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superconduct123

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    Ask HN: What fiction books would you recommend for programmers?

    What are some fiction books that you think programmers especially would enjoy? Doesn't have to be but I'm interested as well if there are any that are written by programmers or eng…

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    Comment #46115599

    Also sometimes who gets to work on a future project is just based on perceived interest And not going to a meeting may be perceived that you aren't interested in that project

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    Comment #46083695

    Totally agree, I've found that as well working in big tech People focus way to much on the superficial stuff like code cleanliness, formatting, organization, local structure of the…

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    Comment #46049384

    I'm always surprised how big the population of Indonesia is yet it seems culturally underrepresented in the world compared to a lot of smaller countries Almost 300 million people b…

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    Comment #46010874

    Public school doesn't really represent "the real world" for everyone anyway If you go to university and into a professional career you end up in a different bubble of people than s…

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    Comment #45995118

    Anyone else feel like real-time strategy games with full 3D just never look as good as old 2D ones? I think its something about the perspective warping of the 3D camera that makes …

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    Comment #45880134

    People like different styles and different things than you Stay tuned for more mind blowing news at 11

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    Comment #45853581

    I don't understand, what prompted OpenAI recently to need this 1.4T investment?

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    Comment #45739000

    When I was younger I used to hate on popular things and be that guy who is like "how can anyone like this, this is objectively bad" (for example pop music) But I started a habit of…

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    Comment #45735868

    One thing I've noticed with the younger generation is they are much more analytical and "in their heads" They over-analyze and overthink everything a lot more than past generations…

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    Comment #45726620

    I think people were worn down over many years by traditional politicians and just wanted something different And then someone came in and took advantage of that

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    Comment #45724216

    You don't have to use energy to cool it though do you? Couldn't it just flow into a big passive outdoor radiator?

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    Comment #45684837

    > more information compression (see paper) => shorter context windows, more efficiency I'll ask the dumb question here How is that possible? Wouldn't different sizes of text/fonts/…

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    Comment #45683736

    You're taking the word cursed way too seriously This is just a list of things that can catch devs off guard

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    Comment #45624357

    Fair enough, I guess its a bit different nowadays since the background is usually a PhD in compsci

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    Comment #45620930

    I always get a weird feeling when AI researchers and CS people start talking about comparisons between human brains and AI/computers Why is there a presumption that we (as people w…

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    Comment #45607075

    I mean think of all the things a smartphone has to do nowadays, there's so much complexity

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    Ask HN: How has your experience been with iOS 26?

    After the recent update my phone (iPhone 13 Pro) has noticeable stutter in the UI pretty often.

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    Comment #45342610

    Thanks for asking, we're using AWS Bedrock to handle all that https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/

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    Comment #45030966

    Is that what game consoles have done for years?

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    Comment #44828132

    Do you prefer the non-stop AI spam that is typical on this site instead?

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    Comment #44805203

    How can you reason correctly if you don't have any way to know which facts are real vs hallucinated?

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    Comment #44750823

    Thought this was interesting, I guess the game itself is frostbite but the map editor will use the open source Godot engine just as an editor

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