spacechild1

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by spacechild1 4mo ago
> > It's not only derivative, it also lacks any thought, intent or communicative effort. > So does most "human" art... That's just not true. Everybody who tries to write their own songs, write their stories or d
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by spacechild1 4mo ago
> LOL - so let me guess, 99% of people never create anything resembling art? I don't see how that follows. > AI regularly spits out better derivative crap than 99% of the derivative crap humans spit out... It's not only deri
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by spacechild1 4mo ago
> And who said it has? You've claimed that "right now, people effectively spend ~0% of their time entertaining themselves with their own music, art, writing, film, etc." So I assumed that you don't spend your time wit
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by spacechild1 4mo ago
> Right now, people effectively spend ~0% of their time entertaining themselves with their own music, art, writing, film, etc. First, the 0% figure is not true. People do write stories, play instruments or draw pictures. Second, everybod
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by spacechild1 4mo ago
This is really true for most music genres outside the pop mainstream. The idea of AI free jazz is just as absurd as AI punk. More generally, we think that music (and art in general) is a form of human expression and communication. The very
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It's mostly pretty easy to recognize.
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The very premise of your question is very questionable. > Over the past six months, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve checked the HN Best RSS feed without seeing a post about how AI “writes bad code,” “introduces bugs,” “creates
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by spacechild1 4mo ago
Yeah, as someone who originally came from Windows, the fork+exec model never made sense to me. Now I know it's just a historical quirk, but for some reason there are still people who pretend that fork+exec is actually a good thing...
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He has a point. The video certainly feels more like a hagiography and I noticed the lack of critical voices. Only in the last 10 minutes they touched on some common criticisms, like the growing complexity and the memory safety issues. I sti
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I'm pretty sure they first asked the other John and got a rejection :)
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Do we really have to shoehorn AI into every single thread? It's really getting tiring.
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Interesting, I don't find modern C++ verbose at all. 'auto', range-based for-loops and structured bindings did a great job at reducing the verbosity of C++98. On top of that, C++ allows to design very concise APIs. (One of my
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by spacechild1 4mo ago
That's the most succinct way I have seen someone put it, thanks! It's really the same issue, no matter if it's software, online comments, e-mails, artworks, homework, etc. We engage because we expect to be interacting with th
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Yes, these are the same people: https://www.cultrepo.com/ Apparently, they are making documentaries about open source software.
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by spacechild1 4mo ago
Just a heads-up: if you're already using boost, boost::unordered now has open addressing containers (unordered_flat_map and unordered_flat_map) and they are among the fastest.
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The trailer kept popping up in my YT recommendations. I just started watching it on the train and I'm now half-way through. Of course, it's a bit of a hagiography but I find it quite interesting, especially the storys from the ear
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by spacechild1 5mo ago
You can't tell me that someone took an offer from Meta because it was their only option. This is just absurd.
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OP is not talking about the working conditions but the negative effects on society.
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> This makes the "why do you still work there" question land as naive most of the time. It's not a naive question. In fact, the question is mostly rhetorical. We know the answer is money. > Of course there is more to li
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> You just keep telling yourself, "I just do this one little thing." And that's enough to convince yourself that it's ok. This is how I would have imagined most of these people think (except for the true sociopaths w
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But you can't argue that a warning is less severe than a hard compiler error. Warnings can be supressed or ignored. You were right to call out that the C standard only talks about diagnostics and the actual implementation is left to th
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I was specifically talking about needless token maxxing, though. > How many of today's jet plane flights really needed to happen? Many jet plane flights are indeed not necessary and there are people who deliberately avoid such unnec
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Let's not forget about the environmental impacts. It's crazy that people are willfully burning so much energy for almost no return. And we thought bitcoin was bad... This is just completely irresponsible, if not sociopathic behavi
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I think you missed the joke.
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Please let's not dilute the meaning of 'AI psychosis'. It is a real phenomenon that involves actual psychosis.
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> Because some warnings are just believed to be more serious, than others. Yes, that is my entire point. For some reason you were arguing against it.
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> That's because the default mode for compilers is to just shut up and compile this throw away code. That's just not true. Compilers do issue certain warnings by default and they even treat some warnings as errors. See https:&
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Ok, but then compilers should really throw errors for these diagnostics by default. Why lump serious issues like incompatible pointer casts together with benign things like uninitialized variables? (Another pet peeve of mine is that missing
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> You can do everything you can do with C++ static reflection. Are you really sure about that? I have a slight problem with such sweeping statements and also with your original claim that "Rust's metaprogramming capabilities a
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> Rust's metaprogramming capabilities are now on par with C++ (they weren't always). Is that really true, though? I haven't really written any Rust code, so I have no idea, but I don't think Rust has static reflectio

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