bendmorris

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by bendmorris 7mo ago
Completely resonate with this. There don't seem to be many of us, at least in my online bubble, but you're not alone. I believe and hope eventually we'll come around to valuing people who have put in the work - not just to un
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by bendmorris 7mo ago
This is a pretty defeatist take. Stop doing that, and start doing what instead?
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by bendmorris 8mo ago
Was this comment itself, somewhat ironically, AI generated? Why a separate line for nearly every sentence?
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by bendmorris 9mo ago
Language evolves; the term is now used to refer to a range of AI assisted coding. The concept has existed longer than the term.
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by bendmorris 9mo ago
Nothing that is possible is "too hard" if you're willing to put in some effort. The only question is whether you will learn to do it, or press a button, hope the LLM did it well, and let it forever remain "too hard.&quot
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by bendmorris 9mo ago
>This was a problem that wasn't even tractable without AI, and there's no "explosion of AI generated code". People often say this when giving examples, but what specifically made the problem intractable? Sometimes bef
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by bendmorris 9mo ago
The fixation with AI really harms the signal-to-noise ratio on HN lately. The author of this article very clearly used an LLM to generate much of it, which makes it read like the clickbait you see a ton of on LinkedIn. Then a commenter post
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by bendmorris 10mo ago
>One environmental researcher NPR spoke to, whose employer receives federal funding, confirmed that they have been advised to avoid the terms "climate change," "sustainable" and "sustainability." Even "
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by bendmorris 10mo ago
In the previous Trump term "diversity related topics" included things like biodiversity which is an important area of research and should be apolitical. Not because of a shift in focus, but because of top-down orders to not fund
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by bendmorris 1y ago
I've noticed AI generated docs frequently contain bulleted or numbered lists of trivialities, like file names - AI loves describing "architecture" by listing files with a 5 word summary of what they do which is probably not m
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by bendmorris 1y ago
Devs (like yourself) might generate scaffolding for a greenfield project very quickly and be amazed and claim they're more productive, but I don't think that is evidence that an experienced developer will actually be more producti
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by bendmorris 1y ago
You can generate boilerplate without AI and whenever there's a significant amount of boilerplate needed there should be a (non-AI) generation tool to go with it. Deterministic code generation is a lot easier to have confidence in than
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by bendmorris 1y ago
>It's cool to ask Claude or Cursor to code something, but I feel less emotionally invested in the craft of coding. So don't. Just write code yourself. I promise you some of us are still doing it.
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by bendmorris 2y ago
I have news for you. The Republican budget plan will increase the debt by about 4 trillion [1], an unprecedented amount. They're slashing spending in tiny departments and then handing out multiples of that as tax breaks, mostly to very
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by bendmorris 2y ago
The deficit is a result of deficit spending authorized by Congress. Audits have nothing to do with reducing the deficit. DOGE is literally one deeply compromised person deciding what is "necessary" or "unnecessary" to sp
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by bendmorris 2y ago
>seemingly without audit or checks and balances Federal agencies are regularly audited - internally by their own inspectors general, and externally by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) - and most of those reports are publicly av
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by bendmorris 3y ago
On a larger scale, people want more housing, vote for it, and vote for politicians that pass appropriate legislation. On a local level most people don't want it next to them, although they don't actually own the land in question.
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by bendmorris 3y ago
Training a human and training a model may use the same verb but are very different. If the person directly copied another work, that's a derivative work and requires a license. But if a person learned an abstract concept by studying ar
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by bendmorris 3y ago
>it could be argued that it's a unique derivative work Creating a derivative work of a copyrighted image requires permission from the copyright holder (i.e., a license) which many of these services do not have. So the real question
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by bendmorris 4y ago
There are more texture mapping approaches which can be added on top of normal mapping to make the illusion even better, such as parallax [1] or displacement [2] mapping. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_mappin
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by bendmorris 5y ago
No - I've worked with several teams with "productivity" right in the name, and to be honest, I'm usually skeptical when these teams claim that their work will "improve productivity" and am interested in how to
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by bendmorris 5y ago
Any large tech company has teams dedicated to improving developer productivity. So how do you assess the quality of those teams' work, or that they're worth the investment, or help them prioritize projects? Just don't bother?
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by bendmorris 5y ago
It says clearly on the GitHub mirror that pull requests aren't accepted; there's a mailing list that you can submit patches to.
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by bendmorris 5y ago
If you think extreme polarization and degradation of critical thinking is exclusively a problem of the other side, it probably applies to you as well.
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by bendmorris 5y ago
Epic is a great example. Their own store lists alternative stores on the Epic store, like itch.io. But they don't take a cut of games bought from those stores. Once you launch itch, you're in itch.
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by bendmorris 6y ago
As a parent who has made this decision myself, I certainly wasn't "happy to" do it. But it's very clear to me that without medication, my child lacked control over his thoughts and actions, and it was affecting his life
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by bendmorris 6y ago
I suspect that by: >People thinking it’s not a real condition. the person you're responding to meant statements like yours: >Frankly, the symptoms you describe apply to pretty much everybody, and are just the things one deals wit
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by bendmorris 6y ago
False equivalence, because there is zero rational basis to believe the election was stolen. People who are motivated to convince others of this are lying to them. Some are literally inventing "evidence" like registered voter count
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by bendmorris 6y ago
Do you really think there's an amount of "due process" that will convince all Trump supporters to get behind Biden? Trump has clearly been planning to call the election illegitimate since long before it happened - casting dou
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by bendmorris 6y ago
At best, we're assigning a ton of credit to him based on a vague "probably." Lots of non-Trump factors influenced the stock market over the last four years.

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