dosisking

4 ms·

31.
by dosisking 1mo ago
Like Madlibs?
32.
by dosisking 1mo ago
Given that you work for Meta/LinkedIn, I don't think 'productive' is the correct adjective. It would be like saying that Ted Bundy was more 'productive' than Jeffrey Dahmer.
33.
by dosisking 1mo ago
A cult is a small group driven by extreme devotion to a charismatic leader, a specific idea, or an unorthodox set of beliefs. In this case, the 'small group' is the unelected European Commission (EC) bureaucracy who is desperate t
34.
by dosisking 1mo ago
TUIs should be fully mouse-driven
35.
by dosisking 1mo ago
> Do not judge the entire profession by Hackernews posters; most of us are in the upper quartile or so. LOL
36.
by dosisking 1mo ago
> When anthropic contractually stopped the US government from using the platform for certain purposes that they could not prevent the average user from pursuing they created a de facto national security risk. The 'national security
37.
by dosisking 1mo ago
Band in a Box came out for the Atari ST decades ago, which you could call AI generated music. So AI generated music has been around forever. Also there is a huge difference between being a musician and being a composer. Bragging that you ar
38.
by dosisking 1mo ago
Based on your attitude, bcjdjsndon is probably correct.
39.
by dosisking 1mo ago
> They're a hardware company first More specifically, they're a hardware dongle company first
40.
by dosisking 1mo ago
> And math skills are going to collapse from calculator reliance. People can no longer drive a stick-shift car, whereas it used to be that a valet would always be able to drive one to park it.
41.
by dosisking 1mo ago
Why is it disheartening? LLMs are a dead-end technology with respect to AI.
42.
by dosisking 1mo ago
Shaka, when the walls fell...
43.
by dosisking 1mo ago
> Is going to university really that good of advice nowadays? Just some anecdata, but every single one of my university professors was quite bad, but they think that since they are the professor, that means they are smart and the expert.
44.
by dosisking 1mo ago
> You’re missing the point. Understanding how Unity works fundamentally makes you a better Unity dev. Writing your own game engine makes you realize that the Unity engine is not really that well written....
45.
by dosisking 2mo ago
"It's not a feature, it's a bug"
46.
by dosisking 2mo ago
> AI has made my life more productive and I could use the time it's saved me to go for a run, but here I am. So in reality, AI has not changed your productivity at all, because you are using the extra time you saved to post on HN
47.
by dosisking 2mo ago
> If the Zilog engineers would have been free to design their own ISA I'm sure they would have been able to come up with a much more elegant design. Since Zilog was founded by former Intel engineers, they were probably the ones who
48.
by dosisking 2mo ago
This is understandable, considering that the M5 is the Ultimate Computer, powered by Dr. Richard Daystrom's very own engrams
49.
by dosisking 2mo ago
The law means nothing. The law is "interpreted" by judges. If the government wants you to be guilty, they will find a way to make that happen. They don't care about the rule of law. The US has a 99% conviction rate, highest e
50.
by dosisking 2mo ago
> Let's hope this establishment is flexible enough to handle the climate crisis. The solutions proposed so far include more colonization (of other planets) and more castles/bunkers (in remote locations) - there must be better w
51.
by dosisking 2mo ago
Covid taught me just how stupid society is
52.
by dosisking 2mo ago
> Because we're depressed at being surrounded by stupidity And then we visit websites like HN, filled with people who think they are smart. I don't mind a stupid person who knows they are stupid, but I despise the so-called &#x
53.
by dosisking 2mo ago
> I didn't need to worry about finding a job, smart people always find work. People don't like to hire people who are smarter than them. They want to hire people who are obedient and competent. If you are too smart, the governm
54.
by dosisking 2mo ago
> There are genius level kids that are at another plane of intellectual existence. It’s quite something to see. It does not require genius level intelligence to do Calculus. It takes a genius to discover Calculus in the first place. Geni
55.
by dosisking 2mo ago
And who determines the price if there is no publicly traded market?
56.
by dosisking 2mo ago
So you bought at 125k? That would have been a pretty good short
57.
by dosisking 2mo ago
eBikes may be pretty amazing in isolation, but as a pedestrian, I absolutely hate people who ride eBikes.
58.
by dosisking 2mo ago
Or Rust programmer
59.
by dosisking 2mo ago
> I think the vast majority of people do want general purpose models. They want to be able to ask it any question, or ask it to perform any task, and for it to do a decent job at it. The vast majority of people listen to the music of Ed
60.
by dosisking 2mo ago
> Deter the US from what exactly? Just in case this is a serious question, the US has invaded Iran and Venezuela most recently. The US previously invaded Iraq. What do they have in common? They don't have nukes.

More ›