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Re:Kimchi Refrigerator on Friday January 10, 2025 @07:33PM (#42662093)
Kimchi is garbage.
Re:Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects on Saturday January 04, 2025 @04:54PM (#42597966)
You must have low standards then. This is something that anyone can do. It's like making a hammer from scratch with iron you dug up from an old mine. I mean how innovative is that really?
Re:Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects on Saturday January 04, 2025 @01:13PM (#42596528)
This is the computer science equivalent of making a straight up sock puppet with googly eyes.
Re:Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:01PM (#42591966)
It's "optimizing things to prove you are smrt" (yes that was deliberate). Playing a complicated game only proves you are wasting your time. For half that effort you can learn something helpful
Re:A path to O1 open source on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:26PM (#42591764)
No not really. The totalitarian police state which puts more people in concentration camps than the Nazis ever did and their shitty social credit system. Fuck them.
Re:Ask HN: Share your "LLM screwed us over" stories? on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:22AM (#42585871)
Give me a real example of something in computer science they can't do? I'm interested since Chatgpt is better than any professor I've had at any level in my educational career.
Re:Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers on Monday December 30, 2024 @05:54PM (#42554458)
Factorio is literally the worst game on earth. Stop giving it so much airtime
Re:Another Burnout Post on Friday October 18, 2024 @05:41PM (#41883762)
You know what? If you don't like your job I'll take it. Seriously that's what I wanted to do since I was a teenager. Now I spend my time counting other people's money. That's an even worse life.
Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @03:12PM (#41249484)
And where is this information that this random group supposedly has? I have yet to see proof of that being real
Re:Chromium has over 1600 command-line switches on Monday July 29, 2024 @08:57PM (#41105146)
This is amazing. My kind of program
Re:OpenAI Announces SearchGPT on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:58PM (#41072120)
Because reading nonsense inside an infinite debatable context is fun. I know what you're talking about and frankly I'm not impressed.

You know why people like these chat systems? Because it straight up saves time. When a system is made it to indexable, "context dependent", and "creating a certain experience" it just begs to be summarized and made to be something you can use. That interpretable work is.... Pointlessly difficult.

A good example: discord. A vast number of communities are designed to be "experiences" where you have to pour hours of your time to adapt to their little fiefdoms if you wanted to obtain any useful information in the form of important information on a topic. Try doing this in any serious fashion and you will quickly be wasting more of your time than you want.

Yeah so maybe chatgpt gives you the occasional incorrect fact. I haven't had that happen in any way, shape, or form. Furthermore: just be critical of your information. Not hard, and they are already working on fixing that.

Especially for people that are bonafide adults time is worth more than "the pride of human work".

Re:OpenAI Announces SearchGPT on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:34PM (#41071858)
I clearly would not. "Slow down your site" because information is super useful when you can't search it properly.
It's stupid and unnecessary
And the peer reviewed science for this being true is where? Sorry personal anecdotes don't count
Yeah "positive thinking and going with the flow will fix disease". Tell me: why didn't everyone 1000 years ago live to be a hundred everywhere? Oh that's right: because it's not that simple.
Re:Show HN: ChatGPT UI for Rabbit Holes on Thursday May 30, 2024 @10:33AM (#40524241)
Source code?
Re:Show HN: ChatGPT UI for Rabbit Holes on Thursday May 30, 2024 @10:28AM (#40524167)
?
Re:Show HN: ChatGPT UI for Rabbit Holes on Thursday May 30, 2024 @10:28AM (#40524164)
I love how it feels like obsidian
Re:All About Todd S Burnham on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:25PM (#18888539)
Some kind of elaborate blackmail?
Re:Why Jim Yong Kim's move has shaked up the world bank on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:56PM (#18888390)
Blocked behind a paywall
Re:Ask HN: What VPN Service do you recommend? on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:12PM (#18888114)
Windscribe: https://windscribe.com/signup I got a vastly discounted "lifetime" signup for them (seems to be good until 2028 on the expiry page but whatever).
Re:KiCad: A commitment to freedom on Saturday October 15, 2016 @06:06AM (#12713446)
Most of your post is Greek: tracks, vias, copper zones. I'm not sure how anyone can make an abstract design for an entire circuit board from scratch, it how to put one together.