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by wiz21c 11mo ago
I've been coding since 40 years old and professioannly since about 30. And let's set this straight: it is much (much, like really much) better nowadays. We have super powerful editors, powerful languages, a gazillion of librarie
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
exactly and that's the scary part :-/
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
People don't know they are being manipulated. Marketing does that all of the time and nobody complain. They complain about "too much advert" but not about "too much manipulation". Example: in my country we often hea
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
The gaussian splatting never cease to amaze me. I wonder if it would be OK to proceduraly (not by LLM) generate natural worlds for video games with that...
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
For me the learning curve was learning to choose what is worth asking to Claude. After 3 months on it, I can reap the benefit: Claude produces the code I want right 80% of the time. I usually ask it: to create new functions from scratch (it
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
Java is owned by Oracle. And you sure don't want to do business with that company. There's a reason why postgresql is slowly eating their cake.
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
IS FreeBaisc still a thing nowadays ? I understand it's surely less popular, but are there people using it on HN ?
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
I wouldn't say it's a handbook because it's more like an introduction. But it's pretty well written.
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
You say "Like any business Apple needs growth to satisfy the shareholders." like it is acceptable.
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
Done more or less like that in Belgium too. Basically, if any civil servant look at your data, this is recorded in the "Banque Carrefour de la Sécurité Sociale". Your eid is used to authentify/authorize you on various state w
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
Since we can't avoid hallucinations, maybe we can live with them ? I mean, I regularly use LLM's and although, sometimes, they go a bit mad, most of the time they're really helpful
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
It'd be nice to have the publisher of the games...
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
> So they’ll need to tread very, very carefully to introduce it without alienating customers. every single platform since the 1990's has introduced ads. My kids find it totally normal to have them. Believe me, if you train (!) peopl
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
From: https://engine.xyz/resident-companies/northwood-space > Unlike traditional parabolic dish antennas, our phased array antenna can connect with multiple satellites simultaneously. if that's how they plan to
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
you have to steal it from the HR department. They do have a copy but they won't tell you.
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
I'm happy to see they talk about Chris Foss. I saw an exhibition of him in Guernsey last year. Alhtough it's a bit dated, it's really nice to see his vision for Dune...
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
Once again, you cannot ask the open source world to provide you with free dependencies and security. At some point, someone has to pay for an organisation whose job will be to review the contents of all of these modules. Maybe one could s
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
I miss SIMD...
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
I was fortunate enough to be somewhat on television as a geek/nerd for 2-3 years. I was not famous, didn't make money out of it. It happened from time to time that people recognized me when at the groceries or some other place. I
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
and we still don't know where to store the trash. Thorium seems better (but my knowledge is close to zero here, I must admit:-) )
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
For the body weight over the two legs, I can agree. But for the rest, no no and no :-) And indded it's a single whip :-)
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
I was meaning: even if I do somehow "advanced" stuff that not many people do, much of it is pretty common. Humbling.
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
Didn't know MSFT owned Infocom
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
FTA: > Instead of competing in real games, Define real games.
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
I'm like you. I'd say my productivity improved by 5-10%: Claude can make surprinsgly good code edits. For these, my subjective feeling is that claude does in 30 min what I'd have dont in one hour. It's a net gain. Now, m
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
> The moment your code departs from typical patterns Using AI, I constantly realize that a-typical patterns are much rarer than I thought.
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
in my own experience, using Claude gives me about 5-10% productivity increase because it's really good at writing boiler code or surgically modifying some code I didn't write.
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
SWE-Bench is disappointing not because it is lower than Claude, but because improving on all other domains of knowledge didn't help. So does this mean that this is actually a MoE model in the sense that one expert doesn't talk to
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
I can assure you its tai chi stance on the picture is absolutely wrong. arms way too open, body weight on both legs, right arm should not be bended, distance between two feet is way to long, left hand should be pointing up, etc.
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
ah... https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-universal-washing-mac...

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