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ramesh31

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    Maybe play around with CPU inference on smaller models too. Frontier models are probably overkill for simple language responses at this point; I suspect you could get pretty good r…

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    >Btw, almost all of Javascript's good parts come from Smalltalk. Like what, exactly? I'm genuinely curious. There is no root object or message passing in JS, and the OO aspects are…

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    Comment #49222512

    Hudson Valley real estate is the best kept secret in the US. Plenty of places with good schools and a sub-1hr train commute to Manhattan can be had for under $500k still. Westchest…

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    Comment #49222313

    >This is surprising to read in a world where we got Blue Prince, Expedition 33, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 in the same year. Note that none of these were made in the US like M…

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    Comment #49160191

    >"This would of been cool back in 2014." Pretty much. UI libraries are more or less meaningless now, and I say this as someone who spent the last decade building them. Given a prop…

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    Comment #49156854

    >"If this has all drifted into bummertown, it’s because many of Hollywood’s problems can be traced back to a single economic theory of everything: the rent is too damn high. From t…

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    Comment #49122328

    >"This is a well-known author, but how come he thinks AI is better at writing? AI writing makes me vomit." Most of all writing makes me want to vomit. It's not impossible to write …

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    Comment #49121981

    >"Certainly Christopher Nolan thinks so since he was willing to put up with the hassle of the IMAX gear for months on end (including airlifting them up to top of mountains), but wh…

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    Comment #48996931

    >"How many times can we have the same discussion." Until the people wishing it to be true are thoroughly sated. The reality is that this is the end of programming as a large scale …

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    Comment #48907582

    This is the best advice I've read on HN in a long time. Kudos to those with FU money who can ignore it, but this is how you stay employed and thrive in a corporate environment.

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    Comment #48826419

    >"So what do you / your team do?" Probably the hard part; figuring out what the heck to actually build, talking to customers, and figuring out whether it's actually working for peo…

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    Comment #48822903

    >"It was easier, I imagine. Now you can vibe code your way out, no?" Coding was always the easy part of a CS major. Claude won't help you on a proctored Differential Equations exam…

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    >codebases for production code will be so low in quality that they will be unintelligible to humans, and LLMs, too, will have trouble maintaining them The concern for code quality …

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    Comment #48766285

    To each his own I guess. There was nothing more frustrating than walking away from a CC session you expected to churn away at for an hour and coming back to a user question sitting…

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    Comment #48765674

    That "+" is making me really nervous. Is this just a naming quirk, or the start of them trying to monetize Vite? If the latter, this is a dark day for frontend dev.

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    Comment #48736098

    It's only half the full model price, $30/m output: https://cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/ge... Nano Banana is head and shoulders above the rest, but still too s…

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    Comment #48682870

    >" After a lot of researched I was quite surprised that the mac was the cheapest option. So not always an Apple tax." Apple has always been the most cost effective choice for the v…

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    Do they actually have solid delivery dates yet? This still reeks of vaporware to me.