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by the_af 9mo ago
Steam with Proton is simply incredible. And now it doesn't even split games in "Linux" vs "Windows"; it simply assumes all games run on Linux. And they mostly do! Though to be fair I had to tweak a couple to make th
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by the_af 9mo ago
This reminds me of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". One of the themes Pirsig explores is that some people simply don't want to understand how stuff they depend on works. They just expect it to be excellent and hav
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by the_af 9mo ago
I think AI displacing graphics illustrators is a tragedy. It's not that I love ad illustrations, but it's often a source of income for artists who want to be doing something more meaningful with their artwork. And even if I don&#x
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by the_af 9mo ago
> One good advantage of e. g. Python and Ruby is that they are excellent at prototyping ideas into code. That part won't go away, even if AI infiltrates more computers. Why wouldn't they go away for prototyping? If an LLM can
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by the_af 9mo ago
> It is not the same, quality-wise I think youtube is actually worse than e. g. the 1980s era Is it though? I of course watched TV as a kid through the 80s and have some feelings of nostalgia about it, but is it true that YouTube today
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by the_af 9mo ago
I wasn't an early adopter of Copilot, but now the VSCode plugin can use Claude models in Agent mode. I've had success with this. I don't "vibecode" though, if I don't understand what it's doing I don'
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by the_af 9mo ago
> Can you agentic code with it? Yes, definitely. I use it mostly in Agent mode, then switch to Ask mode to ask it questions. > How's the autocomplete? It works reasonably well, but I'm less interested in autocomplete.
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by the_af 9mo ago
Yeah, same. I have never tried Claude Code but use Claude through the Copilot plugin, and it's NOT auto-complete. It can analyze and refactor code, write new code, etc.
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by the_af 9mo ago
I don't know that it's the reality of engineering. (Edit: in fact there are some comments for this post providing counterexamples, an interesting one is the hardware world). It's what we software engineers like to tell oursel
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by the_af 9mo ago
I think this is unfair to sales. I've made your argument before, but realistically, much of the word revolves around timelines and it's unreasonable to expect otherwise. When will you recover from your injury so you can play the w
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by the_af 9mo ago
> What I'd like to see is an AI simulating the economy, so that we can make predictions of what happens if we decrease wealth tax by X% or increasy income tax by Y% (just examples). Please tell me you've watched the Mitchell
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by the_af 9mo ago
I really appreciate your clarifications! I think I actually agree with you, and I lost track of my own argument in all of this. I'm absolutely not contesting that online play is hugely popular. I guess I'm trying to understand how
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by the_af 9mo ago
I'm honestly not following your argument here. I'm also not convinced by comparisons between AI and things that aren't AI or even automated. > Will you be even more discouraged if I share that "table flipping" a
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by the_af 9mo ago
Oh, I'm conflating the modern era use of the term with the classic definition of AI to include classic chess engines done with tree-pruning, backtracking, and heuristics :)
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by the_af 9mo ago
Thanks for the reply. I know pre-AI cheats have ruined some online games, so I'm not sure it's an encouraging thought... Are you saying AI can help detect AI cheats in games? In real time for some games? Maybe! That'd be usef
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by the_af 9mo ago
I know chess is popular because I have a friend who's enthusiastic about it and plays online regularly. But I'm out of the loop: in order to maintain popularity, are computers banned? And if so, how is this enforced, both at the s
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by the_af 9mo ago
I get what you're saying but I think it's wrong (I also think it's wrong when people say "well, people used to complain about calculators..."). An LLM chatbot is not like querying a database. Postgres doesn't h
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by the_af 9mo ago
I want to echo this. And there's no solution. Nothing you can do, say, or not do or say will help. Even just listening will be perceived, after the umpteenth time, as condescending; and voicing your opinion is obviously a no go. It&#x2
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by the_af 9mo ago
Your comment ignored everything I said. I'm not the one in denial, reinterpreting everything through MAGA distortion glasses. You're a conspiracy theorist accusing others of being hysterical. Good luck with that.
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by the_af 9mo ago
That's a Smithsonian museum, not some abode of radical leftism. That display from 2020 has been removed, and it any case it was listing aspects & assumptions of white culture in the US, not necessarily saying they are wrong. Throug
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by the_af 9mo ago
> No, I was referring to cooperating with law enforcement authorities instead of antagonizing them at every possible chance. That's not "a good aspect of Western culture". Non-Western culture also has law enforcement. &q
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by the_af 9mo ago
> Leftists pushing the idea that all good aspects of western culture are white supremacy and must be dismantled would be a factor, yes. Nah, "leftists" (people, really) are reacting to a pre-existing problem. Plus you built a
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by the_af 9mo ago
> At some point people have to stop blaming whites from hundreds of years ago Why? And how is blaming "the hysterical reaction of the left" doing that? It seems all you're doing is simply stopping at the point of analysi
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by the_af 9mo ago
But surely the history and treatment of black people in the US is at the root of it all, rather than "the radicalized left"? Cop violence against black suspects because of violent crime by blacks seems a very suspect explanation.
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by the_af 10mo ago
> Why should I hire a dedicated writer if I have people with better understanding of the system? Many engineers are terrible at documentation, not just because they find it boring or cannot put it into words (that's the part an LL
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by the_af 10mo ago
But also, the effects of some things on developing children are different (arguably more impactful) than on adults. We talk about education, nurturing, etc, and how vital they are to children. We also know drugs that have different effects
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by the_af 10mo ago
There are plenty of rules parents set for children that do not apply to the parents. Likewise, there are drugs pediatricians won't prescribe for children under a certain age because they have different effects on developing children vs
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by the_af 10mo ago
> but Leia's slave costume is something giving off pretty bad vibes from today's viewpoint. No, it doesn't give bad vibes. It was a sexy actress wearing a skimpy outfit for a couple of scenes in the whole goddamn trilogy
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by the_af 10mo ago
> Also Carrie Fisher looks really hot in that outfit and most of the audience is likely to be adolescent boys and men. Well said. It feels really weird to have to defend this in this day and age. It's ok for a hot actress to be dr
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by the_af 10mo ago
So BLM just sprouted out of thin air, without prior history of cop violence against black people?

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