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superconduct123
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- Totally agree, I've found that as well working in big tech
People focus way to much on the superficial stuff like code cleanliness, formatting, organization, local structure of the code
Because that stuff is easy to talk about, kind of like bikeshedding.
Plus a lot of times code reviewers just want to comment something to show they aren't just rubber stamping it.
Whereas it takes a lot more brain power to think about logic, correctness, and "does the change actually make sense in the big picture"
Part of it too is that as a reviewer a lot of times you just don't have enough context to know if the change makes sense
- I'm always surprised how big the population of Indonesia is yet it seems culturally underrepresented in the world compared to a lot of smaller countries
Almost 300 million people but it rarely comes up in the news or pop media
- Public school doesn't really represent "the real world" for everyone anyway
If you go to university and into a professional career you end up in a different bubble of people than say going into trades
- Anyone else feel like real-time strategy games with full 3D just never look as good as old 2D ones?
I think its something about the perspective warping of the 3D camera that makes 3D RTS games look weird to me
- People like different styles and different things than you
Stay tuned for more mind blowing news at 11
- I don't understand, what prompted OpenAI recently to need this 1.4T investment?
- When I was younger I used to hate on popular things and be that guy who is like "how can anyone like this, this is objectively bad" (for example pop music)
But I started a habit of re-framing it instead like "well if you don't understand why people like something, that is your own failure to understand human behaviour and culture, if you were smarter you would understand why its popular"
That habit of re-framing stuff like that made me look at things a lot more like a neutral observer/anthropologist and not be such a hater
- One thing I've noticed with the younger generation is they are much more analytical and "in their heads"
They over-analyze and overthink everything a lot more than past generations which can be good and bad
Probably due to the internet and more access to information
For example when I was a kid you would watch a movie or play a video game and not think about it that much.
Whereas now its all about RT scores, metacritic, review megathreads, unboxing, reaction videos, video essay breakdowns/explainers , tv show podcasts
Analyzing/reviewing/meta-content has never been bigger
- I think people were worn down over many years by traditional politicians and just wanted something different
And then someone came in and took advantage of that
- You don't have to use energy to cool it though do you?
Couldn't it just flow into a big passive outdoor radiator?
- > more information compression (see paper) => shorter context windows, more efficiency
I'll ask the dumb question here
How is that possible? Wouldn't different sizes of text/fonts/rendering/spacing end up with way worse compression?
- You're taking the word cursed way too seriously
This is just a list of things that can catch devs off guard
- Fair enough, I guess its a bit different nowadays since the background is usually a PhD in compsci
- I always get a weird feeling when AI researchers and CS people start talking about comparisons between human brains and AI/computers
Why is there a presumption that we (as people who have only studied CS) know enough about biology/neuroscience/evolution to make these comparisons/parallels/analogies?
I enjoy the discussions but I always get the thought in the back of my head "...remember you're listening to 2 CS majors talk about neuroscience"
- I mean think of all the things a smartphone has to do nowadays, there's so much complexity
- 4 points
- Thanks for asking, we're using AWS Bedrock to handle all that
- Is that what game consoles have done for years?
- Do you prefer the non-stop AI spam that is typical on this site instead?
- How can you reason correctly if you don't have any way to know which facts are real vs hallucinated?
- Thought this was interesting, I guess the game itself is frostbite but the map editor will use the open source Godot engine just as an editor
- 6 points
- 2 points
- Predicting 4-months into the future is not really that impressive
- Did the employer know you didn't live there?
- Didn't realize so many Canadians on HN
And not going to a meeting may be perceived that you aren't interested in that project