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> They are good at transforming one format to another. They are good at boilerplate.

You just described 90% of coding

I received counterfeit goods multiple times due to this. I set up a subscribe and save order and they would let random retailers fill the order with fake products. Amazon collected the money and just did not care, they need to be held accountable for these things.

mIRC scripting is what got me into programming. The summer I found it as a kid I was immediately hooked, being able to write code that actually interacted with the world and did something blew my mind. I was so into the 'war channels' where everyone would kick each other and optimization was key.

Getting the dockerfile order right is critical due to how docker caching works.

Even if you aren't an expert it is trivial these days to copy/paste it into chatGPT and ask it to optimize or suggest improvements to the dockerfile, it will then explain it to you.

Just as the engine replaced physical strength, artificial intelligence, through models like large language models, is now replacing cognitive labor and thought.

From the article "Muscles grow by lifting weights" yet we do that now as a hobby and not as a critical job. I'm not sure I want to live in a world where thinking is a gym like activity, however if you go back 200 years it would probably be difficult to explain the situation today to someone living in a world where most people are doing physical labor or using animals to do it.

Age is also a factor. From stories I've seen in the news it tends to be much older women. From stories I've heard from friends it is young men.

Great idea! It is cool seeing how you took this concept and made it real, end to end. I'm also considering getting a flipbook.

At what point do we stop calling them graphics cards?

With LLM generated code (and any code really) the interface between components becomes much more important. It needs to be clearly defined so that it can be tested and avoid implicit features that could go away if it were re-generated.

Only when you know for sure the problem can't be coming through from that component can you stop thinking about it and reduce the cognitive load.

I love seeing fun little projects like this

Commander Keen was my childhood and then later mIRC scripts were my life. My mind was blown by being able to program something that could interact with real people like mIRC. My love for coding started there.

I always have a tab open with merrysky. I really like the extra detail they show in the graph of wind/temp/precipitation and the break down of the day.

For Seattle area in particular most weather apps will show the entire week as cloudy and rainy, but there is a lot more to it and merrysky is able to surface that.

Replacing even a small amount of your gaming time with consistent exercise goes so far.

Once you realize that you can actually achieve anything you set your mind to just by making a routine you will find yourself wanting to shift the time and effort going into games into real world success.

I got adjustable dumbbells last year and it was the most impactful change of the year for me. It is amazing how far regular exercise goes.

which mask?

Isn't that already a humanitarian crisis?

a perf change without perf numbers is a bug

What worked for me was:

* Find new hobbies and things you enjoy, even if it is just being better at video games because you aren't drinking when you play. You can't 'stop' something without replacing it with something else.

* Understand that quitting isn't going fix all your problems, your life might seem worse/more boring afterwards. Accept it and see #1

* The decision to drink or not is the most stressful part. Things like dry Jan and sober Oct really helped me avoid making the decision and especially the long term decision at first. Deciding in the store if you're going to drink or not doesn't work, you have to make that decision one time and rely on the fact that you already decided for that month and it isn't a big deal.

* Exercise. People who quit drinking get healthy, it is such a stereotype but you will love it. Get jacked with your new extra time.

* CBD + todo lists, taking care of the little things in your life will keep your anxiety down and eliminate the need for the forced break from your life that drinking provides.

It will be 2 years next month for me.

Around 2007 Google was paying $1 per install/click through to Firefox back when IE was the dominant browser. It seemed like Google threw a ton of money at disrupting the browser market with FF then followed up by launching Chrome.

The article mentions that FF hit %34 in 2010 and acts like that was due to the features, I don't think it was.

For the average browser user we're talking about here talking about bloat and features are irrelevant. FF's market share is just a number bouncing around in the waves between two giant forces, Microsoft which owned the OS for much of this timeline and Google which owns the pages everyone is going to where it is suggesting they install Chrome.

That's a thought provoking way to put it. Part of the problem is however that only internal employees fully understand the destruction that was going on.

Interesting point, but if the government considered whoever had control of the coins the rightful owner and not stolen, would it be laundering then? It doesn't sound like a problem of taxes.

yet ;)

I'm excited to try this out, I was toying with the idea of creating something similar.

I see a strong need for a microblogging framework where users have control of their data. Mastadon is great, but I think Zooko goes farther in the right direction.

Good to know I'm not the only one that writes out replies and doesn't post them for this reason

What I see as broken is the expectation that dev tools and the entire dev stack should be provided for free. It manifests as only using "open source" tools and everything in this blog post applies.

As a developer I both expect tools and libraries to be free and have been burned by this as someone working on developer tools and as an open source maintainer on my personal projects.

The frustrating part to me is that this doesn't apply to apps, saas apps, services, or a lot of AI/ML related things. Most developers expect to make money off those things while at the same time demanding everything they used to build it be free because it's just code and they love open source. It feels unfair, and in that way I agree, open source is broken, or at least unsustainable for small projects long term.

This looks like the inverse of "everyone needs to come back to the office so that we know you are working".

I doubt this will go well since if it keeps happening unproductive people will become the best at gaming the system.

But at the same time, there has to be a better way than being observed by a boss in a physical office. I don't want to commute just because people on my team who were unproductive in the office are now just as unproductive at home and not seeing their face daily makes it hard to tell if they took another job and just haven't told anyone.

The architect who was responsible for that has a recent blog post on it: https://ricomariani.medium.com/visual-studio-why-is-there-no...

Tooling, ecosystem, and Java are what killed clojure for me. I love the language and the way Rich Hickey approaches it, but I was constantly frustrated with the lack of an IDE and having to stop to deal with Java and Java tooling errors all the time.

In the end I felt like Clojure was too clever for its own good. By relying on Java (which was a great choice) it took a lot of the oxygen out of the ecosystem for other devs to build tooling and libraries, and without that there aren't as many people participating or becoming a well known community member from their work there. Again, can't say this was the wrong choice, but in my opinion ecosystem is the #1 thing for a language and the way Clojure was done had an impact on how the ecosystem could grow.

Clean and simple. I will use this.

Elixir is my plan for advent of code also. Haven't tried it before, but it looks fun!