bitwize

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811.
by bitwize 8mo ago
I'm coming around to this. We own our own cars, but governments across the world regulate how those may be built, for safety, fuel efficiency, and pollution related reasons. Internal combustion engine based cars will be banned entirely
812.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Sounds like my Amazon interview.
813.
by bitwize 8mo ago
If you sound like a car ad from Road & Track , I'm going to flag you as bot. "No rough handling. No struggles to accelerate. Just pure performance. The new Toyota GT. It's not just a car—it's a revolution." Mos
814.
by bitwize 8mo ago
You know how no one ever wrote their own software and then generative AI came along and suddenly we could have app meals home-cooked by barefoot developers? (The use of such cottagecore terminology for a process that requires being an ongoi
815.
by bitwize 8mo ago
I vaguely remember these but I more clearly remember the Samsung ad which featured a similar looking robot in a dress turning letters on a gameshow, implying that Samsung would still be around even after Vanna White was replaced by a machin
816.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Sounds a little too close, in both name and concept, to Therac for my comfort.
817.
by bitwize 8mo ago
No one started photographing paintings and declaring them free to use. If they did the lawsuits would leave a huge impact crater. Photography started displacing painting as a form of portraiture, but displacing a technique is not the same t
818.
by bitwize 8mo ago
You: Claude, do you know how to program? Claude: No, but if you hum a few bars I can fake it! Except "faking it" turns out to be good enough, especially if you can fake it at speed and get feedback as to whether it works. You can
819.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Again, start talking to people outside the field of programming and ask them how they like it when their labor of passion is "democratized" by AI turning it into unattributable slurry.
820.
by bitwize 8mo ago
I feel the same way. But this is a new economy now, software is cheap, and regarding the skill and fulfillment you derive writing it yourself, to quote Chris Farley: "that and a nickel will get you a nice hot cup of JACK SQUAT!!!"
821.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Because IP democratizes returns on the creative process.
822.
by bitwize 8mo ago
What I keep hearing is that the people who weren't very good at writing software are the ones reluctant to embrace LLMs because they are too emotionally attached to "coding" as a discipline rather than design and architecture
823.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Corporate speak, as satirized in the Weird Al hit "Mission Statement", actually serves an important social function. It signals "I'm one of you, the business class, I will align my goals with those of the organization.&q
824.
by bitwize 8mo ago
I use GIMP and GrafX2 for my sprite art. The latter being an old-school type program in the tradition of Deluxe Paint.
825.
by bitwize 8mo ago
> So long as their productivity was on par with the rest of the team there was no issue. Emphasis added. And anyway, for most software dev in most shops it wasn't true; most development takes place in whatever IDE the group/o
826.
by bitwize 8mo ago
That's a PEBKAC issue.
827.
by bitwize 8mo ago
I only had one game for my VIC-20, the pack-in game, called BASIC. I never beat it, but I got a few levels in!
828.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Age attestation (edited) is the law now in California. Noncompliance can mean stiff penalties. If you don't like it, write your Congressman.
829.
by bitwize 8mo ago
> So allow me to drop a line that would shock a weathered San Franciscan more than open defecation on Market Street: it's perfectly okay not to use AI. No. When it comes to software development, AI use is best practice now; if you&#
830.
by bitwize 8mo ago
A Strong Bad example? Isn't he still on DOS, rocking it command.com style?
831.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Linux may soon not be an option because of age verification laws. The New York law, currently pending, requires age verification assurance from hardware vendors, not just OS suppliers. Locked-bootloader PCs are coming in order to comply w
832.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Good. I believe in the transformative power of hip-hop. I do not need this power demonstrated to me via full-volume blasting in public or on a means of transport. Apparently the courtesy of keeping your inspiring music to yourself is not un
833.
by bitwize 8mo ago
When my head-voice read "But hold on", I literally heard in my head the "record scratch" associated with comedy movie trailers from the 1990s and 2000s.
834.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Narrator: The RAM prices did not, in fact, go down.
835.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Some towns in my state are already complaining about the noise from turbines supplying on-site power to a data center that's been built here. They're keeping people up at night. I'm broadly supportive of a "techie go hom
836.
by bitwize 8mo ago
My wife was just telling me she wanted an updated iBook...
837.
by bitwize 8mo ago
> Onward, Christian soldiers, rip and tear and smite! Doomguy feels seen. Especially since fanon has it that Doomguy is Catholic.
838.
by bitwize 8mo ago
There's also the idea that a humanoid robot can learn to imitate human action just by watching it, thanks to AI magic!
839.
by bitwize 8mo ago
"You're absolutely right" and "no X, no Y, just Z" suddenly got more creepy.
840.
by bitwize 8mo ago
This is the first use people cooked up for the MITS Altair computer, which at the time could only output to its blinkenlights without expansion. Before a tiny company called Micro-Soft released BASIC for the thing, some madlad at the Homebr

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