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cpill

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    Comment #49225319

    yeah, most ppl I know just don't go on social media. but they are grown-ups now... life is fine without it.

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    Comment #49188858

    oh no, all of those technologies die on their own merits a long time ago. they were basically over engineered and bloated and horrible to work with.

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    Comment #49092888

    I guess the really hard part about game engineers isn't writing them, it's making them portable to more than platform, which is the really boring, tedious, expensive part. this is …

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    Comment #49092846

    so in theory, one could program a game in python and then complete and distribute one binary for everyone?

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    Comment #49091140

    can't we just make RSS cool again?!

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    Comment #49090115

    the point is that they are not mutually exclusive. you can have both. just don't put all your eggs in the corporate basket

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    Comment #49090085

    the point is that they are not mutually exclusive. you can have both. just don't put all your eggs in the corporate basket

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    Comment #49040196

    I think small, ma and pa businesses who don't know anything about software engineering will still need support.

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    Comment #49012747

    yeah! more plz

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    Comment #49012486

    yes! I really find when computer science ppl start using math notation to describe algorithm very pretentious. we have programming languages in comp sci, we don't need it!

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    Comment #48810011

    I did some research on this about 10 years ago. I spent 2 days hand labelling data from scraped news sites. Then built a good old fashioned Random Forest model to classify html nod…

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    Comment #48800296

    yeah, me too. I usually ask it to do a code review using SOLID standards and it usually does a good job, if not a little overkill sometimes.

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    Comment #48627753

    considering the amount of money they are making on Minecraft there is almost no forward momentum with the game. the tech is so dated that you have to go to mods to get basic perfor…

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    Comment #48625043

    I think once the hardware process comes down and these mini DGXs become cheaper, and by then open models still be smaller and better, there is going to be less and less reason to u…

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    Comment #48182693

    funny that he put "cleaver" and "lazy" at the top :D

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    Comment #48182632

    I guess with crime you have both going on. the majority is crime born from economic circumstances, but there are a small percentage which are just crazy mf

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    Comment #48164358

    I love PG... but the covers stink. Should have a public competition to have new ones made and voted on. I'm willing to vibe code a website to make it happen if you're willing...

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    Comment #47944444

    or use a hybrid approach and have the best of both https://youtu.be/1vB3JXzewx0?si=DWKNgPcJcz5u4Bkp

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    Comment #47942460

    yeah, but everyone can use the coding agents, not everyone can choose well. the rarer the skill the more you get paid for it. also, the better you code the better the results you g…

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    Comment #47868762

    yeah, but they don't support a lot of the features Claude does like MCP integration. we've booked this up to logfire (telemetry provider) and it's a game changer when doing optimis…

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    Comment #47856809

    these are unfair comparisons. it's not just a single laptop running all day it's all the graphic designer laptops that get replaced. it's not a single container of painting supplie…

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    Comment #47593961

    please! nobody uses Xpath (coz json killed XML), it RDF (semantic web never happened, and one ever 10years is not fast), schema.org (again, nobody cares), PNG: no change in the las…

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    Comment #47568086

    Word Bro! Regex is so simple to read and easy to get right... and its like if Immanuel Kant wrote find and replace, yeah, learn a new language to do a single function... yEAH! 98% …

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    Comment #47281220

    I think the best example I've seen of the pipeline approach: ASR(STT) -> LLM -> TTS is still from about 10 months ago in HN https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat Just a pity …