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New comment by jdw64 in "China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024"

jdw64 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:20:33 +0000

It's true that China is remarkable, but the concern is that China is too large. Basically, these cutting-edge industries require industrial chains to be connected across different countries, but China can do almost everything within its own borders. China's greatness is greatness, but if China becomes highly developed, will this kind of technological development spread to neighboring countries?

U.S. industry, for one, spreads to many countries through outsourcing. But China can consume outsourcing within its own borders. If that happens, what will become of it?

New comment by jdw64 in "Where is all the new, good software?"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:30:24 +0000

New and good software exists only in the minds of software developers. Every piece of software that actually exists is a target of complaint. I hate Excel and curse it, but in the end, I use it — that's just how it is.

Surviving FOMO from Programming Influencers

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:18:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.makonea.com/en-US/casual/surviving-fomo-from-programming-influencers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061492

Points: 1

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New comment by jdw64 in "Fable Took My Job"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:59:01 +0000

That's not wrong, but many ordinary people don't know that. And even if you use AGENTS.md, there are in fact times when it gets violated.

New comment by jdw64 in "A decade after Stardew Valley, Eric Barone is still going it alone"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:46:47 +0000

Statistically, you're right. But still, party-game-focused games have a chance of succeeding. In other words, it feels like the trend cycle has gotten faster than the "super jackpot" works. Rather than impossible, you could say it's become harder... and in fact, games themselves are statistically few... but even so, everyone wants a miracle.

New comment by jdw64 in "A decade after Stardew Valley, Eric Barone is still going it alone"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:38:31 +0000

Everything is luck and timing. Look at a game like Mecha Chameleon. That game is a vibe coding game, but it's very fun, isn't it? What about Vampire Survivors? I think a lot of every success and failure depends on luck. But separately from that, I want to become the developer of some great project. Right now I mainly deliver programs that go into factories, but someday I have a small dream of making a project that everyone can recall when they hear my name. In that sense, I envy ConcernedApe. With my talent and ability, it's probably hard, but life is long.

New comment by jdw64 in "Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:28:42 +0000

So in the US, they call them orange cats. In Korea, we call them 'cheese tabbies' or 'cheese nyang(kitten).' Someday, when I leave this place, I'd like to get a cat. I really like the ones with broad faces. But right now, I can barely even take care of myself

New comment by jdw64 in "A decade after Stardew Valley, Eric Barone is still going it alone"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:21:21 +0000

I want to have a project like that someday too.

New comment by jdw64 in "QGIS bans AI assisted contributions"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:56:15 +0000

I'm a non-native english, so I change the code myself, but I tend to participate in communities while using a translator. If I use AI, I can fix bigger things, but most of what I contribute to open source is finding small bugs, so I don't use AI for open source contributions. (I mostly don't even have the ability to make big changes.) Looking around open source like that a few times, I can understand the hatred toward AI to some degree: too many requests pour onto a single individual. Of course, that doesn't mean AI isn't helpful. In my view, AI writes code blocks better than I do, and it might even be better to use AI for some of the open source I've contributed to... but overall, I feel that some kind of system for filtering AI-based PRs is needed.

New comment by jdw64 in "Fable Took My Job"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:04:28 +0000

Recently, an agency that used to give me work handed me an app they had built using AI.[1] But even though they had used only the best AI of the time, like Astra and Fable, in reality it had many bugs and many wrong points. If you're not a programmer, there's a lot of room to make mistakes even if you use AI. So honestly, I don't believe the claim that Fable can do everything. It's smart, and it writes code blocks far better than I do, and it writes algorithms far better than I do. But that doesn't mean it has the global consistency a program should have.

[1]https://www.makonea.com/en-US/casual/fixing-a-vibe-coded-app

New comment by jdw64 in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:54:11 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to let me know the keywords. I’m grateful for your kindness, and have a good day.

New comment by jdw64 in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:16:48 +0000

Thank you for your kind answer. I understand EBS as, in other words, virtualized storage, so then somewhere the logical block addresses have to be connected to actual physical storage devices, right? Then where and how is that mapping implemented? If you just give me the keywords, I’ll search for them myself.

Since I’m a freelance programmer, I mainly work on small-to-medium-sized projects, so I don’t know much about this kind of infrastructure programming.

New comment by jdw64 in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:56:51 +0000

But why was EBS chosen instead of NVMe, which is faster? Since I only know how to use cloud programming and don’t understand the internal implementation, I don’t really get why it works out this way. Is it because of ease of backup? Or data movement?

New comment by jdw64 in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:02:47 +0000

very thanks!

New comment by jdw64 in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

jdw64 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:28:20 +0000

Looking at the destruction of Yandex data centers, these days it shows how terrifying drones are as weapons. I'm curious about how to defend against such drones. Are kamikaze drones a method of exploding on a target after image learning?

New comment by jdw64 in "Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes"

jdw64 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:38:16 +0000

좋은 하루보내세요:) I hope it goes well. In my area of Ulsan, there are many workers who speak languages other than Korean, and your idea seems promising.

New comment by jdw64 in "Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes"

jdw64 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:07:34 +0000

It seems that in some sentences, the Korean ending '다 da' is not being output. the AI definitely write better than me.

P.S. I checked the issue: when I input '다.', it outputs '다', but when I input '다', it outputs '디'.

New comment by jdw64 in "Knuth reward check"

jdw64 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:57:30 +0000

thanks!

New comment by jdw64 in "Knuth reward check"

jdw64 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:37:45 +0000

But what's the most Reward checks anyone has ever held?

New comment by jdw64 in "Lobbying is corruption"

jdw64 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:18:30 +0000

Lobbying is corruption. That is a fair statement. Of course, the dictionary definition of lobbying is by no means corruption. But it is the thing most easily grafted onto corruption. Drugs can also function as “medicine.” In the same way, lobbying can “function.” But drugs, like corruption, make things prone to decay. The beginning of lobbying was very good. Cocaine, too, was very good at the beginning. The fact that a means can perform a legitimate function does not mean that the possibility of its abuse and its harmful consequences disappear. Lobbying is, in particular, centered on the asymmetry by which groups with money and organizational power can gain access to policymakers. So what is the problem? Decisions that are “legal” but morally bad have been produced. Through legal lobbying, a minority group can exert excessive influence over policymaking and cause harm to the majority.

Policymaking does not reflect the interests of various citizens fairly at all.