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JohnHaugeland··on Dots: Always-on agents
it’s a headless agent in the cloud that you can task with long running jobs

think of things that need rvent handlers or web hooks

JohnHaugeland··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
i think that people should reflect extremely carefully on whether they want to be the person following this line of logic publicly
JohnHaugeland··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
i don’t like the common programmer behavior of doubting things we don’t want to face while requesting speculation on easily available data

making a list like this is hard in ways that most of us will never understand

if you aren’t a victim then you’re the guy who loudly doubts victim self defense

JohnHaugeland··on Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
“we can force them to pay for free”
JohnHaugeland··on iPhone Duo
my beloved surface duo has returned <3
JohnHaugeland··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
wow, in 150 years we find a handful of things much smaller than what has happened in the last 2 years

the whisky ring is definitely relevant to a discussion of today’s problems

this isn’t a ridiculous padded list of whataboutism

JohnHaugeland··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
i’m a day or two from releasing my programming language’s new mcp
JohnHaugeland··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
if it does, that fork is dead by the end of the year

i don’t think you understand just how niche you already are

JohnHaugeland··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
notice how mainstream those projects aren’t
JohnHaugeland··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
this article is about the flood of junior developers who are producing enormous prs they’ve never seen full of untrustworthy code that a human hasn’t evaluated

arguing that it’s possible to make them by hand isn’t just missing the point; it’s missing the entire discussion

JohnHaugeland··on Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers
it seems to me like we care about absolutely anything other than the one really important thing right now
JohnHaugeland··on OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
in 1992 middle management was 9.2% of the workforce. in 2022 it was 13.1%

use data when you make claims

JohnHaugeland··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
slackhubbingface by twitter guy?

every kind of no at once

JohnHaugeland··on Show HN: Make your game multiplayer in one prompt
there’s nothing i want more than to make my game dependent on a tool whose pricing isn’t announced
JohnHaugeland··on Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
just use WINE or docker
JohnHaugeland··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
bricks and minifigs is going to lose a hell of a lot more than this 10% in business

regardless of the law, it’s a very stupid move on the company’s part.

if they had half a brain they’d pay double the commission and pretend it aas internal miscommunication. $40k is cheap versus the pr hit they’re taking right now

JohnHaugeland··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
the court disagreed
JohnHaugeland··on Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
waterfall doesn’t mean writing down decisions
JohnHaugeland··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
it’s not that your point is being missed. it’s that some people don’t agree with you, and the personal attacks aren’t helping
JohnHaugeland··on GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
insults won’t convince people to agree with you

sometimes people just have different belief systems than you, and that’s actually okay

JohnHaugeland··on GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
i don’t really care if my salable work product is banana sourced
JohnHaugeland··on GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
brook’s law is probably not true anymore
JohnHaugeland··on GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
why would we believe skeptical randos on social media?

he has access to the real numbers and a legal risk from lying publicly. it does him no good to lie about this.

JohnHaugeland··on GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
the claim that they suspect something is adequately backed up by saying “i suspect this”

nobody needs to prove their suspicions

JohnHaugeland··on GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
there is no burden of proof on someone who says “i suspect”
JohnHaugeland··on Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas
that's what the person you're replying to was referring to
JohnHaugeland··on Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming
holy shit, how am i the first person in the thanks list? half that list deserves it more than i do, especially dave, liran, and jason

i miss jaeden. i hope he's well

JohnHaugeland··on Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
> This seems like a tragedy of the commons -- GitHub is free after all, and it has all of these great properties, so why not?

because it's bad at this job, and sqlite is also free

this isn't about "externalities"

JohnHaugeland··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
You might be surprised. The studies say it's a primarily negative impact, especially in math and college attendance.

https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/research/the-test-score...

JohnHaugeland··on Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
the big problem with quantum advantage is that quantum computing is inherently error-prone and stochastic, but then they compare to classical methods that are exact

let a classical computer use an error prone stochastic method and it still blows the doors off of qc

this is a false comparison

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