throwaway675309

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This is a strictly fire-and-forget account, do not expect any follow up to the comments posted here. It is intended to make people aware of dissension in certain issues while minimizing personal stress as I do not read or even check for the existence of any subsequent replies.

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Comment · 11 months ago

I noticed you pointed out that the logo was "hand-drawn in Procreate". Is the code the same or were portions of it generated using an LLM (which was almost assuredly trained on lots of copyrighted data without the consent of the original authors and writers)?

I wouldn't have even brought it up if the artisanal declaration hadn't been explicitly called out.

I find the logic of AI art != okay, but AI code == okay, a bit inconsistent.

Comment · 11 months ago

Agreed. That's half the reason that no matter how accurate a virtual synthesizer can be (like the Mac App Moog Model D), there's just no substitute for being able to physically fiddle the knobs and dials.

Comment · 11 months ago

I have a rough time calculating how much more productive AI tooling has made me, because when it does save me time (simple mocking, greenfielding, proof-of-concept), - it saves me a ton of time. Conversely when it fails hard on me I can lose a lot of time and also patience.

The trick is developing the intuition to know when to cut your losses early and instead of continuing to fight the LLM, just implement it yourself.

Comment · 1 year ago

This entire post reeks of astroturfing - almost every single comment here is from accounts with 1 karma. OP didn't even take the time to remove the em-dashes from the blatantly obvious LLM generated text.

Comment · 1 year ago

It's a fun little game - the minimalistic UI/UX suits it well. I'd consider lowering the volume on the music. It doesn't really feel like it suits a casual puzzle game either.

Comment · 3 years ago

I feel like I see this A LOT these days. If you do a Show HN (for example) and your project is directly inspired by somebody else's who came before you, the least you can do is give nominal attribution.

What is it about software development in particular that makes people so seemingly ethically unfettered by blatant plagiarism?

Comment · 3 years ago

It has always been this way. How many people who grew up on text terminals, and despised GUI-based utilities that are essentially just thin graphical wrappers on top of a CLI tool at 20x the size?

This argument gets repeated by every generation ad nauseam, even though they're oblivious to the fact that it keeps reoccurring. Everyone loves drawing an arbitrary line in the sand.

Comment · 3 years ago

I love when people say this, because everyone has a different relative arbitrary starting point for the term "basic".

So let's take you, for example.

How far back did you start ? Did you write a basic HTML site in notepad?

Did you program your own TCP/IP stack?

Of course you at least configured the actual Web server using Apache on your Debian vps, right?

See how tired this argument is?

As for me, I just directly manipulate the platters of my hard drive using a magnetized needle to encode sequences of ones and zeros.

Comment · 3 years ago

I don't know a lot about this particular approach but your comment that it's just using Google results is blatantly false. It all depends on the search engine that the brave user is leveraging, or no search engine if they type in the URL directly into the header.

Comment · 3 years ago

This comment makes zero sense considering that mod/XM type tracker files are mere kilobytes in size as opposed to a streamed OGG or MP3 file which is megabytes.

Comment · 3 years ago

VS code is written using electron, so as with all tools, it can be done right. There's a nonzero chance that you've probably used it yourself.

Comment · 3 years ago

Just to set the record straight, by all accounts, Ralph Baer was the inventor of pong, and Nolan Bushnell later copied it.

https://youtu.be/1LsRGUODHlQ

Comment · 3 years ago

Back when I majored in computer science, 20 years ago, mine was an equal combination of computer architecture, theory of information, mathematics, and some electrical engineering.

Comment · 3 years ago

Vitriol aside, you need to chill for a bit and touch grass.

"Training" doesn't really have a well-defined meaning, I could use your website to train something as simple as a histogram of word counts for an AI for example. Nothing about that constitutes copyright infringement under even the loosest definition of their legal concept.

Additionally weights from training and the AI's output are two completely different matters from a legal perspective as well.

Comment · 3 years ago

Then you give notice and look for a sane work environment.