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by latexr 3mo ago
The title is, no surprise, clickbait bullshit. They’re making it sound like they vibe coded a game and it sold $25k in copies to real people in just two weeks, when in fact they participated in a competition specifically about vibe coding
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by latexr 3mo ago
I don’t understand the distinction you’re trying to make. Yes, “it could have been any other company”, but it wasn’t, it was this one. Had it been any other company, we’d be talking about that other company; because it was this one, we’re t
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by latexr 3mo ago
> but the only part that I didn't connect with was the blocking, and probably the goals. Funny, because I found the post terrible but approve of the goals technique if done temporarily . Many many years ago I set myself a reading g
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CEO Pleads with AI Industry to Stop Charging So Much to Replace Human Labor(futurism.com)
5 points by latexr 4mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 4mo ago
> Or unethical people are hard to spot That’s covered by my options: “doesn’t do a good job of filtering”. > due to, you know... their lack of ethics. Being unethical and being able to hide it are entirely orthogonal.
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by latexr 4mo ago
> No one is going to admit to having an inside source on HackerNews. Not only is that not true (people make throwaway accounts specifically to share insider info), no one has said this was insider information, there are plenty of other w
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by latexr 4mo ago
Your parent comment isn’t saying they doubt the assertion, they’re asking for details. If you say you know for certain , it makes sense to ask how. It makes a big difference if the answer is “I used to work there”, or “I implemented those
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by latexr 4mo ago
Sam Altman clearly has no qualms with lying and being unethical and eventually was at the front of Y Combinator, so that question either doesn’t care for ethics, doesn’t do a good job of filtering, or specifically filters in favour of une
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by latexr 4mo ago
> I think a mandatory first thing for any engineer is to learn, understand and commit for life to the Ethics of their profession. That’ll never happen with the current incentives. Programming is too easy to get started with and too well-
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by latexr 4mo ago
Perhaps they considered it, laws pertaining to it seem to be quite recent in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_and_assisted_suicid...
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by latexr 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217
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by latexr 4mo ago
I heard about that when it happened, but hadn’t realised it took nine years with a coma, paralysis, and seizures. It must’ve been horrifying for everyone involved, including the mates who dared him. https://www.mirror.co.uk&#x2
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by latexr 4mo ago
What a strange stupid time we live in, where that could actually be a thing.
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by latexr 4mo ago
It’s both hilarious and a bit sad that you seem to believe that is in any way a meaningful dig.
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by latexr 4mo ago
> Look at how differently humans drive vehicles, and realize they're doing the same with compute. I’m not sure that comparison is evoking the image you intended. Hands down the best driver I know—the one I’m sure won’t get me car si
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by latexr 4mo ago
> I can do projects in 3 days what would take 6 months. The hyperbole on this keeps growing every time I see it. Soon we’ll be having people claiming they can do in 12 seconds what used to take them 17 years. What is never presented is p
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by latexr 4mo ago
It’s bizarre to me that so many people feel the need to keep parroting this corporate talking point. What do you care? If you think people who eschew LLMs for coding “are not going to make it” or “are going to get left behind”¹, then let th
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by latexr 4mo ago
Man, I bet Jia Tan is simultaneously kicking themselves and having a field day. All those years of wasted effort gaining trust and making good contributions to try to land a sophisticated backdoor into a tool via layers of indirection, and
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by latexr 4mo ago
Agreed. I used to enjoy vim macros, but ever since switching to Helix I reach for its multiple cursors all the time and barely use its macros. But that doesn’t mean multiple cursors don’t have a learning curve, I still need to think of he m
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by latexr 4mo ago
> I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone describe vim as a puzzle that's fun to solve. Search for “vim puzzle” and you’ll find entire websites dedicated to it. Here’s a random one: https://vimventure.dev/
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by latexr 4mo ago
> Well you only talked with one single person and judge that the Zig community culture sucks? In fairness, Loris Cro is “VP of Community at Zig Software Foundation” so if there’s someone to judge the community by, Loris has more weight t
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by latexr 4mo ago
You’re making it seem like fewer features is a negative, but that’s not always the case. Even for programming languages, I can think of how I semi-regularly see people lamenting that Swift got too complex, while praising Go for being a smal
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by latexr 4mo ago
I wasn’t being pedantic, I was (as per my words), providing further context. Anyone who has watched the show knows these things, they are basic information from it. My post and the one I replied to are (obviously) for people who know close
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FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Giant Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate(ca.pcmag.com)
3 points by latexr 4mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 4mo ago
For further context, Doctor Who is a member of the species.
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by latexr 4mo ago
> If the timer counted up, you'd constantly need to care about getting each one as fast as possible, or fret about one that's taking you minutes, etc. The timer doesn’t have to be visible at all until the end. > Everyone wan
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by latexr 4mo ago
Right. I don’t mean every challenge and difficulty is purposeless and dumb, just that those don’t have to be the goal, and that sometimes an easy game is what you want. Tangentially, I have noticed some of the most well-balanced difficult
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by latexr 4mo ago
> it would be to give me infinite time even if that meant my score came with an asterisk. Or maybe don’t even keep score. That’s one of the features which makes be skip these daily games. Not every game needs to be a competition!
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by latexr 4mo ago
Not everyone plays games for purposeless dumb challenges and difficulty. Games are supposed to be fun . Sometimes you just want to chill and engage the brain at a leisurely pace.
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by latexr 4mo ago
A better alternative might be along the lines of “why developers ditch GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives”. That way it doesn’t commit to a trend or exaggerate the situation in your mind, instead making it clear it’s a report

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