Hacker News: slopeloaf

New comment by slopeloaf in "Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025"

slopeloaf — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 07:45:43 +0000

I empathize with this and your earlier obviously inflammatory remarks, but we either pay for adaptation/mitigation now or pay billions if not trillions later for infrastructure repairs, more human lives lost, further extinctions of animal biodiversity, and reduced economic productivity from the loss of arable land.

Taxing large emitters does still past the cost down to the consumer. Someone certainly has to pay eventually. Perhaps youre too cynical to believe humans now are willing to do so. I don’t think youre right, but it’s certainly an opinion those less optimistic share :) and there is plenty of current evidence to bring hopes down.

Alas I’d like to die knowing I tried and cared instead of contributing to the apathy of the situation.

New comment by slopeloaf in "Scallop – A Language for Neurosymbolic Programming"

slopeloaf — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:39:48 +0000

Love to see this! I’m a huge fan of Neurosymbolic methods, but more advanced examples might be needed to help convince folks to adopt or try Scallop. The three on the page feel very toy. An example rooted in NLP or working with an LLM front and centered might help

Very pleasant branding though. Great work! :)

New comment by slopeloaf in "Fine-tune Google's Gemma 3"

slopeloaf — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:02:34 +0000

Yeah this big time. I haven’t found a solution that makes sense. Larger models are already good enough and so convenient.

When it’s more feasible to do inference on the client (browser or desktop) I can see SLMs popping up more common in production.

New comment by slopeloaf in "NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut"

slopeloaf — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:40:50 +0000

If youre using the term “wokeness” seriously. You are not interested in a dialogue. You merely want to own the libs. Much of your comment history is defending Elon too and a lot of data driven replies to your past comments go seemingly unreplied by you

I don’t think you have any interest in an actual discussion here. You just want to signal youre right and the other party is wrong.

There are far more productive uses of your time then defending a stranger you’ll never meet. It’s a beautiful world out there. Please go enjoy it

New comment by slopeloaf in "Cuttle – a MTG like game using a standard 52 card deck"

slopeloaf — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:54:12 +0000

This is for a simple card game man. Recommending board games is part of the culture of the hobby. It ain’t that deep

New comment by slopeloaf in "Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language (2017)"

slopeloaf — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 02:48:36 +0000

I love these low level/from scratch resources. Recently been doing some game development with Godot. I decided to take a break and make a toy game with just SDL2. Lots of stuff I learned (especially from Lazy Foo’s SDL2 series) helped click a lot of concepts from Godot and let me gain a deeper understanding.

Networking is something I find intimidating so this is a good shot to jump in and grow

New comment by slopeloaf in "Steam Deck hits 17,000 games playable and verified"

slopeloaf — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 18:21:48 +0000

Steam Deck is the reason I’ve finally beat so many games on my backlog. Being able to pick up and play while on the couch, before bed, or just bring it traveling. Fantastic. I basically only buy games that are playable or verified on the Steam Deck these days.

New comment by slopeloaf in "Javier Milei: "My contempt for the state is infinite""

slopeloaf — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:59:15 +0000

This feels like an oversimplification of their priorities. Many right wing politicians are pro-deregulation. Trump also ran /did act on deregulation (or weakening) of certain agencies in his first term as well.

I think it’s moreso during hard economic times. Telling constituents youre going to “axe wasteful government spending” is a very viable strategy for winning elections.

New comment by slopeloaf in "picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models"

slopeloaf — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:33:49 +0000

Love this! Might nab it just to try it out. A very similar tool is Kenney Shape which has you drawing pixel art with depth numbers for each square that turn into models: https://kenney.nl/tools/kenney-shape

New comment by slopeloaf in "Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science"

slopeloaf — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:08:16 +0000

I was an early fan from 2016-2018 (stopped listening as regularly after 2018 and dropped off entirely after 2020). I agree he is not far right

Rogan definitely shifted right during this time though. Enough so that I and many others close to me found it off putting to continue. A shame because I’ve never found a replacement show.

Calling him far right is incorrect, but I believe the criticism has always been about the people he platforms and not his views. Whether or not you agree with that critique is up to you

New comment by slopeloaf in "The Bluesky Bubble: This is a relapse, not a fix"

slopeloaf — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:22:58 +0000

Elon buying Twitter and ruining the platform with spam, lower quality posts being promoted, and many of my favorite creators leaving. It cured my Twitter addiction. So I appreciate Elon for that.

Back when I was younger and addicted to Reddit I remember unfollowing all my subreddits and hacking together a little script that hid the follow button. That friction made Reddit a lot less desirable.

I’ll no doubt eventually try out Bluesky, but I don’t think it could ever capture Twitter’s magic pre-Elon.

New comment by slopeloaf in "Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation [pdf]"

slopeloaf — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:49:32 +0000

“Survey evidence reveals that these gains come at a cost, however, as 82% of scientists report reduced satisfaction with their work due to decreased creativity and skill underutilization.”

What an interesting finding and not what I was expecting. Is this an issue with the UX/tooling? Could we alleviate this with an interface that still incorporates the joy of problem solving.

I haven’t seen any research that Copilot and similar tools for programmers have a similar reduction in satisfaction. Likely with how much the tools feel like an extension of traditional auto complete, and you still spend a lot of time “programming”. You haven’t abandoned your core skill.

Related: I often find myself disabling copilot when I have a fun problem I want the satisfaction of solving myself.