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bottled_poe

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I’m James! Principal engineer and co-founder of Blitzm Systems, Melbourne. We build, deploy and support cloud software.

Preferred tech: c, c++, .Net Core, python, TypeScript+React, k8s.

e: james at Blitzm dott com

Favourite domains: 3D graphics, real-time signal analysis, distributed systems.

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bottled_poe··on The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web
It’s starting to feel like a content whitelist would be easier than a content blacklist.
bottled_poe··on Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies
Actually, probably just the standard expanding universe + light horizon.
bottled_poe··on Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies
Space dust over intergalactic distances seems sufficient to explain Olbers’s Paradox?
bottled_poe··on Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
ChatCEO
bottled_poe··on Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint
The difference here, which in my opinion the law is yet to catch up with, is the scale of usage enabled by these algorithms.
bottled_poe··on Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint
Unless they have explicitly transferred ownership, then yes. IP generally vests with the creator and is licensed to the recipient unless they have explicitly agreed otherwise.
bottled_poe··on The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners
Seems aligned with what Maslow pyramid of needs predicts. I.e. above a certain safety net, the individual places more value on internal fulfilment rather than external perception of worth.
bottled_poe··on Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?
This seems like a natural outcome of running such a platform. The platform is trying to optimise revenue. They can choose which user complaints to support/reject but they can’t satisfy everyone.
bottled_poe··on “Expect tests” make test-writing feel like a REPL session
Actually, Fibonacci results can be fairly precisely tested with the golden ratio ratio.
bottled_poe··on Ask HN: Why arent developers interested in secure coding?
perhaps the question should be: why don’t investors allocate funds for secure software?
bottled_poe··on Architecture diagrams should be code
Ridiculous. Diagrams are extremely useful for communicating the essential information efficiently. Not everyone needs to spend time going through every line of source code to understand design concepts. I’m really struggling to see how this could possibly be argued otherwise.
bottled_poe··on We asked ChatGPT to write a Sherlock Holmes mystery
This is a great take, but good luck explaining the difference to the majority who are unfamiliar with the technology/mathematics behind it. Most people won’t attempt to understand the difference - and worse they won’t care. It’s just another tragedy of the commons.
bottled_poe··on Apple Books digital narration
> Writing is to a large extent the process of expressing a thought or feeling

Neither of which we believe a machine to be capable of conceiving.

bottled_poe··on Inequality, interest rates, aging, and the role of central banks (2021)
If you want to make a bad argument, pick one aspect of the topic and ignore everything else.
bottled_poe··on Schooling improves intelligence, but not the impact of socioeconomics, genetics
umm.. impacting other peoples lives positively seems like a goal we can all support. Being “smart” seems nebulous at best.
bottled_poe··on How to write unmantainable code (2015)
Hmm, that’s a lot of rules to adhere to. I wouldn’t want to miss one. If only there were a linter to ensure these rules were always followed..
bottled_poe··on The Fermi paradox revisited: Technosignatures and the contact era
Branching factor of two means around 30 hops to visit every star.
bottled_poe··on Ask HN: Best board games of 2022?
Definitely one of the best. I’ve played many many hours of this with and without expansions. Very playable with two, but best with 3 or 4 players - the negotiations between players is where the game really shines.
bottled_poe··on ChatGPT passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A free response section
The question contains contradictory information. I suppose a smarter AI might have worked out the intended meaning, or asked for clarification. But how many humans would?
bottled_poe··on ASX drops plan to replace CHESS with blockchain, writes off AUD $250M
This seems to be the correct answer based on my experience.
bottled_poe··on Negative 2000 Lines of Code (1982)
But this is obviously going to caught during code review and seen as an amateur blunder at best.
bottled_poe··on Building software to last forever
Maybe at a certain point it just makes more sense to build something new instead of endless iterations.
bottled_poe··on From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
The engineering trade-offs are paid somewhere, better in an objective space than a subjective one.
bottled_poe··on From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
The era of strong vs weak typing debate has passed. Adopt strong typing, like a professional, or fade into the 90s web. Harsh but fair.
bottled_poe··on From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
Is it? Seems to me that most instructions are naturally async or can be refactored as such. I’m probably wrong, just a feeling.
bottled_poe··on From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
I too would like to know how this is justified.
bottled_poe··on Ask HN: What Happens to Older Designers?
It’s been a while since I wrote Java, but real time processing was always just a C wrapper with JNI. Maybe it’s changed now?
bottled_poe··on Ask HN: What Happens to Older Designers?
iOS app? An OS kernel? Anything real-time?
bottled_poe··on Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
But.. it’s not a good alternative. This description is not as precise or as bounded as the “legalese” wording.
bottled_poe··on Ask HN: Have tech salaries been stagnant for the past decade?
No. Another hard truth is that some jobs are more essential than others.
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