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I don't think its that deep, man. I think its more like: "ha look you made a mistake, here's how it's meant to be written, dumb ass." Like the person above said already: the majority of the time people do this it's a simple typo and they know how it's spelt. So I don't really think adults appreciate being corrected on basic shit.

It's like the people who attack grammar in arguments instead of the core point. I've seen enough people doing this across the Internet to know the reason they do it. And it has everything to do with being a smug asshole and nothing to do with helping.

feel the need to correct people's typos

why do people do this. It's literally so obnoxious

this is so stupid

There already are real flying cars though. They are vehicles with wings that extend out from the car's body and can take short flights. They fly in the sense of what people expect from any other plane -- and thus need flat ground to act as a run way. None of these designs use cold air thrusters because its simply not viable for extended flight.

The reason thrusters work well in space is minimal weight there. You need to work many times harder on Earth to counter act the weight of the object here.

They glow in the dark so you hit em' with your car.

I don't think its just rationalist blogs who do this. Authors don't realise how little time people have now and catching anyone's attention is a miracle. These examples for the nicotine aren't the best though. Gwern's articles are long because he includes literally every thing he can possibly find on a subject. They're not meant to be like short summaries but more like evolving wikipedia articles.

If you read what gwern says on nicotine its far more nuanced than "nicotine is fine, use nicotine." He does acknowledge that frequent use leads to tolerance. But tolerance is not the same as addiction. I think also if you're going to try argue against his post (which is thoroughly researched) then you ought to do better than just set up a strawman and say he's wrong....

Tech is fucked and this site is mostly filled with an overly vocal minority of well compensated engineers who don't care.

wish we could go like a week with no posts about ai. we all deserve a break to learn something new...

I'm more interested in how the OP managed to convince claude to do what was probably against Activison's TOS. I am assuming they didn't hand specifics of the game but just a blank binary. Because if you had of given specifics claude would have checked the TOS of the IP holder, found that the company doesn't want people to decompile their software, and refused to work on it. Or am I missing something here?

They already got rid of junior devs. You don't need them to get better as you're already right. Idk how the author can recommend comp sci. Juniors are more likely to win the lottery at this stage than get an offer.

"It is no secret that the programmer job market is bad right now, and I am seeing good CS students struggle to find positions programming.

While I do not have a crystal ball, I believe this is a temporary rather than permanent situation."

Yep, any day now people will stop using AI and all the jobs will come back. Of course the author believes this if they're a professor. If students didn't think they had a job they wouldn't want to study comp sci and there would be no reason for professor for it, either. Even though they have a kid doing comp sci, gotta call them out of touch if they're not steering away that choice given what tech is today...

Vibe coders need to stop trying to use the browser as a platform for complex games. It's never going to work out and will always lead to a slow, unplayable, piece of shit. If you want to make a game then just make it a desktop program... There's a reason why literally every modern game is built in this way.

AI did this to every developer in the world and nobody cares. This just confirms to me that software engineers are the biggest cucks that exist right now.

I'd be putting a big sign out the front of my house explaining the situation to the cops and hoping they stop to read it before they storm in. I don't know if it would work but worth doing something. It's extremely strange to me that there was no coordination for the police to be able to say: "this guy has been swatted before, he's a victim, maybe we shouldn't proceed?"

I assume he's in an area with thousands of police like in a big city or something. Would you be safer in smaller towns against this threat or what? It's scary that essentially anyone who can find your address can do this kind of thing. Even though the penalties are severe if you get caught. The bold always find a way...

Man, forget the debate about AI being dangerous. The real reason all these companies need to be shut down is copy right infringement. None of this is "fair use." Does fair use imply doing things that actively harm the creators of works? Because training models to be able to replicate works only makes their skills less valuable...

Honestly, you all kind of mind fuck me that you're not more pissed off about AI basically replicating a large portion of your skills. This effects so many professions now and it's only going to get worse. I would expect a far greater outcry from software engineers trying to organise to ban this shit. But its like none of you even care?

I'd like to see something in-between regular runescape and skill-based aiming. Feel like when you just spin up a survival server that is designed to reset its hard to get into. Runescape is boring as hell because all the "skills" amount to clicking on different sprites. If they had hero-shooter style game play with skilling that would be based. I am guessing they're just going to do RS3 with better graphics though...

"So you got gutted like a pig. A survival guide for unemployed software engineers." An O'reily classic.

Quite honestly the procedural music generation algorithm sounds bad. I mean, this is just my opinion but the compositions sound incredibly unbalanced. Almost random. I think you would do better mixing up soundcloud released that have the right licenses and streaming that. Humans really do make better music than algorithms. As it stands: it's hard to call this music, much less lofi.

Security is just one of those areas that you only ever see the importance of when it goes wrong. And that makes people live in an eternal state of denial where they convince themselves it doesn't matter. The security experts then seem like they're just worrying about the sky falling which never happens. Only if it does happen they're also simultaneously the ones who are blamed for it... Sounds like a pretty bad deal if you ask me.

I've seen this play out over and over. Companies that work on incredibly sensitive subjects don't put security first. It's like just something where you "audit it" at the end. All the while, you're just duct taping a bunch of half-working shit together so you can "ship" as fast as possible. Got to get that "traction" in, amiright guise? If customers money gets lost or a bunch of other bullshit happens that's a problem for tomorrow.

Yeah, this is getting frustrating. Can someone teach these morons what an airgap is?

I love tiddlywiki. It even has plugins for AES encryption. So you can save all your notes encrypted every time. It's really interesting to consider the design of tiddlywiki as a decentralized application system. I think the design could work well for a lot of things. As it is built around users managing their own data.

Click save page, buddy.

Author here: TiddlyInstall is based on the observation that programs written for runtimes like Python, Nodejs, and so on -- all follow the same basic requirements for installation. In that they need the runtime installed and then the software. Existing approaches like freezing apps and trying to port it to an exe directly usually break.

The simplest possible approach is to install the runtime on a users computer, isolated, with the package inside it. It's wasteful in terms of disk space but can be generalised to build reusable installers that work for just about any language.

Reusable installers

A reusable installer reads its own meta-data to decide on the runtime to install and the project. Linux and Mac are supported through a bash script while all windows versions use an NSIS program. The unusual thing about this is once you build the reusable installers since it's just meta-data everything can be edited inside the browser without compiling new binaries.

Like TiddlyWiki: You can actually download this entire system as a single HTML page to create installers without ever needing a server. Though Github project support only works online at the moment (not a limitation, haven't added this feature yet.)

Edit: thanks HNers for checking out my project. I am actually really excited about it. I know installers aren't exactly the most exciting topic but I thought you would all appreciate a different take on it.

By "design" I mean choosing how the software works and the engineering trade-offs. I didn't type "make install system" into claude. I designed how the software worked based on my past research and my engineering knowledge. This included the original NSIS code I wrote: https://github.com/robertsdotpm/win-auto-py3 and file-based meta-data data here: https://robertsdotpm.github.io/software_engineering/program_...

I don't really get the hate. Everyone here uses AI for just about everything yet they almost never credit the models. I think this misrepresents the work so I credited the tools. But I'm by no means just handing a blank script to a model and hoping for the best.

These things aren't well known for following rules. Be careful you know what might happen.

Missing from the post: how?

real software engineering benchmark is how much stress you can take at work. Everyone knows this, bakka.

Remember: don't be evil kids. Support AI data centres that need to produce nuclear waste so people can make AI cat vids.