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not sure if I'm missing something, `select` seems to work just fine on my machine

what a shame; I only played minecraft when it was an alpha, and the .jar file ran just fine on my linux machine at the time.

Isn't the point of a blog to "place my opinion everywhere possible"? Isn't that why there's an internet?

I'm another one. There are at least two of us. I'd bet there's more.

The AI image is a good quick signal that the text is likely AI generated without even reading it. I say let's keep them around as a shibboleth.

the real problem with household robots is that they are either flimsy toys or dangerous machines, and there's not much in-between. If we were to build a humanoid robot that would just put laundry away (as described in a HN article a few weeks ago), it would need to be strong enough to lift a laundry basket, have advanced control systems to go up and down stairs, and also be safe/reliable/trusted enough not to hurt people or damage property. We can do these things (modulo the trust, probably) but the confluence of all of it gets very expensive very quickly.

People want Rosie from the Jetsons, but the compute power required would be astronomical, the mechanical systems would need maintenance, and there would be real safety concerns.

With LLMs, we've got the wisecracking figured out...

Designing/generating those assets is an incredible amount of work, it's the value-add on top of an engine that a game studio spends most of their budget on. Game reimplementations like this one get their own asset-sets sometimes, but it's rare and usually happens long after the game is working

Does that really matter though if people aren't using the skills, and are just copying and pasting slop?

I think it's beautiful irony that many people have the dunning-kruger effect specifically concerning the dunning-kruger effect itself

wrapping it in plastic and burying it in a landfill will also not be cheap

So give those creatures a bit more Umami!

You're absolutely right! Those are load-bearing assumptions.

So the answer was "What's going on with this account" was 10 pages of homework, with at least 1 mistake to correct? That doesn't seem like an improvement over a conversation.

So, in other words, the pipeline that's producing engineers is not filtering out people without talent. It used to be that people who "didn't know how to learn" couldn't make it through the early engineering courses and moved over to some other field.

I think the "meat proxy" people are mediocre regardless of whether or not the were brilliant pre-AI. They've reduced themselves to a copy-paste go-between for claude and slack (or github or jira or whatever) and are mediocre now. If only they could turn back the clock...

I apologize for my language. I was recently burned by an coworker who was moonlighting, and they left me with a really big mess to clean up (both technically and politically). Just know that your behavior has an effect on those around you; bugs leak information, and cost money. Reviewing 3 programmer's worth of output is a lot of work, and it's only a matter of time before something gets missed.

Holy run-on sentence batman, maybe you do need AI.

Your employers are (likely, some assumption here) paying for the productivity of a full time employee. You have figured out that they're satisfied with a third of that productivity.

You are the reason why there are so many return-to-office mandates, because you're projecting the idea that remote employees cannot be trusted. You're making it worse for everyone. Good luck.

Edit, added after the original reply: You are also taking 3 jobs in a market where many people struggle to find one. You are hoarding resources. Enjoy the 3 paychecks, also rot in hell.

Do your three employers know that you're doing this? if not, it's fraud, and you'd better hope that they don't catch on. Check your employment paperwork.

Yup, it's 'slop'

Just like how raw sewage tastes good, but people think it tastes bad because of how all of the raw sewage they've tasted tastes bad. But if only people ate more raw sewage, they'd find how much tasty raw sewage is out there!

You generally don't have to, the Linux system calls are in the standard library anyway. Having GCC builtins for them is of questionable utility at best.

Even if the GP poster submitted these patches that may or may not exist, I'm not sure they would ever get merged.

This policy means that the GCC maintainers have defined "perfectly good" differently then you have.

People *need* a car, and a salesman manipulates them into buying more car then they need. People aren't convinced they *need* a robot.

increasing your spend by 25% is a smaller change then increasing your spend by infinity%

That's really more of a financial literacy problem though. People don't see $45k car, they see $600/mo payment. And car dealers very much sell on the payment and not on the actual price.

I recognize that there's something I'm severely misunderstanding here. In order to "win big" in the stock market, you generally need to invest big -- i would assume people investing big in the stock market aren't literally homeless; they likely rent some kind of room or apartment. Equivocating it to "stealing bread" seems a little extreme.

If the supply/demand curve of housing is so extremely upside-down that the only way to get ahead of it is gambling, then maybe they shouldn't be increasing the population -- at the risk of sounding a bit heartless, it seems to me like the only real choice is to leave; a peninsula that's locked from the mainland by an enemy like north Korea means that resources must be too scarce for their population.

It's only going to get worse

Young people who can't afford the risk, and don't bother to understand that fact.

But if an investment doesn't pan out, and your response is "My life's screwed", you couldn't afford the investment either. "high risk" is right in the name -- the win isn't guaranteed.

If you are in the unfortunate position of not being able to afford a nice home, live somewhere less nice and try to build savings so that some day your children can afford a nice home.

Why would that be? one of the nice features of the sans-io pattern is that it seperates your HAL from the program itself; if your state machine says "send a network packet", send it using embassy (or tokio or bsd-sockets or whatever). The underlying libraries have little or no bearing on "write your program as a big synchronous state-machine"

same goes for "wait 10 ms" or "change this gpio pin".

Thanks for being so concise