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New comment by frgturpwd in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

frgturpwd — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:05:44 +0000

Can confirm. I had to make an effort NOT to cheat. It's so incredibly easy on exams with MCQs.

New comment by frgturpwd in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

frgturpwd — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:12:11 +0000

Yes, it's from this textbook: https://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs147/2022/au/readings/rest...

New comment by frgturpwd in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

frgturpwd — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:42:18 +0000

Yeah, you can't get it out in "one session of conversation", but you definitely can under a different... context.

"Seeing the work reveals what matters. Even if the master were a good teacher, apprenticeship in the context of on-going work is the most effective way to learn. People are not aware of everything they do. Each step of doing a task reminds them of the next step; each action taken reminds them of the last time they had to take such an action and what happened then. Some actions are the result of years of experience and have subtle reasons; other actions are habit and no longer have a good justification. Nobody can talk better about what they do and why they do it than they can while in the middle of doing it."

New comment by frgturpwd in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

frgturpwd — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:02:51 +0000

Exactly, I am quite surprised by this thread. I always thought sokobans were just one of the niches of puzzle games (one that I am not quite a fan of, to be honest... I find it just okay.)

New comment by frgturpwd in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

frgturpwd — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:50:49 +0000

I was not actually defending LLM tools or casinos. Not every system with variable outcomes and ritualized user behavior is meaningfully equivalent to wagering money against probabilistic loss (slots). If the same reasoning were applied to video games or running scientific experiments of any kind, we'd end up labeling most uncertainty-laden interaction as gambling. I just did not find it particular enough.

New comment by frgturpwd in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

frgturpwd — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:47:23 +0000

I think this is more of a statement of human behavior under uncertainty and non-determinism rather than the tools themselves. Perhaps the ease of use brings it closer to the funny analogy you made but I think you will find this in any system where users interact with a partially opaque mechanism that produces different quality outcomes contingent on their input...

New comment by frgturpwd in "Writing code is cheap now"

frgturpwd — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:15:11 +0000

I hear you, but it seems quicker to predict whether the agent's solution is correct/sound before running it than to compose and "start" coding yourself. Understanding something that's already there seems like less effort. But I guess it highly depends on what you are doing and its level of complexity and how much you're offloading your authority and judgment.

New comment by frgturpwd in "Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes"

frgturpwd — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:31:42 +0000

I prefer waiting till it gets me in trouble. So far, it having access to all my .env secrets seems to work out okay.

New comment by frgturpwd in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

frgturpwd — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:31:24 +0000

Also, this was literally said about the technology of - what OP fantasizes as - "good ole pen and paper writing" at some point by vintage philosophers. Nothing new here.

New comment by frgturpwd in "I miss thinking hard"

frgturpwd — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:20:13 +0000

It seems like what you miss is actually a stable cognitive regime built around long uninterrupted internal simulation of a single problem. This is why people play strategy video games.

New comment by frgturpwd in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

frgturpwd — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:17:03 +0000

It also does not help that this has ChatGPT writing signature all over it. :)

New comment by frgturpwd in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

frgturpwd — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:23:08 +0000

The argument assumes a naïve pre-hermeneutic subject who could maintain a pure unmediated "self" if only they avoided LLMs. The author is nostalgic for a world that never really existed. Photography ruined painting, digital ruined film, typewriters ruined writing, audiobooks ruined literacy etc etc! This is the same lament lodged by every craft-class when industrialization hits their domain. Programmers aren't special. AI is not a fascist project simply due to the fact that different actors are bound to weaponize it differently, so this take is.. kinda tired and full of blindspots. I could have used my prejudice in figuring that out as soon as it implied that abstinence is superior, but I wanted to give it a fair shot. It ending with self-helpesque advice is just so funny.

New comment by frgturpwd in "ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web"

frgturpwd — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:29:21 +0000

Am I missing something here? I used it a few days ago and it does actually act like a web browser and give me the link. This seems to be a UI expectation issue rather than a "real philosophy".