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by uncircle 5mo ago
You don’t need a licence to talk about porn. Just to watch it.
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by uncircle 5mo ago
Knowing assembly in this day and age is the result of being curious and wanting to understand how computers work, which means knowledge of algorithms, data structures, etc. The same applies to vibe coding: the best "vibe coder" wi
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by uncircle 5mo ago
Waiting until they decide to call non-assisted programming ‘unc coding’
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by uncircle 5mo ago
To add to the other commenters, loads of people don’t know assembly, which speaks to the quality of the average developer. The ones that still understand assembly to this day tend to be better developers, writing faster and more efficient c
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by uncircle 5mo ago
> caffeine boosted focus and reduced anxiety As someone who it taking a break from coffee because of pervasive anxiety, and I am surprised how zen-like I am even two days in (among the migraines and anhedonia), this sentence from the abs
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by uncircle 5mo ago
Time to pivot
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by uncircle 5mo ago
They are 14 and in the ‘it’s cool to hate’ phase.
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by uncircle 5mo ago
They all are.
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by uncircle 5mo ago
I guess we are not the same. I would be perfectly fine with this new branch of "software development" if you guys didn't coopt our name and call yourselves programmers and engineers.
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by uncircle 5mo ago
Not sure if your 'enjoyed AI' is meant literally. I have escaped my existential crisis and found solace in art as well, simply because it's a very human method of self-expression and taking shortcuts to pain, effort and creat
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by uncircle 5mo ago
LLMs are the stereotypical 'idiot savant'
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by uncircle 5mo ago
> Some people are just born something (engineers, in this case), and they're that something for life. Yes, and it's very not fun when your identity is being reshaped before your eyes in the matter of a couple years. I wonder ho
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by uncircle 5mo ago
The fish rots from the head. The AI push, the destruction of Windows are the result of Nadella's strategy.
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by uncircle 5mo ago
Found the project manager
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by uncircle 5mo ago
I keep reading this but I don't understand how a company might want to push censorship on users. What is the economic benefit of censorship? Does Meta's bottom line increase if there is no illegal content and every user is age v
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by uncircle 5mo ago
An explanation of how this works here: https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/17/wavefunction-collapse-al...
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by uncircle 5mo ago
The golden era of TV just ended. All that’s in our future is endless remakes.
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by uncircle 5mo ago
You won't tell from the music. It's obviously an AI generated mix when: - the channel posts multiple mixes per week - the thumbnail is clearly AI generated - most importantly, the tracklist never includes any author, because there
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by uncircle 5mo ago
To benefit from open source, you need to monitor external contributions. Which increasingly means going through mountains of LLM spam wasting everybody’s time. In a way, their approach makes sense.
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by uncircle 5mo ago
> Consumers are by and large not listening to AI generated music Consumers are sadly too ignorant to tell. YouTube is brimming with AI music slop and people praising it in the comments because they are unable to tell the difference (and
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by uncircle 5mo ago
The optimism died a long time ago. I’m a Millennial, the 90s flew by as I was growing up, but one of my formative experiences was playing Deus Ex in 2001, after 9/11. It gave me healthy distrust of technology, governments, big corp, an
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by uncircle 5mo ago
Everyone has the freedom of speech, just like everyone else has the freedom to ignore anything they have to say.
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by uncircle 5mo ago
Now AI slop factories make the HN front page?
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by uncircle 5mo ago
Downvoted for mentioning the most likely candidate for MITM at scale tells you all you need to know about HN’s understanding of government surveillance.
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by uncircle 11mo ago
Appeal to authority and sweeping generalisation in a cynical dismissal package. You’re not talking to bilionaires on this site, only a portion of bilionaires know about making money, which has no relation whatsoever to having a good grasp
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by uncircle 11mo ago
I’ve seen some receipts whose paper it was printed on proudly stated to be BPA free, but for all we know it might use chemicals that are even worse for our health than BPA.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Not me personally, but I just finished playing a retro FPS set in 1980s Czechoslovakia whose game engine is written in Pascal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/824600/HROT/
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by uncircle 1y ago
Please, how long does the lack of motivation and anhedonia last? I have been trying to quit during a particularly stressful time in my life, works great for anxiety, but after 5 days I couldn’t spare to stare at the wall any longer instead
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by uncircle 1y ago
I’ve been in an existential crisis after reading Postman and I’ve since reframed the whole dilemma thusly: one of the highest aspirations for a person is the act of creation, and the result one can often call art. What is wrong is instead t
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by uncircle 1y ago
I buy ebooks outside Amazon with my non-jailbroken Kindle. They’re usually DRM’d EPUB files, which I unDRM with Calibre and transfer to my device, which I have kept in airplane mode for the better part of a year. The bonus part is Calibre k

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