ModernMech

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by ModernMech 4d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/AIprogrammingLanguage/
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by ModernMech 4d ago
> However it was not to the degree where this guy's response was warranted at all. Not one bit. Agreed. > so is the conclusion that Snap is perfect for what it's intended and that there is no room for criticism or opposing v
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by ModernMech 4d ago
> My belief is that learning is done best when there is a connection to something real, not just a simulation or an exercise. Okay but you're stacking your unsubstantiated belief based on a sample of just you against an entire field
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by ModernMech 4d ago
> like Snap doesn't really provide a way to understand how stuff is actually done... So I don't see how it'd be very useful for e.g. learning CS when it's not really something you'd see in the real world The poin
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by ModernMech 4d ago
Here's how teaching kids goes without scratch: "This is python, we use it to do professional development work. Here's VS code, we use it to do professional development work. Let's learn them." 6 year olds: "Oka
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by ModernMech 5d ago
Yes! Thank you, this has been irritating me from day one with agentic AI, I don't think it could be nearly as good as it is without all the well-designed tools humans have spent decades developing from PLs, to VCS, to the Unix philosop
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by ModernMech 5d ago
> believed this post was good and valuable enough to be posted publicly. I mean, it made it to the front page of HN didn't it? Probably served its purpose just fine. Not all writing is supposed to be impressive or good. Some of it i
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by ModernMech 5d ago
They attribute their success to their school and then donate to the school. Alumni donations are how universities stay afloat.
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by ModernMech 5d ago
> I don't see the cascading hierarchy of enrichment. If there wasn't a hierarchy of enrichment then rich investors would not be interested in AI at all. It's the only reason there's 22 million lying around to start tr
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by ModernMech 6d ago
They gave Trump presidential immunity partly because the remedy for addressing any perceived lawlessness, they figured, is provided by the impeachment process. If impeachment is forclosed as even a possibility, the president is truly immune
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by ModernMech 6d ago
> no human has broad enough knowledge and enough time to try them all. The other part is, humans don’t really want to fund other humans doing this. Very few want to be a math major; and of those that do, fewer complete a grad degree; and
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by ModernMech 6d ago
It could be “The Wrong Trousers”, that’s the only way ;P
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by ModernMech 7d ago
Yeah I wish they made a Macbook that color, it's pretty nice.
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by ModernMech 7d ago
SPOILER WARNING: There is huge spoiler for Silo in this ad if anyone is watching the show. Don't view if you don't want to learn the ending to Season 1.
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by ModernMech 7d ago
Seems like at this point each year the biggest new feature is a new color.
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by ModernMech 7d ago
I'll have to try it for a PCB circuit because that's where I'm going next. Were you asking it to use specific software to build the circuits?
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by ModernMech 7d ago
lol I didn't get access until Monday (I was at 0% since Friday and my reset was Sunday at 11pm), so go figure.
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by ModernMech 7d ago
I don't really like Astra either. It doesn't seem noticeably better than Sol, and it uses more tokens. Some people said ultimately it's cheaper because it can solve problems faster but I haven't really noticed that. The
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by ModernMech 8d ago
yes but the tweets don't really address why the field needs to be protected instead of adapting and evolving. And to reply to the sibling since I hit my comment limit and I'm going to probably forget about this conversation until
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by ModernMech 8d ago
If math is solved then move to an area that’s not. Why do fields need “protecting” from ai?
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by ModernMech 8d ago
lol as if this administration is concerned about or following laws.
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by ModernMech 8d ago
Yes, at the end of this administration Trump will have destroyed the standing of the US so much he'll have solved all our problems by making this country such a shithole no one will want to invest or live here. Immigration problem sol
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by ModernMech 8d ago
Amazing how eager they were to do this, and not a week later he's talking about renaming the Strait of Hormuz, New Mexico, and claimed to own the Moon. I wonder if he renames the Moon to Trump, will Google rename Google Moon to Google
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by ModernMech 8d ago
A round trip cross country plane ride for one passenger is equivalent to about 500k - 1 million image generations. So all one has to do to offset their lifetime usage of image generators is forego one vacation. And this of course is only fo
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by ModernMech 8d ago
> YC isn't taxing you It's a different kind of tax. The VC model is to get you addicted to a service and then jack up prices as soon as they've squeezed out other competition. You can't opt out of that game when AirBn
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by ModernMech 8d ago
Pretty much every incubator I've seen has an open application process.
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by ModernMech 8d ago
We're not talking about the government and authorities, we're talking about Facebook. The government showing people information that makes them anxious and depressed isn't the same as a for-profit entity intentionally tailori
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by ModernMech 8d ago
Democracy does not imply that people should be allowed intentionally make people depressed and anxious for profit. There's no reason that must be allowed for a healthy democracy to work.
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by ModernMech 9d ago
I'm not really talking about formal education here. > This means, at minimum, accepting the presence of anything the relevant government authority deems legal. All that means if you have enough money you can put whatever death machi
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by ModernMech 9d ago
> the ones that are committing terrorist attacks They said Good and Pretti were domestic terrorists, they were summarily executed, so not really the line you think you're drawing. NSPM-7 makes "politically motivated trespass an

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