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by clnq 3y ago
Ah, well so long as it's discouraged... I'm sure no one's critical systems would depend on it, right?
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by clnq 3y ago
> If they pile on after you have conceded, typically they come off much worse socially in my opinion. Those who are obsessed with their reputation above morality have usually had a lot of practice punching down, and they don't reall
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by clnq 3y ago
Consider for a moment: this is what the board of one of the fastest growing companies in the world worries about - kindergarten level drama. Under them - an organization in partnership with Microsoft, together filled with exceptional softwa
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by clnq 3y ago
Is this your opinion or is this something that’s an actual theory in sociology or psychology, or at least something people talk about in practice? Not trying to be mean, just to learn. There’s a whole genre of press releases and videos for
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by clnq 3y ago
This is an interesting experiment, and I have done a similar one myself, but auto-prompting falls short of demonstrating true self-awareness or even self-recognition. It misses key elements: 1. Learning about self - unlike animals in mirror
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by clnq 3y ago
There's a statistical model to describe what you say as well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law .
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by clnq 3y ago
Looks like a lot of people were taken by surprise. It's almost as if whoever planned the coup wasn't very... candid (to borrow a word).
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by clnq 3y ago
Human violence and lack of morality causes a flood/rising sea levels and now we're talking about an Ark where the enlightened will spare the other animals from destruction that is for humanity to face. Way to pollute the planet so
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by clnq 3y ago
So 7-9 hours of sleep, 2.5-5 hours of moderate physical activity if you are healthy and not require more sleep or activity for chronic conditions. 8-9.4 hours that a software engineer (in games) is expected to be at a screen which bossware
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by clnq 3y ago
SF Mono is a good looking font, and probably inspired by a similar time in computing, but very different.
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by clnq 3y ago
Even after a decade, many coders make limited progress for their potential, and some make very little. Progress depends on balancing consumption of knowledge and application. If one consumes a lot (watches many YouTube videos) but does not
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by clnq 3y ago
> USB A will be there for a while, and more often than not it's a symbolic middle finger to the buyer, a signal that a product should probably be avoided. You have exceptionally strong opinions about USB A and C.
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by clnq 3y ago
> Why should "upper management" get a graceful farewell Injustices are made to executives all the time. But airing dirty laundry is not sagacious.
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by clnq 3y ago
I respect your belief that maturity involves elevating morality above corporate sagacity. It is noble.
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by clnq 3y ago
Mature, as in the opposite of ingenuous. It does no good to harm a company further. Kotick did enough damage, he left, all that needed to be said about him was said, tirelessly. Every effort to get him to offer some reparations - expended.
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by clnq 3y ago
It is quite gauche for a company to burn bridges with their upper management. This bodes poorly for ever hoping to attract executives in the future. Even Bobby Kotick got a more graceful farewell from Activision Blizzard, where they tried t
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by clnq 3y ago
This is what plugins do and they work well. See documentation - https://platform.openai.com/docs/pluagins/introduction .
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by clnq 3y ago
To me it’s kind of wild we call such products “free”. Like YouTube claims to be free, but it’s ToS prohibit use unless the user pays with their headspace and attention to ads (and really awful ones to boot). If you use an ad blocker and ref
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by clnq 3y ago
Yes, it is good at summarizing things and regressing things down to labels. It’s much worse at producing concrete and specific results from its corpus of abstract knowledge. I think that’s the case with every discipline for it, not only pro
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by clnq 3y ago
> Don't you ever have one-off (or once-a-year) things you have to do that each time you have to invest a lot of time refreshing in your brain, and then basically forgetting for lack of use? Not really. In AAA game programming, you m
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by clnq 3y ago
LLMs almost never write good senior quality code at first in niche disciplines. You need to finesse it a lot to have it produce the correct answer. And that makes it unusable for when you genuinely do not know the answer to the question you
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by clnq 3y ago
I tried building a custom GPT but the training data it has is not sufficient, no matter how well it’s steered. Documents and code are confidential in the AAA games industry as they are the money makers. Developers are not free to hand them
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by clnq 3y ago
Well, I think most software engineers in games don’t work all that much with scripts or database queries, nor write that many tests for systems of scale that GPT could produce. You might be in devops, tools, or similar if you deal with a lo
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by clnq 3y ago
Let’s turn it down a notch! No one said regularly or intentionally. Note that this thread stems from a comment talking about producing a one-off business report.
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by clnq 3y ago
My niche is in video game programming, and I am very specialized in a specific area. So I might ask things like how would one architect a certain game system with a number of requirements, to meet certain player expectations, and be compati
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by clnq 3y ago
Of course, using the correct date structure is least an engineer can do. But the point is that it doesn’t matter quite often. You’re describing a situation where it matters. Which it doesn’t always.
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by clnq 3y ago
I’ve never found GPT-4 capable of producing a useful solution in my niche of engineering. When I’m stumped, it’s usually on a complex and very multi-faceted problem where the full scope doesn’t fit into the human brain very well. And for th
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by clnq 3y ago
But not all crummy behavior, right? Things like ad-infested basic apps might be discouraged even with the $99. I am talking about apps like tip calculators, daily quote apps, and very basic games like slots that have no chance of being mone
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by clnq 3y ago
I didn’t know Google reviewed apps manually as well. I thought it was all automated as I’ve not heard of an app not passing. There are even some people who have spoken about automating making and publishing shovelware apps for a time. It ta
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by clnq 3y ago
> No great engineer should ever settle for an O(n²) algorithm, unless bound by memory or some other unmovable constraint. What if this is a one-off to produce a business report? Would it make sense to use programmer time to create an O(n

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