Yes, I believe so, or at least a subset of it. The author is not a therapist of any kind, I get the impression he was just a guy who wrote a book about how he overcame his personal struggles. This was off-handedly recommended to me by my therapist via text as she thought of me while reading it as I told her I was struggling with recurring thoughts, ruminations, anxiety, etc so that might lend some credence to it.
I recently read a book called "Don't Believe Everything You Think" by Joseph Nguyen which tackles this problem directly through a bit of mindfulness and eastern philosophy. In the book, he starts by distinguishing between "thoughts" and "thinking" and outlines how/why he believes the latter ultimately leads to most self-inflicted human suffering.
He has some techniques in the book for trying to break the cycle of rumination, but ultimately it comes down to willpower and repetition. As someone going through/coming out of serious depression for the past month, even if I'm able to stop my own rumination, if its severe or overwhelming enough, it will likely come back very soon if not immediately. I think time and healthy distractions are great complements.
On the other hand, it seems like commenters on HN love unifying around deriding a paradigm that hasn't been proven to be hated by the vast majority of iOS users (most of which of course are not here and certainly will not care).
Cheap take: no matter where you fall on the entire political spectrum, this implosion is incredibly entertaining, even if predicted for a long time now. Musk has managed to unite bitter political divisions against him. It's impressive really.
I think it's for this and other reasons that this kind of tool is not great for beginners. I can personally vet all of those LoC to make sure they are organized in a way that makes sense as it grows (limited to my own skill, lets assume I'm a master) but obviously someone with low XP won't have that ability. Given what I've seen in this project, that will CERTAINLY happen. Even telling it to reorganize code, you have to be specific.
I have been using agentic AI to help me get started writing an OpenGL-targeted game from scratch (no engine). I have almost no background experience with computer graphics code, but I understand most of the fundamentals pretty well and I have almost 13 years of software experience. It's just that the exact syntax as well as the various techniques used to address common problems are not in my arsenal yet.
My experience has been decent. I don't know that it has truly saved me much time but I can understand how it FEELS like it has. Because it's writing so much code (sometimes), it's hard to vet all of it and it can introduce subtle bugs based on faulty assumptions it made about different things. So, it will dump a lot of code at once, which will get me 90% of the way there, but I could spend an hour or two trying to nudge it to fix it to get it to 100%. And then I will probably still need to go back and reorganize it, or have it go back and reorganize it. And then sometimes it will make small adjustments to existing, committed code that will subtly break other things.
Something that has surprised me (in hindsight, it isn't surprising) is that sometimes when I feel like it misunderstood something or made a faulty assumption, it was actually me that had the misunderstanding or ignorance which is humbling at times and a good learning experience. It is also pretty good at bug hunting and DEFINITELY very good at writing unit tests.
I count myself as pretty lucky that this domain seems to be very well covered in training. Given the law of averages, most people's domains will probably be covered. I'm not sure how it would fare with a niche domain.
I don't think there's a lot of groupthink or virtue signaling here, and those are the things that irritate me the most. If people here overestimate their knowledge or abilities, that's okay because I don't treat things people say as gospel/fact/truth unless I have clear and compelling reasons to do so. This is the internet after all.
Personally I also think the submissions that make it to the front page(s) are much better than any subreddit.
This is entirely why I can't bring myself to use it. The groupthink and virtue signaling is intense, when it's not just extremely low effort crud that rises to the top. And yes, before anyone says, I know, "curate." No, thank you.
I didn't have any issues with it. I ran the same server straightaway on a new domain maybe 7 years or so, maybe more. I recently changed hosts from AWS to somewhere else, so the IP changed, etc, and I did have one major e-mail provider ding me for a single outgoing e-mail after that, but it didn't happen twice and never any issues since then. I feel like if you follow all the DNS recommendations, it's not a problem anymore.
I agree that this is a huge improvement, but it's also over a decade late IMO. This should've been accomplished well before now, especially given that the issue has been there since the beginning.
Totally get it. And there has been work for me where I would've offloaded the details like that for sure. It might be that it's when I really feel like the project is my baby and I'm really enjoying that part of the process.
Honestly, I don't know why nobody says it, but I just _don't want to._ I don't want to use it too much. It's not that I'm paranoid about it outputting bad code, but I just like doing almost all of it myself. It helps that I will do better than it 100% of the time but that isn't really why I don't use it. If it's going to replace all of us, fine. I guess you can chalk me up as not being into this hyper-productivity mindset. I just want to write code, period. I use it in the same manner as I see most comments saying; that is, as a fancy code complete, but I haven't found myself wishing "if only this could do all of it for me!"
I am a U.S. citizen and I wouldn't recommend risking a chance at the border, personally. Although gun violence or other random violence more generically is not something I am worried about, even living in a somewhat impoverished urban core.
Interesting. I shattered mine similarly while snowboarding, but back in maybe 2018. There was definitely no debate on the matter, surgery via ORIF was the recommended option. Then again, my doc was a sports medicine surgeon so perhaps that played into it. Either way, I was never too light with it and it healed very quickly. I was back at 100% about 2 months later.
Swamped is on point. I watched my roommate-now-girlfriend get over 1,000 likes in no time at all (I can't remember well but certainly on the order of hours, not days). It was in a populated, well-off area, but still. When you see something like that, it puts a lot of this whole thing into perspective.
> A tech enthusiast with a passion for efficient development tools and aviation, this user brings a mix of technical depth and societal insights to Hacker News. Their contributions often reflect a curiosity for how things work and a desire to optimize processes.
Pretty good take. This roast was a good guess :)
> Your love for aviation is so strong, you probably have a sectional chart as your desktop wallpaper. Don't worry, we won't tell anyone you prefer VFR over IFR.
I agree. I'm not sure if I think all of this is good or not. Even if you, a gov't, didn't have an interest in managing your citizens vis-a-vis some platform, it doesn't mean other govt's don't have that interest, so maybe there's some validity to it in that case. But all of that raises even more questions, like "so what?" and "to what end?"
FWIW, this has driven many users to RedNote, which is even more Chinese in every way, regardless of whether it's even the same kind of platform. I doubt it would ever be anywhere near the same numbers as TikTok (assuming ByteDance didn't sell off) but it does illustrate the trouble with this i.e. cat-and-mouse game.
I don't follow that logic and that is the kind of absolutism many of us disagree with. It seems like an appeal to emotion to me. I'm not sure you can characterize the EP as shallow; aggressive yes, if one considers bold to be synonymous with aggressive in this context.
I don't find any issue with people making statements like that. I also don't need to agree with it to think that you should be allowed to say it. Do you find that to be problematic?
I don't find that to be true and I find your own rationale to be its own sort of performative moralism. Many normal people feel this way and it isn't to appease MAGA or Trump or whatever, including myself and many people I know who have been and/or are lifelong leftists. It is not impossible or even unlikely that people in higher positions developed these feelings on their own accord. I'm not saying your statement is always untrue, but it denies the people you're writing about much agency.
I think that what's happening is that people on all levels are now more comfortable in saying what they actually think or believe rather than saying things to avoid busting arbitrary social rules.
Agreed. I started playing Satisfactory a few years ago, before I ever picked up Factorio. And I played A LOT of Satisfactory. Into the thousands of hours.
I'm currently at a couple hundred hours into Factorio and I can safely say I like it better. It is way more polished and way more in-depth. It has definitely had much more time to mature and respond to user feedback. Also the threat level keeps it more interesting. But I do find Satisfactory much more beautiful, and I think the idea of having belts go directly into/out of buildings, etc, without the need for inserters, a much better style than inserters.
I've never had that happen; it's hard to compare without knowing the changes between generations or years. That said, the only real issue I've had is that the TACC is slow to start accelerating again when the car in front turns or changes lane. I think this is probably intentional though, as it seems pretty quick to react in other instances.
Regarding AEB specifically, I've probably only ever had it engage 2-3 times on the road, ever.
I've got a 2019 Subie Outback and the AEB is pretty good. It really only engages in very tight circumstances above a certain speed (and probably only lower than a certain speed) i.e. I'm pretty sure it will let me rear-end something if I'm crawling slowly enough. Prior to enaging AEB, the beeping is very loud with a very short interval.
(I traded in my 2017 Tesla Model S to get the Outback and I've never regretted it.)