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New comment by hoot in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

hoot — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:42:21 +0000

I read "The Way of Zen" by Alan Watts and it completely changed my existence. It really got me away from concepts like searching for meaning, purpose, and making things better.

Bevy XPBD Moving Away from XPBD Solver over Nvidia Patent

hoot — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:08:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Jondolf/bevy_xpbd/issues/346

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39631437

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New comment by hoot in "AOL pretends to be the internet"

hoot — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:36:33 +0000

Random people would just message you this out of the blue. When I was about 10 or 11 some girl did this and we figured out we lived two hours away from each other. We ended up talking and kept in touch for years. Eventually our family’s had planned a vacation to the same city at the same time and we met up in person finally and had a good time. It never turned into a relationship but we kept in touch until I was in my early twenties. It just seemed like a different world compared to the social networking of today. Things were more innocent and there was a lot more inherit trust between people online.

New comment by hoot in "Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla"

hoot — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:30:14 +0000

I’m not an Elon hater but Tesla is the worst offender on Mozillas privacy study.

New comment by hoot in "Bevy 0.11: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust"

hoot — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:48:17 +0000

Any news on when Bevy will have some legit documentation? I know there was a branch in work a while back that looked to have some in depth docs, but it doesn’t seem like it’s made its way into a release. This has always been a huge hurdle for me with Bevy. I really just don’t want to wade through discord to figure out how to use it. Wishing the best and awesome work. I think I’ll give bevy another shot once there’s an editor and good docs!

New comment by hoot in "I stopped buying new laptops (2020)"

hoot — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 18:39:42 +0000

I recently got my first macbook (coming from a thinkpad) and it’s honestly more about not having to give a shit about a charger. It charges incredibly fast when I plug it into its monitor, but otherwise I just throw it in a bag without even thinking about what my battery percentage is. I’ll leave the house with it and not even bring the charger.

New comment by hoot in "Remote work turns America into Suburban nation"

hoot — Sat, 06 May 2023 15:08:29 +0000

You don’t need 2-3 cars living rurally either. My wife and I dropped down to 1 vehicle a year ago with her being a stay at home mom and myself working remote.

New comment by hoot in "Show HN: Debate Devil – AI debating practice app"

hoot — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:16:39 +0000

I made three vague 1 sentence arguments and the judge announced that I won. I definitely felt like I got crushed by gpt but I guess it went soft on me :/

New comment by hoot in "AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects"

hoot — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:11:45 +0000

I've noticed it as well. The most recent example I can think was with gitlab webhooks. I need to manage (create/delete/edit) a lot of web hooks across a lot of different projects. I normally would have probably just started doing it by hand in the web ui, but instead I had some python code from gpt to automate it in a few minutes.

New comment by hoot in "An interview with Steve Wozniak by Jessica Livingston cured my AI anxiety"

hoot — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 04:40:40 +0000

In a few years it will be called Pilot instead of Copilot.

New comment by hoot in "ChatGPT Plugins"

hoot — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:40:42 +0000

Where the hell do we even go from here? The logical step seems to be to start studying AI now but even Sam Altman has said that he’s thinking that ML engineers will be the first to get automated. Can’t find source but I think it was one of his interviews on YouTube before chatgpt came out.

New comment by hoot in "Khan Academy integrates GPT-4 as every student’s customized tutor"

hoot — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:57:40 +0000

I wonder what the point of school is even going to be at this point

New comment by hoot in "How to start a rocket engine"

hoot — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:50:41 +0000

Did anybody else feel like the musk interview got really awkward towards the end? It seemed like he became really bored of it and just shut down.

New comment by hoot in "Who owns private home security footage, and who can get access to it?"

hoot — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 01:26:38 +0000

I did a basic UniFi setup at my house back in the fall and it’s been pretty simple and fully reliable. It’s pretty much the apple of home networking and security.

New comment by hoot in "Honestly, It's Probably the Phones"

hoot — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 17:19:20 +0000

Yeah there's nothing better for mental health than spending 2 hours a day in a car to sit in a dark windowless room for 8 hours with headphones. I went back to remote work this past fall and it has been such a massive boost to my mental health. I spend a ton more time with my family and friends. I take a long lunch every day to spend with my daughter. Never going back to an office.

New comment by hoot in "Programming AIs worry me"

hoot — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:42:51 +0000

Tell ChatGPT that you want it to ask for more context when it's needed and it will do so. I've done this before and it will continue to ask more probing questions until it's satisfied. You kind of have to guide it a little bit but it definitely works.

New comment by hoot in "Ask HN: How do I write good documentation?"

hoot — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:20:42 +0000

Get ChatCPT to write it.

New comment by hoot in "Deepmind’s AlphaCode conquers coding, performing as well as humans"

hoot — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:16:09 +0000

I guarantee the OP could have asked GPT to expand on each of those and it would have done so flawlessly.

New comment by hoot in "Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results"

hoot — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:09:22 +0000

I bought a Galaxy fold last week and returned it yesterday. The form factor and larger screen was cool, but holy cow did Android feel like a huge downgrade from iOS. It was just all kinds of little quality of life things in iOS that I instantly missed. I think I needed something like one extra button press to get to the flashlight on Android and that did me in.

New comment by hoot in "EA: The Human Story (2004)"

hoot — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 03:20:39 +0000

The article mentions that Larry Probst was ceo at the time fwiw.