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Black Friday Deals Won't Save You from EA's New Private Equity Overlord(cepr.net)
1 points by spopejoy 11mo ago|0 comments
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by spopejoy 11mo ago
Uhh isn't the main strength of md that it's human-friendly to write? Same for yaml. In both cases, dramatically worse for processing, strictly weaker for semantics and rich formatting... And also doesn't make you want to kill
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by spopejoy 11mo ago
Not really? APTs would seem to be either criminal enterprises or state-sponsored because SOMEBODY has to be paying the big bucks. So yes, probably 100% of criminal enterprises are paying off officials, but if that's the definition of &
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by spopejoy 11mo ago
PC gaming on the couch at last
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by spopejoy 1y ago
Can somebody ELI5 why this needs to exist vs graphviz? It looks very similar to dot.
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by spopejoy 1y ago
I would think that if AI is so smart, it would realize that zero-sum games are for suckers. Only an AI as _dumb_ as us would want something as stupid as domination, which after all is based on competition for resources that a long time ago
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Why iRobot's founder won't go within 10 feet of today's walking robots(arstechnica.com)
5 points by spopejoy 1y ago|0 comments
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by spopejoy 1y ago
We're so far from that though. Even if we magically jump over the failure rates we're discussing here, the safety considerations seem to be far worse. These things are heavy and dangerous, c.f. Rodney Brooks' "never foll
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by spopejoy 1y ago
That's not that weird, even if it is pretty pathetic. I don't understand it now but I used to dread "doing the dishes" when I was younger even though it was 95% just filling a dishwasher. Laziness drives technology an aw
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by spopejoy 1y ago
> LLMs being used to pick values out of JSON objects Or the often-trumpeted "I had Claude do a killer refactor" that an IDE can do locally for zero power faster and 100% reliably
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by spopejoy 1y ago
Well-put. Sw eng is so much better, assuming you are comfortable in the role, for types who want to punch a clock doing something they don't hate. Sales is the definition of high-pressure, and your output is always threatened by forces
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by spopejoy 1y ago
JavaFX is better than swing, having done both (swing in a past life). CSS support is the big deal, plus modern rendering pipelines. Add that to the nice FP goodies and for-real cross-plaf packaging, (plus LLMs to get you through the crufty
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by spopejoy 1y ago
Perplexity's CEO openly admits that their Comet browser offering is intended to track users for ads. So it seems they will head down the encrapify path soon enough. Pro tip: get a free account and don't go pro. Their free account
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Ask HN: Is Perplexity intentionally nerfing non-Comet browser query performance?
1 points by spopejoy 1y ago|0 comments
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by spopejoy 1y ago
It's more that if there isn't 10 stack overflows on your exact problem then you're out of luck. LLMs are 100% useless for: - non-mainstream languages - langs without massive corpuses of online tutorials and SOs I was going to
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by spopejoy 1y ago
A lot of this sounds like Claude is making up for bad tooling? Machine refactoring has been a thing for decades now but only for mainstream strongly-typed languages in major IDEs. You can do massive refactorings in seconds that always compi
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by spopejoy 1y ago
You might have just explained the phenomenon of AI doomsayers overlapping with ea/rat types, which I otherwise found inexplicable. EA/Rs seem kind of appalingly positivist otherwise.
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by spopejoy 1y ago
> Being able to refactor things with only a couple sentences is remarkably fast. I'm curious, this is js/ts? Asking because depending on the lang, good old machine refactoring is either amazeballs (Java + IDE) or non-existent (
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by spopejoy 1y ago
Hmm ... How do you implement the common pattern of a top-level exception catcher (e.g. for a long-running thread) with option types in pony/rust/swift? In Haskell this is ergonomic thanks to Functor and friends, but how do langs o
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by spopejoy 1y ago
> People like communicating in natural language It does puzzle me a little that there isn't more widespread acclaim of this, achieving a natural-language UI has been a failed dream of CS for decades and now we can just take it for g
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by spopejoy 1y ago
This is where something like Perplexity's "memory" feature is really great. It treats other threads similarly to web resources. I would love to understand better just how Perplexity is able to integrate up-to-date sources lik
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by spopejoy 1y ago
I don't understand the outrage about the court order and chatgpt. Is user data retained by a tech co somehow exempt from discovery? Say you're suing a company over mishandling user data, wouldn't that data become material to
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by spopejoy 1y ago
fixed link (the above did not work for me) https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gta-myths/images/f/f1/Egg_...
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by spopejoy 1y ago
Your arguments are ideological as well. For one you fail to mention how much of the debt is due to war debt servicing and choose, like most debt hawks, to blame entitlements only. If debt was such a killer the US would have never waged the
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by spopejoy 2y ago
This is the best and most obvious example of successful anti-advertising legislation, NYC as well prohibits billboards in most places which is a blessing. The fact that the MTA is now plastered in flatscreen ads is an example of huge overre
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by spopejoy 2y ago
Is it really that hard to imagine "large companies not diversifying"? Large companies diversifying is the unnatural thing. Why on earth should Apple do music, or Amazon do video? It's manipulating their monopoly positions, it
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by spopejoy 2y ago
Have to say, you copy-pasting this response over and over in this thread tells me a lot about your writing without ever having read a single one of your posts: - You ask leading questions with questionable assertions. E.g., I doubt that for
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by spopejoy 2y ago
It's fair to decry US citizens' ignorance of the true extent of US dominance and how it affects the home front ... BUT combined with 40 years of increasing neoliberal austerity, it's not correct to equate the effects with a b
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by spopejoy 2y ago
> Delphi/Free Pascal, where usually code from 20 years ago compiles today with minor adjustments Not always. I attempted to upgrade some open source 32bit Delphi frontend code to 64bit/ARM, but the specific GUI toolkit was neve
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by spopejoy 2y ago
As LLMs get better and better at imitating bad writing it will become impossible to tell the difference

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