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by twodave | 2025-05-02 20:25:48+00:00
In my experience, language skill may or may not matter for programming, but it certainly matters for understanding a problem space. You can be a great programmer, building the wrong thing because you didn’t understand the requirements or see the gap in them and know to ask the right clarifying question, etc.

Lately I’ve also felt language skills matter when writing concise, specific AI prompts. This has become a useful part of my programming workflow in, I suppose, the last year or so. Before that it was knowing “how to Google” well, but that’s less language-dependent in my opinion.
by CarbonBasedUnit | 2025-05-02 20:26:00+00:00
I can relate.

Be aware that well-meaning people will read your post, not realize your situation is outside of their own experience, reinterpret your problem into something that makes sense to them, and then give you useless advice based on their reinterpretation.

I've meditated on and off for years and, although it's pleasant, it sidesteps the real problem without actually addressing it. My conscious mind can be clear but a feeling of subconscious pressure remains, as though I'm in a shelter but I'm still aware of a storm outside that never stops trying to blow open the windows and doors. Have I just not meditated enough? Maybe, but that's unfalsifiable.

The best solution I've found isn't emptying the mind, it's occupying it with pleasing, intentionally-chosen, low-stakes mental puzzles or creative exercises.

This approach doesn't solve the root problem either, just avoids it, but it helps.
by Animats | 2025-05-02 20:26:21+00:00
The secret to Beat Saber is that the player's physical and virtual world are locked together at all times. You're standing on a small platform and can't go anywhere. Thus, it doesn't cause nausea. Or disorientation. Or falls. Even when the player is in very active motion.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV1sw4lfwFw
by GeekyBear | 2025-05-02 20:26:51+00:00
It's a widely known phenomenon.

Here's MKBHD bringing in developes to discuss it.

> Why Are There So Many iOS-Only Apps?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x2hQa5heXCU&pp

The biggest take away is that Android development and testing is more work, and Android users are less willing to spend money.
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by mcny | 2025-05-02 20:27:48+00:00
I am not sure

I quote

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Limited Functionality and Content

We do not allow apps that only have limited functionality and content.

Here is an example of a common violation:

Apps that are static without app-specific functionalities, for example, text only or PDF file apps Apps with very little content and that do not provide an engaging user experience, for example, single wallpaper apps Apps that are designed to do nothing or have no function

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
by godelski | 2025-05-02 20:28:32+00:00
> the results weren't that good; it proved to be too abstract for young kids

You cannot make that conclusion as a result of the evidence. Yes, the evidence might support that conclusion, but there are many others that also could. For example, they could have just been really bad at teaching. This even seems like a likely one as it is difficult to perform such a reformulation and to do so broadly and quickly.

The other reason I'm willing to accept alternative conclusions is that France and the USSR had far more success than Finland (or even America). Their success contradicts a claim that "[it is] too abstract for young kids". You'd need to constrain it to something like "[it is] too abstract for Finish kids" which I think both of us would doubt such a claim.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-05-02 20:28:33+00:00
The point is I don't have to come up with any such thing.

It is not true that if redis didn't exist then I'd be using some MS or Oracle product. I might, if it was practical. Or someone might have invented redis, or I might if that was a space that still needed filling and somehow no one else did it.

It's like saying if linux didn't exist we'd all be using NT.

That's completely ridiculous. No we would not. BSD already existed and if not that then a minix clone or someone else would have started some other unix clone. There were several small unix clones and other full OS's made by completely small developer teams by then, even single people, commercially. If a single guy can do it at all (regardles that they were doing it to sell), it means the job is not infinitely big and so perfectly doable by a few self-motivated volunteers, especially given how that kind of work has no deadline.

Except "volunteer" is the wrong word because they aren't some kind of weird saint doing something just for you or me. They are doing it for themselves, and you get to have it too.

Everything is like that. Redis is no different. There is nothing magic about redis. Things exactly like that get created when the need for them arises every day. If redis didn't exist is a nonsense invalid premis because 12 redis-alikes will always exist any time the need for it exists. It doesn't matter that I didn't already do it muyself, and I don't have to now either, and that is not just beacause redis happens to exist.
by throwaway494932 | 2025-05-02 20:29:20+00:00
That works if meanwhile Google hasn't decided to increase the target api level requirements [1]. In that case you may not be able to just republish the app, and extensive refactoring may be necessary.

Forcing apps using old sdks out of the app store is probably the main reason they do this.

[1] https://developer.android.com/google/play/requirements/targe...
by dc396 | 2025-05-02 20:30:27+00:00
I haven't really been following microkernels for a (very) long time so it's entirely possible that the performance concerns have been overwhelmed by Moore's Law. IIRC, the problem was that microkernels had to do WAY more syscall-equivalents (regardless of how they're done) than monolithic kernels and the constant context switching slowed everything down, but if everything is orders of magnitude faster, maybe it isn't as much of an issue.
by theamk | 2025-05-02 20:30:31+00:00
This only applies to iPhones, most Androids are rootable, and even un-rooted, it is trivial (I am mean really trivial, like 3 clicks) to install programs from outside of app store.

My opinion is anyone who owns iPhone knows what they sign up for, and does not care. So I don't get your rant.

- Do you own iPhone? Well, you've made your bed, now lie in it. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of phones on the market - if you chose one without 3rd party app store, it's on you.

- Do you own Android? You have nothing to complain about, push any apks you want anytime. Hey, get Samsung - it comes with 2nd app store preinstalled (from Samsung of course). Maybe even root the phone if you want to.

(Note the GP mentions "MDM", and that's why they could not use this route. MDM means corporate security, and they apparently made a rule to block 3rd party installs. This is sad, and I feel for them... but this is a corporate problem, regular users are not affected)

- Are you complaining on behalf of other people? They are all adults and made their own choice. If you want to make a difference, advocate against Apple. Or even better, advocate for regulations against Apple, to make their products worse so that more people move to Androids.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-02 20:30:38+00:00
It wasn't that I observed them being foolish but many behaviors are subtly linked to intelligence and can be combined to create a proxy IQ. It also helps when people search their SAT scores. I noted that the people I typically interact with are much higher IQ than I had expected which incorrectly skewed my believe of the average higher. I noticed that other high IQ individuals were making the same assumptions. I had very much underestimated how little I interact with regular people.

I think we're already finding out that people are doing better with ChatGPT than with their peers, not all peers are created equal, and they can ask ChatGPT things that they cannot ask their peers. I think this trend will continue to the point that most people will prefer discussing things with ChatGPT than with their peers. Given what I know I predict this is a choice many people will make, I'm not passing judgment on that, it's a choice I've also made and I'm fortunate enough to have better peers than most.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-05-02 20:31:09+00:00
Neat.

I’ll be honest, I kinda don’t get flame graphs. I mean I understand what they are. I have just always strictly preferred a proper timeline view ala Superluminal or Tracy.

Using 20ms chunks for a game is fine but also super weird. Ain’t no game using 20ms frames! So if you were using this for real you’d get all kinds of oddities. Just give me a timeline and call it a day plz.
by jerf | 2025-05-02 20:31:22+00:00
"Maybe it wouldn't have been if I'd gone through the tutorial instead of picking up from my friend's game save?"

As far as I know this is not explained anywhere in the game itself. Coming from DDR I finally twigged that something was up when I did a full combo and realized I was still light years from the #1 score, and realized there must be more to it than that. Obvious in hindsight, but easy to miss. And I would not have guessed how much it wants your swing to be rather large; scoring [1] is 70 points for a 100 degree approach, 30 points for a 60 degree follow through, and 15 points based on accuracy in hitting the center. Nice in the sense that it creates a lot of headroom for high scores, but most people should not obsess over score too much. The swing sizes it "wants" get absurd pretty quickly as the boxes start coming faster.

[1]: https://bsmg.wiki/ranking-guide.html#scoring
by mikrl | 2025-05-02 20:31:46+00:00
In my undergrad days I learned about the MAPL classification to be considered Canadian content: Music, Artist, Performance, Lyrics

IIRC you need to hit 3/4 to be considered Canadian content.

At that time J Biebs was big, but since his music and lyrics were written by Americans and he performed/recorded in the States, his music was not CanCon despite him being Canadian. So, at the radio station I volunteered at, his music would count towards the 30% quota of not-CanCon music.
by didericis | 2025-05-02 20:31:59+00:00
> no judgement

The value of a good therapist is having an empathetic third party to help you make good judgements about your life and learn how to negotiate your needs within a wider social context.

Depending on the needs people are trying to get met and how bad the people around them are, a little bit of a self directed chatbot validation session might help them feel less beat down by life and do something genuinely positive. So I’m not necessarily opposed to what people are doing with them/in some cases it doesn’t seem that bad.

But calling that therapy is both an insult to genuinely good therapists and dangerous to people with genuine mental/emotional confusion or dysregulation that want help. Anyone with a genuinely pathological mental state is virtually guaranteed to end up deeper in whatever pathology they’re currently in through self directed conversations with chatbots.
by TeeMassive | 2025-05-02 20:32:37+00:00
> The US is so weird right now.

You think the US is weird? Wait until you hear about what Lincoln did in his time, ha! Even weirder than that thing about committing high treason to create a kingless country with a sovereign elected by the gentile masses of all people! And all that just for "unjust" taxes for wars made and won in their own territories, tsk. There's a good reason why they call it the American "experiment"; because experiments are weird.

> You have a President who is ordering the defunding of tons of groups (universities, media, aid, institutes) while not clearly having that authority and often doing so for what he views as ideological crimes.

> Also arresting and trying to deport people for things that are not clearly crimes (newspaper op-eds, etc) and without due process.

But in all seriousness, I don't see how the end of funding is weirder than the end of it, especially given the history of the the country. I don't see how the status quo is somehow more legitimate. The President is the only elected official of the government. Congress passes laws, and the judiciary can only issue judgements and have no power over the purse nor the sword. The president has the authority to decide where the money goes and how it is attributed and how the laws are executed. The same goes for the non-citizens who reside in the US under the privilege of a visa or other executive permissions; the legal precedents about this are quite clear that the President has broad authority to decide who gets to stay or not. "Due process" defers to the question to which process is due, in the case of illegal aliens there is none except what the executive decide what is due, except for the determination of the illegal alien status in itself.
by toast0 | 2025-05-02 20:32:42+00:00
> It's the same reason why you can't send documents written in yellow font on a blue background - technically not against the rules, but no judge will suffer through reading it.

Using those particular color choices might not actually be suffering. It used to be a desirable color combination for word processing. I don't know if judges tend to review pleadings on screen or on paper though. On paper, black on white would be preferred, of course (unless the court had blue legal paper to print on)
by SpectralName | 2025-05-02 20:33:17+00:00
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by peteforde | 2025-05-02 20:33:50+00:00
You're free to use/do as you wish, but GSAP is a remarkably powerful library that benefits from two decades of very smart people optimizing it.

It's very typical for someone to look at something that is only 95% perfect and declare that they could replace it in a few days or weeks, while simply refusing to learn from history (or Joel Spolsky's warnings against the big rewrite).
by kergonath | 2025-05-02 20:33:51+00:00
> Well, in my circles its an assumption you’re in therapy. Perhaps this says way more about the circles I’m in that anything else?

This sounds like an old Woody Allen movie. I don’t want to offend you but it is fascinating. What kind of social circles is it?

In mine, therapy is in general something you do when it’s obvious it’s too late and you are falling in the well of depression and that you try to hide as much as you can.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-05-02 20:33:57+00:00
The real potential of tools like Suno isn’t in cranking out radio-ready hits. It’s in creating music that doesn't have commercial incentives to exist. Case in point: Functional Music.

I started using it to generate songs that reinforce emotional regulation strategies -things like grounding, breathwork, staying present. Not instructional tracks, which would be unbearable, but actual songs with lyrics that reflect actual practice and skills.

It started as a way to help me decompress after therapy. I'd listen to a mini-album I made during the drive home. Eventually, I’d catch myself recalling a lyric in stressful moments elsewhere. That was the moment things clicked. The songs weren’t just a way for me to calm down on the way home, they were teaching me real emotional skills I could use in all parts of my life. I wasn’t consciously practicing mindfulness anymore; it was showing up on its own. Since then I’ve been iterating, writing lyrics that reflect emotional-cognitive skills, generating songs with them, and listening while I'm in the car. It's honestly changed my life in a subtle but deep way.

We already have work songs, lullabies, marching music, and religious chants - all music that serves a purpose besides existing to be listened to. Music that exists to teach us ways of interacting is a largely untapped idea.

This is the kind of functional application is what generative music is perfect for. Song can be so much more than listening to terminally romantic lyricists trying to speak to the lowest common denominator. They can teach us to be better versions of ourselves.
by corytheboyd | 2025-05-02 20:34:19+00:00
Huh yeah I guess I never thought of it as not a rhythm game. At higher difficulty it’s really more of a DANCING game, if you think about what you’re doing with your body. I think the observation about the scoring system backs this up too, because it’s based on direction and speed of motion, not timing. Of course you need to have some timing mastery to hit the blocks, but the scoring is not based on it.
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-02 20:34:36+00:00
>You can like what he stood for, but he was an equal if not (much) greater abuser of the executive office.

Absolute horseshit.

The majority of the New Deal was done through congress, with broad support of a SIGNIFICANT amount of the legislative body, which had just seen massive Democrat wins in the 1932 election specifically to do so. The American people gave his administration this power because Americans were tired of watching people die in ditches, watching their parents suffer through old age with zero support.

1 out of every 5 Americans were unemployed. That's a conservative estimate.

They were tired of this being the case in a country with literal "Robber barons".

There is absolutely no parallel to the current administration, who barely won election, who does not have such a commanding control of the legislative (though they do control it), and who personally appointed a significant quantity of the current supreme court.

There is no vast economic harm that Trump was elected to fix. He is openly defying and ignoring court orders, which FDR did not do.

You are spouting lies. Where did you ever get such an incorrect view of history?
by em-bee | 2025-05-02 20:35:19+00:00
when i first heard about this probe last week i was wondering, isn't this thing old and unique enough to warrant a mission to rescue and preserve it? combined with todays lower prices for a space flight, it might just be worth it.

and now it looks like it might just survive anyways. but then according to the article there also seems to be a second (identical?) model. so maybe it's not that important, except for maybe material analysis what does 50 years of exposure to space do to the material.
by autoexec | 2025-05-02 20:36:40+00:00
> There are videos with millions of views on tiktok and comments with hundreds of thousands of likes of teenage girls saying they have gotten more out of 1 week using ChatGPT as a therapist than years of human therapy.

You can find influencers on tiktok recommending all kinds of terrible ideas and getting thousands of likes. That's not a very reliable metric. I wouldn't put a lot of faith in a teenage girl's assessment of AI therapy after just one week either, and I certainly wouldn't use that assessment to judge the comparative effectiveness of all human therapists.

I'd also expect ChatGPT to build profiles on people who use it, to use the insights and inferences from that collected data against the user in various ways, to sell that data in some form to third parties, to hand that data over to the state, to hallucinate wildly and unpredictably, and to outright manipulate/censor AI's responses according to ChatGPT's own values and biases or those of anyone willing to pay them enough money.

It's a lot easier to pay a large amount of money to ChatGPT so that the AI will tell millions of vulnerable teenage girls that your product is the solution to their exact psychological problems than it is to pay large amounts of money to several million licensed therapists scattered around the globe.

Maybe you think that ChatGPT is unfailingly ethical in all ways and would never do any of those things, but there are far more examples of companies who abandoned any commitment to ethics they might have started with than there are companies who never got once greedy enough to do those types of things and never ever got bought up by someone who was. I suppose you'd also have to think they'll never have a security breach that would expose the very private information being shared and collected.

Handing over your highly sensitive and very personal medical data to the unlicensed and undependable AI of a company that is only looking for profit seems extremely careless. There are already examples of suicides being attributed to people seeking "therapy" from AI, which has occasionally involved that AI outright telling people to kill themselves. I won't deny that the technology has the potential to do some good things, but every indication is that replacing licensed therapists with spilling all your secrets to a corporate owned and operated AI will ultimately lead to harm.
by recursivedoubts | 2025-05-02 20:36:45+00:00
next level would be to hook these "platoons" together physically and then centralize the propulsion in a super efficient package. And then we could move them off the highways and onto specialized "tracks" that guarantee they don't deviate from the planned routes.

speculative, alien technology, admittedly, but some day our scientists will figure it out i bet!
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-02 20:36:48+00:00
One concern that I do worry about is if LLMs are able to present an false attractive view of the world that the user will become increasingly dependent on the LLMs to maintain that view. A cult of 1. Reminds me of the episode 'Safe Space' from South Park but instead of Butters filtering content it'll be the LLM. People are already divorced enough from reality - but I see no reason why they couldn't be more divorced, at least temporarily.
by walleeee | 2025-05-02 20:37:43+00:00
Regarding mathematical

> concepts that are intrinsically complicated,

I'm not a mathematician, but I figure mathematicians aim for clean, composable abstractions the same way programmers do. Something complicated, not just complex in its interactions with other things, seems more useful as a bespoke tool (e.g. in a proof) than as a general purpose object?

> Whereas programming has more “small steps”: even someone who’s not smart (but has grit) can write an impressive program, if they write one component at a time and there aren’t too many components that rely on each other.

This is well put. I often wonder if a merely average working memory might be a benefit to (or at least may place a lower bound on the output quality of) a programmer tasked with writing maintainable code. You cannot possibly deliver working spaghetti if you can't recall what you wrote three minutes ago.

This is a baldly self-serving hypothesis.