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by PostOnce 4d ago
John Carmack is a personal hero of mine, so it pains me to say this: Carmack hasn't produced anything noteworthy since AI was invented, therefore, how productive can it really be? It could be he is doing incredible work in private... b
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by PostOnce 24d ago
Khan Academy has a problem lately: Go visit a page like https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra and count the number of: * cookie banners * donation panhandling modals * account signup widgets * gamif
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by PostOnce 27d ago
No, but a shocking amount of unappreciated software can cost a TON of money if it fails, even briefly, which is another disaster scenario. More software than you'd think can get people killed, though. And more software than you'd
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by PostOnce 27d ago
"Everyone is an engineer" sounds like something you hear right before a building collapses and kills 300 people
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by PostOnce 1mo ago
However, Ikea furniture does not tend to collapse a critical moment 90 days after it's been put together because it was unforeseen that the cup you sat on the table would be green, which it wasn't designed to account for. Software
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by PostOnce 1mo ago
This is fascinating, but also makes me wonder about smaller scale printing from back in that era. Does anyone know where I might find out more about small-scale printing, what we would call desktop publishing now, but prior to the advent of
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by PostOnce 1mo ago
They make 200 billion dollars a year, 60 billion of which is profit, so they could afford to hire a million more moderators at first world wages (50k/yr) and still be making 10 billion dollars a year in profit , and that's as
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by PostOnce 2mo ago
Pre AI and Post AI code review hours are both 0.75 in this made up example. I find that implausible. Even with the same amount of code, AI code is less trustworthy* and requires more attention... but we know it won't be the same amou
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by PostOnce 2mo ago
Once upon a time, optimism was plausible. But now it seems the only likely outcomes of such technology are: > rich people hoarding wealth > high (and unpleasant) unemployment > ICE agents being remotely operated unaccountab
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by PostOnce 2mo ago
answer to #1: murder is already illegal, but we also heavily regulate explosives because the public can't be trusted.
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by PostOnce 2mo ago
With a byte you can keep track of 256 things, with two, 64k things, or with a byte you can issue one of 256 commands, etc. Of course, now we'll use a dictionary of objects with various properties to keep track of a bunch of 'true&
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by PostOnce 2mo ago
Is cloning Manim "innovation" now? Plenty of open source is updated every day. You had no problem taking advantage of Manim to profit, but when it comes to returning the great favor done to you by Manim being open source, you don&
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by PostOnce 3mo ago
This post is timely, considering reddit is going to start requiring login for old.reddit.com which they announced in the past few days
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by PostOnce 3mo ago
There are far fewer of those than there used to be, because games take longer to develop now. Nintendo has been the only one really good at that, and even there, they're slipping. For example, the Switch 2 has been out for a year and h
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by PostOnce 3mo ago
One of the selling points of consoles is the secondhand market, and the physical games. If digital only, then consoles have fewer differentiators to PCs, and PCs let you play online without a subscription. It's not a given, but it&#x27
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by PostOnce 3mo ago
Suppose Anthropic trained only on data they paid to create, and not the internet or stolen textbooks. It would still be extremely difficult to muster any sympathy for an organization whose MO is to go public not to honestly raise capital to
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by PostOnce 3mo ago
Lots more fun stuff on the rest of the channel https://www.youtube.com/@will_it_work Hacks, on hacker news. I love it.
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by PostOnce 4mo ago
They have a finite # of employees, a finite budget, and a finite amount of time. Hobbyists do not. ROI is not a factor.
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by PostOnce 5mo ago
New govt scrapped it. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510439/smokefree-genera...
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by PostOnce 5mo ago
It already is our families. We don't have healthcare. We live in rentals that enrich others. We take rented scooters to work. We have no retirement funds or futures. Live in slavery and be happy? Hold a sign no one reads? Own nothing?
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by PostOnce 6mo ago
The entire point of AI is for it to do shit autonomously? The whole point is that the users can have it doing shit for them instead of them having to babysit the computer. The fact that users still have to sit there and argue with it erodes
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by PostOnce 6mo ago
The US interferes in the rest of the world 24/7 with tariffs on allies and preemptive bombings and undeclared wars and kidnappings of heads of state, etc. Would it be immoral to interfere, or would it be more immoral not to interfere
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by PostOnce 6mo ago
Active and beautiful , I can start reading without having to scroll down, which I have to do on the AP site. I miss when the web looked like this, and pages were documents instead of applications. We built the wrong web, we needed two, one
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by PostOnce 6mo ago
I love the software look so much though! I never did like the blurring of textures :) They're both beautiful in their own way, the darkness and glow in the hardware versions, some certain pixellated charm and roughness in the software
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by PostOnce 6mo ago
"More Doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette." I'll take my information from a neutral third party, thanks.
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by PostOnce 6mo ago
I personally felt the book deal version was dumbed down. The OG which is still free on the scp wiki is amazing. The free version has the character drink "apocalyptically strong coffee" to cope with the orientation process. In the
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by PostOnce 6mo ago
What about every other system where we rely on parents to parent? Kids can turn apple juice into wine in their closet they can drive their bicycle to a drug dealer they can rub a butter knife against the sidewalk until it's pointy Do w
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by PostOnce 6mo ago
Companies stopped training people many decades ago, they expect you to arrive on the job trained now. i.e. they shifted the cost of training from the employer to the employee. What makes you think that will suddenly reverse course, or that
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by PostOnce 6mo ago
Sick to death of it. The work is still there. I can only work so many hours in a day on a contract, but with a product, I can work 3 hours and sell it 200 times, or license it and make money forever. My customers have said to me point blank
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by PostOnce 6mo ago
Lots of different companies argue with the AI for some time before they call me, but they always call me. They'll never be able to explain what they want to the AI, and even if they could, it couldn't solve the problem anyway. Nev

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