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Comment · 13 days ago
It's not about what we want, it's about what we believe. All you describe is enabled by beliefs systems, it's above rationalization. What you're describing is just learned helplessness.
Comment · 24 days ago
> It's indeed ridiculous how the world's trillion dollar private companies run on essential software that idealistic open-source maintainers build basically for free while scrambling to even make basic income.

The most ridiculous thing is that idealistic open-source maintainers are still doing it, while this is being an established status quo for at least 30 years. Or maybe they have their incentive, and, while I don't find it palatable too, large corporations understands that. What's _your_ incentive in having such strong opinions about that ?

Comment · 2 months ago
> because great code requires intent

If can put properly engineered intent in the prompt that is verifiable, it works wonders. Anything that can defaults to the llm doing its way, you're right, it just can't converge to good, not with proper constraints.

Comment · 3 months ago
I’d be rather interested in a recommandation that don’t comes with de usuals pits of others solutions and comes with a the actual css code that will apply to the element displayed in autocomplete while editing the html / jsx.
Comment · 3 months ago
> coward

This can be a result of unexpected and costly if not worse, surprises.

Comment · 4 months ago
The hard truth is that as much as you think yourself as a "proper" gamer, this segment always has, always will, _not_ be the proper target segment. Don't forget that mobile gaming has more revenue than everything else… combined. They have a play on this, and as much expansive as it looks, it's mostly due to the hardware inflation, and compared to alternatives, it won't look bad at all. For the segments that matters.
Comment · 4 months ago
I like that we can write the story that Microsoft sold their software with the home computer on the idea of productivity at home while the actual incentive was entertainment, and valve ends up justifying buying gaming hardware with the incentive that it can do productivity.
Comment · 4 months ago
we had "god particle" too …
Comment · 4 months ago
> So I can find a bug, I can fix it, but I am not allowed to tell them how exactly I did it.

Pin pointing the issue is way more than valuable than code. If you wrote a fix, you have analyzed the bug. The value is there, not in the fix. Sharing your fine analysis is the maximized contribution. Code is an optional bonus at most.

Comment · 5 months ago
> at requires explanation beyond the material, that is axiomatically assumed without evidence

Nobody talked about anything out of neurons. The question is still open.

Comment · 5 months ago

    git push . <branch1>:<branch2>
    git pull . <branch2>:<branch1>
Comment · 6 months ago
You're right, there is plenty of space for features that require AI to work but that are undistinguishable from "classical" feature. Better autocompletion is a proven one for example.
Comment · 6 months ago
Those people generally are not eager for feedback especially if it's even remotely perceived as negative or some kind of gatekeeping.

The only way to avoid getting furious about this is to deeply understand that you can't require people to be properly self-aware, especially because many many people that checks the expert boxes are very incompetent or inadequate, so they when the come up with their half bake ideas, they delegate the other to deliver contrarian proofs. It's exhausting.

Comment · 6 months ago
It’s great but the animations when catching a new orbit (sparks and combo announcements) is making hard to follow the ball, I realized I missed many shots due to this after some games.
Comment · 8 months ago
I wouldn't advise polyfills on this one, it entirely depends on the browser ability to evaluate cross scripting and cross origin rule on a arbitrary snippet. This is not a convenience API.

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