Early 2024 is probably still 99.99% handcrafted text. Still, 2023-10 is probably the last pure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
they should point their AI swarm at quantum gravity now (only half tongue-in-cheek)
Good point - in a way, if we get AGI, investors have financed the way to their potential undoing. The term singularity is worn out, but the physics parallel is quite apt - a point where the known gears of economics stop…
C++ was complex already 15 years ago (template metaprogramming, anyone?). Can't imagine what it must be nowadays.
On the one hand, yes. That's why possession of a starlink terminal can get you killed in Iran. On the other hand, Ukrainians are finding out that someone else is in control of that starlink infra.
Seems like a false dichotomy, don't see how sacrificing jungle would get Brazil a top-tier semiconductor industry. And I guess the native peoples living in the Amazon are not university leftists. I'm not into Brazilian…
I offer my support for that theory. There's so many facets of reality, many of which no one will ever explore or understand. If you take a look at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa , it can be seen from so…
Kudos, that looks very good for a high school coding project (both visuals, and the code looks very well structured). I feel like half of all software devs started out like this - coding their own game. Crazy to imagine…
I got into SWE because I like solving problems. I like solving problems using code. I also like solving problems using AI. I have very mixed feelings. - AI lets me plough through issues which previously would require…
Doesn't bode well for all of us meatbags, actually. AI might now be better mathematicians (if that's even true for now). But if progress continues, it might be a better <your job here>, and even worse, wife, husband,…
Expectations have also increased. Friend from a middle class family grew up with 4 siblings in a 75m2 apartment. You'd get raised eyebrows for that today. Cheap food is still cheap. If some doomsday scenario ever comes…
Naively asked myself the same thing - how can the camera see through that clouded glass and the projector project through it?
Fully agree that programming for me brings along "a kind of brain rot". Hard to describe, but working deep in code just shifts the mind to a state that's ... less open, more focused, more obsessive ... and seeps into…
True, and here's an interesting twist: as you wrote, this is mainly happening due to "I think", so it's primarily on a memetic level. Humans also pass on lots of thought/behavioral aspects to their children (memes).…
If you've accidentally become a persona non grata, then obviously because you've not exercised sufficient self-censorship. This is real already. Recently saw a petition for EU to rein in big tech (there are several…
Pretty much the same here. A happy Ubuntu user for 4 years now. Here and there, there's still minor issues, but nothing a quick search or AI can't help you with. And we're hackers here after all.
For me that was already with the original DALL-e. It was utterly mindblowing, I was like "oh shit, AI is here". "Draw a picture of a unicorn on the moon". And it did that. The model really "understood" what you told it.…
Veracrypt e.g. has had this for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability
I'm considering using a second phone for increased security. As you say, only put banking apps on them, leave it at home. The larger population is getting pushed towards banking on the phone, and on top of that, many…
In Western Europe this is also quite pronounced. In Białystok, Poland, solar noon is at 11:39. In Vigo, Spain, it's at 13:46, . Being in favor of all-year DST (more sun in the evening is just nice), nice to see that…
Started the Visual Basic dev env, added a button to the form, MsgBox "Hello World", and it worked. So simple, so easy. Those were the days.
It looks like the difference between the Boston Dynamics robots 2016 vs 2021 The Spot dog (which inspired the Black Mirror "Metalhead" episode) in 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng Atlas doing backflips…
The good thing is, with AI scraping everything today, it will be incorporated into the AI - so your content will continue to exist in the weights. In that way, your thoughts will live on ...
My favorite: near the Bering strait you can see the distortion of the map - obviously ships go in straight lines on a sphere but in a curve on the map.
As you say, in moderation. That also applies to red meat, considering the adverse effects listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat
Early 2024 is probably still 99.99% handcrafted text. Still, 2023-10 is probably the last pure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
they should point their AI swarm at quantum gravity now (only half tongue-in-cheek)
Good point - in a way, if we get AGI, investors have financed the way to their potential undoing. The term singularity is worn out, but the physics parallel is quite apt - a point where the known gears of economics stop…
C++ was complex already 15 years ago (template metaprogramming, anyone?). Can't imagine what it must be nowadays.
On the one hand, yes. That's why possession of a starlink terminal can get you killed in Iran. On the other hand, Ukrainians are finding out that someone else is in control of that starlink infra.
Seems like a false dichotomy, don't see how sacrificing jungle would get Brazil a top-tier semiconductor industry. And I guess the native peoples living in the Amazon are not university leftists. I'm not into Brazilian…
I offer my support for that theory. There's so many facets of reality, many of which no one will ever explore or understand. If you take a look at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa , it can be seen from so…
Kudos, that looks very good for a high school coding project (both visuals, and the code looks very well structured). I feel like half of all software devs started out like this - coding their own game. Crazy to imagine…
I got into SWE because I like solving problems. I like solving problems using code. I also like solving problems using AI. I have very mixed feelings. - AI lets me plough through issues which previously would require…
Doesn't bode well for all of us meatbags, actually. AI might now be better mathematicians (if that's even true for now). But if progress continues, it might be a better <your job here>, and even worse, wife, husband,…
Expectations have also increased. Friend from a middle class family grew up with 4 siblings in a 75m2 apartment. You'd get raised eyebrows for that today. Cheap food is still cheap. If some doomsday scenario ever comes…
Naively asked myself the same thing - how can the camera see through that clouded glass and the projector project through it?
Fully agree that programming for me brings along "a kind of brain rot". Hard to describe, but working deep in code just shifts the mind to a state that's ... less open, more focused, more obsessive ... and seeps into…
True, and here's an interesting twist: as you wrote, this is mainly happening due to "I think", so it's primarily on a memetic level. Humans also pass on lots of thought/behavioral aspects to their children (memes).…
If you've accidentally become a persona non grata, then obviously because you've not exercised sufficient self-censorship. This is real already. Recently saw a petition for EU to rein in big tech (there are several…
Pretty much the same here. A happy Ubuntu user for 4 years now. Here and there, there's still minor issues, but nothing a quick search or AI can't help you with. And we're hackers here after all.
For me that was already with the original DALL-e. It was utterly mindblowing, I was like "oh shit, AI is here". "Draw a picture of a unicorn on the moon". And it did that. The model really "understood" what you told it.…
Veracrypt e.g. has had this for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability
I'm considering using a second phone for increased security. As you say, only put banking apps on them, leave it at home. The larger population is getting pushed towards banking on the phone, and on top of that, many…
In Western Europe this is also quite pronounced. In Białystok, Poland, solar noon is at 11:39. In Vigo, Spain, it's at 13:46, . Being in favor of all-year DST (more sun in the evening is just nice), nice to see that…
Started the Visual Basic dev env, added a button to the form, MsgBox "Hello World", and it worked. So simple, so easy. Those were the days.
It looks like the difference between the Boston Dynamics robots 2016 vs 2021 The Spot dog (which inspired the Black Mirror "Metalhead" episode) in 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng Atlas doing backflips…
The good thing is, with AI scraping everything today, it will be incorporated into the AI - so your content will continue to exist in the weights. In that way, your thoughts will live on ...
My favorite: near the Bering strait you can see the distortion of the map - obviously ships go in straight lines on a sphere but in a curve on the map.
As you say, in moderation. That also applies to red meat, considering the adverse effects listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat