hackit2

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by hackit2 6mo ago
Yup, it makes me think that the whole bubble/marketing about how AI is going to revolutionize business and managers can just fire or make redundant 80% of their developers because they can replace them with a single Claude subscription
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by hackit2 6mo ago
I spent more time correcting LLMs or agentics systems than just learning the domain and doing the coding myself. I mainly leave LLM to the boring work of doing tedious repetitive code. If I give it anything resembling anything that I'm
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by hackit2 7mo ago
That can be so far from the truth it hurts thinking about it. Governments passed laws that mandated that businesses must legally comply with DOJ or Government Investigates on people of interest. Otherwise they will be blocked in those count
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by hackit2 7mo ago
I'm not concerned, they're accelerating research and development into hardware and more optimal models. People forget that you can locally host some of the early models quantized to 4 with reasonable inference with a 4080 and 64gb
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by hackit2 7mo ago
I've all-ways asked the managers can you kindly disclose all confidential business information. In which they obviously respond with condescending remarks. Then I respond with, then how am I going to give you a answer without all the k
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by hackit2 7mo ago
Not surprised, I work in Academia and there is a push from the Business side to start marking essays and performing lectures with ChatGPT/AI. I have my own personal reservation about it all.
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by hackit2 7mo ago
I recently went down that rabbit hole, just look up how often embedded devices use fixed-point arithmetic to compensate for the lack of FPU units on the chips.
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by hackit2 7mo ago
When I started with the gaming industry (Operation Flashpoint), I was coming in near the end of fixed point arithmetic where floating point units where becoming more common as part of the PII or PI era. It was around mid-1990, I'm actu
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by hackit2 8mo ago
The plan is to put everything into a repo on github, this includes documentation on the file format, and also the rewrite of the original code in modern C++ and DirectX or Vulkan. I don't see much point in reverse engineering the old r
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by hackit2 8mo ago
It isn't that hard. I'm currently reverse engineering a old flight simulator game called A-10 Cuba. I had to teach myself X86 Assembly, and understand basic calling convention. Then C++ vtables, struct alignment and struct layout.
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by hackit2 10mo ago
In his own words he all-ready got early feedback from his family. "I tried the local Iranian market. I showed it to friends, family, and potential clients. Their response: "Nobody in Iran will pay $500/month for this. The Per
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by hackit2 11mo ago
Most of the internet still assumes you're using a 96 DPI monitor. Tho the rise of mobile phone has changed that it seems like the vast majority of the content consumed on mobile lends itself to being scaled to any DPI - eg.. movies, pi
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by hackit2 1y ago
In high social cohesion there is social pressure to adhere to reciprocation, how-ever this start breaking down above a certain human group size. Empathy like all emotions require effort and cognitive load, and without things being mutual yo
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by hackit2 1y ago
Sad to see what happened to the kid, but to point the finger at a language model is just laughable. It shows a complete breakdown of society and the caregivers entrusted with responsibility.
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by hackit2 1y ago
You forgot to add the cognitive load of needing to learning their business domain. Programming or working on code is very much like replaceable lego blocks, which are made up of your typical functional, procedural, queues, dictionaries, lin
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by hackit2 1y ago
I think you answered your own question. Question: How do people figure out how to deal with this world? Answer: People choose to plug themselves into a world of their choosing.
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by hackit2 1y ago
Then they gossip about that, then they gossip about the gossip. Its a feedback loop.
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by hackit2 1y ago
If you take a deep dive into it, there isn't really any truth or falsehoods, it mostly comes down to what can be reproduced, and what is practical or pragmatic for the situation.
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by hackit2 1y ago
I might be wrong but most disk controller report the file as written when it isn't actually written to the drive.
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by hackit2 2y ago
That is because all of the leading "science" is being done by private pharmaceutical companies, and businesses that have strict NDA's and security.
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by hackit2 2y ago
Kind of ironic that DeepSeek is more Open than ChatGPT
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by hackit2 2y ago
And the kebab circle of life is complete. People are ruthless when it comes to food prices/quality.
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by hackit2 2y ago
Makes perfect sense why it couldn't answer your question, you didn't have the vocabulary of relational algebra to correctly prime the model. Any rudimentary field have their own corpus vocabulary to express ideas and concepts spec
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by hackit2 2y ago
You've basically summed up most social media users habits and profiles.
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by hackit2 2y ago
Just wait till he has to deal with raid controllers.
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by hackit2 2y ago
I don't think it is anything to do with complexity, or grouping code/data, its just a natural tendency of people to categorize things together that display a high degree of class inclusion. And some categories are easier to deal w
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by hackit2 2y ago
Each party has their own valid argument that is why they're seeking the court to make a ruling. How-ever coercive threats of legal action is also in of itself constitute a encroachment of someone free will and statutory right which eve
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by hackit2 2y ago
> a half assed job A judge would automatically throw out the case if this was the argument for suing an employee. The reasoning being, if you continued to pay the employee during the term of their employment, and you knew that the employ
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by hackit2 2y ago
They're not the customer they're the product, their customer is clients who purchase advertisement space.
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by hackit2 2y ago
Here people like arguing their opinions as if they're facts instead of using evidence (public proof) to support their argument.

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