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samuraijack··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
> I've accepted that in 5-10 years, the vast majority of human devs. and engineers will not touch a single line of code.

Why would companies employ human engineers then? What is the value addition to justify high human salaries. If AI is going to get so good (and I am not saying it won’t happen, that’s a separate debate), why can’t AI figure out the prompts itself?

samuraijack··on Doomscrolling ourselves to death
Sorry for being pedantic but content like “I took a bath full of Diet Coke and Mentos” is not doom scrolling. Is it low quality use of your time, sure, but it’s not doom scrolling
samuraijack··on Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies
LLVM was a masters thesis project (not medicine related but research by non PhDs should not be disregarded imo)
samuraijack··on Don't Become the Machine
The constant anti work agenda that is thrown in your face if you use almost any social media is so annoying.

Have these anti work people ever considered that maybe some people actually like work and labelling them as slaves is insulting?

samuraijack··on Dark Mode Sucks
This is one of the worst class of articles that are posted on hn. These articles make very confident claims based on their own opinions, are extremely short and make no effort at all to back up their confident claims with any sort of reasoning or data.
samuraijack··on US Intel
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samuraijack··on Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device
Or you are just used to poor air quality so you don’t even notice it anymore.
samuraijack··on Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial
Why is it interesting to just test one brand of probiotic with a single strain of bacteria?

Surprised to see it on arstechnica and HN.

samuraijack··on Threat from Climate Change to Some of India’s Sacred Sites Is Reshaping Beliefs
The concept of Kalyug is hardly esoteric. While I am not from that region, it is bit of a surprise to hear that.
samuraijack··on Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making
Reddit tier research.
samuraijack··on Sam Altman says era of remote work is over
What we need is stronger labour laws, so power-trippers such as Sam Altman can't dictate other people's lives.
samuraijack··on ISRO successfully conducts landing experiment of the Reusable Launch Vehicle
It's baffling to me how westerners don't realize that you could solve two different problems in parallel.

When America started its space program, were all of its problems solved?

In fact, are all of America's problems solved now?

samuraijack··on Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU
You should give it a shot. HN can be too negative at times. At least the YouTube vids seem to indicate that the deck can handle the games of that era just fine.
samuraijack··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
1. seems like an awesome concept!
samuraijack··on Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)
The algorithmic questions used in software engineering interviews are just glorified IQ tests imo.
samuraijack··on 4Chan Is Turning 15–And Remains the Internet's Teenager
Are we going to just ignore how bigoted and racist 4chan is in general?
samuraijack··on Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
Compilers by Alex Aiken. https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...
samuraijack··on More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked
A better analogy: You build an autobahn for every type of car and then it is dominated by fords, since people prefer driving fords.
samuraijack··on Plasma Wayland and Qt 5.9 and beyond
KDE is not a customer but it is possibly the largest project that uses qt, I wouldn't call it "insignificant".
samuraijack··on What I've learned from 100s of interviews with candidates at top tech companies
Thanks! That is quite intuitive.
samuraijack··on Show HN: Play multiplayer and singleplayer NES games online
People, you need to stop disconnecting the moment you realize you are player 2 in super mario bros 1985!
samuraijack··on A Competitive Programmer's Handbook
I wouldn't say he considers it a negative signal considering how he said if he had to pick someone off the street he would prefer the one who is good at programming competitions.

However if you are above the bar required to get hired by google, then a higher success rate in programming competitions correlates negatively with job performance.