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by sph 3d ago
There is more to creative arts than raking in billions.
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by sph 3d ago
Why wouldn't a Formula 1 driver enjoy self-driving race cars?
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by sph 3d ago
Thank you, but we're discussing who's the worse to decide the fate of humanity between Amodei, Musk and Altman, not if one should be afraid of their local librarian. All three currently hold a lot of power in their hands. Though I
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by sph 3d ago
At which point does this argument stop being valid? Is the project manager the one that created the product? Is it the CEO that is paying the people to? Is it the bank that has granted the loan to build the company? In my view, the one that
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by sph 4d ago
Somehow I’m more afraid of it being in the hands of Altman, with his ‘I’m creating a better world for everyone’ god complex, than Musk who is just a run-of-the-mill sociopathic nerd. There is no one is more dangerous than one who believes
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by sph 4d ago
What is newsworthy about a Twitter conversation between two randos?
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by sph 4d ago
Yes, and they’re being a bit too obvious about it.
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by sph 5d ago
He's not wrong. It would still be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang, than the daily press releases or manufactured Twitter drama by OpenAI and Anthropic to generate hype for their IPO. We will just have to close an eye
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by sph 6d ago
I don't think it's because of the 'average developer', but because system's like OP's were designed by experienced engineers, while the modern toolchain is written by "senior developers" with 3 years
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by sph 6d ago
You should become a doomer. Apart from the doom and gloom, the company is great and, I dare say, genuine.
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by sph 6d ago
$1999 dollaroos? Yeah, no thanks.
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by sph 6d ago
It'll pop up elsewhere so might as well keep it online on their servers. And it's an old version of the OS anyway. If it were the Windows 11 source, it'd get nuked immediately
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by sph 7d ago
Unironically, yes. It takes courage to take a stance and go against the grain at the cost of social ostracism.
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by sph 7d ago
It’s the first comment I read in years that doesn’t go “I’m 60 and I’m back to programming again, and having a lot of fun” which make my eyes roll out of their orbits.
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by sph 7d ago
Did you mean Gentoo?
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by sph 7d ago
Nor being an astronomer makes you able to predict every asteroids’ trajectory. Yet anyone in tech with a Claude sub has decided that AI super-intelligence is impossible and it’s stupid to even worry about it.
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by sph 7d ago
In other words, most people have terrible taste.
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by sph 7d ago
Do you have like concrete proof this is not the case? We do not. We haven’t yet met higher intelligences. You have no basis to call it a bias.
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by sph 7d ago
> it's about delivering a high quality product and no one can do that anymore without AI tools Citation needed.
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by sph 7d ago
> Im sick of this becoming middleman between my manager and the AI All to eventually fire you if the manager can just do everything themselves, if the AI hype hold up.
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by sph 7d ago
That sounds hellish
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by sph 7d ago
There is more to software engineering than solving code puzzles. What about debugging, writing clean code, writing effective tests, architecture, optimization, profiling etc.? None of these are exercised by doing leetcode. Use it or lose it
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by sph 7d ago
> It's cliche because every generation has said the exact same thing about the previous generation. So this means that we have decided a priori that life can only improve in all aspects? That’s evidently absurd. This is called a tho
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Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?
70 points by sph 7d ago|93 comments
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by sph 7d ago
Ageism is a problem that has been getting increasingly worse as I got older…
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by sph 7d ago
I was about to downvote you because I read your username as reply to OP’s comment. To add: at what point we stop dismissing the culture of our ancestors that we have lost as mere nostalgia? I hate how we cannot have a serious discussion abo
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by sph 7d ago
Thank you for being the only one to include the opening line of a book to pique my interest. And piqued it is. I have enjoyed The Wasp Factory (haven't read his scifi yet), and this sounds as exciting. I should really give Consider Phl
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by sph 7d ago
I've done use-package, straight, quelpa, tried elpaca a few years back when the hype grew and it was a buggy mess, back to use-package when it was merged into core. I'm tired boss. There's a little too much churn I feel these
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by sph 7d ago
How many are trying desperately to leave it?
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by sph 7d ago
It's a delicate balance like the Ballmer Peak. Too much or too little problems in childhood and you don't get the incredible drive of these types. With my own 'difficult' childhood all I got was, according to Gabor Maté,

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