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New comment by pyth0 in "My Software North Star"

pyth0 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:08:26 +0000

I take amphetamines prescribed by a doctor for ADHD, and without them I am considerably less effective. And the same way your amphetamine analogy doesn't work, I think it similarly doesn't work for LLMs either. At the end of the day if you are more effective with something than without it, it would be silly to avoid it out of some sense of "purity".

New comment by pyth0 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

pyth0 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:41:10 +0000

> It's a pretty high moat getting into stuff like simulation software

I'm currently working on a simulation/game about space and orbital mechanics. I have a lot of software experience, I know how to build large projects and architect my code, and I know how to to test the end result to ensure I'm getting what I want. But I also don't have a strong math or physics background. In my experience, Claude (Opus 4.6+) has had no issues writing any simulation or game related math code. And the key thing is, I don't need to have a PhD in astrophysics to verify interactively and visually that everything is working as I expect to. I just have an interest in space, and a basic understanding of the physics involved.

> it's often applied mathematicians and physicists turned devs that work on this stuff.

It's true that this has been the case, but I also would not have been able to implement what I'm doing now without these models (at least without dedicated a huge amount of time on learning all of the physics and math). So I think this domain specific knowledge is becoming less of a moat than people realize. At least that's my perspective on the specific area I'm working on, but I don't have a hard time believing it extends to other domains, provided there is ample information about them online to have trained on.

New comment by pyth0 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

pyth0 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:18:04 +0000

You answered your own question... you are needed to tell it what to do. Let's not pretend that someone with prior software skills will be able to produce larger scale and/or higher quality work compared to someone with no experience.

New comment by pyth0 in "How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?"

pyth0 — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:04:26 +0000

I don't assume anything either, but a single Google search is enough to dispel that [1]

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzv...

New comment by pyth0 in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

pyth0 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:44:31 +0000

To me, and devs at large (given their market share), that sounds like convenience.

New comment by pyth0 in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

pyth0 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:17:23 +0000

I don't understand why someone would go through the effort to prompt that when the comments it suggested are total garbage, and it seems like would take similar effort to produce a low quality human written comment.

New comment by pyth0 in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

pyth0 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:46:53 +0000

Can you explain what features you're talking about? Do you mean stuff like "shorts"?

New comment by pyth0 in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

pyth0 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:01:21 +0000

It's fucking weird and creepy, and it's sexual harassment.

New comment by pyth0 in "All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)"

pyth0 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:42:41 +0000

This feels like an incredibly disingenuous comparison and I suspect you know that. But just to play along, real artists had to design the character models, real filmmakers had to decide which shots to capture, real editors had to put that together to make a cohesive story. Also they almost certainly went through color grading after having completed the rendering, so the colors are certainly selected by humans to produce a nice looking composition.

New comment by pyth0 in "AI Police Reports: Year in Review"

pyth0 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:18:12 +0000

If you want to make your comment useful, you could share some information about where you understand policing in America to have originated.

New comment by pyth0 in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

pyth0 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:13:49 +0000

That's fair, though I never implied that there were no side effects. The part I was trying to point out in the quote was the mention of it being addictive which is not really supported, nor is that mentioned in the article.

New comment by pyth0 in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

pyth0 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:27:52 +0000

Okay, so what makes you believe that about prozac (or SSRIs) then?

New comment by pyth0 in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

pyth0 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:16:45 +0000

How can you believe it's both "no better than placebo" but also that it's "going to have his brain chemistry altered and essentially be addicted to a drug". SSRIs are not considered addictive, though people can develop a dependence if it provides them significant improvement.

New comment by pyth0 in "Git 3.0 Defaults to "main" Branch Instead of "master"

pyth0 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:08:00 +0000

This seems like a you problem. I have quite a few repos made before using "main" was the default in GitHub or Git. I have not changed them, and I have never spent more than 5 seconds thinking about it, let alone worrying about being considered "less of a person" because of it.

New comment by pyth0 in "Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects"

pyth0 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:23:52 +0000

Interesting you mention jumping spiders, I just saw a rather interesting video talking about exactly this and includes some interviews with scientists involved in some of these experiments [1]. One interesting fact I learned is that they have a sense of numeracy, and can distinguish between one, two and three-or-more objects.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QF6kaOAuYg

New comment by pyth0 in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

pyth0 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:52:15 +0000

You don't need to sign up for a developer program, or even download the full Xcode IDE. You do need to install the compiler tools with

  xcode-select --install

New comment by pyth0 in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

pyth0 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:45:33 +0000

Can you explain further? Canada has sales tax and successfully phased out the penny.

New comment by pyth0 in "Helm 4.0"

pyth0 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:21:00 +0000

How do you have anything dynamic? How do you handle any differences at all between your infrastructure and what the authors built it for.

New comment by pyth0 in "Element: setHTML() method"

pyth0 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:13:22 +0000

It appears you can tune what is sanitized from the input via the "sanitizer" optional parameter. The default sanitizer is however defined in a spec linked on the docs page [1] with the actual sanitize operation specified as well [2].

[1] https://wicg.github.io/sanitizer-api/#dom-element-sethtml

[2] https://wicg.github.io/sanitizer-api/#sanitize

New comment by pyth0 in "Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake"

pyth0 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:02:14 +0000

As I understand it?