In all of my school years, essays were THE WORST kind of exam there was. The grading was highly arbitrary anyway... Good that AI is killing that.
Readit NewsDouble_a_92 commented on What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/adrianhon
"Figure out who won what" is kind of the core business function of a lottery, obviously upper management is responsible for ensuring that happens correctly. Not necessarily through direct involvement, but through ensuring the right people and processes are in place.
If they aren't responsible for that, what else would a lottery CEO be responsible for?
The winnings were calculated and paid out correctly. The error was just in the string formatting in some App notification.
Because CEOs should take responsibility for the public errors of companies? If they had had proper testing procedures in place, this mistake would have been caught long before it reached the public. Clearly they did not, and the buck stops at the CEO.
But how is taking responsability just disappearing after you messed up?
Why did the CEO leave because some dev made a typo? That wasn't necessarily caused by some error in the strategy of the company...
Double_a_92 commented on Anticheat Update Tracking not-matthias.github.io/po... · Posted by u/not-matthias
There's a number of good reasons not to make everyone run a kernel level anti-cheat. Linux (and therefore SteamOS) compatibility is a big one.
I think the status quo where anyone on any platform can access the vanilla game -- where cheaters may not even be a huge problem depending on one's skill rating -- and the most competitively-minded players have the choice to play on FACEIT, works pretty fine.
I do wonder what the 90% of built-in game content you're referring to actually is.
To be fair in the specific case of CS2, the normal modes without FACEIT are really barely playable. Most games are just a massive loss or win, depending on who has the suspiciously good player with 100 hours in their team.
Double_a_92 commented on Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application · Posted by u/xiange
I’m learning 3d and confused about what to focus on for hard modeling. I just wanna make cool realistic spaceships. Should I do cad or blender?
Since I assume that spaceships are more an artistic thing, go for Blender.
Double_a_92 commented on Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application · Posted by u/xiange
> This looks super nice! That is kind of the interface I wish FreeCAD could have.
What do you dislike about FreeCAD's interface?
- There are too many views whithout explanation of what they are
- By default the position of the tools and buttons is a chaotic mess
- There are things that seem to be the same but arent (e.g. Sketch from the "Part Design" and "Sketch" view)
- The 3D view is glitchy. The reflections make things invisible, AA is off by default, there is no proper Grid...
- The QT stylesheet is kinda ugly. If you literally delete it completely and revert to the default that QT has it looks much nicer.
- The settings are a bit messy and often it's not clear what they do.
Double_a_92 commented on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo github.com/mozilla-firefo... · Posted by u/thefilmore
Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.
How is it a single place if every dev has a full copy of the repository? Also unless it's some software that each user customizes and builds for themselves, you still need some kind of way to tell which is the official version.
Like any tech nerds, I went through "camera phase" and carried canon 350d, 50d then 6d everywhere i go with my 50mm and 135mm ... but they were indeed bulky, it was a hassle to get people to pose for photos while i run 100m back so my 135mm can capture them perfectly... i couldn't enjoy the moment, i was that "camera friend" that would fly around everyone like fly, capturing them doing things and feeling proud that i got a good photo for them... But coming back from these trips, i realized i didnt spend enough time strolling the street with friends, talking about life, enjoying the moment so i stopped... especially now with kids.
If only people are not so against camera recording them, i think a rayban meta idea would have been cool but it needs to constantly recording like those car dash cam and when you just shared a perfect funny moment, you can immediately hit save to preserve that moment for later. So many times i wished i recorded the moment my childrens do things or being funny but it was too late.
I love taking photo with phone still and when my wife dress in her favourite coat and the setting is right, i would go back to being the "camera dude" using my best framing technique i learnt to capture the moment, at least the experience from those years did not go to waste.
Last but not least, one of the best purchase i ever done was the insta link wide bluetooth printer... it let me print, sign the date and gift my friends who visit something to take home and put on their fridge to remember the time we spent together.
> it was a hassle to get people to pose for photos
This so much. I bought a better camera for a big party my parents where organizing, and it was such a terrible experience trying to get people into a photo. Even if they welcomed the photo, they just couldn't stop moving or talking while posing for it.
Yesterday I wanted to rewrite a program to use a large library that would have required me to dive deep down into the documentation or read its code to tackle my use case. As a first try, I just copy+pasted the whole library and my whole program into GPT 4.1 and told it to rewrite it using the library. It succeeded at the first attempt. The rewrite itself was small enough that I could read all code changes in 15 minutes and make a few stylistic changes. Done. Hours of time saved. This is the future. It is inevitable.
PS: Most replies seem to compare my experience to experiences that the responders have with agentic coding, where the developer is iteratively changing the code by chatting with an LLM. I am not doing that. I use a "One prompt one file. No code edits." approach, which I describe here:
https://www.gibney.org/prompt_coding