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On the flip side, some companies have gone to extremes. I now have to MFA and provide a pin-code to authenticate. I have to do this several times a day. It's fucking mind-boggling how I can get anything done in a day when I spend so much time verifying who I am. I'm waiting for the next innovation...require a drop of my blood to log in.

I don't know what it was about the writing style, but I couldn't make it through than a few paragraphs before giving up. One thing that LLMs seem reasonably good at is summarizing things. So here's your 200 word summary:

Two high‑school quarterbacks, decades apart, met the same fate. Jay Kutner, 18, Holy Trinity (NY), suffered a broken neck during a scrimmage in 1972 on a routine play. He became paralyzed, eventually passing away months later. His teammates dedicated their season to him and won a game he’d always meant to play in. His memory endured through field dedications and the stories of classmates and family.

Caden Tellier, 16, Morgan Academy (AL), collapsed during a game in August 2024 after being tackled. He fell ill, was hospitalized, declared brain‑dead, and donated his organs per his wishes. His school and community held a revival and memorials. Coaches, teammates, and townspeople gathered in grief and reflection .

The article draws parallels across time and place: both boys were promising athletes, kind leaders, beloved in their schools. Each death sent ripples through their communities, triggering reflections on football’s dangers and the weight of memory. Their stories affirm that some lives, however brief, outlast time itself ([espn.com][2]).

What’s with the cliffhanger? :)

How did you get them off?

Contrary to popular belief around here, SF is not a model city of perfect living. How about SF solves its homelessness problem?

He didn’t just “realize” anything, he’s known it all along. Come on now, he’s just doing his job.

They’re just burning investor money on these side quests.

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Look, if you want to live life like a hermit, that’s on you. As you get older, you will lose people, friends, family, acquaintances, not only through death, but growing apart for “normal” reasons, moving away, job changes, changes in interests, getting married, etc. Rarely in life do you make more connections later in life than you had when you were younger. The more you rail against social norms, the more you isolate yourself. If that’s what you want, fair enough. But if you want to be part of a well functioning social group, the rest of us value getting together at the end of someone’s life.

Looking at his submissions, he/she is a younger person. But even still my 13 year old has more sense than them.

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It’s not self preservation, it’s avoidance and selfishness.

I’m in my mid-40s. When I randomly reconnect with friends from my 20s, they still ask about my parents and my parents still occasionally ask about them.

I have no idea what point you’re trying to make here.

“It's just tons of sad people.” - this makes you sound like you have the emotional acuity of a 4 year old. You can fix that, but you can’t do it sitting in front of your computer.

This take is sad. We have become a society of emotionally weak people.

My wife and I make our kids do uncomfortable things because that’s what separates children from adults. An example, and not even the hardest one: Yesterday we were vacationing at the beach and we got a call from the dog boarding facility keeping our 8 year old dog, she was having seizures and had to be taken to an animal hospital. We drove 3 hours to see her. There was lots of crying, in front of everyone - who gives a shit. We had to have her euthanized. The 4 of us stayed with her for the entire process. We could have just told them to put her down over the phone and continued our vacation, or we could have left the room as they ended her life. She wasn’t conscious and we have no way of knowing if she was aware of our presence, but if something/someone makes an impact on your life, learn to be a little unselfish and be present. It hurts, but just because something hurts doesn’t mean we should shy away from doing it.

Learning to steel yourself is an important life skill. Obviously a dog is not a human, but the parallels are there - as humans we have honored the end of a impactful life throughout our history.

Someone should attend your funeral because they made some kind of connection with you in this short life. Being uncomfortable for 30 minutes is the least one can do. I am so tired of people being so emotionally immature that they can’t handle a little discomfort.

It is not ok. Be an adult and deal with the emotional discomfort to pay your last respects.

Look, it's ok - you guys love PHP and I'm sure it has some merits. I still have my same old opinion of it. Just like I can't change a bunch of people's opinion on C#/.NET because it's from Micro$oft. We can agree to disagree.

I don't have to enumerate all of PHP's shortcomings to justify my position.

I have plenty of other issues with PHP that haven't been addressed in 20 years. There are plenty of other better tools out there. You don't have to choose them, and I don't have to choose PHP.

Sorry, I don't buy it, PHP was complete and utter garbage from a security standpoint at the time:

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-74/P...

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-74/P...

I will never give PHP any serious thought. Back in the mid 2000s I started an app hosting company as a side-gig. I started out hosting FogBugz (bug tracker) because Fog Creek Software only offered it as a self-hosted option. I had zero problems for 9 months - it was a Microsoft ASP based app (IIRC). Then I decided to host a helpdesk app called HelpSpot. At the time it was a one-man startup and he didn't offer a SaaS option either so he was happy to send customers my way. The software itself was fine (and it's still around) but it was a PHP-based system and no matter how up to date I kept the servers, the PHP servers got hacked over and over due to PHP's complete disregard for security at the time. My claim to fame is I hosted Twitter's first helpdesk. I got tired of getting home from work and having to rebuild servers almost weekly, so I "sold" my fledgling little sidegig for $2k. Screw PHP.

BYOK

Incorrect, the hardware is not improving so fast that it's getting 10-100x cheaper.

I tried Gemini CLI and in 2 hours somehow spent $22 just messing around with a very small codebase. I didn’t find out until the next day from Google’s billing system. That was enough for me - I won’t touch it again.

This. I have had a 2016 F-150 since late 2017 - I'd never owned a truck before. I can go get mulch, take an entire bed-load of stuff to the dump (couches, mattresses, etc). When we go on vacation within driving distance (usually up to 500ish miles for us, we can bring more or less anything we want without concern for space. We took my wife's SUV 2 weeks ago on a 700 mile trip (her mid-sized SUV is much newer) and we had to pack very carefully compared to when we take the truck. Our son plays ice hockey, his hockey equipment stinks (yes it gets aired out...he's still a stinky teenager), but it's never an issue because with the truck, it's not in the passenger compartment. We live in the south but drove to Pittsburgh through 2 snowstorm there and back...lots of SUVs stranded on the road...my 4x4 F-150 made it through without any trouble. When my father in law passed last year, we moved all of his things out of his apartment with my truck. I let my neighbors borrow it when they need to move something large. The only thing that sucks about it is parking in store parking lots. That and buying a newer (not brand new) costs 2x what I paid for my 2016 in 2017. I've toyed with getting rid of it for something smaller, but it's just too versatile for me to give up.

> Honestly, it feels like DevOps had a kid with Product.

You've just described a match made in hell. DevOps - let's overcomplicate things (I'm looking at you K8s) and Product - they create pretty screenshots and flows but not actually think about the product as a system (or set of systems.)

> They also cost at least 100x the price.

Because right now AI companies are losing their asses - it costs significantly more than what they are charging.

How do I distill 30 years of experience/knowledge into a Claude.md file? People learn, LLMs don't - end of story.

So (I don't know Clojure) - is the author saying everything should be a map/dictionary? That sounds like complete chaos - I'm not an OOP proponent.

Ah yes…the old “you’re holding it wrong”. The problem is these goddamn things don’t learn, so you put in the effort to police it…and you have to keep doing that until the end of time. Better off training someone off the street to be a software engineer.