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by noduerme 8mo ago
Maybe I'm jaded, but I feel like a lot of them did for a moment. Gates, Jobs, Zuck, all got their days of glory and it's quickly that everyone realizes they're a giant misanthropic asshole. If the pot of gold at the end of Al
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by noduerme 8mo ago
Just thinking about an aircraft's velocity as a specific type, rather than a vector with three floats, has my mind whirling. I can imagine a lot of terrifying things I wish I didn't think could be added later to that struct in som
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by noduerme 8mo ago
I'm a big fan of writing little bits of code into my URL routers that check for pages and try to correct typos. So if someone types https://some-awesome-site.org/jhon-davisdon it will check and correct it to /john
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by noduerme 8mo ago
I wouldn't say he's much different or worse than certain BBS sysadmins I knew in the early 90s... just that I'd never want those guys to be endowed with enough money and hardware to wreak their vision on the world
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by noduerme 8mo ago
I'd like to point out that this article seems to focus on minutiae like how much energy a human brain takes to solve a problem, when the obvious question is: Which is more worthwhile to us as a species - even assuming the same inputs a
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Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity(theatlantic.com)
80 points by noduerme 8mo ago|109 comments
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by noduerme 8mo ago
A lot of people have enough of a sense of responsibility to donate blood, or donate their organs. I've long had the suspicion that much of what is called Alzheimers or dementia is some form of prion disease. This study doesn't sho
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by noduerme 8mo ago
I'm personally not comfortable with the widespread argument (not yours) that moving from a shit-on-shit scripting language to using an LLM to write code is just a matter of degree or just one more layer of abstraction. I think writing
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by noduerme 8mo ago
>> oversee the hordes of AI agents This is the thing I don't really get. I enjoy tinkering with AI and seeing what it comes up with to solve problems. But when I need to write working code that does anything beyond simple CRUD, i
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by noduerme 8mo ago
Hah! Reading this, my mind inverted it a bit, and I realized ... it's like the claw machine theory of gradient descent. Do you drop the claw into the deepest part of the pile, or where there's the thinnest layer, the best chance o
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by noduerme 8mo ago
Somewhat off topic, as someone who hasn't used PostgreSQL and only has experience with mysql/MariaDB... I've never liked writing queries with numbered parameters from an array with placeholders like $1 in this example. I find
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by noduerme 8mo ago
>> How many singers impersonate Tom Waits? Only the pack-a-day smokers, and we're always a dying breed.
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by noduerme 8mo ago
Ah, yeah. I spent the early 2010s writing front-ends in AS3, so imagine how that turned out. I wrote my own event system too when I was forced to head to javascript, but in the end I mostly just used jquery's, and it's still what
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by noduerme 8mo ago
The color lightening/darkening is new to me. I have a bunch of older sites that still accomplish the same thing with Sass and Compass, but the Compass toolchain has been fiddly to keep running. Nice to see that as a new creature comfor
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by noduerme 8mo ago
Yeah, it's weird but I have an initial API call near the start of a program that makes a NetConnection.call() to an http address. The program should not run at all beyond that point until it gets a result from the server, after which i
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by noduerme 8mo ago
Friend, while I was driving a taxi in 2001, I conceived of a system that would let anyone directly order a taxi driver from a pool of drivers who signed up through a central SMS messaging system and updated their zip code when they were wai
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by noduerme 8mo ago
As far as I've seen, Ruffle never even makes the call out to the server... so at this point I don't think it's a serialization issue although some of what's in that list could potentially cause problems. The Ruffle compa
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by noduerme 8mo ago
Hi! You have done amazing work, and I'm ever grateful to your team for keeping AS3 alive! I used sockets in some of my multiplayer games, but that's not where I ran into problems with Ruffle. Since those games only upgraded to soc
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by noduerme 8mo ago
As right as this may be, it elides the crucial difference between asking LLMs and all the other methods of asking questions you enumerated. The difference is not between the quality of information you might get from a friend or a blog versu
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by noduerme 8mo ago
I think you're right. And it's going to be loads of fun to watch. Not go say there haven't also been very good coders who weren't outsourcing anything, who still got out over their skis with stuff they promised on Kick
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by noduerme 8mo ago
God bless the Ruffle project, but it's so frustrating that they've covered almost everything in AS3 except the NetConnection class (and the .connect() call). Lots of wonderful single player games were made in Flash, and it's
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by noduerme 9mo ago
Writing now on Feb 14th, it seems to me that the reason most prognosticators of doom place their predictions more than twelve hours in the future is that they hope to get a following. Baseline idiots and psychopaths at least have the cunn
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by noduerme 9mo ago
This is an extra step PIA. CMD-OPT-H hides all the windows and there's the desktop. My desktop is clean AF, so I know which icon it is. I open it in photoshop or preview, or I just drag it into the email I'm about to send.
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by noduerme 9mo ago
This would be okay if it hung around longer. I just need it to be somewhere I can drag it. I don't see any use in its disappearing. If it's on the desktop immediately, at least I can find it quickly.
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by noduerme 9mo ago
For background, what I mean by my code that I saved by keeping my rights to reuse it, is basically two full front-ends, one a platform for SPAs with all the screens/dropdown/module/component architecture you can imagine (thin
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by noduerme 9mo ago
Like, thank you. Obviously. This is why I don't want to start a public facing business and why it's almost impossible for a person with some good ideas and a modest savings account who could build something better to do it without
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by noduerme 9mo ago
hey dude, it's a free idea, you're more than welcome to it. I just thought of it a couple hours ago as I was writing that. I thought it was pretty good - especially the part about using an old smartphone with Tailscale as the hub
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by noduerme 9mo ago
Okay. I have been through this many times. What you need to tell them is that they own the right to the finished product , that is the research, documentation, source code, and any binaries you give them. But that you will retain the right
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by noduerme 9mo ago
Like, it's quite nice looking, and the design is clean. But I wish there were something on the page that made me say "oh ...how did he do that?" It could be something very subtle in the white background, or it could be some s
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Anthropic to donate $20M to group backing AI regulation(reuters.com)
1 points by noduerme 9mo ago|0 comments

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