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by p1necone 1y ago
There's currently a large amount of non-technical Windows users who are being told Windows 10 is going to be no longer supported, and the only way for them to switch to Windows 11 is to buy a brand new device. Anecdotally these people
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by p1necone 1y ago
I think that statement can only be said with the right context. Building an engine from scratch? 3d is definitely more complicated. Using an existing engine? Tbh shoehorning 2d sprite based games into engines like unreal or unity is often h
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by p1necone 1y ago
> Is it that you need to support both 640x480 and 640x400 Probably. A lot of software back then was rendering UIs with box drawing characters, doing complicated layout etc - it's probably much easier to retrofit existing software to
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by p1necone 1y ago
This kinda makes sense if you think about it in a very abstract, naive way. I imagine buried within the training data of a large model there would be enough conversation, code comments etc about "bad" code, with examples for the m
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by p1necone 1y ago
That feels like a statement that's far too loosely defined to be meaningful to me. I work on codebases that you could describe as 'large', and you could describe some of the LLM driven work being done on them as 'autonom
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by p1necone 1y ago
This criticism basically boils down to "what if the site is a bad actor/incompetent", which I guess is a legitimate concern, but would be just as meaningful of a criticism against basically any feature I can imagine. Alas we
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by p1necone 1y ago
Worth noting that solution only works if the false positives are totally random, which is probably not true of many real world cases and would be pretty hard to work out.
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by p1necone 1y ago
Bit of a tortured example, but imagine if in chess every time you moved your queen you had to put $1 in escrow that you only got back if you won the game - do you think you'd still make exactly the same moves, or would you maybe play a
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by p1necone 1y ago
If you ignore the externalities of winning/losing money the thing that the betting brings to poker that is very hard to replace is the impact it has on the players decision making. People playing poker with "funny money" play
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by p1necone 1y ago
> Even among tech people, they have good will Do they? I feel like this is a bimodal thing from what I've seen of other peoples opinions - they're either amazing and all you ever use, or they're the worst company ever. As
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by p1necone 1y ago
Likewise the Intellimouse Pro is my favourite mouse. Sadly they seem to have discontinued it in favor of the Surface mouse which has atrocious ergonomics.
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by p1necone 1y ago
Sounds annoying, I would much rather just have it be configurable.
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by p1necone 1y ago
Academics invent short names for common (in their field) concepts not because they're 'sweaty' but because if the thing you're going to mention in every second paragraph in a good chunk of the communication you do with o
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by p1necone 1y ago
I think the stock market has just proven time and time again that a large proportion of investors (and VCs) do basically no due diligence or critical thinking about what they're throwing money at, and businesses actually making profit
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by p1necone 1y ago
Tbh even the absolute lowest spec Mx macs are insanely powerful, probably best to test on a low end x86 laptop.
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by p1necone 1y ago
Develop on a super computer, test on $200 laptop - not really any suffering that way.
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by p1necone 1y ago
This half makes sense to me - 'deception' is an undesirable quality in an llm, so less of it is 'better/more' from their audiences perspective. However, I can't think of a sensible way to actually translate tha
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by p1necone 1y ago
Important exception: If the noise my whiteware makes is a fun jingle, I'm all for it.
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by p1necone 1y ago
My experience as a software engineer tells me that there's a positive correlation between frequency of googling and caliber of engineer, I have no reason to presume that would be any different with doctors.
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by p1necone 1y ago
I like to say that the outwardly visible practices and processes of highly effective teams are mostly symptoms, not causes of their success. You can't invert the causal relationship.
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by p1necone 1y ago
I think you've got this backwards. If you write a React component that internally uses some 3rd party component/hook, and on every render of your component you pass something as a prop to that 3rd party component that's diffe
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by p1necone 1y ago
Human beings make relatively predictable mistakes, to the extent that I can skim read large PRs with mental heuristics and work out whether the dev thought carefully about the problem when designing a solution, and whether they hit common p
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by p1necone 1y ago
> designed for this This is kind of my point - I'm not saying you can't have applications that are usable across multiple UX paradigms, and I'm also not saying you can't write a UX library that automatically translate
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by p1necone 1y ago
Imo trying to make a single UX that just changes a little bit to suit different device types is a misguided approach. Using a large screen with a mouse and keyboard is a fundamentally different thing to using a phone with a touch screen. Us
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by p1necone 1y ago
> Ahh, this is such a pet peeve of mine. I hate how it leaks. A thing I often also encounter in this vein is when you write a useEffect, but the linter forces you to declare everything in the dependency array. I only want the effect to t
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by p1necone 1y ago
In my experience you're correct yeah - 95% of the time if you use it it should be included in the dependency array, and any edge cases where that's not true you should endeavour to understand and document. There's a 'rea
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by p1necone 1y ago
If perfect doneness requires immediate consumption as soon as it leaves the pan I'd argue you've still overcooked it, unless you're fine with only ever being able to reproduce your dish alone, just for you.
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by p1necone 1y ago
Chartreuse doesn't really have any good substitutes that I can think of, it's got a very distinct flavour that's nothing like absinthe (I like to lovingly describe it as lawn steeped in everclear). Still make the drink with a
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by p1necone 1y ago
Agreed - my CS degree exposed me to a bunch of low level 'algorithms & data structures' type stuff + a bit of assembly, prolog etc + some math stuff all of which I likely wouldn't have gone out of my way to learn on my ow
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by p1necone 1y ago
The Eisenhower quote comes to mind: "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."

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