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by caseyy 2y ago
> How much evidence does one need to dispel the "this is OpenAI/sama hype" argument? For AGI hype, we need exactly one piece of evidence that machine AGI exists, or that we know how to build it. Otherwise, it's an exa
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If you find yourself in a situation like this in the EU, where consumer protection is strong, you should talk to the consumer rights office in the country where you bought the item, or where you were when signing the sale contract. First, t
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Consumer protection laws. Almost every company has known issues with it. But consumers should have boundaries for what's acceptable and what crosses the line. And those boundaries are set by consumer protection laws. If every wronged c
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If you blame people who've been taken advantage of, remember that others will blame you when you've been taken advantage of, too. This is not wise, especially in consumer rights. Almost every popular company is infamous for bad cu
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This has been exactly my experience. In my work as a senior SWE in my day-to-day areas of responsibility, if I’m stumped, then an LLM won’t even get close. But when I experiment with new libraries and toolchains as a beginner, LLMs are like
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Also, simple is evident, smooth, maintainable, and fast. If asked to implement a templated dictionary type, many C++ programmers will write a templated class. If they want to be responsible, they’ll write unit tests. But the simplest way is
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I agree with the frustration but I think heavily regulated professions often copy+paste even more. See: modern Western medicine, where most of what being a general physician is involves following a flow chart. You get really bad outcomes fr
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That’s an interesting take. A lot of big tech has their own tempting, for example. I’m in games we even rewrite standard libraries (see EASTL) so that they are more fit for purpose. Of course, it’s your preference. And that is fine. But I d
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> Newbies shouldn't reinvent the wheel. I think they should use the tools, that are available and common in the given context. When they want to tinker, they should write their own compiler. But they shouldn't use that in produ
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Interesting. My experience is that bulky abstraction layers are harder to maintain than own software. In game development, whenever we go with highly abstract middleware, it always ends up limiting us in what we can do, at what level of per
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It is true, the British do tend to submit to authority. Questioning authority is considered poor taste, bad manners. This way is more serene and orderly than anarchy. But I suppose it bodes poorly for the individual liberties. On balance, t
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Buyers deserve to know how long a game will remain playable. With most games tied to a service model, the buyer is paying for entry to a timed event/experience, not ownership. As I understand, the Stop Killing Games campaign would be h
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They'll keep a shadow profile on you anyways. If you want Meta to not know you exist, it's probably almost impossible.
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It’s true that our governments are quite inefficient. Large cities were built from scratch in China in fewer than 7 years.
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Lithuanian laws are a good example. They are extremely verbose compared to most common law countries. I lived in Lithuania for a while and at the time, there was a big national debate about how “family” should be defined in laws — what peop
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Not really. Such a system would be evaluating the whole context and not solely profiling the person. What the person is doing (delivering parcel vs cutting a chain link fence) is not a part of their personality or profile. How much danger t
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Well, the laws in civil law countries that practice legal literalism are not open to interpretation. Eastern Europe, much of which is a part of the EU, is quite literalist. The understanding is that interpreting laws leads to bias, partiali
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Art has a broader purpose than just unique artistic expression, indeed. Sometimes it is used to help visualise, create an atmosphere, communicate ideas, so on and forth. AI generated art fulfils these utilitarian purposes, doesn’t it? Peopl
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There aren't many social media communities with quality gamedev content, because professional (especially AAA) developers with decades of experience rarely participate, and you can only have so many beginner communities. The lack of pa
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Seeing as OpenAI is on the back foot, I hope nationalistic politicians don’t use this opportunity to strengthen patent laws. If one could effectively patent software inventions, this would kill many industries, from video games (that all ha
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It’s simply because banning removes a market force in the US that’d drive technological advancement. This is already evident with CNSA/NASA, Huawei/Android, TikTok/Western social media. The Western tech gets mothballed becaus
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Well, the person who decided to lay you off probably didn’t care enough to know, if that makes you feel any better.
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I also thought that small companies are better in that regard. But no, they often have their own toxic idiosyncrasies, like when a little power goes too much to the management’s heads. A small company that’s YOURS is better and actually nee
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Do you now have more of a personality outside work? I’m going through this now, just resigned due to burnout while being a “rockstar developer” with no life recently.
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I think Uber too, and many competitors. They fundamentally employ people but don’t pay minimum wage.
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Ah yes, the torment nexus. https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538
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The worst I heard in my career so far is that the pasted code cannot be buggy because it was highly upvoted on stack overflow.
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Yes but we already have illiterate programmers and there are companies who hire them, and the majority that recognises what they are and don’t. I’m talking about the code copy-pasters who cannot really reason about the problems they’re give
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I’ve seen one or two domains like that serving 301s to some IPs and their own website to others. This could be a 1000:1 ratio. Then they serve an absolutely ad-infested parking page-style website to those others. And that’s how they skim a
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I used to do that but I can’t keep up! The amount of bait (particularly rage bait and fulmination bait) has gone up considerably on social media, even in the last 2 years.

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