sodafountan

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by sodafountan 3mo ago
Yes. AI (in its current state) is phenomenal for research on just about any topic; you can dive deep and cross-reference the material more easily than ever. AI (in its current state) is not so good at actually doing things; we're a lon
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by sodafountan 3mo ago
As hard as it is to admit, the used market hurts developers the most. If I buy a game and then resell it to a friend for more money than what the game store would offer, but less than what they'd pay at retail. The actual developer of
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
didn't ask
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
I know of two women under the age of 30 who got cancer, they were spouses/girlfriends of friends of mine. I didn't know them well personally, and only met them a handful of times at outings. Because they weren't married yet I
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
I agree that being a programmer doesn't make you an expert at everything, but OP brought up a good point. Tech is a lot more accessible than other fields. It would be nice if I could pivot into other fields as easily as someone could p
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
Ah, this helped me wrap my head around what actually makes an MCP special.
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
I just want you to know that you're not alone. I'm terribly worried about my career as well. I built a large part of my identity around coding in my teens, and working in the industry when I got to my twenties were some of the hap
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
That's a rare niche; the vast majority of software makes no money whatsoever. What type of software do you produce?
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
Are the DJs live?
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
I was wondering about this myself, but given everything I know about AI. Won't the vocabulary slowly and subtly change as common people try to develop software, not knowing the jargon? Won't the AI systems learn from the prompts a
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
Good News! I learned something today.
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
I'm unfamiliar with harness engineering. Is there any good documentation about the subject you could point me to?
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
Good News! The horse and the car can coexist
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by sodafountan 4mo ago
Yes, I don't have anything important to say other than I 100% agree with this comment. AI in its current state is akin to Stack Overflow and Google on steroids, but from my experience, it doesn't do well building out full-scale ap
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by sodafountan 5mo ago
Breaking rules in US prisons leads to solitary confinement. I'm assuming there's something similar in Japanese prisons, although the conditions sound like they can't get much worse... I can't logically think of any other
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by sodafountan 5mo ago
My friends used to joke that it was like flying in a tin can, or that the wheels would fall off mid-flight. The jokes were endless. I liked Spirit, though, great cost savings, and I didn't mind the minor inconveniences that came with i
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by sodafountan 5mo ago
The rise of LLM's had to have played a part in their demise, at least under whatever IOC is. Could very well be that there's an AI startup aiming to use the brand to its benefit, but it's more likely the leadership teams saw
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by sodafountan 7mo ago
I did the same. It was cool seeing some of the games I came up with back in the 360 days running on iPhone and Android devices.
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by sodafountan 7mo ago
I used Monogame back when it was a proprietary framework called XNA developed at Microsoft. You used to be able to use XNA to build Indie games for the Xbox 360, hard to believe, but this is going on 15 years ago at this point. I built two
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by sodafountan 7mo ago
Thanks, I must just be going through a string of bad luck. I have a profile on Linkedin and my email is out there. Hoping things change for the better. I was laid off not long after Covid and have been having trouble finding something stead
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by sodafountan 7mo ago
No, but it used to be. What mediums are you using for recruiters to contact you? Do you have a linked-in or are you applying directly to recruiting companies? Are you active anywhere else? Genuinely interested in how you're receiving s
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by sodafountan 7mo ago
Yes, this has been my experience. I'd consider myself average at best. I worked in the industry for almost 7 years before being laid off. I can't find anything at the moment and have resorted to moving back in with my parents. It&
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by sodafountan 8mo ago
I'm an adult male; my feed is littered with thirst-trap-like posts. I don't even know how or when it got so bad. Instagram is somewhat off, too. I find myself doomscrolling quite often just out of bad habit. Wish things were diffe
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by sodafountan 8mo ago
Well, I didn't even know how long 50 meters was when I first read the prompt. So I'd assume many would be in the same boat. Aside from that little gotcha, I would assume most people would be able to understand that you'd need
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by sodafountan 8mo ago
SpaceEx has made a ton of progress in space travel, granted it's not an ideal situation with it being a mega corp, but it moved a hell of a lot faster than NASA could have. Perhaps someday we'll have individualized space flight li
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by sodafountan 8mo ago
I stopped into the Amazon Fresh in Broomall, PA, to check it out not too long ago. It just looks bland and dystopian from the outside, and not much about it is impressive from the inside. I've worked with computers and technology my wh
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by sodafountan 8mo ago
It's certainly not routine, but I'd say the privatization of the space industry that's unfolded over the last few decades is significant progress. When I get depressed and look out at the world, I'm actually amazed at wh
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by sodafountan 9mo ago
That doesn't make any sense. I only asked ChatGPT to guess my age because I'm assuming OpenAI is going to have the LLM assume your age going forward, which is an interesting use of the technology. Rather than ask up front, it just
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by sodafountan 9mo ago
I fit the same criteria. I think college is probably a wholesome experience, but I don't really know, as I only went for two years and didn't really get much out of it. I had a few major issues with the experience: One: It was for
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by sodafountan 9mo ago
I actually have a good friend who was a car mechanic for a few years; we sort of grew up together. I became a developer, and he ended up driving for a towing company after he burned out in the shop. I don't know who had it more difficu

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