allknowingfrog

Ruby on Rails would agree with you. I've been working in web development for a decade now, across a couple of languages and frameworks, and I've only ever stored UTC. I currently work a lot with time-series data, and I'd rather not know what hack makes it possible to track events that occur during a DST transition.

You somehow squeezed "you're holding it wrong" and "LLMs are actually good now" into the same sentence. I wasn't sure it could be done.

I'm not seeing how DHH's success has any bearing at all. The captain has announced that the ship is sinking. In fact, he left in a lifeboat several months ago. Whether or not he was a good captain has nothing to do with how the remaining passengers should handle his departure.

Yeah, the author's opinion would be way more justified if Rails were an open-source project with thousands of contributors and not just the hard work of DHH himself in total isolation.

My phone is pretty much always in my pocket, both in the sense that I always have it, and in the sense that I rarely use it.

The third sentence: "Neither Reuters, the United Nations, or other western countries were able to independently verify any claims about the incident."

The fifth sentence: "Several UN members requested access to the area for verification, which was not provided".

I have no idea what actually happened, but it sure sounds like the Wikipedia article has some doubts.

You have to track the thing that you expect humans to understand. I still prefer for the code to be that layer, and yet somehow I'm still employed and overseeing a profitable codebase. The software industry is vast and varied.

Essays of this nature should generally be prefixed with "if you happen to work in exactly the same way that I do..."

I think your source is undermining your claim. That Wikipedia article strongly suggests that the whole event was fabricated by Russia.

Wikipedia confirms your explanation and I have no reason to doubt it. Wyoming has the Occidental Hotel, which introduced me to the term, but I never made the connection that its a simple pair of Latin antonyms. I'll correct this in my mental list of "fun facts".

Or maybe it reflects a genuine desire from some subset of regular HN readers? Is it spam when three different articles about the latest Anthropic model make the front page? Or the latest Apple product release?

I was taught somewhere along the way that the term "Orient" for the East comes from the idea that maps were once oriented in that direction.

That's fair. REST isn't much of a standard. MCP can be just as badly designed and documented as REST, but at least there's a standard for authenticating and listing the options. Reading through other top-level comments, this seems to be the theme. MCP usage is mostly driven by ease of connection.

A layer than honestly doesn't do much, as I understand it. What does MCP as a protocol actually solve? Is it more than a bandwagon?

You're making an argument about self-control in a conversation that is explicitly about factors other than self-control.

If The Cuckoo's Egg is one of the best ones, I can skip the rest. It's a fun story, but not particularly well-told in my opinion. Cliff Stoll is a cool guy who does cool things. I guess I just don't appreciate him as an author.

Have the Rust and Zig communities been outright lying to me? I know very little about the details. I genuinely thought that the overhead of GC was a well-established tradeoff in language design.

The quoted text says "slower". It does not claim that GC makes those languages slow overall.

Are you arguing that GC is not inherently slower than other memory management strategies (e.g. the Rust approach)? Or just that the cost is not worth optimizing away?

It's a long-standing tradition. Our forefathers famously said "NIMBY" to taxation without representation.

Is this something that the authors of SQLite actually claim? I don't think anyone else can decide what something is meant for.

Isn't Wright sort of famous for designing structures that leak when it rains? My understanding is that Falling Water House is a beautiful money pit.

There's a whole spectrum of employment between faceless corporations and personal side projects. AI will replace humans because giant business believe they can do the same work, not because they will actually be able to.

The correctness of an application is limited by your ability to understand and describe what you need. We have a word for an application specification tool so detailed it eliminates all ambiguity. It's called a "programming language".

The mistakes are always in the transfer from human to machine. I still find a high-level programming language to be the best way to express my intent. Humans will make mistakes in the hand-off to AI just like they make mistakes in the hand-off to code, but at least code is deterministic.

This was a discussion about LLM usage patterns. I'm not opposed to lunch breaks. I'm opposed to being required to take the equivalent of 12 lunch breaks a day while I wait for slow responses.

This thread started with me saying "we clearly have different goals" and then being told that I just need to hold the screwdriver differently...

How do you maintain a flow state during a lunch break? I'm looping with Claude on a scale of minutes. While you're waiting, I'm iterating.

We clearly have different goals. I want an LLM to review my code, not the other way around.

Have you heard of TigerBeetle? Being smart enough doesn't seem to be the primary factor. It's about having a strategy and the discipline to follow it. No type system will ever free you from the burden of doing the actual engineering.

If you're confident that Linux machines aren't going anywhere, the pass utility is a nice option.

I really appreciate the "it's okay to be weird" sentiment. It has never been easier to try out a crazy idea. We may as well embrace it and try to learn something.

Sure, just like AI enthusiasts seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of local maxima...

I've hiked in the mountains and I've swam in the ocean, and I'm perfectly content to live amongst the hills and streams of the Midwest. I suppose it's relative. I live on the east end of the state, and I find the west end pretty flat and boring. :)