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by sph 1mo ago
A hiring manager dropping a resume based on minor stylistic issues rather than actual competence of the person? Fork found in kitchen.
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by sph 1mo ago
Somehow I doubt the words of an account with negative karma.
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by sph 1mo ago
I wouldn’t trust a week-old vibe coded project to protect my identity against state actors.
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by sph 1mo ago
In all likelihood, less thought went into this than if the author had to think, design and code their entire application by hand. Unless you're Terence Tao, LLMs are used to cut corners.
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by sph 1mo ago
Might be time for me to give it a serious go
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by sph 1mo ago
The crafting systems were so trivial that didn't make the economy game of New World particularly engaging. One core mechanic I seek is the division of labor; if everyone can and is expected to become a master in every skill, there is n
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by sph 1mo ago
I don't like how EVE is run, and the pay-to-win mechanics added over the years to entice the whales. I'm looking at the problem with the eyes of a prospective game dev, and saying that there should be more games focused on free m
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by sph 1mo ago
On a similar note, is there any distro that explicitly has banned usage of generative AI for their project? Asking for a friend.
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by sph 1mo ago
The thing I miss the most about Eve Online is the immersive free market economy. I long for a true, in-depth economic MMO more than the space veneer around the order book. Buy low, sell high. Specialize in industry, trading, transportation.
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by sph 1mo ago
Still more sensible than the 'my iPad is my main dev environment' fad from ~10 years ago. The Steam Deck is a fully fledged Linux desktop, not a defanged entertainment system.
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by sph 1mo ago
> I was among the last to resist As someone that is actually resisting the madness, I come to these threads with a feeling of "I told you so" and pretty soon it turns into sadness for my fellow engineers, my fellow humans. I&#x
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by sph 1mo ago
MIDI isn't generative AI.
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by sph 1mo ago
Moving stuff, thanks for sharing
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by sph 1mo ago
Do you think people that use machines to generate music have the technical skills to be a cover artist? (I suppose you mean with real instruments) The only people salivating at generative AI are those that do not have the skills to create w
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by sph 1mo ago
Jesus those videos are upsetting. Poor people.
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by sph 1mo ago
I tried this on a whim and I’m surprised it works: http://theoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space
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by sph 1mo ago
Well I guess I must have been unlucky in 13 years in 5 flats around London with an average broadband speed of ~150 Mb/s
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by sph 1mo ago
Not around these parts, especially not in the European sense.
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by sph 1mo ago
Damn I had my first email account with them more than 25 years ago. Nice to see they are still around fighting the good fight. The US govt can go fuck itself, with their agenda in which antifascism has become the big bad monster to replac
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by sph 1mo ago
Maybe in the 80s. I had the insight one day that the past 20 years of tech have been fueled by massive doses of amphetamines, and seen under these lens a lot of products, choices and what has risen to popularity make a lot of sense. Too bad
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by sph 1mo ago
> In Italy we are at 78% of addresses covered > UK is at 85% FTTH [on a sibling comment] Meanwhile I have 1 Gb/s FTTH in an Italian village of less than 100 souls, while I couldn’t reach 300 Mbit/s on copper in London zone 4
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by sph 1mo ago
Yet we’re supposed to treat everybody like one, not put disclaimers on everything we say in case it’s a kid that got his hands on some GHB I added the “pretending to be an adult” part because I knew someone was going to be a pedant about it
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by sph 2mo ago
The Earth has lived through periods of being a massive fireball to being a ball of ice and anything in between. The Earth is fine. Life as we know it, on the other hand, is a little more delicate.
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by sph 2mo ago
Calm down, we’re all adults here, or pretending to be.
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by sph 2mo ago
In this subthread we’re talking about being paid to untangle LLM slop, and you come in to say “LLMs are good for that.” Come on man, be serious.
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by sph 2mo ago
Say what you want about crypto, they didn’t expect Jesus to descend from the sky to shill Bitcoin.
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by sph 2mo ago
> if we get to ASI, we can solve all other issues with it Jesus Christ this has to be bait. Added to the favourites to laugh about it when the lunacy and hype has died down in 5 years and the trough of disillusionment has truly settled i
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by sph 2mo ago
The sentiment I'm seeing is that, to avoid the rose-tinted bias of nostalgia, we default to believing there is nothing the past has to teach us, and everything is just better today.
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by sph 2mo ago
> How could we jump back into the cozy past again? Delete 9/10th of the HN population. I could accept even AI discussion if there wasn't so much of it, and so many posts in general; /new is like trying to win the lottery.
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by sph 2mo ago
> AI has turned me away from HN more and more. AI has made me aware how opening a tab to HN is a compulsion I no longer truly enjoy. Especially after having made the conscious choice of leaving software engineering as a career, my time h

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