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by fsloth 11mo ago
"first class open source kernel" Speaking with over a decade of experience as a developer in industrial CAD (but still just one random guys point of view only). The question _isn't_ about the availability of a 3D kernel. 3D
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by fsloth 11mo ago
"Doing hard things that don't need to matter" Do people in general have the illusion that hobbies "should matter" or be meaningful in any way to any other human being?
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by fsloth 11mo ago
To me the specific state compliance mechanism is irrelevant here if a third country simply cares about data and security. Of course both governments utilize all measures they can to collect intelligence. And then decide how much of that dat
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by fsloth 11mo ago
Actually I'm thinking of a world where the masses accept an AR headset once it's as light as typical eye glasses. And before most people have these, the calls will be video. But I would be happy to be wrong!
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by fsloth 11mo ago
Ah, right! Because you can’t videoconference with the headset on. Thank you! Now I get it! So it’s sort of a stopgap solution before the ar glasses are small enough to do actual video calls without looking silly?
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by fsloth 11mo ago
Plagiarize!
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by fsloth 11mo ago
For production scenarios data like that usually has a hefty license fee. Hence it’s interesting to find methods for scene generation from data that is cheaper to acquire.
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by fsloth 11mo ago
You’d be surprised what GIS - or at least GIS - adjacent customers want. If you think about any cute-but-useless map detail that comes to your mind there is likely a paying customer for it.
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by fsloth 11mo ago
"Pure functional works great until it doesn't. " That's why F# is so great. Functional is default, but mutable is quite easy to do with a few mutable typedefs. The containers are immutable, but nobody stops you from usin
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by fsloth 11mo ago
IMHO that's the key differentiator. You can give a human PhD an _unsolved problem_ in field adjacent to their expertise and expect some reasonable resolution. LLM PhD:s solve only known problems. That said humans can also be really bad
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by fsloth 11mo ago
I guess we mean here ”usefull reasoning” instead of the idiot-savant. I mean it’s a fair ask since these are marketed as _tools_ you can use to implement _industrial processes_ and even replace you human workers. In that I guess the model d
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by fsloth 11mo ago
Yes! That said the input space of supported problems is quite large and you can configure the problem parametrs quite flexibly. I guess the issue is that what the model _actually_ provides you is this idiot savant who has pre-memorized ever
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by fsloth 11mo ago
The image generation models have been super useful for anyone wanting to deliver any sort of production content for years. Ofc nobody _promotes_ that. Using ai images is like taking photos as reference for collages. Anyone with a subscripti
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by fsloth 11mo ago
Yup, source code does not stay maintainable automatically. Just that code is open does not mean anyone can or wants to do any reasonable development. The only ”safer” bets are the biggest projects providing critical infra for segments of ec
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by fsloth 1y ago
That’s actually a really interesting take (even though the OP software is not really for that). How would you _like_ to design this treehouse? Is the particular tree relevant here (do you have a photogrammetric scan of it for insrance) or a
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by fsloth 1y ago
I'm sorry I can't quite parse what you are asking. "map out" - do you mean you want to digitally design tree houses?
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by fsloth 1y ago
"Finding a way to correct for this is a really big deal." But aren't you now feeding back to the system? Why would there need to be a financial reward and incentive for everything? I do realize "contributing free value&q
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by fsloth 1y ago
"People "at large" absolutely don't care about AI slop" I think this is true. In general I think enough population of the market actually does not care about quality as long as it exceeds a certain limited threshold
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by fsloth 1y ago
Raylib is a pedagogical tool among other things and as such I think a kind of first principles approach has it’s merits. But I also just use the precompiled libs :)
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by fsloth 1y ago
Yup. My daughter (15y) had the perfect example this morning. She said she was thinking about shooting a person with a cannon upwards, then realizing they feel effectively zero gravity at top, and maybe this could be usefull. Then she rememb
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by fsloth 1y ago
Why shouldn’t I? You clearly understood what I was referring to? This is not an academic venue but a platform for informal conversations, right?
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by fsloth 1y ago
Yup. You teach only 1/4th of the Rumsfeld matrix (known knowns). And TV shows are there for a good story, not philosophy of knowledge.
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by fsloth 1y ago
I agree alzheimers turns everything to shit in every meaning of the word. I disagree it’s up to you to conclude it would have been better if he had been killed 3 years earlier (which you imply). In general you don’t have the right to such a
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by fsloth 1y ago
Don’t trust hype. ”Unpopular press” generally means ”non-expert clickbait opinions”. C++ as a language is abominable but the ecosystem (compiler support, tooling, libraries, established knowledge) is very hard to beat.
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by fsloth 1y ago
The marketing part is potentially quite challenging. As well as finding a niche market that is underserved. patio11 is famous because what he did was really non-trivial even though he is such a humble person he discusses his work in very
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by fsloth 1y ago
Since you asked for honest feedback here are my thougths: Given your propensity for programming you are probably a high functioning individual, able to apply logical reasoning and systems thinking to a wide range of problems. I have no idea
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by fsloth 1y ago
"you can simply sell a product." Are you personally making a living by selling a product or service you created - and if so could you share something of your experience? Making a product is not trivial - it's double hard. Fir
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by fsloth 1y ago
”I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago” This. 100x this.
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by fsloth 1y ago
”The point is to get people in those contries to overthrow their leadership.” Very easy to say. Quite hard to pull off. People in authoritarian countries have very little leverage and would like just to live fullfilling lives. I’m not sayin
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by fsloth 1y ago
If you notice only after two weeks the project is off-kilter I would guess the chance of that happening without an LLM is not low either. These are not _tools_ -they are like cool demos. Once you have a certain mass of functional code in pl

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