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0815beck··on Music Theory for Programmers
insufferable and arrogant
0815beck··on Music Theory for Programmers
that, and also it is very arrogant. typical superior complex of stem people, one of the worst examples, insufferable
0815beck··on Music Theory for Programmers
It is presented with a tone of "music theory, the way a musician could never understand it, because they do not know what a sin wave is" which makes it so infuriating.
0815beck··on Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line
ai article about ai
0815beck··on Stealing Is a Skill
"It was around January 2020. I became the head coach of a youth basketball team.

I was a few months into my first job out of college, and I was feeling… empty"

no wonder... i d be feeling empty too if copying was my job

0815beck··on My Software North Star
what do you mean "there is no way to distinguish a feature from a bug"? of course there is
0815beck··on Domain expertise has always been the real moat
there is a big difference between seeing that pairs of input and output are correct, and knowing that the system is correct. there are invinitely many in and output pairs and only checking some while you vibe code your tool is never going to be a reliable method
0815beck··on Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs
so why does every reply start with "good eye, you are right"
0815beck··on I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor
why would you support a person in the sad psychosis, that they can ai their way to a solution of cancer, and that they can do so better than medical professional teams and research institutions at universities wth lots of expertise and lots of resources
0815beck··on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
"omegas don t care what other people think, they simply do their thing", thats hoow you people sound, very dumb.
0815beck··on EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act
why? what seems bizarre to me is that platforms of such whitespread use and public interest can be bought and ruined by some random person
0815beck··on Tesla sales in Germany have cratered from last year, data shows
Tesla went from "a cool tech company, and also the ceo does rocket stuff, which is kinda nice" to "what is wrong with that f*cking nazi jerk" in the last 10 years in my circles, and it is very much deserved.
0815beck··on I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel
It is of course because algorithms can be repaired when they are buggy, but a large language model can not, because it is impossible to look at its weights and say, look, this is where the mistakes has happened.