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by brap 2y ago
Don’t even get me started on modern games’ menu UIs. I got the latest CoD for PS5 like a year ago and I couldn’t figure out what the fuck was going on in the menu. Incoherent mess impossible to navigate. I felt like I was going insane. I gu
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by brap 2y ago
This is true, but what would make sense to me was if "Operator" was just another app on this platform, kind of like Safari is just another app on your iPhone that let's you use services that don't have iOS apps. When iPh
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by brap 2y ago
Naturally a "capability" is really just API + prompt. If your product has a well documented OpenAPI endpoint (not to be confused with OpenAI), then you're basically done as a developer. Just add that endpoint to the "app
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by brap 2y ago
I don't know why, but the approach where "agents" accomplish things by using a mouse and keyboard and looking at pixels always seemed off to me. I understand that in theory it's more flexible, but I always imagined some
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by brap 2y ago
>DMV >software […] found some regulatory capture >a large healthcare company that engages in regulatory capture >municipal governments >department of transportation >Street lights >airport What do they all have in commo
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by brap 2y ago
>It took a lot of work A lot of work rejecting talented candidates of the wrong color?
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by brap 2y ago
I’m not super experienced with formal verification, but I did dip my toes in it a few times. My impression is that it’s far from a magic bullet. Writing formal specs is basically like writing the code/tests just differently. And the mo
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by brap 2y ago
This is honestly one of the worst ideas Meta has ever had, and this includes the metaverse. Zuck needs to step down, he’s too detached from reality. On the other hand I don’t know who’s left after him, he’s probably surrounded by slimy yes-
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by brap 2y ago
Individual contributor
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by brap 2y ago
Nobody said he wasn’t talented or hardworking, surely he is, extremely. It’s almost always a prerequisite for this sort of success. But for every successful founder, there are thousands of founders who are more talented and more hardworking
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by brap 2y ago
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has recently rejoined the company as IC. 1:1s with his manager must be awkward.
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by brap 2y ago
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by brap 2y ago
>NPC coworkers Imagine being a whole ass person living a whole ass life and getting called an NPC by someone who barely took the time to get to know you
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by brap 2y ago
Right, I enjoy programming for the same reasons. But will I be able to make a living from it, 20 years from now? Probably not. To be clear I don’t think AI is bad, and even if it is I’m pretty damn sure it’s not avoidable. But we’re in for
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by brap 2y ago
Human chess players are still incredibly valuable because we want to see what humans are capable of. For the same reason athletes are valuable even though a car can outrun them. With mathematicians, and others working in intelligence-intens
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by brap 2y ago
I don’t know what this is. There’s not a single example on the landing page. There’s not a single example on any of the main links from the landing page. But the landing page does have a merch store so you can buy mugs and hoodies and look
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by brap 2y ago
Google is killing it
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by brap 2y ago
>Here is an elementary example, which could be worked out by anyone with a good background in high school math WTF >i.e. the left-side is big-O of the right. Oh.
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by brap 2y ago
>will euthanasia become another "solution" for those who can't afford proper care and treatment? Yes, and I would argue that despite the awful connotations, this is not a bad thing. It’s simply a fact of life that some peo
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by brap 2y ago
There are several comments ITT that explain how far behing Django is. As for Laravel, I personally don't know anyone starting a project in PHP in 2024 unless there's a strong legacy reason to do it
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by brap 2y ago
With all of this praise Rails is getting, even still in 2024, it’s mind boggling how there was never a successful Rails alternative in one of today’s popular web programming languages. Nothing ever caught on.
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by brap 2y ago
When I intentionally spoke in my native accent (which is not something I normally do), it guessed it with 100% confidence, even though it's not very common. Impressive. When I spoke like I normally do, it wasn't able to get anythi
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by brap 2y ago
Most of these things seem like missing features that would fit right in. Except for maybe template strings which could contain references to template functions
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by brap 2y ago
Would it be correct to say that this is basically any valid JS code that describes an object, excluding the use of references and function definitions? If not, what is the difference, and why was it made to be different?
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by brap 2y ago
I joined a new team as a manager and after 3 years was kindly asked to step down and become an IC. While there are many external factors to blame, I decided to do an honest postmortem with myself so I thought about these things a lot. As a
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by brap 2y ago
Lots of ads = zero $ No ads = $$$ Does it never make sense to have something in between?
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Ask HN: Are you preparing for a post-AGI world?
4 points by brap 2y ago|4 comments
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by brap 2y ago
I agree, but >if you train your model on thousands of hours of video games What if you train the same model on thousands of hours of sensor data from real, physical robots?
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by brap 2y ago
While this is very (very) cool, what is the upside to having a model render everything at runtime, vs. having it render the 3D assets during development (or even JIT), and then rendering it as just another game? I can think of many reasons
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by brap 2y ago
Was there ever a Node/TS alternative to Rails?

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