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hackit2

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About hackit2

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    Comment #47407851

    Yup, it makes me think that the whole bubble/marketing about how AI is going to revolutionize business and managers can just fire or make redundant 80% of their developers because …

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    Comment #47395323

    I spent more time correcting LLMs or agentics systems than just learning the domain and doing the coding myself. I mainly leave LLM to the boring work of doing tedious repetitive c…

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    Comment #47162097

    That can be so far from the truth it hurts thinking about it. Governments passed laws that mandated that businesses must legally comply with DOJ or Government Investigates on peopl…

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    Comment #47117340

    I'm not concerned, they're accelerating research and development into hardware and more optimal models. People forget that you can locally host some of the early models quantized t…

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    Comment #47070645

    I've all-ways asked the managers can you kindly disclose all confidential business information. In which they obviously respond with condescending remarks. Then I respond with, the…

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    Comment #47068400

    Not surprised, I work in Academia and there is a push from the Business side to start marking essays and performing lectures with ChatGPT/AI. I have my own personal reservation abo…

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    Comment #46941889

    I recently went down that rabbit hole, just look up how often embedded devices use fixed-point arithmetic to compensate for the lack of FPU units on the chips.

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    Comment #46896169

    When I started with the gaming industry (Operation Flashpoint), I was coming in near the end of fixed point arithmetic where floating point units where becoming more common as part…

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    Comment #46881759

    The plan is to put everything into a repo on github, this includes documentation on the file format, and also the rewrite of the original code in modern C++ and DirectX or Vulkan. …

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    Comment #46881190

    It isn't that hard. I'm currently reverse engineering a old flight simulator game called A-10 Cuba. I had to teach myself X86 Assembly, and understand basic calling convention. The…

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    Comment #45894874

    In his own words he all-ready got early feedback from his family. "I tried the local Iranian market. I showed it to friends, family, and potential clients. Their response: "Nobody …

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    Comment #45575418

    Most of the internet still assumes you're using a 96 DPI monitor. Tho the rise of mobile phone has changed that it seems like the vast majority of the content consumed on mobile le…

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    Comment #45036202

    In high social cohesion there is social pressure to adhere to reciprocation, how-ever this start breaking down above a certain human group size. Empathy like all emotions require e…

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    Comment #45035788

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    Comment #45035775

    Sad to see what happened to the kid, but to point the finger at a language model is just laughable. It shows a complete breakdown of society and the caregivers entrusted with respo…

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    Comment #44352330

    You forgot to add the cognitive load of needing to learning their business domain. Programming or working on code is very much like replaceable lego blocks, which are made up of yo…

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    Comment #44286757

    I think you answered your own question. Question: How do people figure out how to deal with this world? Answer: People choose to plug themselves into a world of their choosing.

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    Comment #44264889

    Then they gossip about that, then they gossip about the gossip. Its a feedback loop.

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    Comment #43866701

    If you take a deep dive into it, there isn't really any truth or falsehoods, it mostly comes down to what can be reproduced, and what is practical or pragmatic for the situation.

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    Comment #43444327

    I might be wrong but most disk controller report the file as written when it isn't actually written to the drive.

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    Comment #43168365

    That is because all of the leading "science" is being done by private pharmaceutical companies, and businesses that have strict NDA's and security.

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    Comment #43167927

    Kind of ironic that DeepSeek is more Open than ChatGPT

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    Comment #43167913

    And the kebab circle of life is complete. People are ruthless when it comes to food prices/quality.

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    Comment #43156298

    Makes perfect sense why it couldn't answer your question, you didn't have the vocabulary of relational algebra to correctly prime the model. Any rudimentary field have their own co…

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    Comment #43123354

    You've basically summed up most social media users habits and profiles.