glouwbug

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by glouwbug 23d ago
Contractors have been charging by the hour for eons. What makes you think tokens are any different for OpenAI?
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by glouwbug 23d ago
Inversely, maybe this is what we're actually all like on HN and LLMs write what we read day to day in these comment sections
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by glouwbug 23d ago
Tips Fedora. Le gem. Holds up spork.
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by glouwbug 23d ago
Looking at this thread, there's a correlation between comment quality and LLMs going down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by glouwbug 23d ago
This is what Python was supposed to be
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by glouwbug 23d ago
I guess this is what you call software architecture
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by glouwbug 23d ago
We have an analog internet. See: the radio. Stations would even let you call in and voice your opinion like a commenter would with OP. You even had trolls call in. Stations would lock down call ins for months at a time if they got unruly li
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by glouwbug 24d ago
This was really well written, and you hit on a serious point that most miss
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by glouwbug 24d ago
The fun thing about C++ is that it’s really hard. The even more fun thing is that the domain knowledge behind is even harder - game engines, high performance clusters, emulators, real time simulations, rendering engines, high frequency trad
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by glouwbug 25d ago
Did you read what he posted, or do you place widgets on a webpage
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by glouwbug 26d ago
The author runs his own chip8 game jams which is pretty fun. He also runs his own webcomic: https://beyondloom.com/comic/index.html
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by glouwbug 28d ago
That the janitor did a good job cleaning the hallways and building enough of a reputation amongst those in the building to not trash the hallways
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by glouwbug 1mo ago
Right, if a janitor can leave the hallways for a week and they're still clean on his return we should let him go
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by glouwbug 1mo ago
> should be able to disappear for a year But I do my job properly and get in trouble when I ask for a week off
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by glouwbug 1mo ago
Unless they can produce the right thing 100% of the time, they require an observer with enough technical merit and experience to validate
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by glouwbug 1mo ago
Right, but what are you doing? Placing UI elements on a page?
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by glouwbug 1mo ago
Right, but hasn't generating the perfect spec always been the _exact_ problem of software development, regardless of language / LLM interface?
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by glouwbug 1mo ago
Or, you know, just plain ol’ racism
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by glouwbug 1mo ago
Is all of hackernews webdev only? I can’t imagine “coding not being a job anymore” in fields like automotive, medical, military, robotics, and HPC
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by glouwbug 1mo ago
This analogy only works if you’re ready to commit _only prompts_ and have those prompts do a clean “compile” of your production runtime everytime you pull. Are you ready to do that?
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by glouwbug 1mo ago
Likely just formatting
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by glouwbug 2mo ago
Fun fact, one of the XFire cofounders won Carmack's Ferrari at a Quake Tourney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Fong#/media/File:John_C...
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by glouwbug 2mo ago
It's a unary operator, kind of like ~ or !, which can apply to parenthesis (), until it meets a type, then the parenthesis are mandatory: int x; sizeof x; // okay sizeof (x); // okay sizeof i
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by glouwbug 2mo ago
Because often times you don't need browser grade systems infrastructure to make something like an impulse tracker
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by glouwbug 2mo ago
Walter hangs around here almost every day
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by glouwbug 2mo ago
Wait till he learns about PID controllers
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by glouwbug 2mo ago
Anyone here ever use labview?
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by glouwbug 2mo ago
When you write without AI you cultivate your team’s understanding which cultivates communication and teamwork and immediate understanding during downtime and emergencies. Build your team, not the product
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by glouwbug 3mo ago
Turns out you internalize it when you write it and refactor it with iteration
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by glouwbug 3mo ago
I guess that’s why they call them Transformers

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