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by overgard 1y ago
I think it's different. Think of it this way, you might have a public social media presence, but if someone made an API to search your particular social media presence it feels a bit weirder than it just being publicly available. Searc
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by overgard 1y ago
I hope you didn't read what I said as a personal attack, it's not, that's just my feedback on how I feel about this particular idea. I will say that it is clever though, even if it's definitely not for me. I think the &q
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by overgard 1y ago
True, but I find it fairly offensive that my own data is being sold back to me. If it was free I'd be more tolerant. They say the model is costly and I believe it, but what exactly are the margins here? I feel like I've been recru
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by overgard 1y ago
Feedback: I really don't want to give out my email for this. I'm already signed up to enough junk. I've never felt the need to query HN before so while this might be entertaining it's not enough for me to create an accou
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by overgard 1y ago
I don't mind take home assignments per se, but it seems like there should be a reasonable "this should take this long" time boxing of the thing so people don't waste a ton of time. I've done take-home things a coupl
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by overgard 1y ago
Wake me up when they solve hallucination.
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by overgard 2y ago
I think the reality though is you don't need to be in the top 99.999% to contribute to a field, you just need a unique take/voice. Trying to be the best at anything is a bad strategy in a connected world
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by overgard 2y ago
Yes, it's totally sensible that someone would setup an experiment to prove a conjecture in a comment thread that will be forgotten in a couple hours. Totally reasonable ask.
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by overgard 2y ago
Funny story about a visitor to a game development office. About 8 years ago I was working on a mobile game where you could purchase specialized dragons and eggs. Some of these could be pretty expensive, but since they were high end items we
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by overgard 2y ago
No I mean more by the AI hype people. I just see so much excitement around AI and yet it seems likely to be catastrophic.
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by overgard 2y ago
True, I didn't have five paragraphs on the proper way to handle bounding boxes and the conceptual use of bounding boxes and "please don't confuse lower for upper". All my fault!
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by overgard 2y ago
I see what you're saying, but even with visual basic you needed to understand the basics of coding to get anywhere. Vibe coding seems to be more about intentionally not understanding things. I just think that, if you can code it yourse
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by overgard 2y ago
Conceptually it was a really simple bug (I was returning a bounding box and it returned (min, min) instead of (min, max)). So, I mean, the amount that AI broke it was pretty minor and it was mostly my fault for not seeing it when I generate
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by overgard 2y ago
Why is any of this seen as desirable? Assuming this is a true prediction it sounds AWFUL. The one thing humans have that makes us human is intelligence. If we turn over thinking to machines, what are we exactly. Are we supposed to just cons
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by overgard 2y ago
I dunno, I just had Copilot sneak in a typo today that took about ten minutes of debugging to find. I certainly could have made a similar typo myself if copilot hadn't done it for me, but, all the same copilot probably saved me a minut
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by overgard 2y ago
Not a chance. Photoshop is about having maximum control and power. AI requires relinquishing a degree of control in exchange for speed. Totally different audiences.
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by overgard 2y ago
Well I mean, nitpick, but Fentanyl is a useful medication in the right context . It's not inherently evil. I think my biggest concern with AI is its biggest proponents have the least wisdom imaginable. I'm deeply concerned that o
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by overgard 2y ago
I remember back in the day when I did Visual Basic in the 90s there were a lot of cool "New Project from Template" things in Visual Studio, especially when you installed new frameworks and SDKs and stuff like that. With a click of
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by overgard 2y ago
It's not really a matter of not knowing it can be done, it's that the mental effort of curating it is not really worth it (short term, anyway), because then I have to decide what's a worthwhile notification and what isn&#x2
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by overgard 2y ago
Apple has kind of made things worse in the recent macOS, where my phone's notifications show up on the desktop now. Like, man, I was already drowning in them before anyway, I don't want them on two screens now.
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by overgard 2y ago
Neat! It's probably just nostalgia, but I still don't think any modern desktop has been as good as Windows 2000 was. Perfect blend of minimal without hiding things (well, excluding the Office 2000 menu hiding disaster which we wil
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by overgard 2y ago
I think we're at the point where it'd be better if OS's were just a thin platform, and the updates to user facing features came piecemeal to different apps instead. IE, update Finder or Safari but leave the core functionality
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by overgard 2y ago
I don't think this "vibe" fad is going to age well. It seems like positive marketing around accepting AI slop as the new normal.
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by overgard 2y ago
I actually like it; but I think the point is more to demonstrate cool tech than to be true to Half Life's mood. It kind of reminds me of when in the 90s games started supporting colored lightings, and briefly everything was uh, very co
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by overgard 2y ago
I disagree with your characterization of these passages. These seem like questions a person reflects on, not self admonishment. For instance: > > Are you ever going to achieve goodness? Ever going to be simple, whole, and naked—as pla
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by overgard 2y ago
There's definitely a cultural aspect, but at least among the people I tend to interact with, shouting is very much a last resort. If you're at the point where the only way to make your point is by being louder than the other guy,
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by overgard 2y ago
> I suspect that screaming at a person who has done you wrong, in the vast majority of cases, has both the intended effect and a desirable one. Not usually. Just some examples: Customer service people tend to be trained to de-escalate an
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by overgard 2y ago
I'm guessing you're young. Those are all behaviors you can get away with < 40 that catch up with you in a hurry.
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by overgard 2y ago
You know, I think people will read the headline and have an eat-the-rich-mindset and lump stoicism in with obnoxious tech bros. However, I would posit that if tech-bro's internalize the teachings of stoicism we'd all be better off
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by overgard 2y ago
I don't see how the fact that his most famous work is his diary makes Marcus Aurelius not a philosopher. Is there some magic credential you need to be a philosopher? As far as I can tell, philosophers come from all over the place; sl

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