makerofthings

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by makerofthings 1y ago
I became a programmer because I like to write code. Having an llm write code for me is like building a robot that eats cake.
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by makerofthings 1y ago
A lot of people in this thread seem to enjoy the taste of boot and are spending a lot of words trying to say the OSA isn't a big deal. A bit of a sad attitude for a forum called HackerNews. This is massive overreach by the government,
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by makerofthings 1y ago
All those parents that couldn’t use parental controls to limit what their children see in a browser are not suddenly going to start policing VPNs. This is terrible legislation wrapped in terrible advice.
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by makerofthings 1y ago
It's not really practical but I would take the bet that I will never /intentionally/ buy a game with AI generated assets. I just don't see that AI generated art has any value to it. I'm sure you could sneak some pas
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by makerofthings 1y ago
Have to agree. I don’t think we should stop ai progress, just that I think we built a bad thing along the way. I will never buy a video game that I know has ai generated content, I want to see some art, not a soulless prediction of what art
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by makerofthings 1y ago
There are 2 kinds of people in this world, those that can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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by makerofthings 1y ago
Ah yes, my memory clearly didn’t want to keep that bit. It sort of made sense in the context of having a tiny number of people left. I read another book called Dark Eden that had some similar problems.
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by makerofthings 1y ago
I read this book and liked it, but I don't remember anything really bad about the last chapter and having a quick scan of the linked page above, I don't see anything really out there. What am I missing?
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by makerofthings 2y ago
Part of my work is rapid prototyping of new products and technology to test out new ideas. I have a small team of really great generalists. 2 people have left over the last year and I didn't replace them because the existing team + cha
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by makerofthings 2y ago
It's alright. I played a couple of games. It's very pretty. I don't like the age system, just seems like throwing away your progress each time it resets. 4>5>6>7
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by makerofthings 2y ago
Just like gimp is replacing photoshop.
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by makerofthings 2y ago
I keep trying to use these things but I always end up back in vim (in which I don't have any ai autocomplete set up.) The AI is fine, but every time it makes a little mistake that I have to correct it really breaks my flow. I might typ
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by makerofthings 2y ago
You're not allowed to like apple, this is hackernews. Didn't you read the rules?
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by makerofthings 2y ago
I know a lot of console fanatics like that and they all like to keep games on disc, shunning digital. The new ps doesn't seem to have an optical drive so I'm really not sure who they're aiming this at.
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by makerofthings 2y ago
I work at google and I use google products. Sure, some giant automated heap of code is processing your data and deciding how many grammerly adverts to show you, but your data is about as safe as it can be from loss or from humans. There are
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by makerofthings 2y ago
Sounds like gpu to me.
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by makerofthings 2y ago
I did https://learnyouahaskell.com and then https://adventofcode.com . I've been learning Haskell for about 6 years now and I sort of get it.
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by makerofthings 2y ago
How many IBM Technical Support workers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, we have an identical model here and ours is working fine.
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by makerofthings 2y ago
If a job interview requires this and you choose not to apply then that is entirely your choice. I think the problem highlighted in the comment above is that some people do actually want that job, but don't do the required work because
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by makerofthings 2y ago
I misread that as "Guide to attempting a space launch in person" and was a little disappointed. There are many model rocketry enthusiasts, I wonder if anyone outside of the billionaires has tried to launch themselves up in a rocke
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by makerofthings 2y ago
Random data point, I had a laptop from Tuxedo and it was great. Everything worked really well and I got a very powerful machine with 64Gb of Ram for a very good price. I will probably buy one of their Arm laptops.
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by makerofthings 2y ago
I quite like them. You know what sort of question you’re getting and they’re really not that hard. Practice. Get good at walking trees. Answer too slow? Sort the list first, use two pointers, use a hashmap, max heap…
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by makerofthings 2y ago
Be google SRE. Elite software engineer. Cool under pressure. Pager goes off! Grab pixel. Press finger print reader until it lets me enter my passcode. Ack page. Put down whisky. Shake self. 5 minutes to be logged in and dealing with the pro
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by makerofthings 3y ago
The different between a cult and a religion is whether the main character is dead yet.
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by makerofthings 3y ago
I work at Google. Having Google on my CV has been a huge bonus, I get so much more interest from companies trying to hire me and many of them directly reference having Google on there as a positive. I know zero people who are just coasting
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by makerofthings 3y ago
I tried using it to generate some sprites for a game I've been thinking about. Kept telling me it couldn't show me the image because it wasn't safe (I asked for robot pirates). Couldn't see a way to turn off the nsfw pro
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by makerofthings 3y ago
Where I live, I can get a cheap taxi, any time, to anywhere I might want to go, through an app. The only difference between that and Waymo seems to be that it is controlled by a meat sack rather than a computer. I don't see autonomous
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by makerofthings 3y ago
One thing I like about it is that reviewers can suggest changes and you can accept them inline. Makes it really easy to deal with nits.
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by makerofthings 3y ago
This is only 1 hour 42 minutes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAA_yWX8ycQ , but I could watch it all day. It was released as marketing for the Detective Pikachu movie and is a "Leak of the full movie by R Reynolds&quo
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by makerofthings 4y ago
> constantly jumping back and forth between panic, undirected rage, and extreme listlessness That a great summary of working in big tech.

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