Hacker News: inthebin

New comment by inthebin in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

inthebin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:24:11 +0000

Can someone provide a reason for why anyone should be using Rails? I'm always curious why people love context switching between multiple programming languages.

New comment by inthebin in "We are teen hackers from around the world who code together"

inthebin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:23:15 +0000

Personally I don't think there is such a thing as "creatives". All humans are creative - that's what we do, we solve problems by coming up with solutions. Whether that is to create a painting, or coming up with a joke/punchline or writing a novel, or creating a product with code - that's a matter of aptitude/interest and environmental exposure.

New comment by inthebin in "Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines"

inthebin — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:51:54 +0000

Games used to be crisp as hell, and now they run like shit, crash, and take 150gb to download, and 150 years to launch. If we played games for graphics, one of the most popular MMOs wouldn't be based on a browser game from 2002, in fact we wouldn't be playing games we would be playing real life.

Look at what Epic Games did with fortnite. They killed a competitive scene game that ran smooth for turbobloat graphics and skins.

New comment by inthebin in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

inthebin — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:30:08 +0000

Because a percentage of people who vote trump tell everyone they will vote dem to not be bullied or frozen out by their friends, relatives, colleagues, etc. Dr Phil described it well I think.

New comment by inthebin in "SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027"

inthebin — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:17:17 +0000

Honestly, why not make it expire after an hour or something? That way you're forced to deal with auto renewal.

New comment by inthebin in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

inthebin — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:26:15 +0000

To be honest, many times GPT 4o helps me understand poorly written emails by colleagues. I often find myself asking it "Did he means this when he wrote this?"... I'm a bit on the spectrum so if someone asks me vague questions or hallucinates words for things that don't exist, I have to verify with chatGPT to reaffirm that they are in fact just stupid.

New comment by inthebin in "On the Nature of Time"

inthebin — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:53:02 +0000

I thought spacetime was a fundamental concept of physics which explains gravity and not merely a human invention for measuring change...?

New comment by inthebin in "Intelligence is not like height"

inthebin — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 15:35:51 +0000

Depression very clearly is both a hardware issue and a software issue.

rolled 0.6 on hardware + 0.4 on software = 1.0

rolled 0.4 on hw + 0.6 on sw = 1.0

rolled 0 on both = 0.0 = maximum depression

rolled 1 on both = 2.0 = golden retriever with good owner

New comment by inthebin in "Artificial intelligence is losing hype"

inthebin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:49:58 +0000

I think it's your mindset and how you approach it. E.g. some people are genuinely bad at googling their way to a solution. While some people know exactly how to manipulate the google search due to years of experience debugging problems. Some people will be really good at squeezing out the right output from ChatGPT/Copilot and utilize it to maximum potential, while others simply won't make the connection.

Its output depends on your input.

E.g. say you have an API swagger documentation and you want to generate a Typescript type definition using that data, you just copy paste the docs into a comment above the type, and copilot auto fills your Typescript type definition even adding ? for properties which are not required.

If you define clearly the goal of a function in a JSDoc comment, you can implement very complex functions. E.g. you define it in steps, and in the function line out each step. This also helps your own thinking. With GPT 4o you can even draw diagrams in e.g. excalidraw or take screenshots of the issues in your UI to complement your question relating to that code.

New comment by inthebin in "Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)"

inthebin — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 09:53:44 +0000

I think the problem you're describing is not due to distractions and social media. I think the fault there is that school has changed, kids aren't taught to be allowed to make mistakes. If you're not taught that failure is part of learning, then you're just teaching kids to build anxiety because they are not allowed to fail.