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by callc 1y ago
Nope. And I don’t need to. That is the beauty of abstractions and information hiding. Just read the docs and assume the library works as promised. To clarify, the LLM did not tell me about the specific library I used. I found it the old fas
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by callc 1y ago
Extremely likely, yes. In this case, since it was an unknown unknown at the time, the LLM nicely explaining that this class of algorithms exists was nice, then I could immediately switch to Wikipedia to learn more (and be sure of the underl
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by callc 1y ago
In my context, the scale is small. It just passed the threshold where a naive implementation would be just fine. > What would happen if the "AI" and web search didn't return anything? Would you have stuck with your impleme
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by callc 1y ago
I’m pretty much in the same boat as you, but here’s one place that LLMs helped me: In python I was scanning 1000’s of files each for thousands of keywords. A naive implementation took around 10 seconds, obviously the largest share of execut
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by callc 1y ago
Regardless of how much “choice” there is in a market, FB made an anti-competitive play. Now we all have n-1 choices. The question of whether society should allow companies to perform anti-competitive actions should not be “will we be left w
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by callc 1y ago
If the purpose of an acquisition is to quash competition that is bad. Monopolies are bad. Another purpose of acquisitions is to acquire a new capability that you could not do in house that you do not already compete on.
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by callc 1y ago
I would not want to work so closely with someone trying their hardest to minimize the benefit to me. Since life is for living, we should work on teams where there is genuine respect for all members, not animosity and greed. The sad fact is
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by callc 1y ago
You can edit your previous comments on HN. At least for a certain amount of time, and then they become un-editable.
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by callc 2y ago
Same here. I love mine. The only thing I would wish for in a v4 is faster polling rate. I think it’s 1000 hz now. So not the best for gaming.
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by callc 2y ago
This sounds like sarcasm but I’ll assume the best interpretation. Why do you think unregulated capitalism will solve the advertising problem? Other than what I am guessing your point is to relying on a large portion to punish bad advertiser
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by callc 2y ago
Did anyone else’s boss ask them to stick your hand in a box or just me?
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by callc 2y ago
I really wish projects would choose novel English words for their name rather than squat on commonly used ones. Looking at you Meta, Apple, X
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by callc 2y ago
There is nuance to the two separate ideas of "doing the bare minimum" and "taking pride in your work". I agree with you that taking pride in your work is important; I wish it were more highly valued nowadays, honestly. T
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by callc 2y ago
I wish most people valued truth. But I see an overwhelming amount of cognitive dissonance and disdain for seeking truth. Many people would rather keep family secrets secret for a myriad of reasons (with different justifiability)
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by callc 2y ago
> go to a website and click 100 (!!!!!) times. Captchas are craaaaazy nowadays /s
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by callc 2y ago
Somewhere in the middle IMO. If the domain name is desirable it looks more like a building, because people generally care about who owns the land when it is not getting put to good use. Websites are more like books when they have a domain n
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by callc 2y ago
Tangent to the article: human intelligence always starts from zero at birth. It seems there is a natural upper bound to the intelligence and skill level each individual can achieve (bounded by normal life span) My question to HNers is: what
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by callc 2y ago
I am hopeful that governments will do things to benefit the people. Maybe that’s naive, but I’d rather be hopeful than cynical
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by callc 2y ago
Please share. I can only imagine based on TZubiri’s comments.
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by callc 2y ago
How are you reading noosphr’s comments? I read it as: “software is special because its design space is high dimensional, compared to all other engineering disciplines which are limited to 3 spatial dimensions. Large design space leads to ab
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by callc 2y ago
Thanks, I edited to assume the best interpretation of the thread. Since I want programming to be inclusive and not have a bad rap publicly, when a peer says “software is better than all other disciplines because of X, Y, Z” I want to convin
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by callc 2y ago
> The DMA designates six tech companies as “gatekeepers” to the internet — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft — and limits these technology kingpins from engaging in anticompetitive tactics on their platforms, in fav
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by callc 2y ago
I say this as someone who loves software: software is not special. Every discipline has infinite depth. Railways in 2D may seem simple but there the simplicity may be intentional. Just like when you write software that runs things like plan
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by callc 2y ago
I agree, but also am weary trying to solve societal issues with technical solutions. We naturally try to do this, using the tools we know. It’s a losing battle to fight technologically against a motivated state actor, like CCP. When your do
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by callc 2y ago
HN is the only internet community I’ve found to be largely good. Thank you to everyone for all your kind posts and comments, and intellectual discussion. Love to you all.
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by callc 2y ago
Generally agree. Consider reading kernel or driver code. These areas have a huge amount of prerequisite knowledge that - I argue - makes it OK to violate the “understand at a glance” rule of thumb.
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by callc 2y ago
> I think it's a succinct word that does the job at explaining what the goal here is. Sure. If the goal is intelligence then LLMs fail. LLMs do not currently have the same intelligence as humans. If a human being in front of me were
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by callc 2y ago
I used Golang in a medium and large project. To anyone learning or thinking about learning Go, try it and ignore the online opinions. I say this as someone who is simultaneously impressed by some parts of it, and gobsmacked at other parts.
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by callc 2y ago
> But when it became clear there was no coherent plan, people began leaving. I see this more any more, to the point of wondering what % of execs and decision makers are actually meaningfully good at the job? When times are good, any exec
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by callc 2y ago
> Employees feelings don't matter on a Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement. There is not a "Employee's Feelings" column on the ledger. Sure they do. Just in the sense that employees feelings need t

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