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  1. Comment on Tell me about your favorite Minecraft mods! in ~games

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    Still looove the quarry from Buildcraft

    Still looove the quarry from Buildcraft

    1 vote

  2. Comment on What are some good YouTube channels/shows/series related to travel? in ~travel

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    Tim the traveller man goes around Europe looking at nerdy stuff

    Tim the traveller man goes around Europe looking at nerdy stuff

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer in ~tech

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    If all software is made completely automatically, imagine the efficiency gains you'd get from... Everything. Even if we don't have the same relative status as before, I'm sure you could live...

    If all software is made completely automatically, imagine the efficiency gains you'd get from... Everything. Even if we don't have the same relative status as before, I'm sure you could live comfortably, and probably have decent quality of life improvements.

    But IMO much more likely is this whole ai bubble sigmoid flattens out and then a good 10-20 years pass before we have the real killer use case for it (similar many of America's previous bubbles like dark fiber).

    8 votes

  4. Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer in ~tech

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    I disagree with this post a lot. It reads like someone complaining how automatic transmission is gonna make people bad drivers, and how real drivers all drive stick. My stance is that while ai...

    I disagree with this post a lot.

    It reads like someone complaining how automatic transmission is gonna make people bad drivers, and how real drivers all drive stick.

    My stance is that while ai will get better and likely become standard kit with your ide, it will never get as good as a human (at least within the next 20 years). And humans, being the smart little cookies that we are, will learn through many many examples, even if it's just accepting and rejecting ai code suggestions. This means more people coding, and more stuff being created. As someone who likes coding and wants more people to join, it's a win win if you ask me.

    Point by point:

    • You Rob Yourself of Learning Opportunities: eventually, after writing enough ai code and accepting and rejecting suggestions, I believe eventually people will be able to differentiate between bad and good code. They're smart enough for that. And in the meantime, you can make cool things! The alternative is losing lots of people to boredom and attrition, reducing the amount of programmers in the future.

      • as an aside, think about how many developers and infosec professionals of today were yesterday's script kiddies. I'd imagine the vast majority of them were at some point.

    • Skills You Already Have May Atrophy: going back to the car analogy, sure. I can no longer assemble a 2-stroke engine using only parts I made in my shop, and that's OK. Using a few commercial off the shelf parts (even without ai you're probably importing libraries for sorting, let's be honest) I can make a go kart multiple times cheaper, more efficient, and more performant than the people who invented automobiles in the first place. We should stand on the shoulders of giants. And if you want, you're not locked out of implementing your own sorting algo whenever you feel like it.

    • You May Become Dependent on Your Own Eventual Replacement: amazing! If this does happen, we enter a new post work era and Yada Yada Yada star trek utopia. But I also don't buy into that. In the case this doesn't happen, programmers will be programmers, and we'll just be doing stuff at a higher level than before. It'll be a different job, not no job.

    • Do You Even Own AI Generated Code?: pragmatically speaking, there's so much money and potential riding on this already. I doubt the politicians would be willing to risk losing geopolitical standing in order to preserve... Licensed code? Even if it does become illegal one day, the ramifications on the entire software industry would be so large I can't see any extremely painful penalties being applied. But I'm not a lawyer

    • Your Code Will Not Be Respected: I'd argue if you can distinguish between what is good/bad software and you led the Ai to the solution that it wrote down for you, you were just as much of an artist. Again the it's just programming at a higher level of abstraction compared to before. I look upon the guy who programmed roller coaster tycoon in assembly with great respect. But that doesn't also mean that I don't respect people making games in scratch or roblox.

    • You Are a Masochist Who Prefers Code Reviews to Coding: valid

    20 votes

  5. Comment on Kagi is announcing AI Assistant in ~tech

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    From their 670k round, they spent 1/3 of that on t-shirts, so ~220k on t-shirts? https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k

    From their 670k round, they spent 1/3 of that on t-shirts, so ~220k on t-shirts? https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k

    5 votes

  6. Comment on Kagi is announcing AI Assistant in ~tech

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    Not OP but, the issue to me was doing a round of fundraising, and spending ~1/3 of that on the freebie campaign. As a paying customer, as much as I appreciate the free t-shirt, would rather that...

    Not OP but, the issue to me was doing a round of fundraising, and spending ~1/3 of that on the freebie campaign.

    As a paying customer, as much as I appreciate the free t-shirt, would rather that money getting spent productively on improving the product or selling it to more people. Obviously not as dumb as spending all the funds on a domain name, but the roi feels like it's in the same ballpark.

    19 votes

  7. Comment on Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake? in ~comp

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    For Javascript I'm pretty sure there's an eslint rule to prevent promises that aren't awaited or have void in front (e.g. void fetch(Foo)) has definitely helped in this regard

    For Javascript I'm pretty sure there's an eslint rule to prevent promises that aren't awaited or have void in front (e.g. void fetch(Foo)) has definitely helped in this regard

    6 votes

  8. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Have you tried using a compiled kobold cpp? I personally use this on Linux, but I'm pretty sure it has even better support on windows lol. https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

    Have you tried using a compiled kobold cpp?

    I personally use this on Linux, but I'm pretty sure it has even better support on windows lol.

    https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

    1 vote

  9. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Interesting, what os? I hate python package management as much as the next person, and Cuda makes it 10x worse, but just for setting up an llm locally I've had a very smooth time using just pip.

    Interesting, what os?

    I hate python package management as much as the next person, and Cuda makes it 10x worse, but just for setting up an llm locally I've had a very smooth time using just pip.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on MIT's drop in Black students shows fallout from top court ruling in ~life

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    Seems like admissions are fair now? Don't see anything wrong with that.

    Seems like admissions are fair now? Don't see anything wrong with that.

    13 votes

  11. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Exciting! What's your experience with ASTRO so far? Do you like it?

    Exciting! What's your experience with ASTRO so far? Do you like it?

    2 votes

  12. Comment on User-defined Order in SQL in ~comp

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    Recently for a project I'm working on I needed to store a user defined list of items. What's the best way to do it? Turns out someone smarter than me (Joe Nelson, author of PostgREST) already...

    Recently for a project I'm working on I needed to store a user defined list of items. What's the best way to do it?

    Turns out someone smarter than me (Joe Nelson, author of PostgREST) already wrote a blogpost.

    Hopefully it helps other people like it helped me.

    5 votes

  14. Comment on YouTube without a working ad blocker in ~tech

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    Have you tried ublock origin? They're usually very reliable

    Have you tried ublock origin? They're usually very reliable

    16 votes

  16. Comment on Let's build a playlist! in ~music

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    We all need some manufactured positivity in our lives. None of which I can understand if course. https://open.spotify.com/track/54mnwt3kO0uYsy0ceg14JP...

    We all need some manufactured positivity in our lives. None of which I can understand if course.

    https://open.spotify.com/track/54mnwt3kO0uYsy0ceg14JP

    https://open.spotify.com/track/6fT9eZYgSvhu9v8wzrZkdG

    https://open.spotify.com/track/4wGt2KmqMQ7LC5bqPi51sf

    https://open.spotify.com/track/0RSZ8EmUPEN3ySfCgytPke

    https://open.spotify.com/track/5sdQOyqq2IDhvmx2lHOpwd

    2 votes

  17. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I'm thinking of checking out myshell.ai's model because I remember the demo being very impressive. But if that's not good enough yeah I'm gonna have to shell out for eleven labs.

    I'm thinking of checking out myshell.ai's model because I remember the demo being very impressive.

    But if that's not good enough yeah I'm gonna have to shell out for eleven labs.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    That's cool! Keep me posted on how it goes. I'm actually working on the reverse lol (epub to audiobook, except each character has a unique and configurable voice)

    That's cool! Keep me posted on how it goes.

    I'm actually working on the reverse lol (epub to audiobook, except each character has a unique and configurable voice)

    1 vote

  19. Comment on The best and brightest don’t want to stay in Canada. I should know: I’m one of the few in my engineering class who did. in ~life

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    Yeah the consensus with my friends is do 10 years in the states and move back to Canada to settle down and raise a family

    Yeah the consensus with my friends is do 10 years in the states and move back to Canada to settle down and raise a family

    3 votes

  20. Comment on The best and brightest don’t want to stay in Canada. I should know: I’m one of the few in my engineering class who did. in ~life

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    Culturally, is new Zealand to Australia what Canada is to the US? Do people dream of moving to Australia?

    Culturally, is new Zealand to Australia what Canada is to the US?

    Do people dream of moving to Australia?

    18 votes