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saintradon commented on Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust   github.com/Snowiiii/Pumpk... · Posted by u/alex_medvedev
saintradon · 10 months ago
This looks great! Can't wait to check out the code in detail.
saintradon commented on “Bad Apple” in Minecraft   purplesyringa.moe/blog/we... · Posted by u/purplesyringa
saintradon · a year ago
I haven't been addicted to Minecraft / building serious redstone stuff since high school. Now I just play a few times a month with some friends when the craving randomly comes back to just build and explore. Looking at the redstone landscape now it has completely changed and it's unrecognizable to me - I wonder if that's how I'll feel as I slowly become a senior software engineer, years pass by and I look at stacks I haven't touched professionally in years and wonder in awe just how rapidly things change in tech and what new things people are creating with it.
saintradon commented on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon   reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/logicchains
saintradon · a year ago
This is why Chinese made electric cars are a bad idea in America.

But Kudos to Israel for pulling off a surgical strike the likes of which we've never seen before.

saintradon commented on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon   reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/logicchains
jakeinspace · a year ago
Unlike stuxnet, this attack had a lot of non-hezbolah civilian casualties. It’s "targeted" in a sense, but not really much more targeted than a drive-by assassination attempt. Anybody close to these people could have sustained serious injury, and there are reports of children injured and dead. We’ll have to wait for details to emerge.

Politically, this is the sort of action that invites comparison to conventional terrorism. It also begs the question of why Hezbollah or other actors shouldn’t try a similar attack against civilian targets. It’s almost like a chemical or biological attack, which most countries shy away from because it’s so hard to defend against (a big part of why it’s illegal). No country can perfectly safeguard its supply chain from intentional sabotage.

I’m afraid that the entire world is a little bit less safe after this move. Maybe Israel is goading Hezbollah into all-out war, who knows, but this affects all of us.

saintradon · a year ago
Completely disagree. I cannot think of a more successful, large scale, targeted attack in recent memory. The engineering behind this was incredible.
saintradon commented on How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)   simonwillison.net/2024/Se... · Posted by u/babelfish
sanderjd · a year ago
People should not do that, though. There are better things to dedicate lives to.
saintradon · a year ago
> There are better things to dedicate lives to.

Then those aren't people Jimmy wants to hire for his company. There are hundreds of millions of teenagers on this planet that want to stake everything they own to make a YouTube channel and reap the rewards - ownership of their work, being their own boss, potentially lucrative amounts of money, microcelebrity if not greater levels of fame, etc. Some will do it, and some won't. Jimmy is very clearly talking to those people.

I know because I was one of them, making my first few hundred dollars ever from adsense at the age of 14 (till I was demonetized a year later and my channel got taken down for copyright, but hey, you learn). I've since grown a bit a taken that energy and it's helped guide me as I learn to make my own startup right now - it's the same adrenaline rush and pursuit of the American dream.

saintradon commented on How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)   simonwillison.net/2024/Se... · Posted by u/babelfish
noizejoy · a year ago
YT has RSS feeds for every channel.

So I’ve switched to using RSS to follow the specific niche creators that add value for me. As a result, my YT experience is entirely unlike what the YT algorithm suggests.

saintradon · a year ago
Did not know this! Going to be checking this out, thank you.
saintradon commented on Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers   papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape... · Posted by u/Anon84
arexxbifs · a year ago
My hunch - it's just a hunch - is that LLM-assisted coding is detrimental to one's growth as a developer. I'm fairly certain it can only boost productivity to a certain level - one which may be tedium for more senior developers, but formative for juniors.

My experience is that the LLM isn't just used for "boilerplate" code, but rather called into action when a junior developer is faced with a fairly common task they've still not (fully) understood. The process of experimenting, learning and understanding is then largely replaced by the LLM, and the real skill becomes applying prompt tweaks until it looks like stuff works.

saintradon · a year ago
Like any other tool, it depends on how you use it.
saintradon commented on Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD   hestus.co/... · Posted by u/kevinsane
saintradon · a year ago
This is cool but I'd like to see some focus for civil engineers doing land development. 98% of them use autocad, and are stuck with it, but also they only really use no more than 100 different commands - it's just the scale of everything that's difficult and really matters.
saintradon · a year ago
If any founders are interested I'd be happy to go into more detail.
saintradon commented on Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD   hestus.co/... · Posted by u/kevinsane
saintradon · a year ago
This is cool but I'd like to see some focus for civil engineers doing land development. 98% of them use autocad, and are stuck with it, but also they only really use no more than 100 different commands - it's just the scale of everything that's difficult and really matters.
saintradon commented on NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture   nsa.gov/helpful-links/nsa... · Posted by u/gaws
saintradon · a year ago
Who knows how many terabytes of incredible lectures like this our government is sitting on... Makes me sad to think about, frankly.

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