victorvosk (u/victorvosk)

victorvosk commented on OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman removed at OpenAI's request humanloop.com/blog/openai... · Posted by u/bluefishinit

dontreact · 3 years ago

My guess is that "making cheaper and faster GPT4" was leading to the rumors that GPT4 was nerfed

victorvosk · 3 years ago

I don't care what the official line is, something changed with it. It might be the same model but the way it answers questions and the content of those answers is much more dubious now. I think how it manages its conversation context was gimped in the web chat version. I find it routinely completely forgetting things in longer conversations.

victorvosk commented on Blizzard CEO denies culture of harassment and blames unions for company problems theverge.com/2023/6/1/237... · Posted by u/mikestew

victorvosk · 3 years ago

Bobby at it again

victorvosk commented on Belgium legalises ethical hacking law.kuleuven.be/citip/blo... · Posted by u/jruohonen

victorvosk · 3 years ago

I know everyone is high fiving but this like most Euro tech laws, is so obscenely murky and essentially opens the flood gates on anyone running servers over there.

victorvosk commented on Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars economist.com/internation... · Posted by u/doetoe

victorvosk · 3 years ago

I always liked cars as a kid. Faster the better. But Tesla kind of broke everything. A super car for 150k and its only going to get cheaper and faster as time goes by. There is no longer any parity. EV's don't have roaring engines, outside of the cringe fake engine noises some are adding. There is nothing to be excited about when your future 30k 4 door sedan can do 200mph, 0-60 in 3 seconds.

victorvosk commented on Start test names with “should” (2020) paperless.blog/start-test... · Posted by u/nigamanth

victorvosk · 3 years ago

I thought "should" was a product of silly TDD, like my widget "should do this thing" and it doesn't yet because TDD, and then the developer would implement it.

victorvosk commented on Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from C++ to Rust (2022) risingwave-labs.com/blog/... · Posted by u/mountainview

hdhrufjdi · 3 years ago

> Rust is easy to learn. For seasoned C++ programmers, Rust is easy to learn. When they first start out, Rust learners usually spend most of their time making sense of ownership and lifetime. Even if they don't explicitly express these concepts in code, experienced C++ engineers always keep these two concepts in mind when programming in C++.

Finally somebody understands this.

victorvosk · 3 years ago

Hot take, I feel like people that complain Rust is hard typically write bade code in other languages. Rust is just preventing you from making common mistakes or using patterns that make your code hard to reason about and debug later.

victorvosk commented on Wizards of the Coast Releases SRD Under Creative Commons License (CC-BY-4.0) dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-... · Posted by u/xaviex

SeanAnderson · 3 years ago

The community WOTC built over decades shouldn't have to give feedback that 85%+ identify with in order to achieve results that are desirable. If community sentiment is so lopsided then what was the rationale to make the decision in the first place and how was the communities' desire not implicitly understood?

There is no doubt in my mind that WOTC (let's be real, Hasbro) has enough self-awareness to have realized they were encroaching significantly on their core demographic. They chose to do so anyway and are backtracking out of an interest of self-preservation rather than a customer-first mindset.

I find this shameful enough behavior to warrant a legitimate, heartfelt apology. Instead, they present themselves as benevolent caretakers listening to their communities' response. This comes across as tone-deaf because they've already lost the trust of the community and don't seem to have learned how to take ownership of that fact.

Still, this is a better result than if they'd stayed their advertised course. So, for that, I am thankful.

victorvosk · 3 years ago

Real people have disagreements and work through them. Lets not be mad for the sake of being mad. It was completely within the rights of WOTC to do whatever they wanted. People complained and they decided not to do and guarantee they will never do it in the future. Be happy.

victorvosk commented on Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping github.com/whipper-team/w... · Posted by u/catseyechandra

victorvosk · 3 years ago

I love how this software would have been legend in the 90s/00s but now you are just a weird audiophile nerd for messing around with physical CDs.

victorvosk commented on Alpine.js alpinejs.dev/... · Posted by u/tosh

rosszurowski · 3 years ago

I'm glad alternatives like Alpine exist for small sites that don't need many additional behaviours. But having used Alpine for a medium-sized art gallery website last year, I can't really recommend it for anything larger than a very simple site. The fact that all your code is scattered as strings everywhere without error checking or types makes it really hard to debug and work with long-term.

For lightweight front-end tooling, nothing has unseated the ease of Preact for me.

victorvosk · 3 years ago

Basically the problem with every framework that think its fine to sprinkle in strings as code in html.

victorvosk commented on Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder. · Posted by u/Buttons840

victorvosk · 3 years ago

I am nearing that age, and personally I find its a factor of motivation more than anything. I got really excited about a side project last year and smashed out more code than I had in years. Refactoring an api for work doesn't sound super exciting. When I don't care, my brain doesn't care as much either.

If you do not believe that is a factor then examine your sleep and physical fitness. These things factor a lot more into brain function as we age.