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by fassssst 4y ago
Counterpoint: western music is a 12 note scale. Variations *are* "new."
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by fassssst 4y ago
I like vanilla JS with web components. Coming from a desktop app development background it’s so incredibly simple. I don’t really want fancy “reactive” data flow when plain old MVC or MVVM works perfectly fine without any magic.
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by fassssst 4y ago
One of my favorite reads ever: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
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by fassssst 4y ago
Blender also renders in real time. It’s useful outside games, I like just drawing in it. It’s like a way more powerful Illustrator.
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by fassssst 4y ago
Push notifications are for popping a toast on the user’s device, like a new text message notification.
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by fassssst 4y ago
Then again, the new DALL-E model just released in Bing Chat is really good. Disclosure: I work at Microsoft.
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by fassssst 4y ago
Erm, native WinUI apps are GPU accelerated and render at vsync.
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by fassssst 4y ago
Yes, it can already write G-code for CNC machines. A multi-modal model that understands shapes and space would do way better.
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by fassssst 4y ago
Bing Chat can crawl links, or use the current page as context if you use it in the Edge sidebar.
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by fassssst 4y ago
You could use Bing Chat to write periodic children’s books on current events.
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by fassssst 4y ago
It’s not, it’s what all these services are doing behind the scenes so users don’t have to.
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by fassssst 4y ago
Yea, aka how engineers working on safety critical or high reliability stuff already have to think. Assume your software has a probability to fail or have bugs or gets hit by bit flips or unreliable hardware. There’s a whole field for dealin
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by fassssst 4y ago
Those aren't good enough, you really need a formally verified language. Or just use English and do lots of acceptance testing plus add fail safes. I bet that will be more economical.
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by fassssst 4y ago
Well maybe instead we'll spend our time honing the spec and doing lots of testing instead of mechanically writing and reviewing code. I see that as potentially a massive net positive for software quality.
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by fassssst 4y ago
Ask Bing Chat to write you some HTML snippets, say of the current news headlines arranged like a newspaper. You might be surprised.
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by fassssst 4y ago
Train a separate AI to write tests against the other AI’s code, that’s rewarded for finding defects :p
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by fassssst 4y ago
How do blind people know what a dog is?
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by fassssst 4y ago
bing.com/new doesn’t have a length restriction, and the Edge sidebar version can do it like this. Disclosure: I work at MSFT but not on Bing
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by fassssst 4y ago
Check out the Polyglot Notebooks extension for VS Code. It supports other languages but also, notably, mixing languages in the same notebook.
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by fassssst 4y ago
It’s like people are living through "White Noise" by Don DeLillo. Thanks ChatGPT for helping me remember the book based on the general scenario: "White Noise" is a darkly comic novel that explores themes of death, consum
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by fassssst 4y ago
Write tests? The skill moves from remembering incantations to being able to define a clear spec in the form of prompts and tests. Basically, programming becomes more declarative.
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by fassssst 4y ago
You can do that today with LangChain. https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/agents.ht...
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by fassssst 4y ago
WPF and WinUI on Windows are both GPU accelerated. They render with Direct3D calls under the hood.
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by fassssst 4y ago
But the UIs provided by the operating system are making DirectX/Metal calls for you... they are GPU accelerated. And they have been for like 16 years now.
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by fassssst 4y ago
Read this, it might change your mind on the usefulness of large language models: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/agents/ge...
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by fassssst 4y ago
Yea I mindlessly plunk around on it while muted.
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by fassssst 4y ago
I play my OP-1 during meetings and while waiting for things to compile. It’s one of my favorite objects, I often get lost with it.
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by fassssst 4y ago
It works on Amazon product pages and news home pages. Wow.
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by fassssst 4y ago
Low unemployment leads to inflation > fed raises rates to counteract inflation > stocks are less appealing Therefore the stock market hates workers.
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by fassssst 4y ago
I mean in the native Windows app world you just have your “ViewModel” raise an event with the name of the property that changed, and the UI layer just goes and assigns the new value to the appropriate element(s). Much simpler and easier to

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