nickpeterson

This will probably not live long on hacker news because people here are basically distracting themselves from the constant barrage of American politics, but it’s pretty clear this regime doesn’t care about the first amendment.

You were there 30 years ago, when the strength of men failed?

Oh ok, I’m out of the loop on it ;) thought it was some sort of ai hallucination.

I don’t understand footnote 16? It sounds like he’s saying he’s ceo of htmx and datastar?

Could be worse, you could be stabbed.

You could almost think of F# is an extremely strict set of conventions for C# … ;)

I agree, but somewhat paradoxically, F#’s lack of new features kind of becomes a feature. Have you seen the number of C# features added in the last 5-10 years? It’s crazy

Heads up, I’ve found the tools don’t work well on lingerie.

The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th

This is an aqua teen hunger force reference?

What if we transplant just part of the brain?

Can Columbia just put out a press release that they are accredited and say the administration is mistaken? What even is truth at this point?

Comments have always been "bullshitting", and LLM's are a tool to help bullshitters quickly generated additional bullshit.

LLMs are going to reduce the value of bullshit. Look at how it's already decimating the marketing industry!

I just bullshitted those last couple sentences though.

Probably print a receipt using a fax machine hooked to a pc-engine.

Random question, how big is hacker news? It’s plain text so I’d imagine it’s reasonably compact?

Also the lack of needing to make money helps a lot.

Converting a 600GB database into a 1GB database through refactoring/normalization/compression.

I didn’t recognize it by name and thought, “I wonder if that’s the theme for pbs the civil war…”, imagine my satisfaction after pulling it up ;)

Maybe they’ll send you duplicate $1000 checks if you claim to be the other people in the leak.

I want to agree because I think you and I have similar values. But experience has shown that people tend to add things to obscure problems, never simplify. So while you and I would like to kill those kubernetes clusters with a script, the company selling solutions to CTOs will introduce 'Kubernetes Prime' or some bullshit and talk about how "they heard you liked containers, so they put containers in your containers, now you can virtualize your virtual lives."

The number one cause of mine collapses, in my personal experience, is creepers.

I love the joke about being snubbed for mathematical consulting at the oscars.

I really wish SQLite had some default way of doing change data capture via session or something similar.

It’s a true shame F# isn’t more popular. It’s a great language/runtime combination for doing work quickly, correctly.

These are great, I would buy them as a silly gift for my fellow drones.

That would be a terrible interview question, because it doesn’t clarify whether you mean an African or European swallow.

I think a lot of it is goals/rewards. I got into computing as a kid because I wanted to play games that I saw in screenshots in magazines. Then I wanted the game I got running to run faster. Then i’m losing online so suddenly I’m learning about ping/networking.

Fast forward a decade and I end up being a programmer. Most people won’t learn technical things just for the hell of it.

People waste small fortunes on hvac stuff. I’m gradually coming to the conclusion that most homes just need more insulation and sealing and then a relatively inexpensive hvac system.

Same thing with solar panels, people will drop 40k on solar just to save $200 a month on electricity when insulation would have reaped half the savings for 1/10th the price.

People just like buying gadgets.

Next time you get too many story points assigned on a sprint, cross-check your manager.

Now you’ve jinxed it. I’d imagine you’ll never see this response because your laptop exploded shortly after typing that comment.