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811.
by ehnto 2y ago
I am in a similar boat. I guess I am fortunate, in that there are many interesting paths forward. But I don't know which to take, and there are so many uncertainties in the fundamentals. I am leaning toward taking Patton Oswald's
812.
by ehnto 2y ago
Yes I don't see how a modern institution could reasonably produce polymaths, unless the individual themselves is doing 90% of the learning through self-teaching, but then the strict scope of universities would limit those people.
813.
by ehnto 2y ago
I must say, the elegance of a vacuum brake booster stands out in contrast to the electrical variant. Barely 5 parts, stamped steel probably. Then, in contrast, the electric power steering assist seems so much easier compared to hydraulic, j
814.
by ehnto 2y ago
Strong disagree on the last paragraph. It's data online, your data, and it was used for commercial purposes without your consent. In fact, I never consented for anyone to access my server. Just because it has an IP address, does not ma
815.
by ehnto 2y ago
I have decided not to put text online if I feel it has IP or personal ideas in it. Some exceptions, like posting here, and including stuff I want to get out there for commercial reasons eg: marketing of services. The one I struggle with is
816.
by ehnto 2y ago
Also helps stop you choking to death. A non-trivial issue, in the context of increasing isolation in modern society.
817.
by ehnto 2y ago
Unity is deceptive in that it is easy to scratch the surface, but gets more complex than it needs to be for simple game features quite quickly. Unity has an immense depth and breadth to its feature set, it is frankly, too much game engine t
818.
by ehnto 2y ago
I don't think it's that relevant, since even if it can recognise missing information, it can't know when information it does have is wrong. That's not possible. A good deal of the information we deal with as humans is no
819.
by ehnto 2y ago
I am not trying to sell anyone on debugging, but honestly if you have a good debugger and it's easy to drop into, you'll find it way easier and faster than print debugging. I don't know why people put themselves through the p
820.
by ehnto 2y ago
One of the reasons I am not yet worried about LLMs is that this is not actually possible, at sufficient levels of domain complexity, and contextual complexity. The domain complexity that LLMs start failing is pretty low at the moment. As we
821.
by ehnto 2y ago
I haven't maintained my Ender3 since setting it up first, then tuning it. It just keeps printing good prints forblike 4 years now. I don't even think about it, pop in the file and walk away. I don't even level the bed. Someti
822.
by ehnto 2y ago
It doesn't haveto be a startup. Small companies and agencies/consultancies can offer talented developers a lot of freedom and agency to deliver projects more rapidly. Of course you haven't got the guardrails of bureaucracy an
823.
by ehnto 2y ago
I would rather the junior go do that in their own time and get back to me when they have figured it all out. I don't want to babysit juniors, I want to mentor them and then give them the lead and time to figure out the minutiae. That g
824.
by ehnto 2y ago
Later in the video he discusses how times have changed once more, and solo developments turning it commercial hits is still possible. I do feel Minecraft was close enough to RTC to say that it never really stopped being possible. But in gen
825.
by ehnto 2y ago
I think it's very reasonable to draw a distinction between dumb technology and digital technology, and I suspect almost anyone you talk to would understand that distinction without being precious about it. Even though I understand your
826.
by ehnto 2y ago
I love hardware mysteries. I mostly drive old 90s enthusiast cars, and I have had my fair share of undocumented switches. The most surprising to date was in a Nissan Silvia, from 1989. Sometimes it wouldn't crank off the key, given the
827.
by ehnto 2y ago
I don't think we disagree, perhaps even on the point of responsibility for how we got here. I do certainly blame the social media companies for the software they built. I guess my only point is that the personal responsibility shouldn&
828.
by ehnto 2y ago
I am not sure, phones are a device on a network, and robocalls are an abuse of the network to get to your device. It's an intrusion made by someone else. Social media seems to think it's a network, but it's more like a bar or
829.
by ehnto 2y ago
They can opt out, by not participating with the site. No one is mandated to use social media. But I would also want to see things go the other direction anyway, default to non-algorithmic feeds. Those with the awareness to opt-out are not t
830.
by ehnto 2y ago
I built a Lily58 for fun and to try out split keyboards, I hadn't heard too much of the hype around these kinds minimal key layouts at the time, but I really love it. Whilst I wouldn't call it an efficiency gain on the scale of go
831.
by ehnto 2y ago
The numbers do somewhat speak for themselves. It is an unpopular car.
832.
by ehnto 2y ago
Typical in Australia to. Mandatory to be provided by the employer, but you don't have to take it. In that case the hours accrue and you get the paid out if you leave the company. The culture is pretty good for it though so people do te
833.
by ehnto 2y ago
That's economic suicide not sacrifice, for many small businesses the asset produces the revenue. Sell the asset you may as well close the business. It is not a fair assessment of a family's means at all. It's not equivalent t
834.
by ehnto 2y ago
Definitely is where they got started, but Steam is where they made the money to be the industry magnate they are today. They almost ran out of money making HL2. Without steam they would probably have been bought up and eaten years ago. It&#
835.
by ehnto 2y ago
It does still let you experience the story, and enjoy the stunning environments. But I agree the experience was tailored too much to VR for it to be an excellent gameplay experience in flatsceen. Some mechanics are pretty mundane and the co
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by ehnto 2y ago
There have been off the shelf solutions for so many common software use cases, for decades now. I think the reason we still see so much custom software is that the devil is always in the details, and strict details are not an LLMs strong su
837.
by ehnto 2y ago
Japanese is also accented by tones, but it's pretty robust even if you get them wrong thanks to context. The common example of hashi (bridge) and hashi (chopsticks) demonstrates that. If a foreigner asks for a bridge to eat their ramen
838.
by ehnto 2y ago
Yep. I would call myself a privacy focused person, but given that Windows is the primary platform for PC gaming, and I trust Microsoft about as far as I can throw a their corporate headquarters, the platform is already compromised. Treat it
839.
by ehnto 2y ago
I think I did something similar actually, I definitely got very lost. Even in the first player controlled sequence, I was really unsure what to do. I think I self-propelled into the valley rather than trying to get out. I loved the experie
840.
by ehnto 2y ago
Potential spoilers ahead but I will try to be vaugue. I recall only one instance of a surprise, it was not a monster but a very large machine falling through a wall, in a sense. But there's no monsters, creepy crawlies or anything like

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