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by johnfn 2y ago
I don't like this post, mainly because I think I don't like the attitude behind it. It seems somewhat obvious to me that people who do care exist and are out there; all you have to do is go and ask people what they care about and
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by johnfn 2y ago
I have AirPods 2 and do not have this issue. Maybe you should go bring them to an apple store?
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by johnfn 2y ago
This is nothing new. Bringing ideas from DND into video games is as old as video games themselves. In interviews, John Carmack talks often about how he used to play DND with his friends and then try to take that experience into the games he
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by johnfn 2y ago
This is a rare case where I think I preferred the Wikipedia article - the neutral, impassive retelling of events somehow makes more of an impression on me, whereas I don't like so much the breathless style of the new article.
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by johnfn 2y ago
The thing that everyone seems to miss here is it's not surprising which code falls into the 80% or 20%. I can guess if an AI will write something bug-free with almost 100% accuracy. For the remaining 20%, whatever, it gives me a fine
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by johnfn 2y ago
How often do you need to solve a problem like that in practice? Try asking it something that actually comes up in your day-to-day and you might have a different experience. By the way, o1 has no trouble with this problem: https:/&#x2F
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by johnfn 2y ago
I don’t understand how you’re being “difficult” by not keeping up to date on the Facebook updates of your friends. I will of course update all my close friends 1:1 on any life changes, and I expect they will do the same to me. For everyone
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by johnfn 2y ago
It seems like this would do OK for open areas with a few simple obstructions. I'm not sure how it would do if there were complex obstructions. For instance, it's unclear how it would work if you were trying to pathfind through a m
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by johnfn 2y ago
The human in the Chinese Room argument represents an AI. Eh, that kind of complicates the joke...
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by johnfn 2y ago
The people who thought up the Chinese Room argument were almost right - they just didn't realize it would be the human who didn't understand anything.
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by johnfn 2y ago
> I'd personally prefer deeper thinking which this blog's previous posts-- high in hype and low in technical rigor-- have not yet provided. Really? Something like this[1] (literally the previous post made by the author!) is &qu
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by johnfn 2y ago
I found this to be a pretty poor article. The article lacks concrete examples and speaks in generalities to explain its core thesis. But without specificity, a reader can nod along, sure in the knowledge that they already are wise and follo
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by johnfn 2y ago
Do you think it takes a high level of education to listen to a song and tell you if you'd like it?
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by johnfn 2y ago
Very cool prediction, but is there anything like this actually coming down the pipe?
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by johnfn 2y ago
LLMs are paid by input token and output token. LLM developers are just as incentivized to give quality output so you make more calls to the LLM.
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by johnfn 2y ago
I already have devs doing this to me at work and I'm not even an AI
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by johnfn 2y ago
I think I'd call that "local-first" or perhaps "offline-first". I can't think of a reason why a local-first app would need to be crammed into a single HTML file, hehe. I do agree it's very cool, though!
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by johnfn 2y ago
Lol, I was just disappointed because I was hoping to see a kanban board fully implemented in CSS/HTML. I do also dislike when nitpicky comments like this get upvoted.
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by johnfn 2y ago
I think there are reasonable expectations around code quality that most projects adhere to, e.g.: - Split JS out from HTML, split CSS out from HTML - Keep files reasonably small So if I read "Single HTML file" I'd expect arou
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by johnfn 2y ago
I think "single HTML file" sets up a certain expectation that a five-thousand-line long HTML file with ~3500 lines of embedded JS doesn't really live up to. I mean, hey, everything can be a single HTML file if you embed the b
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by johnfn 2y ago
How would you choose a cofounder? I would call whatever metric you use to determine "would that person be a good cofounder" productivity. (OK, sure, let's narrow it down and say that you were tasked with choosing a purely tec
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by johnfn 2y ago
> Great. How much more productive? Can you turn it into a number? This is moving goalposts. OP's argument was "There's No Such Thing as Software Productivity", not "You Can't Convert Software Productivity in
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by johnfn 2y ago
I dunno, the opposite side seems equally absurd to me. Do you work at a software company? Do you have coworkers? Are you honestly telling me that, gun to your head, you couldn't say that some are more productive and some are less? That
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by johnfn 2y ago
> To take your envy(I sense it on the quoted remark) to another place, think about how you go about measuring productivity of a CEO, PO, PM, Scrum Master, Agilist/Agile-Specialist etc? I have no envy; I'm a software engineer as
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by johnfn 2y ago
This is an old response, but thanks for the comment. I feel like you articulated zone 2 a lot better than almost anywhere else I've seen.
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by johnfn 2y ago
I'm not sure I follow. So you failed to measure software productivity in lines of code, therefore it follows that "There's No Such Thing as Software Productivity"? Don't you think that giving up after n=1 attempts a
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by johnfn 2y ago
To be honest, HN is about this with any topic. In the domain of stuff I know well, I've seen some of the dumbest takes imaginable on HN, as well as some really well-reasoned and articulated stuff. The limiting factor tends to be the nu
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by johnfn 2y ago
A page refresh isn't common?
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by johnfn 2y ago
You don't even have to get to the point where you're reading a post off Scott Aaronson's blog[1] at all; his headline says "If you take nothing else from this blog: quantum computers won't solve hard problems instan
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by johnfn 2y ago
> Dont tell people to change. Its a red flag of intellectual bankruptcy. Are you telling people to change?

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