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stinkbutt··on What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?
do you not test your code?
stinkbutt··on Four Years of Jai (2024)
yep and JBlow is a massive gatekeeper who discourages people from learning programming if he doesn't believe they can program the way he thinks a programmer should. He is absolutely running from any criticism that will hurt his enormous yet incredibly fragile ego.
stinkbutt··on JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate
WFH debuffs/nerfs an extrovert's primary weapon attribute (soft skills). this gives an implicit visibility bonus to introverts.
stinkbutt··on JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate
extroverts are not going to win this war
stinkbutt··on Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
finding complex solutions to complex problems is easy. finding simple solutions is whats hard.
stinkbutt··on How have you found purpose in your life?
telling someone the path to happiness is through marriage and kids is probably the dumbest advice imaginable. its basically a coin flip on whether or not it ruins your life and the data supports this.
stinkbutt··on Odin Programming Language
what's the niche? the authors described it as general-purpose
stinkbutt··on Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
you seem to think "gpt4 is the best learning tool" means "gpt4 is the only tool that should be used in education". i literally said in my original reply that it should be used with other learning tools. your example is the perfect use case. the course is a great tool for providing an outline of what to learn. if i follow that outline with gpt4 im going to learn the concepts much faster than i would with a book, and since i'm learning them faster i will have more time (and motivation) to learn more concepts.
stinkbutt··on Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
its not absurd at all. if i want to learn what an atom is, why on earth would i open a book when i can just have a hour long conversation with an AI that can explain the concepts to me at any level and answer my questions? as a learning tool, why is a book better?
stinkbutt··on Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
no one made the claim that gpt4 is the only tool that should be used
stinkbutt··on We will all become boring: Loneliness, liberalism, and the traditional family
ive accepted that most people will never understand this
stinkbutt··on Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
if i had this when i was in school im certain i would have been an A student. my biggest hangup has always been fear of looking dumb, asking dumb questions, holding up the class to clarify things...gpt4 eliminates all these problems
stinkbutt··on Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
gpt4 needs better marketing. its not perfect but its without a doubt the best learning tool humans have achieved. its better than books, wikipedia, libraries, etc. its basically your personal college professor with 24/7 office hours on practically any subject. using it in combination with other tools is the best approach, but this has always been the best approach for every learning tool.
stinkbutt··on Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
why would you not use the best model because of their internal drama?
stinkbutt··on Conversational AI is a great tool for education
depends on how far into the weeds you get and the model you're using. gpt4 is pretty reliable at explaining concepts at a high level and its better at it than any textbook or wiki page can be because of its ability to answer follow-up questions in context. its basically the next best thing to a college professor's office hours.
stinkbutt··on Advice to a novice programmer
i tried Goland (the Jetbrains IDE for Go) and when my mouse hovers over a variable the IDE does not provide a tool tip that tells me what its type is.

And for that reason I've stuck with VS Code.

stinkbutt··on ACT test scores for U.S. students drop to a 30-year low
due to lack of pay, resources, and support our public education system is filled with the bottom of the barrel teachers
stinkbutt··on A Senior Engineer's Check-List (2019)
A senior engineer should work in an organization that actually enables this type of engineering
stinkbutt··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)
CTRL + F the word passion in this thread
stinkbutt··on The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction
i agree, and its important that we understand what the tools were designed to do before we use them
stinkbutt··on The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction
its a misconception that single responsibility is about doing one thing. in fact the principle allows for a system to do many things, but the idea is that it should only serve a single actor.
stinkbutt··on Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved
it was one of the most popular and widespread occupations
stinkbutt··on Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI
damn you got some top shelf, high grade copium. let me get a hit
stinkbutt··on Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI
by technical specs you mean some kind of prompt mechanism, no?
stinkbutt··on Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI
can you name this company please?