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Re:How does AI impact my job as a programmer? on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @10:02AM (#40500863)
This sounds like a coping strategy with a bit of “trust me bro” sprinkled in. I would hope Rubyists and shitposters don’t form a Venn diagram but here we are.
That doesn’t sound surprising in light of people setting obtuse goals like reading N books per week/month/year.
> complete lack of familiarity with being alone with only ones thoughts for company for any period of time.

Riiiight…

Re:Antarctic Ice Shelf Spawns Iceberg A-83 on Monday May 27, 2024 @01:16AM (#40487777)
Please don’t cuss, we are not that kind of a message board. Thank you.

- Person looking forward to more ice shelves breaking off

Didn’t they also deplatform stormfront and a few others they didn’t like?
Re:100BASE-T4 over barbed wire (2001) on Saturday May 25, 2024 @07:57PM (#40478748)
In light of me prefacing electronics by saying “somewhere down the line,” I don’t see the quality in this comment.

While there are professions where half-way through you kind of have to go back to the early things you thought you knew, and examine them in a more educated light, I’ve yet to see one as egregious as this. Nobody past a certain very early cut off limit benefits from using water analogies, and there is a push in education right now to move past water analogies because too many students enter first year post secondary with, simply put, incorrect ideas, and it has teachers baffled.

Re:100BASE-T4 over barbed wire (2001) on Saturday May 25, 2024 @04:49PM (#40477755)
I’ll beat a bit of a dead horse with this one. This is why I’m not a big fan of water/pipe analogies when it comes to the study of electricity, electromagnetism and somewhere down the line electronics. While I understand early pioneers used “fluid” as a kind of hypothesis, I do not think they used them as analogies. I think they were trying to derive what was happening by comparing and seeing if their observations matched their line of thinking. All analogies break down relatively quickly the moment you attempt to work upwards from first principles (as we presently understand them which for all intents and purposes is “good enough” given we got many things to work just fine.)

The reality of the situation is far more impressive and engrossing if we attempt to truly get a handle on what is happening. Only then can we have a clearer idea of the nature of things like impedance and where/why/how the formulas that we use are derived from.

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Re:The Washington Post Tells Staff It's Pivoting to AI on Friday May 24, 2024 @08:00AM (#40465261)
Was anything of value lost?
Re:Act on Press on Thursday May 23, 2024 @10:26PM (#40462274)
Carmack just quit shitposting please. You’re not qualified to die on this hill.
Lol.

Long story short MO worked for and knew the circle of VCs that pg knew. MO didn’t like them, they didn’t like him calling them out. pg didn’t like him posting about them on HN.

The rest is history.

Hopefully you can see how an egregious conflict of interesting can occur here with sama.

Wait til you hear what happened to Michael O’Church.
Re:OpenAI just gave away the entire game on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @11:39PM (#40437074)
We need to find a way to deal with these shitposters. Reading these articles is a waste of time because there aren’t any publications that have a memory longer than the next press release or drama, then they pounce on it. But it’s lazy, it’s not journalistic and they’re just clickbait and bullshit. I’d like to see a system that actively punishes this shit. Maybe give Atlantic a time out from HN, I doubt they make a lot from us but oh boy do the posters here waste time they’ll never get back dancing to their fiddle.
RIP GDNet, what a slow motion train wreck.
Re:The War on Weeds on Sunday May 19, 2024 @09:31PM (#40411191)
It’s not intended to.
Which decompiler?
My buddy goes into schizophrenia episodes every time he goes for a long run. Any ideas?