eudamoniac

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by eudamoniac 3d ago
Violence works, and it's increasingly coming to be understood that voting no longer does...
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by eudamoniac 4d ago
This is like the "Now everyone can just 3D print little widgets they need!" sentiment. Approximately no one is going to do this.
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by eudamoniac 5d ago
No, they don't. But to the layman they do. Most people are unaware that you can get what is to them an impressive 3d game scaffold from the Unity asset store in like one hour. You can literally have a 3d man running around an open worl
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by eudamoniac 5d ago
It is because English is an ambiguous input unlike a high level programming language. The output cannot help but be wrong sometimes when the input is ambiguous. See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494917
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by eudamoniac 5d ago
I don't like this inevitability framing. It's not true of other actually dangerous things. "There is no sane world where we can stop drugs/nukes/guns/CP, even if every single chemist/physicist/metallu
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by eudamoniac 5d ago
For some of us, "enjoy life" necessitates having some care and craftsmanship in the work we're doing 40 hours per week. People liked this job. Now it's becoming just a job. Imagine a Michelin chef who previously invent
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by eudamoniac 5d ago
What happens when the biggest feature that can be touted is concrete objective metrics about bugs/uptime/quality-stuff? Can't slop your way to having the "crafted with love and care, no bugs in production in the last 2 y
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by eudamoniac 5d ago
More to the point, we currently share a society with many people of a violent culture, which makes directly shaming them dangerous and unwise. This was not always the case. The death of shaming is largely related to the increased daily prox
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by eudamoniac 7d ago
All he's saying is when Swift gets on stage and her drummer needs to pee, he's going to have to hold it instead of walking off stage in the middle of the song. Sometimes jobs require periods of required availability.
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by eudamoniac 7d ago
This reminds me of Trump hysterics. If someone actually believed that Trump was going to end democracy and become dictator for life and kill all minorities etc, he would behave a lot differently than everyone saying that behaves.
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by eudamoniac 7d ago
> If you think LLMs are a fad that will just go away if you wait long enough, then you need to just remove yourself from this industry. They're not going away, for better or worse, and this kind of work is fundamentally changing. Th
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by eudamoniac 7d ago
As a fellow contrarian, I applaud your resolve. I was constructively dismissed for refusing the COVID vax a few years ago. But I think in this case where there was no concern about output, it would be better for you to just pretend to use i
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by eudamoniac 7d ago
I agree and I keep control, but I'm pretty sure AI is not faster than no-AI when I keep control. By the time I know what changes I want and how and instruct it how to do that and it thinks and I review the output, I could have written
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by eudamoniac 7d ago
> It's long been my experience...i've not touched an IDE in well more than 10 years It's long been that your experience is outdated. A modern IDE will refactor C code just fine, and emacs is a pale shadow of a proper IDE.
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by eudamoniac 7d ago
IMO it is literally not possible for a medium+ jQuery app to fit in a brain or be maintained easily (especially without TypeScript). That's why React et al were invented. It is smaller, faster, no build step for sure, but I would never
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by eudamoniac 7d ago
It is used because UI component frameworks make vanilla CSS an awkward an unnecessary tool (the Cascading part). CSS makes sense as designed for styling a document, but not so much for styling atomic components. If we were designing the web
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by eudamoniac 7d ago
For me I know CSS quite well, but I would always have to look up some utility names that had no intuitive mapping. line-height is leading, flex-direction has no direct mapping, text-wrap is text but also font size is text, so if trying to d
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by eudamoniac 7d ago
Like just having a broom in the house makes my kids sweep the floors? There's no way to interpret the headline that makes any sense as truth.
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by eudamoniac 7d ago
There's no evidence building the torment nexus will be bad, actually! It's just speculation!
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by eudamoniac 8d ago
Ok, thanks for denying part of my post with no evidence or argument and ignoring the central point. You could have saved some time by just writing "nah bro".
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by eudamoniac 9d ago
Why is every sports body in the world normal for having rules under which achievements may be recognized, but in gaming it is toxic? Are games not allowed to have any pretense of mastery? If the Olympic committee decided to give out indisti
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by eudamoniac 9d ago
I will often experience something I call "feeling addled" when I haven't taken this kind of downtime for too long, usually after about two days. It presents as a difficulty in thinking clearly, a compulsion for easy dopamine,
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by eudamoniac 9d ago
Why are you arguing against what you just said and against the comment I made before OP responded? "anyone who's done even a modicum of research knows that holding a conversation... reading literature, consuming media...duolingo i
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by eudamoniac 9d ago
At the time they were not far right/left though. We are applying that label in hindsight compared to present day politics. It doesn't make much sense to call the mainstream right far right. If they get in power and hold it for 50
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by eudamoniac 9d ago
Yes, that is the argument I'm making. If a party wins an election they aren't far-right; they are just right. 'Far/extreme/fringe right' would be the ideology that is too far right to have much acceptance. Mayb
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by eudamoniac 9d ago
Getting feet wet is not a success though because it doesn't achieve anything. It is the beginning of maybe succeeding at something. The following sentence would be silly: "I used an app to learn programming, by writing hello world
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by eudamoniac 9d ago
How can it be "far-" when they have such a large voter block? What central point is being used as the mark that they are far to the right of, if not the average voter's views?
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by eudamoniac 9d ago
If a party gets 44% of the vote, they are not "far-" anything, by definition. They are well within the overton window of what people find acceptable.
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by eudamoniac 9d ago
What is "actual success?" Because I'd find it pretty unbelievable that you got even close to being able to hold a conversation or read a YA novel from Duolingo.
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by eudamoniac 10d ago
> Why Japan? How about the UK, or the US? Because Japan is the quintessential homogeneous westernish society that most are familiar with. UK and US are not homogeneous by any means. I could have said Poland or Estonia but that doesn&#x27

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