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by gwbas1c 5d ago
> I don't know if the CRT version is taken from an actual CRT, but I doubt it - I actually think it looks too fuzzy. I may be wrong - it could be an effect of a close-up photo scaled up - but it's more likely a CRT approximatio
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by gwbas1c 8d ago
The more I see posts like this, the more I realize that the problems people have with AI are no different than the problems we had with outsourcing (development to low-cost countries) 20 years ago. The results and challenges are the same; e
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by gwbas1c 8d ago
Yes, one of the articles on HN a few days ago pointed out that a lot of the wealthy spend a lot of their time and energy preserving the social order. (It was a long article trying to predict what people will do when they don't need to
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by gwbas1c 8d ago
Yes, that's a perfect explanation! (And thankfully, for when I work with small numbers, they are still much larger than that.)
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by gwbas1c 8d ago
> Spiteful peers with "dog in the manger" mentality. Last night my daughter told me her friend (a boy) signed up to take the last spot of a baking class at camp just to spite his sister, who wanted it. Turns out he liked baking
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by gwbas1c 8d ago
A few reasons: Bytecode can't really abstract the differences in memory model between the two different processors without some kind of consequence. (IE, it would be slower.) I've personally done some high performance multithreade
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by gwbas1c 8d ago
I'm still trying to understand what a subnormal number is; IE, I'm looking for the TLDR so I know just enough to know if I'm using them and need to learn more. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article, while probably being accura
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by gwbas1c 9d ago
Are you referring to Trump? He's the kind of person who sees these kinds of things as eroding his power, thus threatening to him.
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by gwbas1c 9d ago
The problems with using physical gold as currency are very well known. When population would increase, or when someone would hoard it, it would cause deflation. Likewise, when a new deposit of gold was found, it would cause inflation. This
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by gwbas1c 10d ago
If I had more time when I made that comment, I'd clarify a bit: We have a LOT of legos; I could easily see it being more fun to have a robot that we could prompt to find the "needle in a haystack" lego; or when building somet
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by gwbas1c 10d ago
> Imagine building LEGO using a robot? Where is the fun in that? Depends on what you're building!
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by gwbas1c 12d ago
Don't knock it until you try it! AI helps the most with boilerplate work: Those 3 hours of boring, follow-the-design coding can now be implemented in 5-10 minutes. I then jump into the more interesting work and cleanup. Other things ar
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by gwbas1c 12d ago
FYI, Lynch (the author) sells a course on making it to the front page of Hacker News: https://hitthefrontpage.com/ I used to like reading (or skimming) Lynch's articles, but seeing how he's profiting from gaming t
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by gwbas1c 12d ago
That was my experience during the Intel Mac era, when I did a lot of Windows development inside of a Mac VM. IMO, the reason is all of the 3rd party fluff and poorly-written drivers that come with Windows PCs: Apple takes driver stability v
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by gwbas1c 12d ago
I had a similar thing happen on LinkedIn: For awhile I was getting a lot of recruiters that had an enticing job description, and when I responded, they just wanted me to join a job board. (There was no position.) When I reported them, they
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by gwbas1c 14d ago
Self-driving cars don't "feel"
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by gwbas1c 16d ago
A Japanese bath sounds a lot more like what Americans call a hot tub. BTW, Japanese bathing is somewhat visible in My Neighbor Totoro, a really cute movie.
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by gwbas1c 16d ago
It's Wikipedia, I'm sure you can add it to the wiki in about as much time as it took you to write that post.
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by gwbas1c 16d ago
Seems like we need some copyright reform WRT issues like this. We need a true way to have digital ownership; including putting assets in escrow and a way for access to continue after the store is shut down or the item removed from the store
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by gwbas1c 16d ago
I don't understand movement: "W" makes me appear to move backwards, "S" makes me appear to move forwards. When I use space to stop, I move back to where I started. Is this a bug or am I just really confused?
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by gwbas1c 16d ago
No, because as soon as it starts to go this way I just do it by hand or revert. Specifically, I would never tell AI to revert. I just revert it in git and start a new thread.
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by gwbas1c 16d ago
I don't think it's more or less common, pretty much any code base I inherited prior to AI had serious problems.
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by gwbas1c 17d ago
Looks like we're over the biggest engineering hurdles. I used to tell people we'd see self-driving cars take off in the 2030s, (with them generally starting to appear mid 2020s) and now this looks like the case.
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by gwbas1c 17d ago
FYI: There are now lossless Bluetooth codecs if you care to find them.
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by gwbas1c 17d ago
The problem is that bitcoin (and similar) are so computationally intense to run, that the transaction cost is much higher than Visa's. Furthermore, a currency needs a government (or similar kind of body) to manage its stability, by pri
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by gwbas1c 17d ago
Then, IMO, the joke is lost: This feels like working with various forms of difficult, immature, indecisive, engineers; and possibly with very disorganized codebases where small changes require major refactoring.
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by gwbas1c 17d ago
I thought the article was going to be about making some wire from scratch and milling a light bulb socket!
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by gwbas1c 17d ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Are paywalls ok? > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help
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by gwbas1c 17d ago
I don't get who this is making fun of: - The people who won't make any effort to learn the tools, and something as simple as reverting code (via git) needs to be done by AI? - The awful programmers who we've had to endure wor
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by gwbas1c 17d ago
People form religions, the power gets abused, they form new ones, the power gets abused, rinse, lather, repeat. I consider myself lucky to live in a time and place where I'm not forced to participate or financially support a religion.

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