sho_hn

26 ms·

601.
by sho_hn 1y ago
I'd say the comparison points at misunderstanding the current controversy, though I realize you are doing so deliberately to ask "Is it really that different if you think about it?" But I'll bite. MASSIVE is a crowd simu
602.
by sho_hn 1y ago
Pro and con. It hinders progress, but it can also arrest the "enshittification" of a language that takes place when it slowly adds complexity and features and support for whole paradigms. Python does offer a lot more utility for t
603.
by sho_hn 1y ago
Agreed! I think partially it was also that the "bodycam" found footage had such an unusual cinematography style for the show. TNG wasn't exactly known for handheld cams and lights casting harsh shadows. It all felt so out o
604.
by sho_hn 1y ago
I doubt this holds true generally. The smart coders I know who are also LLM users generally develop a decent intuition for what the models are good and bad at, and how to steer them into good performance.
605.
by sho_hn 1y ago
ST: TNG had an episode that played a big role in me wanting to become a software engineer focused on HMI stuff. It's the relatively crummy season 4 episode Identity Crisis , in which the Enterprise arrives at a planet to check up
606.
by sho_hn 1y ago
Imho, the fly.io people are largely performative HN attention seekers that practice writing posts to produce engagement. It's almost charming in the way it resembles the early-on blogosphere, and you should read them as token summaries
607.
by sho_hn 1y ago
"What is this going to do to humans?" is probably the #1 question that should be on the mind of every engineer, every day. Being toolmakers for civilization is the entire point of our profession.
608.
by sho_hn 1y ago
It's a small inner-city apartment and it's my little corner in the shared office room with the better half, that motivates me to keep it tidy :)
609.
by sho_hn 1y ago
It's not that hard to get started! I make robots like this (that one's just to enter the wiring stage) using alu extrusion beams, some 3D printing, off-the-shelf servos and SBCs: https://i.imgur.com/9YIHT9P.jpeg M
610.
by sho_hn 1y ago
Sure, the execution was crappy - but he chose to make one of his new main characters a Senator, had the Senate as a set piece, etc.
611.
by sho_hn 1y ago
I'd say this is giving the Anakin trilogy an unfair shake: While I don't enjoy watching the prequels much for being clumsy films, you have to hand it to Lucas for trying to significantly expand his space opera by adding in galacti
612.
by sho_hn 1y ago
It's the first time ever in European aviation history that an electric VTOL aircraft has taken off non-vertically. In other news, we're also planning to boot the first smartphone in European telecommunications history that doesn&#
613.
by sho_hn 1y ago
This is right on the money. I use LLMs when I am reasonably confident the problem I am asking it is well-represented in the training data set and well within its capabilities (this has increased over time). This means I use it as a typing a
614.
by sho_hn 1y ago
> Would the solution not be to pivot to more in-person demonstrations of skill and knowledge? Yeah, this seems like the obvious conclusion.
615.
by sho_hn 1y ago
TIL! I had no idea chocolate-making involves fermentation. Turns out fermenting the beans is highly involved in producing the characteristic flavor.
616.
by sho_hn 1y ago
And C10k was never about those 10.000 socket connections getting the right response, either!
617.
by sho_hn 1y ago
Developers who aren't using it are already falling behind.
618.
by sho_hn 1y ago
> One immediate problem that comes to mind is that you need a smartphone to take public transit. In China, Korea and other places, a smartphone is already the required entrance ticket to public life. It's a little bit like faulting
619.
by sho_hn 1y ago
Even if the tech was there, for appropriate medical use those models would also have to be strenously tested and certified, so that a known-good version is in use. Cf. the recent "personality" changes in a ChatGPT upgrade. Right n
620.
by sho_hn 1y ago
I assume you realize you're not the first person to self-medicate while conveniently professing to be an expert on medicine.
621.
by sho_hn 1y ago
> Leading LLMs in 2025 can absolutely do certain core aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy very effectively given the right prompts and framework and things like journaling tools for the user. What makes you qualified to assert this?
622.
by sho_hn 1y ago
No, it's good that you feel this. Don't give up on tech, protest. I've been feeling for some time now that we're sort of in the Vietnam War era of the tech industry. I feel a strong urge to have more "ok, so where d
623.
by sho_hn 1y ago
Unlike llms.txt (which I think none of the major vendors have announced to be using/supporting, too, for that matter), there's currently no standard for AI assistants running a web search and discovering these end points yet, thou
624.
by sho_hn 1y ago
The tech industry is increasingly performative.
625.
by sho_hn 1y ago
OnShape and SolidWorks use Parasolid, FreeCAD uses Open CASCADE.
626.
by sho_hn 1y ago
I've never any sort of pre-print processing/calibration on my Prusa MK4(S), other than cleaning the build plate. This sort of hand-holding really isn't required anymore on the modern printers. Slicers also come with presets f
627.
by sho_hn 1y ago
Note that Prusa recently opened a US-based factory according to their blog, so in addition to EU-made they also got US-made going. As a big fan of the company I'm hoping this will make them price-competitive to Bambu (or even considera
628.
by sho_hn 1y ago
Yeah, they're work horses. I've printed for thousands of hours on my MK4(S) now, and it's still going strong. I've had no issues at all. Similar experiences around me.
629.
by sho_hn 1y ago
Because a lot of the readers here seem to be comparing Bambus and Enders: These aren't the only options. If you want a similarly-featured and reliable printer that doesn't phone home, I'd recommend taking a look at Prusa. It&
630.
by sho_hn 1y ago
It should generally be easier to make a CMake buildsystem work well on the BSDs than hand-cobbled Makefiles, in terms of opportunities to introduce Linuxisms.

More ›