pkilgore

Joined 9 years ago

Karma
3,417
Submissions
586
Member since
Jun 5
I used to code for fun. Then I used to be a high-stakes patent litigator. But I hated that, so now I am an engineer. And I still code for fun.

[email protected]

View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 6 days ago
If you can't be assed to write even the marketing for a thing you want me to buy I'll never be assed to even try it.
Comment · 16 days ago
I mean cool, but why HN? Reddit is that way.
Comment · 17 days ago
Comment · 22 days ago
Congrats!
Comment · 26 days ago
I was always taught: Read good books, that's how you'll write.

I don't even really care AI or human if its written like this. I would rather do anything else than continue reading.

Comment · 29 days ago
It lawfare against porn. They don't want these companies to exist. They want it to be impossible to comply with the law to shut them down.
Comment · 29 days ago
Whoa. Does this prohibit things like Summoning Salt documentaries with the data too?
Comment · 1 month ago
And that's great! It's what I meant by some brains being wired exactly right for it. I can recognize it as being very right for some people! But something about it was very wrong for me, and clearly many others. I wish I understood it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Ha! Yeah, I probably got the soul/game bit backwards. I'm not a game developer so I don't know the specifics but I've never seen something so damn ambitious pulled off to the extent I've seen in NMS for my brief interactions with it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Not sure it matters when devin is the most consistently shit product I've used. And yes, I tried again, they wasted the money on the billboards.
Comment · 1 month ago
NMS is an amazing game with no soul. A metaverse. A monument to technology without the depth or people or narrative (prewritten or emergent) that makes it interesting.

I'm certain there are some people whose brain is wired exactly right to love it.

But I have more fun playing the n100th Call of Duty clone hearing real voices on the headset in a tight, fun game loop.

But the company behind it deserves to be applauded. Might be the best value for money / care / support of any game, especially one so poorly received initially...

Comment · 1 month ago
This was an interesting read, in that it was obvious both that Claude was used in part for the prose but that a human had definitely edited some of the worst claudish out of it (but not enough for me to be able to tell).

Confirmed in that last paragraph. Just interesting to me I can detect gradations of AI speak at this point.

Comment · 1 month ago
This site is pure slop?
Comment · 2 months ago
Well the one thing I know about lawyers:

Utterly impossible to get them to write a dishonest guidance document interpreting the law in a way that benefits them somehow.

You got me. Check mate. No counterarguments here.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton