BigJono

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by BigJono 2mo ago
Yeah nah maybe fix the bugs before swapping the average COBOL dev for the average Java dev.
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by BigJono 3mo ago
Plus most people that use Dvorak probably don't give a shit at this point because they've been touch typing on qwerty or blank keyboards for their whole life. I'm not sure it'd even be a selling point for me.
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by BigJono 3mo ago
You can't use the words "reasonable debate" in your post after you've immediately jumped straight to some mythical worst case scenario of a 5 year old being given a device with no supervision and somehow managing to imme
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by BigJono 3mo ago
> It's pretty clear by now that coding productivity increases by 10-15% with AI. Completely offtopic for this thread but I can't be the only one that would find this hilarious if it wasn't being said in earnest in every th
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by BigJono 3mo ago
Why do you think I'm like the people destroying the Internet? Because I said a bad word? Are you actually retarded? I'd love to return to the Internet we had in the 90s and 2000s, we're not going to get there if defeatist bit
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by BigJono 3mo ago
Destroying freedom isn't a fucking compromise. If algorithmic feeds are as bad as say, heroin, then the correct response is to regulate or ban them. You're arguing for the Internet version of legalising heroin and installing a phy
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by BigJono 3mo ago
It's "I did the first/easy 90% now someone else do the second/hard 90%". Same as it ever was.
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by BigJono 4mo ago
You can't have freedom if a few people have a microphone that reaches hundreds of millions of people have zero responsibilities for how they use that microphone. If you actually haven't used social media recently then I get why yo
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by BigJono 4mo ago
Wtf? I can't really tell how you'd even use this. Is it supposed to be some sort of micro-optimisation thing to do with how HTML is parsed (now you can download chunks out of order, presumably with some performance gains since it&
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by BigJono 6mo ago
Well, if it's any indication, my sister, who is very much not a tech person, randomly asked me to help her install Linux Mint a month ago, and has been using it successfully since without needing to ask for help once (at least not from
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by BigJono 8mo ago
It's been legal in Australia since 2018 and frustratingly nobody seems to give a shit except for yanks trying to point out any government's injustices other than their own.
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by BigJono 8mo ago
I'm not talking about ditching type safety. I'm saying the whole concept of "safe" and "unsafe" as most people on HN understand it is flawed. The interesting part of a type system isn't whether the compile
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by BigJono 8mo ago
I really dislike parsing not validating as general advice. IMO this is the true differentiator of type systems that most people should be familiar with instead of "dynamic vs static" or "strong vs weak". Adding complexit
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by BigJono 9mo ago
I'm guessing it's aimed at game development since Vulkan has a similar pattern in every function call (although optional, the driver does it's own allocation if you pass null).
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by BigJono 10mo ago
There's a few comments speculating about fraud, but they're way off on the timeframe. I was approached about this project like 7-8 years ago. It's probably been in development the whole time. 1k * 250 * 8 * a team size of 20
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by BigJono 10mo ago
This is what I'm doing for my game, I didn't know it was actually a thing in some big titles too, that's reassuring. I landed on it because it was a huge code simplification compared to every other method of handling transpar
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by BigJono 1y ago
Yeah, there was an entire season about ending the war on drugs and how it was the only thing that actually worked lol. Also, they caught the drug kingpin at the end of the show by physically following his lieutenants to a warehouse full of
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by BigJono 1y ago
I might be reading parts of it wrong, but I think that's a different sort of thing to the research in the article. Sugar is a very indirect cause of heart attacks, everyone knows that most heart attacks are a culmination of decades of
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by BigJono 1y ago
> In this process, deletion rather than expansion of the wording of the message is preferable, because if an ordinary message is paraphrased simply by expanding it along its original lines, an expert can easily reduce the paraphrased mes
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by BigJono 1y ago
The thread before with someone flogging off their educational book they wrote "with Claude in an afternoon", as if anyone would benefit from investing days or weeks of learning effort into consuming something the author couldn&#x2
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by BigJono 1y ago
I wish. As far as I can tell the Venn diagram of people building piles of shit with NPM and people building piles of shit with LLMs seems pretty close to a circle.
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by BigJono 1y ago
I can give a bit more context as someone that got on WebGL, then WebGPU, and is now picking up Vulkan for the first time. The problem is that GPU hardware is rapidly changing to enable easier development while still having low level control
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by BigJono 1y ago
C code is shorter than both assembly and Rust, it's not the same thing.
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by BigJono 1y ago
> I became proficient in Rust in a week, and I picked up Svelte in a day. I’ve written a few shaders too! The code I’ve written is pristine. All those conversations about “should I learn X to be employed” are totally moot. fucking lmao
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by BigJono 1y ago
People have 240hz monitors these days, you have a bit over 4ms to render a frame. If that 1ms can be eliminated or amortised over a few frames it's still a big deal, and that's assuming 1ms is the worst case scenario and not the b
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by BigJono 1y ago
Gee do you think maybe that's why all our software sucks balls these days?
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by BigJono 1y ago
> That’s like saying the workers have all the leverage. ...they do? You can shuffle money all you want, if nobody can write the fucking code then you don't have software. I imagine it works much the same in any other field.
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by BigJono 2y ago
No, what's toxic is building an environment like 99% of companies where juniors are told that everybody is the same and there's no point doing anything other than copy pasting whatever dogshit the "senior" next to them i
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by BigJono 2y ago
You come off as incredibly arrogant too, you just don't realise it because you have the current mainstream opinion and the safety of a crowd. Do you know how fucking obnoxious it is when 200 people like you come into every thread to te
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by BigJono 2y ago
The comments are absolutely astroturfed to fuck as well, but you're right, there's at least some small signal in there, whereas average Google results have an amount indistinguishable from zero.

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