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jpcookie··on Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects
You must have low standards then. This is something that anyone can do. It's like making a hammer from scratch with iron you dug up from an old mine. I mean how innovative is that really?
jpcookie··on Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects
This is the computer science equivalent of making a straight up sock puppet with googly eyes.
jpcookie··on Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers
It's "optimizing things to prove you are smrt" (yes that was deliberate). Playing a complicated game only proves you are wasting your time. For half that effort you can learn something helpful
jpcookie··on Ask HN: Share your "LLM screwed us over" stories?
Give me a real example of something in computer science they can't do? I'm interested since Chatgpt is better than any professor I've had at any level in my educational career.
jpcookie··on Another burnout post
You know what? If you don't like your job I'll take it. Seriously that's what I wanted to do since I was a teenager. Now I spend my time counting other people's money. That's an even worse life.
jpcookie··on Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach
And where is this information that this random group supposedly has? I have yet to see proof of that being real
jpcookie··on Chromium has over 1600 command-line switches
This is amazing. My kind of program
jpcookie··on OpenAI Announces SearchGPT
Because reading nonsense inside an infinite debatable context is fun. I know what you're talking about and frankly I'm not impressed.

You know why people like these chat systems? Because it straight up saves time. When a system is made it to indexable, "context dependent", and "creating a certain experience" it just begs to be summarized and made to be something you can use. That interpretable work is.... Pointlessly difficult.

A good example: discord. A vast number of communities are designed to be "experiences" where you have to pour hours of your time to adapt to their little fiefdoms if you wanted to obtain any useful information in the form of important information on a topic. Try doing this in any serious fashion and you will quickly be wasting more of your time than you want.

Yeah so maybe chatgpt gives you the occasional incorrect fact. I haven't had that happen in any way, shape, or form. Furthermore: just be critical of your information. Not hard, and they are already working on fixing that.

Especially for people that are bonafide adults time is worth more than "the pride of human work".

jpcookie··on OpenAI Announces SearchGPT
I clearly would not. "Slow down your site" because information is super useful when you can't search it properly.
jpcookie··on It's Time for Americans to Get over It and Embrace the Bidet (2015)
It's stupid and unnecessary
jpcookie··on I was an MIT educated neurosurgeon – now I'm alone in the mountains [video]
And the peer reviewed science for this being true is where? Sorry personal anecdotes don't count
jpcookie··on I was an MIT educated neurosurgeon – now I'm alone in the mountains [video]
Yeah "positive thinking and going with the flow will fix disease". Tell me: why didn't everyone 1000 years ago live to be a hundred everywhere? Oh that's right: because it's not that simple.
jpcookie··on Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes
Source code?
jpcookie··on Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes
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jpcookie··on Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes
I love how it feels like obsidian
jpcookie··on All About Todd S Burnham
Some kind of elaborate blackmail?
jpcookie··on Why Jim Yong Kim's move has shaked up the world bank
Blocked behind a paywall
jpcookie··on Ask HN: What VPN Service do you recommend?
Windscribe: https://windscribe.com/signup I got a vastly discounted "lifetime" signup for them (seems to be good until 2028 on the expiry page but whatever).
jpcookie··on KiCad: A commitment to freedom
Most of your post is Greek: tracks, vias, copper zones. I'm not sure how anyone can make an abstract design for an entire circuit board from scratch, it how to put one together.