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by namuol 3y ago
It seems like Apple knows this first generation hardware isn’t going to sell much but they’re going forward anyway. Should be interesting to see what the next couple generations looks like.
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by namuol 3y ago
Yes they exist, with laughably meager budgets compared to “mainstream” games. I’ll concede animal crossing is a good exception to the rule, but this only serves to prove our original point that there’s room for AAA-grade games in this marke
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by namuol 3y ago
IMO this is true for all “games”, not just VR. The industry is surprisingly conservative in terms of content/genre outside of indie studios. It’s basically Hollywood.
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by namuol 3y ago
> Doing gig work doesn’t pay well, but respondents are doing an average of 28 hours of work per week. Curious use of “but”. Has it occurred to you that perhaps below-minimum-wage pay isn’t the best use of one’s time? Besides, an hour is
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by namuol 3y ago
Ah, yes. Hypochondriacs. I was a hypochondriac for years until I was able to get an appointment timed such that my symptoms were physically present while I was being assessed (not easy if you have a disease that comes and goes). I really ho
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by namuol 4y ago
Most of the time when you open a PL article on Wikipedia you're greeted with a Hello World example, but here you get this: """ [...] As a result, K expressions can be opaque and difficult to parse for humans. For example
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by namuol 4y ago
You could fix this by deriving the function from some initial state, and then when resizes occur you just take a snapshot of the current animation state, freeze the animation until resizing stops, and replace the function with a new one der
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by namuol 4y ago
Thank you for the perspective; I'm an ML outsider so I'm not familiar with the debates going on within the field. That said, I was didn't mean to suggest that these benchmarks were measuring anything other than ...well, the p
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by namuol 4y ago
Some recent recruiter email subjects: - Open to connecting about tech debt? - What's the going rate on a tech debt loan these days? - Tech Debt Loan Blue Whale Opportunity
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by namuol 4y ago
My LinkedIn title has been “Tech Debt Loan Shark” for years and it has garnered some of the funniest cold opens from recruiters over the years. I don’t think there’s a real problem with admitting technical debt at healthy engineering orgs.
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by namuol 4y ago
If you’re an insider it’s frustrating to see a lot of “bad science” out there among laypeople but that’s what assimilation looks like for new technologies. But I couldn’t agree more about Twitter, in general… (I don’t consider myself an “in
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by namuol 4y ago
Here’s my anecdata: Tried it with a few different wordings and GPT-3.5 got it wrong every time. 0/3. GPT-4 got it right 2/3 of the times. But if you really want meaningful data I’d suggest reading the paper and specifically paying
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by namuol 4y ago
FWIW, the “HellaSwag” benchmark from the GPT-4 paper consists of many such “riddles” and it achieves ~95% accuracy (essentially par with humans). The next best model (LLM or otherwise) was around 85%. It is pretty remarkable. GPT-4 paper:
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by namuol 4y ago
> It's all about communication with people, and problem solving. [...] So, I couldn't care less about it. These things seem very ripe for LLM exploitation...
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by namuol 4y ago
> It’s like those millionaires who wept because they lost money with Madoff and they wanted the payout for all their earnings they had “made” over the years. Are you genuinely making this comparison or projecting what this looks like to
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by namuol 4y ago
All that matters is that enough of them are like this.
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by namuol 4y ago
You’re right. The first paragraph of the article acknowledges that these kinds of throughout benchmarks don’t matter, and the author focuses on the CI/CD time savings you get with tooling like Bun, which can be substantial.
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by namuol 4y ago
Looking forward to your next comment when the FDA designates cumin as an allergen and there’s a public outcry against BK’s new, blander BBQ sauce.
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by namuol 4y ago
I mean I get that it’s supposed to be a provocative statement, but it really is just a very shallow, false dichotomy. If writing tests slows you down -this much- then yes, you’re spending too much time writing tests. But they often save you
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by namuol 4y ago
In case you missed the meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oopsie-woopsie
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by namuol 4y ago
It doesn’t really offer solutions you’re after, but I keep coming back to this: https://www.atlasofplaces.com/essays/on-the-phenomenon-of-bu...
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by namuol 4y ago
This has pretty much always been the worst bottleneck, sadly. I worry there aren’t enough incentives for the industry to change its ways.
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by namuol 4y ago
From Bret Victor: “ In his influential essay No Silver Bullet, Fred Brooks makes the case that software is inherently "invisible and unvisualizable", and points out the universal failure of so-called "visual programming"
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by namuol 4y ago
I really wish I kept a list of related stuff somewhere… Edit: This comment is a goldmine : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34485994 ——- There are lots of hobbyists, academics, and even companies inspired by Bret Victo
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by namuol 4y ago
Thank you for sharing. Very happy that you got out of that toxic environment. Please consider seeking help (professional help) outside of work though, if you haven’t already. You’ve stopped the bleeding so to speak, but recovery is not some
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by namuol 4y ago
I’m pretty sure the romanticizing of the idea of “quitting the rat race” is one of the largest motivators to play the game. If you want to quit the rat race you’re going to have to sacrifice a lot, unless you checks notes “[work] at a top
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by namuol 4y ago
Agree with everything else you said but take some issue with this: > Shitty developers are going to make shitty software. That’s really not the point I was trying to make. It’s more of a trap to blame ICs on the ground in most situations
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by namuol 4y ago
Dedicated budgets for tech debt only serve to justify decisions to cut corners in the first place. It’s not a prioritization issue or a matter of smarter sequencing. It’s a cultural problem.
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by namuol 4y ago
Yeah I agree (hence “There’s a lot more at play when it comes to the decay of American cities for sure”), but so many things are inextricably linked to the inefficiencies inherent in the shape of cities that are only possible with high car
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by namuol 4y ago
> I think this occurs rather naturally. It’s not exactly natural. It was in no small part by design. The auto industry worked very hard to shut down public transit and lobby for as much public funding for roads as possible. This further

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