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by fhd2 3y ago
Nice example! I also did some reading in the mean time, and I guess for a 17th century definition of "art", a well-written algorithm that does the job efficiently and is easy to reason about would even classify as art. I quite enj
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by fhd2 3y ago
Fair, the term "art" definitely changed meaning over time and is not quite universally agreed upon. What you made me think is that it's indeed a term where the goal posts are up for moving, just like "AI", the only
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by fhd2 3y ago
Art, at least how I understand it, is about sharing emotions and experiences. We know artists (as opposed to programmers) because we are curious about the person that put a part of themselves into the thing that evoked some emotion in us or
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by fhd2 3y ago
If you think so, it's probably true. That's why I can't really disagree with parent :D I find the cost and value of tooling options quite difficult to fully grasp, it often comes down to gut feeling IMO. What I would want to
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by fhd2 3y ago
I generally agree, but I'd say it depends. I'm not too surprised that software developers are less likely to spend money on software - they do have another option non-programmers don't have. I'd also not be shocked to he
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by fhd2 3y ago
It's a reasonably common concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_Sout...
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by fhd2 3y ago
Being an Emacs guy, I can recommend weblorg - I guess most people haven't heard about org-mode indeed, but it's one of the biggest reasons I stuck to Emacs, worth a look. Got curious what this guy uses for the site, but couldn&#x2
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by fhd2 3y ago
I've been working on NLP stuff using LLMs for a while, and it's not that the problems aren't somewhat interesting, but solving them is ridiculously tedious. Most of the time on that project I've just played around with d
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by fhd2 3y ago
I have no scientific basis for disagreeing, but from my own experience, I can definitely tell with >50% accuracy whether a game was build with Unreal or Unity, especially for indie games. For Unity it's something about the materials
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by fhd2 3y ago
Seems more comparable to using a framework like Rails or rolling your own. Both can be valid decisions from a business perspective, depends on the situation, what you're trying to build and what kind of team you have. As a guy who star
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by fhd2 3y ago
Is PayPal still a thing in the US? Only one mention in the article, none here in the comments. I'm in Germany and order at a lot of specific sites, and while I don't like PayPal as a company or their fee structure, it's usual
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by fhd2 3y ago
I believe working on something you really want to do is even just one variable. There's also stuff like: 1. Do you have enough ownership to at least sit at the table when it's decided what exactly you work on and how you do it? Ca
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by fhd2 3y ago
I'd argue that as soon as you have people sitting in different rooms (or at least floors or buildings), it starts to resemble a remote environment even on-site. I don't think people who work best on-site only reap the benefits if
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by fhd2 3y ago
I know what you mean, but this kind of negative spin probably doesn't help the situation :D Some people are better at creating (real or fake) value face to face. I've seen what you describe in remote/distributed setting as we
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by fhd2 3y ago
Reminds me of Kobayashi Maru ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru )
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by fhd2 3y ago
Quick search on this thread didn't reveal the word "flame" (as in "flame war"), so I can´t resist: That's what the remote vs on-site debate is. About as interesting and ultimately inconclusive as Emacs vs Vi. N
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by fhd2 3y ago
That's just what it boils down to: Add kids to the mix and you'll have them change schools (and their entire social circle) every time you do a career change - to earn more, to do something more interesting, or because you're
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by fhd2 3y ago
I think it's a particular problems with extensions because: 1. They usually mostly work in the background, don't need much interaction. It's almost like a built-in browser feature changing owners. 2. They are pretty difficult
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by fhd2 3y ago
There are various example tweets in the article, quite clearly hateful and some calling for violence. Whether someone likes them seems irrelevant, the tweets are what the article says they are - at least the examples.
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by fhd2 3y ago
Possibly not what you're asking since it's nothing like HN, but the other two sites I constantly check for news are theguardian.com and spiegel.de (because I'm German). Quite hilarious when I read about some Elon Musk drama o
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by fhd2 3y ago
FWIW, I'm using a single ultra wide screen and never have any full screen windows, always two side by side. Most Linux DEs and even Windows support this out of the box, for macOS there's spectacle. That said, working on a web proj
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by fhd2 3y ago
Would probably lead to an uptick in tourism for Belize.
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by fhd2 3y ago
I believe that's an overgeneralization - a lot of jobs when done badly don't immediately reflect in quarterly revenues (the usual definition of "value" in my experience). Companies can make their software unmaintainable,
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by fhd2 3y ago
I arrive at something like 25% of global nominal GDP according to Wikipedia, but I just quickly added up the numbers in my head, might be wrong. The Facebook ad numbers are probably not too relevant of a comparison though, since Microsoft a
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by fhd2 3y ago
You're going into the unique advantage computers have over humans: They scale, a human doesn't. If you take away the "in a few seconds" part, it's not difficult at all to beat.
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by fhd2 3y ago
I'm not too surprised the trend persists, if I just follow the money. People like to bet on new(-ish) technologies and hypes, hoping to be the first in some brave new world - like with personal computers, the internet and mobile. Didn&
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by fhd2 3y ago
If you spend that money you pay VAT. The company you paid pays their employees, who pay income tax. Whenever money exchanges hands, it's taxed - pretty much. Seems fair to me, though as a father working to leave something for my kids,
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by fhd2 3y ago
Same, but I'm not so worried about it, it all comes down to trust. I got an email the other day by someone offering to do my work for me, sharing their earnings. I suppose some people might do that sort of thing, and with a (different)
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by fhd2 3y ago
Sounds like we'll get all sorts of _disconnected_ models. One knows all your Slack conversations but nothing else, one knows all your emails but nothing else, and so on. Sounds wildly limiting. Slack and co are probably going to try an
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by fhd2 3y ago
I believe it's called multi paradigm languages - most I've used are like that (C++, Kotlin, JavaScript, Python, ...). The only dogmatic OOP languages I can think of are Java (where it is IMHO nastily done), Ruby and Smalltalk (in

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