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Jataman606··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
Your comment clearly indicates that you have absolutely no idea what you are trying to talk about. Norris's comment is perfectly clear for anyone who has any inkling of what is going on currently in F1. Why even bother making such a comment when it is a complete waste of bytes?
Jataman606··on Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
For a long time now i thought that AI tooling went wrong way. Or at least it went way that makes sense from valuation and selling business point of view, instead of what actually would make developers better at their jobs point of view. We started with chats then someone invented harness which is just chat window with few additions and it separated us from actual code.

It makes sense if you want to sell a dream that now everyone can become developer and it is cool that non-tech people can now generate todo apps tailored for they own use. But when working on complex project, that is used by real paying customers you need to be responsible for the code you are producing no matter if it was written by AI or by hand.

Thats why i think we would be better with deep integration with IDEs instead of having separate window I need to alt-tab to to do something. I really liked first approaches (IIRC first release of Copilot worked like that) where you put comment inside code describing what function you need and AI would just fill it in. That way developer is still in charge of what is happening. For bigger tasks create new file and describe what should be happening and let AI go wild with it, splitting work into more files as needed.

Currently Jetbrains kinda supports that flow but it is clear that it is not their main focus, so I find it kinda lacking.

Jataman606··on Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot
> LLMs don't need a LSP, they work better without it often

How could LLM's work better without LSP when LSP is something don't interact with?

Jataman606··on Ferrari Luce
That was kinda different thing. It was legacy manufacturers scrambling to push out any EV they could get together so they are not left behind too much. But in meantime they started working on genuinely new designs (like Hyundai Ioniq, Mercedes EQS, BMW Neueu Klasse) or they adjusted their platforms to better accommodate electric drive trains (like Audi e-tron).
Jataman606··on How ChatGPT serves ads
I think guitars market is kind of exception because it is pretty normal for guitar players to search for "guitar like fender but cheaper". There are tons of reddit/forum discussions about this and those small brands are actually very well known in community, because majority of guitar players play on cheap instruments. Youtuber Phillip Mcknight often talked about that cheap guitars move in ridiculous volumes compared to more expensive ones like Gibson or Fender.
Jataman606··on Show HN: I built a web framework in C
> The issue with pointers is that CS gets taught in a VERY bad way. The way it should be taught is starting with basic assembly on a microprocessor. This trains your brain to think of memory locations and data in memory.

Can't agree with this enough. The moment i finally understood what pointers are was when I landed embedded job and during debugging session I looked at memory browser that showed my variable at exact address in memory. After that all about pointer arithmetic and even function pointers became clear as day. Something at least 3 teachers weren't able to explain clear enough.

Jataman606··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
Usual advice is that you need to straighten your blade every week or two and then you can sharpen it every 6 months or even a year (depends on usage of course). To straighten the blade you use honing rod which many people mistake for sharpener.
Jataman606··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
>I’ve read about genocides, the millions of people dead in China, Russia, Germany, Poland, Africa and Gaza too, I’ve also seen rioting and violence firsthand in Los Angeles and Portland and I wonder how I can ensure that my girlfriend and I will be safe now and into the future. I have no solution except for responsible gun ownership.

No gun will save you during genocide if you are a target. Best case scenario you kill few attackers and die anyway.

Jataman606··on Sequoia backs Zed
Zed only kinda works on Windows. As of today when you click to download windows version you can only sign up on beta program that I assume allows only select people to use that version.
Jataman606··on A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up
Very good online resource (and free!) is JustinGuitar guitar course[1]. It begins from absolute nothing, no prior knowledge required. And it works for both acoustic and electric guitars. Also Justin is great, understanding and aproachable teacher (even though course is online). Only downside is you will need a lot of self discipline to go through it, but it definetly worked for me.

[1] https://www.justinguitar.com/

Jataman606··on The Moral Economy of the Shire
It is funny to see how person who clearly takes all their knowledge from books tells other person their actual experience couldn't happen, because that is what some book says. I'm not person who you replied to, but just from reading their comment I immediately knew they are talking from experience, because i partly saw, partly know from stories of my parents and grandparents, exactly the same kind of lifestyle. Should i now say that your source is "entirely false"?
Jataman606··on End-of-Life Dreams
Would you like to make bonds with people that will soon die over and over again? I think many people misunderstand the kind of stress and mental strain that many doctors are subjected to regularly. Ironically, people who call for doctors to be more empathetic, often lack empathy themselves.

Also medicine is very broad field, it's probably hard to stay up to date in every new study. Especially that academic research is filled with less than ideal studies, so not only you need to read and understand them properly, you also need to make sure that source is trustworthy.

Jataman606··on His software sang the words of God, then it went silent
> Open source means that anyone sufficiently able and sufficiently motivated can keep up with these changes

Provided there is anybody with very rare combination of being developer proficient in whatever language was used to write this software and who knows how Torah is read/sang

Jataman606··on Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)
> As long as the master is digital there's no way a vinyl record could possibly sound better than a lossless digital recording like FLACC or CDDA

Isn't the point to actually reduce quality by using imperfect media so recording has more oldschool vibe? Kinda like all the lo-fi mixes being so popular today. At least thats what I always thought, I didn't really research that at all.

Jataman606··on RJIT, a new JIT for Ruby
You can get similiar process as Heroku (just push to github repo and everything automagically deploys) on Azure using App Services. The problem is there is no free tier anymore, although i didn't really look up exact prices. There are plenty of very basic tutorials in official Microsoft documentation, if you search for stuff like "how to deploy .Net core app on azure" you surely find some tutorials that go through whole process from scaffolding basic project to running it in the cloud.
Jataman606··on ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI
What regulations block Japan, Korea, Canada and other non-european countries from having this big ecosystem of internet companies?
Jataman606··on The Camera-Shy Hoodie
At least in China face recognition software is good enough that they can recognize people even when wearing covid mask. I mean even iphone face id works with masks, scarfs, sunglasses and in the dark (i didn't test all at same time so maybe there is hope...). So if you want to be anonymous then you can't, sorry, thats the world we live in currently.
Jataman606··on Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
What is wrong with gatekeeping? It's not like everyone needs to be able to make art. Also, i don't know much about Photoshop, but most digitatl filters usually act the same as analog mixers. They do not automate anything.
Jataman606··on Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
Food is essential to our survival. No matter how much effort you put into making food, you have to make something to eat or you buy food that is cooked by someone else. So making it more accessible for people who don't have time, money or necessary skills has completely no downsides.

Art is just something we do and consume for fun. We don't need to make art more efficient, because there is already too much art to consume in a lifetime. Also there is no requirement to consume as much art as possible. And automating art making means that there will be even more average art that anyone interested will have to sift through to find something nice.

Overall all of this effort could be put into automating something that will make everyday life easier, like if you want to make art more accessible then for example automate translations so we can read books or watch movies that we previously couldn't.

Jataman606··on Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes
How much money you lose by counting money and depositing it into a bank?
Jataman606··on Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas can now grab and toss
You could create interface where human operator uses tablet like you would play video games. Creators would have to program some predefinied possible moves like "pick up object", "hit nail" etc. Then you are shown AR recreation of what robot sees with objects that you can interact with highlighted on screen. Then you just click, maybe select appropriate action from context menu and voila, the metal guy does heavy lifting for you. At least in my opinion it would be superior way to have precise control. Verbal communication is hard, even humans fail at it often.
Jataman606··on How Apple names things
> Is it so hard to just let someone enjoy something?

Is it so hard to just let someone complain about something? Everyone can have their own opinion, i don't know why some people want every single one to be positive.

Jataman606··on A collection of Soviet control rooms (2017)
Your "source" is calling Zelensky "the Imperial Puppet" and "comedian"[0], which makes me think it's probably even more biased towards Russia than western media are towards Ukraine.

[0] https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1605389284369784832

Jataman606··on Spotifyd
That’s one of my least favorite features, sometimes I’m too distracted driving or doing something else to manage Spotify and i want my albums to restart from beginning, but then it goes to some radio i don't want. And no, clicking "repeat playlist" button doesn't work because they flip it off randomly.
Jataman606··on Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?
> if it's an area of knowledge you're not really that familiar with

Thats actually dangerous way to use ChatGPT. Since you don't know the real answer you won't be able to tell when it gets something wrong.

Jataman606··on Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo
Wow so you just need to have around million streams a month to get livable* salary!
Jataman606··on I plan to leave tech to pursue art
> And yet if you don’t have an audience, what is the point?

Point is art itself

Jataman606··on An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model
> The process for a human to copy her style in an original work would be similar

It wouldn't be similar at all. It takes years to get skills good enough to even copy stuff like that. With AI person who never did any art in their lives can get hundreds of copies in few hours.

Jataman606··on Elon Musk Owns Twitter; CEO and CFO have left
> Fails to be funny

Is this official position of some jokes association? I wouldn't want to laugh at unfunny joke.

Jataman606··on reMarkable 2
What do you mean by useless? Does it completely not work when not connected to the cloud or you just loose sync between devices feature?
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