 hours a day playing with an AI. You can't.
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by Vampiero 2y ago
the studies may be flawed in that they look at the wrong age range. I'm sure many people on this site were born between 1990 and 2000. That generation knows how to use computers innately because they lived the most important part of th
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by Vampiero 2y ago
The exception being that the triage is a queue-based system, and eventually it actually handles your case: you show up at the hospital, describe your problem to a human being, and you're assigned a priority in the queue pertaining to t
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Always remember who your target audience is. If it's people who actually use a computer for writing, instead of just looking at cat pictures on the internet, then they probably don't care about fancy transitions and animations. Th
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Nah you just realized that CRUD has been the same since the 90s and that everything that gets reinvented isn't actually in the path between the problem and the solution, but pure architectural masturbation that wouldn't be necessa
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by Vampiero 2y ago
A small part of the web that was either archived already, or wasn't interesting enough to be archived in the first place. I get your sentiment but at some point you have to let go. Many websites die every day not because of obsolescenc
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Even after reading the technical explanation I don't understand how such a network would be useful or who the couriers are and how they actually deliver the cargo... Or why that's desirable over just caching the messages until the
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by Vampiero 2y ago
The last thing I want is for some LLM to tell me to rm -rf /. Neat POC but the tech just isn't there yet and I hope that everyone on HN who isn't shilling an AI product knows that.
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Just have enough money that you don't have to sell your soul to the devil for a job in webshit consultancy, where they're STILL busy reinventing the CRUD wheel for some reason. Probably because hell means an eternity of torture, a
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by Vampiero 2y ago
> Lots of browsers to try to view that web page I want to see! They're literally all Chromium unless you think that Lynx renders websites better than Firefox
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by Vampiero 2y ago
I would gladly take some brittleness over mountains and mountains of equally unmaintainable boilerplate and layers upon layers of indirection and abstractions... For what is essentially the same exact boring old CRUD that we've been do
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Ok, that's cool, now ask GPT to solve any programming or logic problem at all and maybe you'll start to understand why you can reason and why it can't.
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by Vampiero 2y ago
No but GPT is really good at fooling laymen who are not experts of a field, and it stands to reason that it just fed you a bunch of bs
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by Vampiero 2y ago
If you're so intent on suing for malpractice just record them against their will. If the court doesn't accept it then the media will
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by Vampiero 2y ago
That argument MAYBE worked 25 years ago when ads genuinely paid for hosting costs and nothing else. But now it's intellectually dishonest at best. We're not serving static images with hyperlinks anymore, either, but full-blown mal
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Hey, you want a monopoly on information while at the same time operating the largest ad network in the world? Then don't complain if people block your stupid ads and count yourself lucky that the government didn't split your megac
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Hearing at all implies sound waves. If there are soundwaves there is air inside the box. If there is air inside the box the system can't be in a superposition because it has long since decohered. In other words it's not the act of
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Why wouldn't AIs benefit from using abstractions? At the very least it saves tokens. Fewer tokens means less time spent solving a problem, which means more problem solving throughput. That is true for machines and people alike. If anyt
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Yes, because all the people out there buying iPhones do so for the... Emacs keybindings. Obviously. That's why the brand is so popular.
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by Vampiero 2y ago
I don't know but I'm pretty sure it's been there since at least 2000

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