stephc_int13

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by stephc_int13 25d ago
TUI are often inferior to GUI from a user perspective, but not necessarily by much. On the other hand, they are easier to build in a cross platform manner. Linux is probably the most difficult platform to build GUI for, because of all the f
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by stephc_int13 26d ago
As with many things, only time will tell. Zig seems to be most prominent C alternative today, well funded, with some high-profile support, excellent engineering and both a loyal fanbase and haters. That said, as longtime C user, I've b
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by stephc_int13 2mo ago
François Chollet made an interesting geometric analogy on Twitter. We tend to view Intelligence as something unbounded, like the height of a pole. But it could be something closer to the roundness of a polished sphere. Once close to the lim
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by stephc_int13 2mo ago
I also recoiled a bit when I say that Lutke was on the investors list.
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by stephc_int13 2mo ago
It was going in the water anyway, but yeah, it touched visibly faster than it should have.
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by stephc_int13 2mo ago
I fully agree with that. Past experience has shown what while Turing complete config is powerful, it is also a double edged sword and I would be wary of using it.
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by stephc_int13 2mo ago
I admit I was a little bit curious about DOGE and its outcome, as a software guy I've seen huge amount of bureaucratic inefficiencies, sometimes wondering how some companies could survive wasting all that money for nothing. I've a
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
Zuckerberg was barely adult when he started Facebook. And he probably bumped into a few older guys who thought they knew better than him, and history proved them wrong. He likely developed some irrational belief that clever and young beats
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
It is the same reasoning as with the regular Decimation. It is all about disciplining their employees. And it works. We're not saying many ex or current Meta employees talking about their experiences here, even if I am sure that HN is
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
He is one of the well known netcode guy. But from the few interactions I had with him I would say he is quite abrasive, stubborn and probably somewhat on the spectrum. But there is a special kind of unpleasantness in writing/debugging
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
The trajectory of id software is interesting. The company was successful, had one of the most prestigious brand in the game industry, was early enough to capitalize on the rise of PC gaming, incredible talents and tech. Yet it didn't t
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
I think the rationale is that they are already using typical car factory automation, but they see a huge potential market for general purpose robotics in the coming decades, they don't need the humanoids, they are simply dogfooding a f
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Optimizing a C collision detection 100x with an LLM(twitter.com)
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
I am not one of them but quite a few programmers prefer not having to use the mouse at all when working. The terminal is an old but astonishingly powerful user interface that is still evolving. Good terminals can be very snappy and configur
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
It can be used for many things. But the main use is reverse engineering.
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
I tried it a few times and was not convinced by the autocomplete. I found it less effective than free copilot autocomplete on vanilla VSCode.
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
If you think about it states are not much different than corporations. Taxes is human labor dedicated to the maintenance of state. I think it is naive to think that once humans are not needed they will magically be fed by the machines.
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
If you own a factory, what you see is a big box with input and output, human labor is just an annoying variable, removing it won't turn the entire thing "free". The owner will still expect to trade the output for something el
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
You missed the point entirely. What fuels the economy, for now, is human work. Being a consumer simply means that you are heavily incentivised to take part (by working). If machines can do the same or better, whoever owns them will end-up s
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
Otherwise you could say that humans are working for free as well, as they can cultivate their own food and even build themselves by making babies.
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
Of course, but none of them is working for free, each consume energy and materials.
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
It is never really “for free”. It appears free because machines, like perfect slaves, don’t ask to be paid for work. They still need to be fed though, energy, iron, etc. No matter how you turn it, it can’t be free. Meaning you can’t benefit
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
I genuinely have no idea how that transition would happen. And I agree that it would pose many unforeseen challenges. This is why the transition is the interesting part, not the sci-fi end game with a world populated with billions of robots
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
No, you don’t feed machines with bitcoins or any kind of currency, you feed them with Joules, Iron, Copper, rare earths etc.
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
Yes, the transition is unlikely to be linear and without conflict, if this was ever possible. But I am sure that some would be happy to control armies of bots and very few humans.
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
I have not, but I am curious. I think the end-state is not that interesting, but the transition could not happen overnight and seems both difficult technically and would be unlikely to happen without a fight.
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
The idea of a consumer based economy has always appeared dumb to me. The reason why the masses should consume is to motivate them to work. And the reason why having a large amount of people working is that human work has been producing a s
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
The issue with billionaires is that some of them got insanely rich while being net negative from a societal perspective. The most famous ones ended-up in prison (Sam Bankman Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, Jeffrey Epstein, Bernie Madoff) but anyon
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
The merge could be named Musk Industries, quite fitting considering his hubris and association with comic books.
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by stephc_int13 3mo ago
Not the same solar panels. As with most equipment, the constraints are very different in space/orbit, and the suppliers are not the same.

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