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New comment by yrgulation in "Tech companies are irrational pop cultures"

yrgulation — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:43:07 +0000

“ today ChatGPT would like outperform a highschool competitive programming competition.”

Google did it first. You input a search string, find results on first or second attempt and then copy and paste the code.

New comment by yrgulation in "Where are my Git UI features from the future?"

yrgulation — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 19:05:09 +0000

Git is pretty easy to use but people tend to overcomplicate it. Just push changes to your branch. Merge when ready. And keep your branch up to date with your main branch. Easy.

New comment by yrgulation in "Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years"

yrgulation — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 17:10:20 +0000

Congratulations to sticking to it for such a long time. Given sufficient time any startup can work. The more you know the more competitive you are the better the product.

New comment by yrgulation in "Thanks Dang, Happy Holidays"

yrgulation — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:22:25 +0000

Thanks for putting up for those of us whom are too rebellious! Promise changes in the coming year. Happy holidays!!

New comment by yrgulation in "Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn"

yrgulation — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:30:04 +0000

The media is corrupt and filled with incompetent writers. According to them we will be replaced by ai monday morning. They did the same wave of stories where they said baristas and chefs will be replaced by ai robots just a few years ago. They even had “proof”: a robot arm here and there doing a crappy job at making a burger and scrambled eggs. Now it’s tech “workers”. Also there are no jobs in tech. These folks writing “news” really are clueless and have no idea what they are writing - dont usually bother talking to people and researching their content, they just spew it out.

New comment by yrgulation in "Find warmth this winter. We're building an online directory of ‘warm banks’"

yrgulation — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 01:38:32 +0000

“8.2 M Estimated to be in fuel poverty by October 2022.”

In the United Kingdom. Let that sink in. In 2022 we should not have to worry about energy prices. Should be as cheap as breathing air. Yet here we are.

New comment by yrgulation in "Artists stage mass protest against AI-generated artwork on ArtStation"

yrgulation — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:12:38 +0000

If software engineers could read this they would be so upset. Their code stolen off of github and resold through ai is the silliest thing they could have done to themselves.

New comment by yrgulation in "The Coming Game Engine Inflection Point"

yrgulation — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 06:47:05 +0000

Oh buzz off child.

New comment by yrgulation in "The Coming Game Engine Inflection Point"

yrgulation — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 06:20:14 +0000

> One bad recession and that AAA piece of proprietary software you've built a whole game on could go under.

Great, that increases scarcity.

Companies investing labour so they can pay less for labour isnt something to celebrate. They can pay people to build tools or buy them from indie devs. The web world is essentially dead for independent development. Software is everywhere and it costs precisely zero. Best deal you can get is wage slavery. Now this is all about to eat the game dev world. Add some ai to the mix and artists can kiss their little revenue goodbye. I know i am not hiring one because i can generate my content online. Soon that will come to asset store packages that will be available for free everywhere.

New comment by yrgulation in "The Coming Game Engine Inflection Point"

yrgulation — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 06:04:46 +0000

Well then, people shouldnt complain when their private lifes get monetised in lieu for cost or when kids get hooked on loot boxes. Let alone when of the last standing indie software dev markets dries up thanks to oss cancer.

New comment by yrgulation in "The Gates of Argonath in VR at 50 FPS on Unreal Engine"

yrgulation — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:44:35 +0000

VR capable computers are quite cheap. Cheaper than a low spec apple macbook pro running m1. For 2-3k you can get a beast of a machine running everything on real high settings.

New comment by yrgulation in "The staggering timeline to build new homes in S.F"

yrgulation — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 06:44:16 +0000

At what point does it make sense to build new cities instead of refactoring legacy ones?

New comment by yrgulation in "Open source is the way out of a tech downturn"

yrgulation — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 06:18:26 +0000

This is a one way process - companies take but never give.

New comment by yrgulation in "Open source is the way out of a tech downturn"

yrgulation — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 06:16:56 +0000

So free labour? No thank you. Open source devs should think long and hard about how their good will is being taken advantage of. Not just by mega corps reselling their software by saas or ais but also by individuals demanding features and support. It also simply reduced the monetary value of code to zero. Unless it cures cancer there is no need to make it available free of charge.

New comment by yrgulation in "Mars Now"

yrgulation — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:41:33 +0000

Unfortunately the only thing to motivate most people is greed. I am aware of the legacy, but the way to sell this is by highlighting the profit that can come out of it. And fortunately there is nothing to kill on mars in the process. It’s a win win.

New comment by yrgulation in "Is Europe just not good at innovating?"

yrgulation — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 19:30:47 +0000

Europe is more keen on stability. That and protectionism through bureaucracy means things are moving at a slow pace. Some like it that way. And to spicy things up a bit, european countries enjoy dominating one another with petty politics. There is some cooperation for show but by and large it’s mainly driven by old age colonialism without wars. Cross border cultural friction means slow adoption of innovation between countries. Just look at east europe where innovative tech companies do better on the us market than its own eu home market.

New comment by yrgulation in "Mars Now"

yrgulation — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 19:18:52 +0000

Without the desire to explore and expand there would be no America. If the Spanish and Portuguese would have waited to solve all of humanity’s problems first and then set out to explore new worlds the world would be a different place today. Same with space exploration. It is in our dna as the most advanced life forms to go out there. It is also a duty to all life on this earth to expand beyond. Finding even a hint of former life on mars means life is a rule not an exception in the universe. Being able to colonise it means we can outsource all our destructive resource gathering to mars. Or even better we can live on it. Doing so would mean trade with earth and as a result development on a scale never seen before.

New comment by yrgulation in "US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved"

yrgulation — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:59:18 +0000

Would you rather the us takes second place in researching space and energy tech?

New comment by yrgulation in "My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs"

yrgulation — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:20:04 +0000

A modern IDE does nearly all the ai hype hopes to achieve, minus code completion. It reviews code, auto completes, hints good practice, searched code real fast, etc.

New comment by yrgulation in "Perhaps it is a bad thing that the leading AI companies cannot control their AIs"

yrgulation — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 23:32:40 +0000

good question - how can it handle answers about countries founded on genocide, slavery, systemic racism, and their impact on affected people’s lives across centuries. can it correlate iq with these?