matthewkayin

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by matthewkayin 8mo ago
Don't be ridiculous, talking about "partisan fear". They have taken away documented, American citizens without due process. When armed men can take you out of your home or your car and whisk you away without a judicial warran
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by matthewkayin 8mo ago
> Latest Claude is insane, does not even make errors. You still have to guide it and it will occasionally go astray and make rookie mistakes. I swear, do you people even hear yourselves?
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by matthewkayin 8mo ago
If a person is working 40 hours a week to contribute to society, then they should be able to afford housing from that society. If a person on minimum wage needs to have a roommate to get by, then that means that their 40 hours a week is not
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by matthewkayin 8mo ago
But that's only true if the system is deterministic? And in an LLM, the size of the inputs is vast and often hidden from the prompter. It is not something that you have exact control over in the way that you have exact control over the
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by matthewkayin 9mo ago
> Compare modern languages like Go & Rust to C & C++, simply for their ease-of-compilation and execution. Except that at least for game development, C and C++ are still the go-to tools?
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by matthewkayin 9mo ago
I'm not so sure. There's a fair amount of voice and first person in their writing. I wonder if they just use LLMs so much that the language and style of LLMs have rubbed off on them.
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by matthewkayin 9mo ago
I like this analogy. I'll add that, while electric bicycles are great for your daily commute, they're not suited for the extremes of biking (at least not yet). - You're not going to take an electric bike mountain biking - You
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by matthewkayin 9mo ago
> Everyone is ok targeting the immigrant populations To echo another commentor, we're not. And even if we were, this is not how it should be done. Enforcing the laws is one thing, but we have to have due process. Without due process
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by matthewkayin 9mo ago
I wonder if this is because it has less to do with fat and carbs and more to do with processed foods. The Mediterranean diet is regarded as quite healthy by many health professionals but, it is also high in carbs and fat. But these are heal
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by matthewkayin 9mo ago
You're right, but I think this just highlights the issue with market economies. There is this capitalist lie that money is a stand-in for "value provided to society". So, when you provide value, society gives you money, and y
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by matthewkayin 9mo ago
People care about authenticity, though. There are people who get bothered by things like fake DJs, ghostwritten songs, lip synced live performances, and manufactured artists (such as many kpop groups). And as for single-player aimbots, I ag
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by matthewkayin 9mo ago
Microsoft may have "caved", but we're still stuck with two different settings menus and a start menu that prioritizes ads and search results over your own programs.
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by matthewkayin 10mo ago
Sure, you can say that AI is just "stealing like an artist", but that makes the AI the artist in this scenario, not the prompter. It bothers me that all of the AI "artists" insist that they are just the same as any other
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by matthewkayin 10mo ago
> What features in Jai make it superior to C++ for writing games specifically? I know that Jonathan Blow can be abrasive and one-sided in his talks on programming, but I think we should be open-minded about Jai. Yes, he is making this la
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by matthewkayin 10mo ago
Relax, man. It's perfectly reasonable to say that you would stop using a browser if they killed adblock support. Saying so is not "tough guy" syndrome because switching which browser you use is not a tough thing to do.
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by matthewkayin 10mo ago
It's most likely that they are. As farfetched as this sounds, the CIA and the Iowa Writers' Workshop influenced American writing a great deal, encouraging writing to be taught in the "American" / Hemingway style. &g
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by matthewkayin 10mo ago
> Explaining necessary details makes the difference between good or bad storytelling. Only when the details you are explaining are relevant to the story you want to tell and the themes you want to cover. In The Left Hand of Darkness , L
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by matthewkayin 10mo ago
I agree, maintainers should just break the API if they're going to do it. At the same time, it's crazy that urllib (the library mentioned in the article), broke their API on a minor version. Python packaging documentation[1] provi
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by matthewkayin 11mo ago
I think it is fair to say that AIs do not yet "understand" what they say or what we ask them. When I ask it to use a specific MCP to complete a certain task, and it proceeds to not use that MCP, this indicates a clear lack of unde
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by matthewkayin 11mo ago
Except our resources are not so finite. At least in the first world, we have plenty of food for everyone. Grocery stores throw away millions of tons of food a year. We could use that food to feed people instead of letting it go bad, but ins
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by matthewkayin 1y ago
The fact that a model trained on the internet, on which the correct rules of chess are written, is unable to determine what is and is not a legal move, seems like a sign that these models are not reasoning about the questions asked of them.
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by matthewkayin 1y ago
I agree. Neither OOP nor functional programming should be treated as a religion or as a paradigm that one must either be fully invested in or not. OOP is a collection of ideas about how to write code. We should use those ideas when they are
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by matthewkayin 1y ago
Someone made a similar argument to me recently about AI, talking about how programmers used to have stacks of reference books at their desks and how many of the old guard had to have trainings convincing them to use google as a reference. I
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by matthewkayin 1y ago
In writing they call this the "gardener" (artist) vs "architect" (scientist). Some writers plot more at the beginning, and others just dive straight into writing, knowing that they'll have plenty of revising ahead o
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by matthewkayin 1y ago
I'm surprised there was no mention of accent. For their example "It’s tough when you’re trying and finish(ing) an assignment under pressure.", I can't help but hear "It's tough when you're tryna finish an
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by matthewkayin 1y ago
I noticed you have your game on Steam. Did you end up using any of the Steam networking features via Steam SDK and Godot Steamworks? I'm using ENet for my RTS project and found that Steam's networking code offers many of the same
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by matthewkayin 1y ago
I think that rewrites are an important part of how software is written, and it's an important part of being "agile", in the sense that you can go in and write a prototype that's coded very simply without much regard for
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by matthewkayin 1y ago
If you're serious, I've heard Kagi is an actually good, paid search engine. Haven't tried it myself, though.
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by matthewkayin 1y ago
What is all of this for if the result is that human beings are "made irrelevant"? If these LLMs truly become as game changing as so many say they will be, then can we agree that it's time to stop thinking that a person's
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by matthewkayin 2y ago
If you're using google you can just specify "-ai" at the end of your search, which I've started doing ever since Google's AI tried to tell me that the American Civil War was that time when the North and South fought

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