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Retro RenderMan: shading food for 'Ratatouille' (2020)

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2 points·by HL33tibCe7·hace 8 meses·0 comments

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HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
> But I think it's wrong to assume most people are incapable of serious, thorough thinking

I never said otherwise. I said that many are incapable, not most
HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
You’re severely overestimating the mental capacity of a large section of the population.

In fact, almost the entire population after little sleep or on a bad day is likely to make mistakes while following your proposed scheme.
HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Look forward to this post being flagged
HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Yes, Your Honor, I did convince this teenager to kill herself - but 150 people a year die from coconuts!
HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Okay, but if you returned a wrapped error it’d at least be easier to debug.
HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
An unwrap like that in production code on the critical path is very surprising to me.

I haven’t worked in Rust codebases, but I have never worked in a Go codebase where a `panic` in such a location would make it through code review.

Is this normal in Rust?
HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
vlang is pretty much this
HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
It returns the zero value for all types, including arrays (which is nil).

nil is equivalent to the empty array, which is why the rest of the code works as it does.
HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
> But it's not easier at all, and learning curve just moves to another place.

Hard disagree. Go has its sharp corners, but they don’t even approach the complexity of the borrow checker of Rust alone, let alone all of the other complexity of the Rust ecosystem.
HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
The fact that certain specific data centres are being proposed or built in areas with water issues may be bad, but it does not imply that all AI data centres are water guzzling drain holes that are killing Earth, which is the point you were (semi-implicitly) making in the article.
HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
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HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
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HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
The value prop here is for existing projects in C or C++, as is made abundantly clear in the linked article
HL33tibCe7
·hace 8 meses·discuss
> I suspect that LLMs are better at classifying novel vs junk papers than they are at creating novel papers themselves.

Doubt

LLMs are experts in generating junk. And generally terrible at anything novel. Classifying novel vs junk is a much harder problem.
HL33tibCe7
·hace 10 meses·discuss
Most phishing emails are so bad, it’s quite terrifying when you see a convincing one like this.

Email is such an utter shitfest. Even tech-savvy people fall for phishing emails, what hope do normal people have.

I recommend people save URLs in their password managers, and get in the habit of auto-filling. That way, you’ll at least notice if you’re trying to log into a malicious site. Unfortunately, it’s not foolproof, because plenty of sites ask you to randomly sign into different URLs. Sigh…
HL33tibCe7
·hace 10 meses·discuss
Stopped reading after realising this is written by ChatGPT
HL33tibCe7
·hace 10 meses·discuss
Being a founder is a completely different situation which the article is explicitly not talking about.

Although, frankly, even as a founder, 100-hour 7-day weeks aren’t right for the vast majority of people. Clearly it worked for you, which is great, but 99% of people do not have that level of energy, and furthermore are mentally unable to withstand the sacrifices such a schedule imposes on other aspects of life.
HL33tibCe7
·hace 10 meses·discuss
What’s the point in having a house if you only spend one day in it, which realistically you will spend doing chores and sleeping?
HL33tibCe7
·hace 10 meses·discuss
Maybe it’s just me having low energy levels, but for me, I can’t fathom working 996 while continuing to do focused and deep work consistently.

At the moment I work 9-5, a few meetings per day, so maybe 5-6 hours focused work, and I’m mentally exhausted by the end.
HL33tibCe7
·el año pasado·discuss
Censoring is different to banning though. Banning in this case is the correct word to use, censoring isn’t. You can censor things on a platform, you can’t censor a platform entirely - that is a ban.