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by the_af 5mo ago
For Computer Science in particular: it's not supposed to be job training. CS is an education closer to math or science (in fact, at my university it belongs to the department of hard sciences and math). If you like that (and I sure d
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> Nvidia on laptops? Insert the famous Linus Torvalds meme here I have an RTX 5070 (whatever the laptop variant is) and it absolutely rocks with almost everything I throw at it, running Ubuntu+Steam+Proton. I no longer worry whether
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by the_af 5mo ago
Yes, that's the one. I forgot that I discovered and played with Racket because of this course. Really cool language (and course).
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> if you are suicidal in part because you live in a dangerous impoverished shithole good luck defending yourself afterwards! Is realistically "gun ownership" a plus in this scenario?
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I admit to my shame I've never read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (I know, I know) but I have read Door into Summer and I think it could be easily adapted. I mean, they adapted All You Zombies and that was truly a challenge visual
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by the_af 5mo ago
Yes, that's what I'm meant, I just worded it ambiguously. Let me make it more explicit: The movie was disliked by: - Fans of Heinlein, who took offense at what they thought was a mocking and misunderstanding of the source material
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by the_af 5mo ago
It's normal, but misguided to direct your anger at them. It's so normal it's the usual path the frustration is channeled, often with conspiracy theories such as "the replacement" etc. Compromising and dealing with p
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by the_af 5mo ago
What if we tell the agent NOT to add ignore annotations (or to ask about them if there's no other reasonable way to proceed)?
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by the_af 5mo ago
Did you watch The Matrix on cinema, without knowing anything about the movie? Back when The Matrix first opened, it was still possible to go to the cinema without knowing anything about a movie. I watched it like this and my mind was blow
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by the_af 5mo ago
I don't think it's the same. I like to think of these supremacist/racist conspiracy theories as another form of control: in many cases these people are right to be upset, since they see things in the world that are truly unfa
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by the_af 5mo ago
> Starship Troopers movie This movie is so misunderstood. It's basically disliked by Heinlein fans who took offense, and by people unfamiliar with both Heinlein and Verhoeven who thought it was actually Beverly Hills + Space Fasci
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Agreed about Odersky, the Scala course and the Scala Functional Programming course were solid (the latter a bit less so, a blemish was its insistence on Akka, but the concepts were interesting). There was also a very interesting introductio
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by the_af 5mo ago
I hear you, but isn't the human in the loop precisely the one who should be putting their foot down and saying "no, the AI shouldn't be writing the tests to begin with", which would bring us full circle?
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I've had it paused for some months, and just a bit of WD40 and re-running the auto calibration was enough maintenance in my case . Maybe I was lucky?
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by the_af 5mo ago
As I said in my comment, the Bambu is the printer that made me try. Every other video or review I've seen, from multiple enthusiasts who use other brands, makes it clear any other printer (at least ~2 years ago when I bought it) was &q
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I have to say the Bambu A1 Mini has been a game changer for me. I wouldn't own a 3D printer otherwise. While it doesn't really "just work" as the hype would have it (I believe this is impossible with current tech), it co
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I'm impressed by this article. Well written, cogent, and it matches the reality I perceive. I can't imagine it will be well received here in HN, where I imagine most regulars will side with Barlow, but if it reaches at least some
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by the_af 5mo ago
> Corrected: a certain type of very loud and very online person in your audience hates AI art and thinks less of you for using it. Correcting your correction: a lot of people have terrible taste. It's not polite to say it, because
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I hear you, but the answers to these questions in my experience are always of the kind "we're looking to hire capable people with skills X, Y, Z for projects A & B". These don't give you any idea about the health of
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Agreed. One of the two things must be false. But that's what they are saying (not saying I buy it).
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> In the old folk tales, things just happen. Fairness isn't guaranteed; and sometimes a guy makes a deal and gets eaten anyway; and sometimes someone dies for no reason. Do you mean in Indian and Eastern European folk tales? Inter
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I know you're arguing a more general point, but it's worth pointing out in their layoff announcement, CloudFlare is claiming: - This is NOT performance related. - This is NOT a cost cutting exercise. They say both things explicitl
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> This is completely acceptable. When was the last time you saw any job seeker seriously enquire about such practices in interviews or at the application stage? Well, this is not something you can safely ask in most interviews. Also, w
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> so the management needs to cut the costs I love it that they explicitly say in their blog post "this is not a cost cutting exercise". Of course, every "regrettably..." letter from company execs is understood to be
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> What did he say? Something horrifying. Among other things, the commenter ignored this is about child marriages, but also had some delightful gems like arguing about what women are "designed to do best" for "their hap
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> The Tyranny of Structurelessness To me this essay was an eye-opener, both because it's well argued and also because it's so obvious once you read it. Even outside the specific niche of feminist groups in the US, who hasn&#x27
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I'm also not American (well, I am South American), and I wouldn't count Reddit threats about how much people hate someone else as evidence of anything (other than Reddit being Reddit) :) Some of the comments in that blog, pushin
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> the guy is has somewhat banal views ...on some things, because he's only human, and some pretty solid views on other things :)
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Thanks for the list! I agree that the fundamental thing here is: > "genius in one thing believes he's a genius in everything" No disagreement here, and sadly I think this is an unfortunate part of human nature. Other tha
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by the_af 5mo ago
It tracks that they used AI to "do the work", in this case, writing TFA for them.

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