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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
I don't see it as dismissive, maybe you two are talking past each other but seem to be on similar side. I think the parent just articulated a sense of resignation that many people probably share. I think you might be saying that maybe
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
> without the limitation of your ability to hand code it. Isn't that kind of view pathetic and sad, though? Why would anyone pick up and guitar or play a piano if they could just listen to the same song already made by someone else?
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
What is the infinite growth fallacy? Are you familiar with the concept of dividends?
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
But, all your exceptions, at best prove the rule. Just go and observe out in the world. That is why I said it is happening in real-time. I think you are not looking at what's in front of you. Teacher's pay? Teachers were never hig
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
The idea that there is not much difference between 200K and 800K per year is absolute nonsense. I feel like its one of those things that are so stupid we are all dumber for having heard it. I don't know if its just one of those things
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
Why is saying things that are true called propaganda? Also, it is not just genetics but that is a part of it. The idea is also that parents with lower intelligence will value education for their offspring less and care less about whether th
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
You really think that's what the positions on either side boil down to, how they feel about expressing themselves in English vs C++? No, that's ridiculous. That's such a wild reductionistic simplification.
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
Based on what? I am not familiar with this language called called "c/c++" but if you are writing Modern C++, you shouldn't be creating problems like "double free." It's really not that hard to avoid at al
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
This is just pretty wrong. Sure, geojson can be bloated but it is not for "no benefit." It is a very popular format and it is easy to encode and decode, even if it is slow for large data. It is more for sharing than long term stor
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
I have to agree with the sibling comment. I don't think there are aliens in the universe or the galaxy but don't you think if there was some clear evidence that they exist and that we are not alone in the universe wouldn't ju
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
Is that like "Inflation is transitory" or my favorite "Crime not up, crime down."
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
I agree with you. I think the whole "war department" thing is pretty stupid and kind of archaic terminology at this point. I get sort of the intention. Under Biden's we had recruiting campaign's like "Emma's Tw
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by dinkumthinkum 5mo ago
Why do so many of you think this is some big distraction campaign? They have talked about this kind of thing before and people then made distraction allegations. Is there really any "distracting" going on? I still liberals going o
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
I couldn't agree more. It seems so odd to have a HN submission for some vibe coded little "help-me tool" that is not clearly even needed. I wouldn't even say anything except the whole "vibe" thing is all over t
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
I agree with you but I feel like this piece is meant to be a cautionary tale to CEOs and the like to not consider them as real engineers.
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
Humans don't do this all the time. I think you are conflating things to further this false idea that there is no distance between human thinking and the behavior of LLMs. The kind of rationalization humans sometimes do generally happen
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
I partly agree with you but I think there is more here. The fact is that we are currently in a situation in the industry where large amounts of people in large companies are not coding anymore, even told not to code, are being forced to use
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
People always say this kind of thing. Human minds are not Turing machines or able to be simulated by Turing machines. When you go about your day doing your tasks, do you require terajoules of energy? I believe it is pretty clear human think
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
No meaningful, practical applications? You realize that sounds incredibly naive in the history of mathematics, right? People thought this way about number theory in general, and many other things that turned out to have quite important prac
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
I actually completely agree with your last phrase. Who are you to tell them anything, particularly with such ironic condescension?
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
The so-called inability to build trains is precisely because of a socialist/leftist style view that prevents this. I think you may not be aware that China has what's called a command economy. There is no one that is going to tell
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
We really are going to have a problem with cults popping up and worshipping these different systems. I guess this is the shape of things to come.
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
I'm always so curious about this kind of take. There is strain of people that seem deeply misanthropic. People that follow this line of thinking always describe humans as weak and beneath ... (well they never specify in comparison to e
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
I mean, I know this may seem alien to you, but not everyone's life is about being a corpo good-boy. I don't know what career level you are but many people got into computing because they were really interested in it, not like a gr
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
What LLMs are you all using that solves every problem in 5 minutes? It is fast at some various classes of problems but the idea that they solve complex bugs that took serious engineers significant time, I'm just not seeing that. Where
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
You will lose the ability to struggle through different problems. You will become psychologically weak. Degrees of time matter. Twenty minutes is about the time of a sitcom. If you can't sit with a problem then you will be weak and wea
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
When you say it's hard, what does that mean? Presumably, if the AI is so good, why can't you just ask it to do that? Why are you even needed?
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
You may want to go back and ask the expert in that vibe coding equation if it would say this is a wise approach.
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
You are free to buy those books in Florida and give them to your kids. They are no more banned than other forms of pornography. Again, liberals like Gavin Newsome made this claim ironically about “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It is so interesti
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by dinkumthinkum 6mo ago
I was mildly excited clicking the link and then I saw that ... I guess this is the shape of things to come.

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