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block_dagger

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Software eng (primary Rails) / musician.

https://jck.earth https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcraigk

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block_dagger··on Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020)
Scifi series:

Dune (the first 3 books) Vinge’s Deepness series Dark Forest (3 Body Problem…)

block_dagger··on Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020)
I watched and read the entire series. Much of it is boring and poorly written both from a style perspective as well as character development. It’s famous but doesn’t live up to many scifi masterpieces imo.
block_dagger··on Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?
It’s still exciting times. Productivity up. In two years it will be different.
block_dagger··on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
It was written on the wall at a submarine sandwich shop: “it’s nice to be important but it’s more important to be nice.”

This trick of the trade called life will serve you and your associates well.

block_dagger··on Developing with Kiro: Amazon's New Agentic IDE
It’s objectively not fiction, whatever it is.
block_dagger··on So you think you've awoken ChatGPT
I’m confused why you don’t.
block_dagger··on The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production
Downvotes are for comments like yours
block_dagger··on Grok 4 Launch [video]
Any LLM trained appropriately. Tokens in, tokens out.
block_dagger··on What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares?
What UI uses circles with checkmarks in them as “OK” buttons? iOS 26. Facepalm.
block_dagger··on Show HN: Comparator - I built a free, open-source app to compare job offers
Also, they overlap? I was recently given two days to decide on an offer after a ten week interview process. I took it and dropped out of other interviews.
block_dagger··on Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me
> For every new task this "AI intern" resets back to square one without having learned a thing!

I guess the author is not aware of Cursor rules, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, etc. Task-list oriented rules specifically help with long term context.

block_dagger··on Snorting the AGI with Claude Code
You can specify desired style in the prompt. The author seems to like PR sounding fluff while making morning coffee.
block_dagger··on New study casts doubt on the likelihood of Milky Way collision with Andromeda
Collide? No; merge.
block_dagger··on Precious Plastic is in trouble
I don’t think “full stop” means what you think it means.
block_dagger··on The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'
Akuuuuu!
block_dagger··on How Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend
It's not dead yet.
block_dagger··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Working on writing my first novel after years of (part time) planning. I’m finding it difficult to do the actual writing, but trying to stick with it. I don’t naturally enjoy the writing process vs writing code, which has been my primary endeavor for 20 years. Advice from other engineer/writers appreciated.
block_dagger··on Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)
I've been using Simply Piano for a while, but will give this a try.

Noticed a typo: "Notes is your is your tool..." in the app store description.

block_dagger··on The Business of Phish (2013)
Yes! Good to hear from you :)
block_dagger··on The Business of Phish (2013)
Cool to see my favorite band discussed here. One of my passion projects for the past 13 years has been running Phishin' [1], a free, legal, open source [2] website and API for discovering and streaming their music as recorded by the audience.

[1] https://phish.in [2] https://github.com/jcraigk/phishin

block_dagger··on Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
LLMs are trained on public data though.
block_dagger··on Trump's 'Crypto Reserve' Is Such Brazen Corruption
Bitcoin (a limited commodity) is the only rational choice for inclusion in a strategic reserve. The others are brazen corruption.
block_dagger··on Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll
Very cool idea! Suggestion: add a trail of breadcrumbs that the figure tosses behind them and, when scrolling up, picks them back up again or kicks them off the screen.
block_dagger··on Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll
This is CSS, it's not dictating anything to the server, rather to the browser.
block_dagger··on Exult: Recreating Ultima VII for modern operating systems
Playing that game was one of the highlights of my life.
block_dagger··on AI can interpret animal emotions better than humans
Misleading HN title. The article says AI can predict stress better than humans and only poses the question of general emotions.
block_dagger··on They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
In a functioning government, it shouldn’t matter if the president cares or not. The limits on each branch should be enforceable and enforced.
block_dagger··on El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
Your comment indicates that you fundamentally misunderstand BTC. I recommend reading Broken Money by Lyn Alden.
block_dagger··on El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
That opinion is not shared by those who think Proof of Stake and no ceiling to supply are bugs vs features.
block_dagger··on El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
Those who continue to invest in and use the Lightning (layer 2) network think it will be used as currency but most see it as a long term storage of value, at least until infrastructure supporting layers 2 and 3 mature.

As for “magically,” there’s nothing magic about its increase in value as it replaces legacy technology, chiefly gold as a store of value.

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