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"One X, Twelve Y"

If you don't care enough to write it, I don't care enough to read it. Will be checking out the Hyman book though.

> quit tech and live in the woods

I'm so curious about this; it is nearly universal that software engineers threaten this. I constantly tell my colleagues that I am quitting to start woodworking in a cabin in British Columbia.

My theory is that we are comprised of people who love building and making things, yet at the end of the day we don't have anything tangible to show. Like, my parents (nearing 80 years old) barely understand what I do or how software engineering works, though they are computer-literate. Going back 2 generations and it is incomprehensible magic. But, if I built a cabin or a cabinet or a wooden spoon, I could have a meaningful conversation about it with someone from the last Ice Age (language barriers aside). Maybe it is just staring at a screen 8 hours+ per day leaves the ancient part of the brain wanting.

I would agree with you, if we taxed the ever-living fuck out of AI companies to enable UBI, so that the people replaced with robots did not end up homeless.

That would be an upgrade

I am the walrus?

I'm the opposite. I LOVED high school, and miss those friends dearly. I'm 45, and it has been difficult to find people that I gel with the same way, aside from my wife (who I started dating in high school). I miss being on the basketball team and marching band. I miss many of the teachers. I miss the 90s and no cell phones, and trolling AOL message boards. I miss being able to exist without the fear of having your life recorded, either by phones or government mass surveillance. I miss when it was accepted that Nazis were the bad guys, and Canada wasn't on fire and making the air quality in Chicago horrific every summer.

College was a great experience too, and I made some great friends, but I really focused on graduating in engineering so I slowly became the party-pooper, and in grad school my wife and I moved in together, got married, so it was a completely different life experience. Now my focus is on work and getting my 3 kids into good colleges.

I sometimes dream about being in high school again, or taking my kids back with me to see what life was like pre-cell phones. I wouldn't say that high school was the best part of my life, but it is a chapter I reminisce about and wish I could revisit occasionally.

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anybody?" - Stephen King, Stand By Me

I rented an EV (Ioniq) 2 years ago, to drive from Chicago to Detroit, and my experience was abysmal. I had to setup 3 different charging accounts on my phone, each with a min deposit of like $20 that I cannot get back. I got routed to empty truck stops where there was nowhere to eat within several miles, and it had charged 5% after 30 minutes, so we got back in the car and drove 20 minutes to find another charger. I spent so much of the trip with anxiety about where we would find a charger, if I would have cell coverage to download yet another shitty app, why the AC was turning off when I dropped below 10% battery, etc. Until I can roll up and swipe a credit card (or tap my phone) without ridiculous proprietary bs, EVs are a no-go. This is equivalent to Chrysler having Chrysler gas stations with Chrysler-only pumps that you must use the Chrysler app to fill up, and you can only buy gas in $100 increments.

At this point, this copy pasta is so well known you pretty much don't have to attribute it. 98% of HN readers saw "SR-71" and immediately quoted half of this text.

What are SLA and ATS?

Is there a version of this that uses more than 10% of my horizontal screen space? I have a 40in monitor, I don't need the website compressed to the aspect ratio of a phone.

Same with sunglasses, and glasses in general. One company owns everything.

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

-Thomas Jefferson

I personally think the tree of liberty is probably getting pretty thirsty.

Here, I was going to say it's actually unhealthy to shower twice a month. This is some super-power nose blindness.

What about that comment sounds AI generated?

Here's the honest truth: it's AI-generated.

80% of this is AI-prose-tropes. The tropes are load bearing.

(Any other ai-isms I can blast in? Probably)

I could see how it would be helpful for people who don't necessarily know they have sleep apnea. I also recently read about someone who quit smoking weed, and their sleep tracking changed dramatically while they detoxed. With my Garmin, that and the Stress tracker usually let me know 1-2 days ahead of time that I'm getting sick, before I even feel it. My sleep quality plummets, and my physiological stress is at like 80%+.

My family was on a trip in Alaska a month ago, and I intentionally did NOT grab my phone to take pics many times. For example, there were multiple times we were on a train, someone would yell "moose!!!", and by the time people grabbed their phones the moose was 500yards behind us. They didn't get the pic OR the memory. There were people muttering "damn, missed it AGAIN..."

Also, everyone in my family WAS taking pics and sending to a shared album, so I knew I would get 6 pics of the same thing from slightly different angles regardless. Slightly cheating, but whatever.

Basically, I have chosen to be very deliberate with what I take, and I find that I'm able to focus more on the immediate experience rather than worrying about framing and zooming, and what I DO take typically isn't garbage.

I think they meant they were NOT playing LucasArts games because they were playing other games.

wtf, explain how you politicize cancer or Alzheimer's research?

Not really confusing, at least they are in the open about it. "If you use this site without paying, we will sell your data, there is no opt-out." Waiting for the archive as well.

Fuck that, if I need something I'll go research it. I don't need some asshole company lying to me to coerce me into giving them my money.

> just a visual bug.

Out of the gate, that isn't a good sign.

I just posted something similar. I think Hokas are in Facebook territory now. My 75 year old dad has been wearing them for 3 years. We just hiked in Alaska, and every single person retirement age or older was wearing Hokas.

I wonder if this is a market signal to short Hoka; old people wearing them will be dead in <10 years, and no young person will be caught dead wearing them because it's an old person shoe. What is the Instagram of shoes?

Why isn't this an apples-oranges comparison?

Good regulation: right to repair, manufacturers must supply manuals.

Bad regulation: JD bribed senators to write regulations that make it insurmountably difficult for new players to enter.

Calling regulation bad because corruption is baked into the US Constitution makes it really hard to get anything done.

Every day there is another story about the harmful effects of AI on literally everything, including mental health, IP theft, the climate, etc. "Think of the children" is and always has been a weak excuse.

Sound is a wave that travels through some medium, which also cannot be faster than light. You can't have FTL information transfer.

Yes, you're correct, billionaires should not exist, and we should keep raising taxes until that is true. The "real" max wealth number is probably a bit lower, but 10 digits of wealth is a good starting point.

My Garmin Venu 4 has 10+ days.

Can we please let humans write SOMETHING? There are AI-isms everywhere, which he even admits.

This reads like a Claude code comment; there is a ton of fluff, almost no content.

What was the "decision?" There are several entire paragraphs of purple prose setting it up, and I still can't answer it.

> This is not a post about assigning blame or pointing fingers. I’m as responsible for the state we’re in just as much as anyone else. The problem has been staring me in the face for so long I’m ashamed I didn’t realize the issue earlier.

> I know it hurts to hear that. I know full well that these are not the only issues facing the community. We have to start somewhere, and what I’m about to share with you is by far the biggest issue.

> The good news is that it’s a technical issue. And as you know, technical issues can be solved. But how in the world could a simple technical decision be responsible for such a huge downward trajectory? If you haven’t guessed it yet, this is a post about Rails. And I know that Rails doesn’t represent or speak for all of the Ruby community, but I want to highlight the numbers before I make my point.

Oh my god get to the point.

> I’m not going to go in depth into why Rails is the best framework for agentic coding, nearly two years of stories in the newsletter have covered that. I’m going to tell you why it’s the worst.

wtf

Ok, after rereading again, I found the "decision", which was to not merge ViewComponent. ¯\(ツ)/¯.

I'm telling my HS kids to NOT go into STEM, because over the next 10 years humans capable of writing like a human are going to be in huge demand.

The failure is that the task was "can I take a picture of a printed calendar with Claude and have events added to my shared family calendar" and it is apparently not possible. The parsed file was fine, and maybe would have needed a few touchups, but Claude could not access the calendar directly, and Apple Calendar cannot read its own calendar format. So, failure, no partial credit given. My wife manually added the calendar in the time required it was taking me to debug this nonsense; I probably said "wait, no, it's almost done!" a half dozen times before throwing up my hands.

The added benefit of this failure is that by adding it by hand, we were much more familiar with the events on the calendar, and were ready for a few "outlier" events, e.g. a tournament 100 miles away that we knew about a month ahead instead of a few days.