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by ghurtado 10mo ago
You're absolutely right. Although to be fair, the fact that the comment section of HN is often more interesting than TFA is something than long predates LLMs.
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
In 30 years in tech, I have never once heard anyone use the term "Open Source" to refer to anything other than FOSS. I have also never once heard anyone use the term FOSS outside of the written form. So the opposite of what you sa
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
> Looked at a repo and it seems this project was heavily AI generated That's the first thing that I noticed too. It's gotten to the point that my body subconsciously rejects bullet lists and headings that start with emojis.
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
Very good point indeed. In the worst case scenario, you would only have 1/5th of that capacity
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
Depending on which prompt you used, and the training cutoff, this could be anywhere from completely unremarkable to somewhat interesting.
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
We're literally running out of science fiction topics faster than we can create new ones If I started a list with the things that were comically sci Fi when I was a kid, and are a reality today, I'd be here until next Tuesday.
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
This might just be the closest we get to a time machine for some time. Or maybe ever. Every "King Arthur travels to the year 2000" kinda script is now something that writes itself. > Imagine having a conversation with someone g
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
> It would be interesting to see how hard it would be to walk these models towards general relativity and quantum mechanics. Definitely. Even more interesting could be seeing them fall into the same trappings of quackery, and come up wit
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
Seth Brundle has entered the chat.
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
> Also, a better law would be No, the better law is the one that exists. Yours doesn't.
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
> HN frontpage hardly requires virility. As far as I can tell, it doesn't require femininity either. I'm guessing you meant "virality"
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
If you've been doing it for that long (about as long as I have), then surely you remember all the times you had to clean up after the "git 'er done" types. I'm not saying they don't have their place, but withou
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
> glory that was Adobe Dreamweaver Dreamweaver was to web development what ... I just sat here for 5 minutes and I wasn't able to finish that sentence. So I think that's a statement in itself.
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
> and little games with numbers are way less engaging than games with physical athleticism or bright lights. In a different place, at a different time, I would have used the same exact wording. I think we would be very good friends IRL :
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
> and it the eventual realization would be more satisfying. I think you might be overestimating the curiosity of the average person. I'm regularly baffled / saddened by how many people care so little about learning anything new
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
Maybe their donation was in $1000 bills
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
That's not unique to AI though. That's very common for tech startups. If they keep doing it, it must be because sometimes it works.
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
> They measured first, No, they measured it now , not first . The very text you pasted is very clear about that, so I'm not sure why you're contradicting it. If they had measured it first, this post would not exist.
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
>In the worst cases, a 5x difference was reported between instances that used duplication and those that did not. Never trust a report that highlights the outliers before even discussing the mean. Never trust someone who thinks that is a
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
That's awesome. Having lived through the browser wars, this is my new favorite fact about the whole thing. It really was a very different time, and you couldn't have convinced me back then that I would miss it one day.
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
They never did stop, but there was a time when they had to slow down right after being found guilty in a pretty big anti trust case in 2001. The case was specifically about IE integration in Windows, so it definitely had an impact. I think
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by ghurtado 10mo ago
> Part of what made chrome succeed is it came out with a pretty robust set of webdev tools right from the get-go. I think this factor isn't given enough weight in the shift to Firefox. At that time, the largest pain point in web dev
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
> I get a lot from seeing the person talk vs reading a summary And some people simply have the opposite preference. There's lots of situations where sound is simply not an option. Some people are hearing impaired. Some people are vi
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
> in hopes of building a god which will convert the rest of the world into data centers I'm as pro AI as it comes, and I love your way of putting it. Very poignant.
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
You still need to have a payment provider / merchant account, so that part remains the same For all I could see this is no different than any other payment gateway service. Well, it is different in one important way: you'll pay a
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
> (cf. PHP and hacks like `mysql_real_escape_string`, for example.) PHP is a fantastic resource to learn how to do proper backward compatibility and package management. By doing the exact opposite of whatever PHP does, mostly.
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
> “you’ve added me to your contact list, then it’s totally fine for me to enter your bedroom at night and wear your lingerie because we’re already BFF” I don't know if everyone will appreciate this, but I am in stitches right now..
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
> if you stay away from the network and async That's some "small print" right there.
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
I think they were using "writing Rust" in the most strict sense: the part of the development cycle that involves typing the majority of the code, before you really start debugging in earnest and really make things work. But their
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
> Semver was invented to facilitate that First time I've heard that. How does semver facilitate backporting?

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