cyber_kinetist

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by cyber_kinetist 7mo ago
I think the bigger issue is not that LLMs are taking away developer jobs, but the current geopolitical crisis (the collapse of the US empire and the end of the neoliberal era) is leading towards an imminent economic catastrophe, and that wo
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by cyber_kinetist 7mo ago
I think having one or two "software engineering" courses where it's project-based really helps. You get to actually learn how to use Git, work in a team, and architect and finish a project on time - which is going to be valua
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Scrum Masters, Don't Fall for the Abilene Paradox(scrum.org)
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
The problem with the EU is that now they depend on rare earth minerals / solar panels / etc. for their infrastructure, which means more dependency on China. However, as the war unfolds, I bet the EU will certainly want to cozy up
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
If you throw away photorealism and limit yourself to stylized 3D, using a custom engine can certainly be a pragmatic choice. The best examples I can think of are Thumper, Devil Daggers, Hyper Demon, The Witness, and No Man's Sky. And o
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
Note that if you want to go a bit further, you should make your own minimal build system that replaces CMake. That alone will make your project compile much faster! I've made my own in Python that generates Ninja files only - and it&#x
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
Feels like it was written by Claude... the writing style is instantly recognizable. It's quite fatiguing to read!
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
The actual linked PDF is not from Gwern, it's a 2003 paper from two sociologists Blake E. Ashforth and Vikas Anand.
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
I think this was the most important insight in the article: > I experimented with Rust/Bevy and Unity before settling on Godot. Bevy’s animations and visuals weren’t as crisp, and Claude struggled with its coordinate conventions - l
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
Really appreciate how they're publishing failed research. It's much more needed in academia to know why a method or idea doesn't work - which nobody shares since it doesn't help with publishing papers in top journals and
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
The site is making ordinary users (other than developers) shy away from submitting bug reports. Come on, you need to make a whole account in Bugzilla for you to report bugs? The best thing would be to have a "Report bug" window di
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
Not a bad choice... since Minecraft Java edition only supports desktops, they don't have to deal with the abysmal Vulkan drivers on mobile. Though I thought a company large as Microsoft would have the resources to build a cross-platfor
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
I don't think Minecraft's renderer will be PSO-heavy enough to have stuttering issues. It's not a state-of-the-art compute-driven renderer that supports artist-driven workflows with custom materials and shaders... it's j
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
I've seen some C++ libraries that implement persistent data structures like immer ( https://github.com/arximboldi/immer ) - but seems it requires the use of the Boehm GC (which is notorious to be slow, since it is
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
I think flat structures aren't always bad - if the organization is geared towards maintenance and care work, it's essential to be as flat as possible. Another good example would be research labs, where experimentation cannot happe
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by cyber_kinetist 8mo ago
Actually for me it was the opposite: before I wasn't able to play around and experiment in my free time that much, because I didn't have enough energy left to actualize the thoughts and ideas I have since I have a day job. Now, si
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
Yup, there is a surprisingly high amount of boilerplate in programming, and LLMs definitely can remove this and let you focus on the more important problems. For a person with a day job, working on side projects actually became fun with LLM
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
I think the reality is, if you're too smart than you're going to be easily disinterested in the things that you've been trained for during your entire childhood. Because, you're going to be bored of it eventually! I reme
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
I think the history of D having a garbage collector (and arguably exceptions / RTTI) from the beginning really cemented its fate. We all know that there's a "BetterC" mode that turns it off - but because the D ecosystem
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
That's too much of a stretch, but I believe games of the next era will be optimized more towards integrated GPUs (such as AMD's iGPU in the Steam Deck and Steam Machine). When hardware is priced out for most consumers (along with
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
AI conferences are already fucked. Students who are doing their Master's degrees are reviewing those top-tier papers, since there are just too many submissions for existing reviewers.
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
It has been several years since the reviewing process for top AI conferences have been broken as hell, due to having too many submissions and only a few reviewers (up to the point that Masters students are reviewing the papers). It was only
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
> “Do not torture babies for sport” I mean, that seems to be already happening in Palestine, so I'm even not sure if that rule is universally accepted...
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
Not just getting it wrong, but also learning from it and be able to internalize those mistakes. There are certainly people who do the same mistakes over and over again (either realizing or not) - it's not just a matter of experience.
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
A Marxist can certainly also be a Georgist, it's a matter between who should we eliminate first: the capitalists or the rent-seekers. Maybe we should eliminate the latter first in order to be able to properly tackle the former: the rea
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
Really think they should support PanGUI ( https://www.pangui.io/ ) first - they're making a native GUI framework that doesn't suck, and have very similar philosophies.
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
I think the the most coveted ability of a skilled senior developer, is precisely this "uncanny" ability to predict beforehand if some particular detail is important or irrelevant. This ability can only be obtained through years of
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
On a tangent, still waiting for File Pilot to have even the bare minimum of CJK support... I do like that the software is fast, but without support for other languages than English it's useless to most of the people in the world.
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
I think as typical niche Internet "communities" do, the most vocal will naturally be snobby elitists who deride at anything that doesn't fit in their narrow worldview, and that mob will naturally represent the "community
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by cyber_kinetist 9mo ago
Ah good point. Though I've already signed up for it and didn't get the invite yet... so this seems more like a closed beta.

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