Hacker News: swingingFlyFish

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "The Revenge of the Home Page"

swingingFlyFish — Thu, 02 May 2024 14:55:58 +0000

"it’s reflecting on the good old days as though it happened thousands of years ago."

Internet time is different than real time

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down"

swingingFlyFish — Thu, 02 May 2024 14:55:17 +0000

It's crazy how slack big tech is. For companies who have such a grueling application process you'd think they'd have more to show for it. disappointing.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down"

swingingFlyFish — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:06:25 +0000

I think when companies become a 'necessity' like this, they have to be regulated or broken up. I'm not a big fan of Apple taking a commission if you port an app to their phone and I loathe the idea of having to use iCloud if I want to use Apple Pay, in fact, can't stand the idea of a phone company being my credit card company/bank either.

And don't get me started on non standard USB...what was that? I applaud the EU stepping in and quite frankly i'm looking forward to Apple being broken up. It's that time.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Shape typing in Python"

swingingFlyFish — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 13:58:35 +0000

I've been using Python since 2.x and I have to admit which each new release I toy with leaving this language behind. Type hints are the latest warts in what should have been a beautiful language. I tend to agree with Charles Lesleifer and others here. Python3 is a mess. https://charlesleifer.com/blog/what-happened/

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Canada Sought to Be a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up"

swingingFlyFish — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:26:29 +0000

Wipe out America and another imperialists take it's place. That's not the answer. Hookey as it sounds living in harmony with nature, recycling, reusing and resource management are what's best.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Canada Sought to Be a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up"

swingingFlyFish — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:23:54 +0000

They're shrinking globally. https://www.sciencealert.com/birth-rates-are-plummeting-in-m...

That said, the world will probably be black by 2200. Makes sense.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Canada Sought to Be a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up"

swingingFlyFish — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:22:53 +0000

"Emancipation of women and free education for girls worldwide. Raising the standard of living in poor countries."

Yup, let's push our ideology on other countries because the west is white is right.

We won't go into the impact certain gender equivalent movements have had on the world.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Canada Sought to Be a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up"

swingingFlyFish — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:20:19 +0000

"By very far the threat to humanity is global warming, not resource depletion."

One begets the other...from either direction.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Canada Sought to Be a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up"

swingingFlyFish — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:16:59 +0000

What's interesting is this could make areas like AI - that are already dirty and environmentally harmful - even worse. If we don't have a clean source of energy to power the data centers. Concerning.

I think I read or heard somewhere awhile ago that water will be the new oil of the future, and wars will be fought over it.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Canada Sought to Be a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up"

swingingFlyFish — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:08:03 +0000

King.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "The "Reitoff principle": Why you should add "nothing" to your work-life schedule"

swingingFlyFish — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 19:01:05 +0000

The answers to my problems come when I'm sitting on the throne. The amount of solutions I've come up with....

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Nvidia Unveils Blackwell, Its Next GPU"

swingingFlyFish — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:50:33 +0000

Examples?

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Our bacteria are more personal than we thought, new study shows"

swingingFlyFish — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:06:54 +0000

I think the "intent" to evolution is reproduction. Thus, it makes sense to look at these traits as chosen or adaptive to further this cause. Everything is based on reproducing a species, it's the only reason we know now of even the purpose of life. Everything else is superfluous or constructs towards that purpose. So yes, apparently there is intent to evolution. To live and produce offspring. Otherwise why are we so afraid to die and fight to live.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Supreme Court to hear case on how the government talks to social media companies"

swingingFlyFish — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:52:41 +0000

I think the government for the most part, needs to get out of social media and treat them like TV of old.

The idea is that TV is just a medium. You can post any commercial or information you want on there and it should be up to the viewer to discern what they want to watch and believe.

Look for example at some of the drug commercials, or if you want to get nitty gritty, look at fast food commercials that have carcinogenic ingredients. This is a slippery slope and I sincerely believe it should be the responsibility of the parent, guardian or mature individual to decide what and when and where to watch content.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Show HN: Async tasks in 350 lines of C"

swingingFlyFish — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:42:39 +0000

I'll allow it. Then we can rewrite it in C but better this time. I really don't see too much of the problem with Coding in C. You just have to be little more mindful. With great power....

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Show HN: Async tasks in 350 lines of C"

swingingFlyFish — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:14:07 +0000

God I love C. Thanks for reminding me.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)"

swingingFlyFish — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:22:11 +0000

When you save something for example to a folder. Is the save icon coloured or not? This is isn't rocket science. It should show it's current state.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Why is machine learning 'hard'? (2016)"

swingingFlyFish — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:44:04 +0000

" Engineers specializing in machine learning continue to command a salary premium in the job market over standard software engineers"

I still haven't really seen this. Data Scientist still seem to make about the same as an experienced Backend Engineer.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "An open source DuckDB text to SQL LLM"

swingingFlyFish — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:00:21 +0000

I hear what you're saying, and actually agree that - unfortunately - is the current state of LLMs today. But I think OP still has a point, and I'd argue as well that that is the aim of GAI, to be able to take a simple question, understand and produce the desired results.

As it stands, and as you mentioned, the current generation of LLMS seem a long way from there. Thus the need for prompt engineers. It'll be nice to see how long they take to crack this problem.

New comment by swingingFlyFish in "Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees"

swingingFlyFish — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:53:54 +0000

You should watch Office Space.