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A newly discovered presentation of the Demon's Souls prototype version and planning documents showing first-person gameplay as well as many other small differences from the final p…

> Any recipe R that uses LOOKUP automatically works with all the data structures that LOOKUP works with, even though R itself may be a specific recipe for a specific data structure…

i wonder if people who use llm's for business critical documentation would have the same opinion, and if so why?

its almost as if we over-financialized our economy...

> Bubbles are not good. They are harmful. bubbles are bad for society too; families get thrown out on the street, big players/individuals buy all the cheap/discounted assets furthe…

> gained something as high as 20% gains all other things being held constant, i suppose it should be as easy as +20% profit rate? tho im not an executive so what do i know...

it may just be actually incredible what they are doing. on the other hand it could also be absolutely insane...

> “hey, do you REALLY want me to use this local privilege escalation bug so I can download your Google Drive file?” yes, this exactly but, there is a fatigue that sets in and i've …

> What seems like a manageable margin suddenly starts growing and destroying everything probably where the 1 trillion+ dollar valuations are coming from.... lots of thick saas marg…

> And that is how almost every successful company that uses AWS eventually ends up paying six-figures or more annually. the best thing to do is avoid the first cigarette (but every…

> The ROI is besides the point. It's about breaking the spirit of engineering labor with irrational decisions made outside of their control. it may be where you are at (not disagre…

i've seen this kind of thing nearly first hand and have similar sentiments... btw, my manager in that conversation later said "it doesn't matter, all code will be done by ai, so we…

> just because the UI frameworks are too hard/unfamiliar i'm not sure if thats the biggest issue. working at a few large companies that had to support multiple platforms, the manag…

> You can't rely solely on technology to solve problems rooted in human nature. i just reply to highlight this; so many people don't get this...

> it mostly turned into animated brochures instead just my crazy opinion but it was inevitable unless there was some law to prevent commercialization (in the ad sense) of the inter…

your argument is basically: the industry is moving to it so we should get on board or be left behind it would be more convincing if you had concrete examples of technical merit and…

this matches my experience at $work with others as well... when i brought this up with my manager they just said "you need to engineer a better harness" and "aren't you cultivating…

> They update the docs every year. it doesn't help that docs are utter garbage... the fact everything is slopped into a video is so annoying

> If Apple had embraced reactive programming 15 years ago, SwiftUI would be UIKit's new layout system, not a whole new API. apple/obj-c had bindings and automatic ui updates more t…

this is basically the settings app in mac os

i love swift, but i can't help but feel the same... after all this time we still can't get good error messages or fast incremental compilation; it just feels like we are boiling th…

> accelerator cards that you're able to purchase and plug into via usb-c that are able to achieve thousands of tok/s how do you update that baked-in model for things that have happ…

well, that is a problem with automation in general i think; if you go too far instead of a simple process a complicated processes get encoded in the automation and if it hits an ed…

> Well, it wouldn't work for politicians that pick decisions based on what end benfit they get. Would work fine for people. Would need actually honest media tho one idea i have toy…