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by sho_hn 6mo ago
> If you have never written and maintained a complex project by hand, you should not be allowed to be involved in the development of production bound code. So only the old hands allowed from now on, or how are we going to provide these l
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Remember the old days of our youth, i.e. last week Monday, when we still wrote code by hand ?
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
It does all start to feel like we'd get fairly close to being able to convincingly emulate a lot of human or at least animal behavior on top of the existing generative stack, by using brain-like orchestration patterns ... if only infer
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
If I read this right, they used their email recipient list from Font Awesome to spam people with an unrelated new product announcement. I get they're going for the whole "look at big evil Google undermining this underdog" sup
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LLM Time(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
2 points by sho_hn 6mo ago|0 comments
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Berlin has a nice one: https://geekboards.de/ Edit: Turns out, sadly, had one: https://geekboards.de/blogs/news/were-closing-our-berlin-sho...
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Just like in the year 3000, we will still ask "Can you hear me?" in video meetings.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Google tried, but no apes were impressed with nano-scale bananas.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Very loosely related novel recommendation: "Ways of Dying" by South African author Zakes Mda was a revelation. I've since read a few other books by him and he's become one of my favorite novelists. I'm your usual HN
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Same for me, cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680123
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
I'm super frustrated by the state of 3D on web right now as an app developer. I wish we just had Vulkan on the web ... Right now your options are basically having a GLES renderer that you can restrict to WebGL2 (so no compute shaders,
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Befitting a writer, though.
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
This was a fun article, but also an oddball collection of strong and weak claims. Some of the "isn't it interesting ..." type coincidences would, as people on this forum would know, be commonplace among the subculture or even
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
Yes, he mentions he was photographed running a foot race during a date and time Satoshi sent emails (of course that's a bit weak).
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by sho_hn 6mo ago
> Accidents are common in war; As an engineer a substantial amount of my professional effort is spent on preventing them. They aren't acceptable.
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
Maybe I'm an eternal optimist, but sounds to me like they actually tried to put themselves into space, made the assumption that anything visible past the moon must be further out and were left with "wait, I thought it was supposed
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
That's what OP was saying, I think, noting that running them locally won't be a solution.
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
Very different experience for me. Codex 5.3+ on xhigh are the only models I've tried so far that write reasonably decent C++ (domains: desktop GUI, robotics, game engine dev, embedded stuff, general systems engineering-type codebases),
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
A few books that I whole-heartedly recommend: - "Digital Apollo", a book about HCI, the tension between automation and human-in-the-loop, the history of systems engineering and minutae of each Apollo landing through those lenses.
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
Heck, many video games are tested this way.
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
It's not a "made-up term", it's shorthand for a well-known argument. Not allowing re-usable arguments is like not allowing the use of libraries in software: It wastes time better spent on moving the frontier forward.
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
It's doable (and has been done), but is not entirely easy or cheap. Without getting into the orbital mechanics/whys, a "geostationary" orbit around the moon is not available (it exists but is further out than the Hill sp
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
It's generally accepted to claim belief in any number of Gods in polite company. I'm never quite clear on where the line is supposed to be.
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
Honestly I love it. Few things develop a more fun camaraderie than a bringup bootcamp with two precious/priceless new samples on a large conference table, and everyone being very careful to keep cups/mugs very far away. And a sold
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
The Fusion implementation is awful - you can adjust one variable, one time, then you have to reopen the dialog to do another. At least for me it's always become non-responsive after a single edit, for years now. I've always assume
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
It's very common (Fusion calls it User Parameters, etc.) and indeed nice practice. FreeCAD has a few ways to do it, Spreadsheets but also free-form properties on objects. It's very flexible in this regard.
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
I don't follow Open CASCADE very closely, but it looks like they're on the verge of a new major release (v8.0) themselves that looks like a lot of refactoring and cleanup. I don't know hat version FreeCAD is actually bundling
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
Highlights reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9biWv_M8p8 Release Notes: https://wiki.freecad.org/Release_notes_1.1
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FreeCAD v1.1(blog.freecad.org)
340 points by sho_hn 7mo ago|108 comments
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by sho_hn 7mo ago
Note it's only a freebie if you are on Windows/Mac, too. If you're on Linux, it works terribly on wine and you have to use the browser version, and then you need a $95/month subscription.

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