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You may be going through the same crisis that chess masters went through decades ago. But chess didn't die because engines were better, in fact there has never been more people int…

This feels like a new phase for open source. I think screening people to join development efforts will become the norm, at least for resource-constrained projects. Trust will have …

I once had a very weird experience on LSD (of course), in which I perceived my brain and thinking as a bunch of separate entities working in synchrony. Only two of them were capabl…

The battery concerns are just a ridiculous excuse. E-bikes are allowed in public transport.

I really wanted an e-scooter to help my shorter routes here in Germany, but the legislation is quite unfriendly to it now. I need insurance and can't carry it in public transport. …

Marketing has such a gigantic influence in our field. It is absolutely insane. It feels unavoidable, since IT is (was?) constantly filled with new blood that picks up where people …

In principle, they could make such responses part of their training data. I guess it is just easier to do it through prompting.

I think newer developers really need to learn that you can actually do production stuff using bare tools. It is not crazy, especially in the beginning, and it will save you a ton o…

Society is lacking people that stand up for something. My efforts to consume less is seen as being cheap by my family, which I find so sad. I much prefer donating my money than exc…

A quick way to make me not respect someone's economic opinion is to mention the "Efficient Market Hypothesis." This should be buried 7 palms underground.

Microsoft products are decreasing in quality at an astounding rate. You can clearly see that sales people took over the whole company.

This is a fatalistic attitude, but I can totally get behind. It has become harder to associate my job with contributing with society.

I've heard once that Americans distrust their government and trust their corporations, while Europeans distrust their corporations and trust their government. I honestly think that…

I remember my first programming class, where the exam required students to solve problems in Pascal on paper. I see no problems in this approach. I still think pen and paper is kin…

At the university, you are supposed to learn the foundational knowledge. If you let the LLM do the work, you are simply not learning. There are no shortcuts. And learning how to us…

We have to train ourselves to not be pissed off at headlines. They are most of the time bait.

That's a tip I recommend people to try when they are using LLMs to solve stuff. Instead of asking "how to..", ask "what alternatives are there to...". A top-k answer is way better,…

That reminds me of my father calling the mobile phone and laptop issued to him as the "dunce kit", so he could work at home as well. He used to say that since the 90s, ahaha.

Overall, I had a pretty bad experience with ALVR. I never managed to figure out the cause of stuttering on mine. I wished Meta would support Linux.

There are simply too many games, and many genres are underserved by AAA studios.

The only game I tried on Steam that didn't work was Slave Zero, a game from the 90s. Unfortunately, I still have to use Windows for VR games. It is too troublesome on Linux (at lea…

OR it could be that we find the sweet spot because it's the spot we feel the best.

I moved to Europe years ago, and I am still baffled by how IT in general is perceived, even by some professionals. When I compare a project like Bevy running with a yearly budget o…

One of the biggest problems in environmental education (imo) is the lack of notion regarding the footprint of products and services we consume daily; from the water and CO2 costs o…

I've been around long enough to see this saying that "As soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore" in action many times. It is almost infuriating how dismissive people are of s…