program_whiz

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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Yep, but people can only understand the stresses and challenges they have faced, its very hard to understand something you haven't experienced. Even if you try to imagine it, you really can't understand it until you're living
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Yep this is 100% it -- my partner and I who stayed single and lived out our 20s and early 30s "experiencing life" only wish we could have met and settled down 10 years earlier. Its way more important and rewarding than all the sh
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Here's how it adds up: you are either the elite person who will have a few steaks taken (your life still rocks), or as the poor person, you can at least have enough steak to survive, rather than dying of hunger watching your rich neigh
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
yeah exactly. For some people, this was like enjoying a puzzle. And now there's an AI that can solve the puzzle -- it defeats the purpose. However, if your point was to "make more widgets faster" and only saw programming as
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
This argument is somewhat true in the small case (e.g. if you are starving and the only job for you is shoveling bodies into a furnace, may as well). But I think the reason people have a problem is that giant multi-national corps have creat
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Nope no complaints, but most wealth isn't being spent. If the majority of the wealth was being spent, then there wouldn't be wealth imbalance (as all that money would flow elsewhere into the economy). The only way a wealth imbalan
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Agree, I think the issue is that taxes specifically flow to "the government" in the abstract. If there was a simple law like "95% of income or gains above $10M are taxed and redistributed equally via check / IRS rebate
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
I was responding to this: "I totally understand that "the salesman" is everywhere and that a single person can't fight against that, but he is everywhere because most parents are not blocking him in the first place, and
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Can anyone comment on whether postgres can replace full columnar DB? I see "full text search" but it feels like this is falling a little short of the full power of elastic -- but would be happy to be wrong (one less tech to remem
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Yes, to uniq7 and others -- you keep saying "identity verification will be used for nefarious purposes". Lets take the alcohol and tobacco case, was it used for nefarious purposes? Did adults suddenly lose rights and/or ha
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
This is a surprising take. So you know that this gun salesman is targeting the youth, and that parents can only resolve it by massive collective action, but they are to blame, and the gun salesman should be allowed to continue on his merry
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Correct, and for some reason America has gotten to an "over legalization" state where every concept has to filter through a legal system in order to be good / bad. I think that's where the matter comes from. Pedantic l
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Best example of this is Claude's own terminal program. Apparently renders react at 60fps and then translates it into ANSI chars that then diff the content of the terminal and do an overwrite... All to basically mimic what curses can d
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
You're approach seems straight-forward in theory -- just check every possible move and make sure that none lead to a checkmate. The only issue is that "checking every possible move" is a huge state space (way above what is c
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
The reason occam's razor works is useful is it draws the one line connecting two points, rather than any squiggle that passes through them.
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Thanks that was the term I was looking for "attractive nuisance". I wouldn't be surprised if a tech company could make that case -- this user caused us tangible harm and cost (training, poisoned models) and left their data o
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
One other point -- I think the left has effectively shifted the conversation on Israel very quickly. I think immediately following Oct 7 atrocities, public support was overwhelmingly with Israel. By raising awareness of the situation, it
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Sorry I think the GP's point is correct. I feel the same about how we hear very little about modern-day slavery, but lots about much more minor workplace issues in the west. I'm not saying don't discuss modern workplace iss
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
while I think this is a fun idea -- we are in such a dystopian timeline that I fear you will end up being prosecuted under a digital equivalent of various laws like "why did you attack the intruder instead of fleeing" or "you
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Sorry I meant -- only so much demand for people to produce clothing. the thesis "AI will not replace software engineers" could go the same way as textiles (or not). Massive demand for software, no need for developers. Same as I
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Easy to cherry pick examples and counter-examples. See the luddites for counter-example. Artisans making high-quality textiles are no longer broadly in demand. Lots of pro examples too, I just don't find analogies helpful. It may be
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
All this talk about how you can vibecode all your apps now, "why use OSS?" is making me laugh. Sure for a little website or a small tool, maybe even a change to your somewhat complex codebase that you thoroughly check and test. I
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Fair point -- but my overall point about how much users may have to pay to make these companies profitable stands. Maybe if prices stay depressed for years, but these companies are doing buildout at current prices, and they need to make ret
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by program_whiz 9mo ago
Perhaps this is a helpful model, rather than worrying about the "billions spent" and whether its inference vs training. How much would it cost you to deploy a model that you and maybe a few coworkers could effectively use? $400k
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by program_whiz 9mo ago
That's a bit different than art. I put it closer to "why do you care if your girlfriend is AI or real? Isn't it just the end emotions you care about?". There is a deep human connection to art, creativity, expression o
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by program_whiz 9mo ago
Is there an AI system with functionality at or equal to a human brain that operates on less than 100W? Its currently the most efficient model we have. You compare all of humanity's energy expenditure, but to make the comparison, you
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by program_whiz 9mo ago
Eh, I feel like if we know there is a vulnerable population (children), and we know that the social media will cause harm (increased suicides, depression, etc), and we know that that ultimately it puts people in a place where they can'
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by program_whiz 9mo ago
Maybe one other thing to consider -- I think its usually best to have a killer game idea that seems fun, then design around it (and select the proper engine), rather than simply "I want to build an engine with some capabilities, then I
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by program_whiz 9mo ago
I really respect his work on the engine, the math, and the engineering is excellent, but I'm not sure it makes for an interesting game above and beyond what we already have. Adding additional smoothness to existing voxel engines I&#x27
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by program_whiz 9mo ago
Isn't that circular reasoning? Charging rent means its an investment, but also just living in a home is "paying yourself". Is there any way to live on a property that isn't an investment (I suppose just staying there w

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