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What an utterly pathetic, cowardly, spineless and defeatist statement

The cost of a passport is negligible (~£10 per year on average), and it’s not reasonable to expect the UK to spend a lot of money architecting the system around a very small minority of dual citizens who don’t have passports.

> 89 year old you would absolutely appreciate it

Not just 89 year old you. Also, you on a bad day when you were ill/had 5 hours of sleep/were distracted.

Interacting with other governments feels like a minefield designed to catch you out, in comparison.

> Silly system.

Frankly it strikes me as being rather silly to not have a British passport as a British citizen.

I’m sorry but this is an awful take. gov.uk’s design is excellent, probably the best government interface in the world. My friends from other European countries are literally shocked at how easy things are to do (often, tasks that in their countries would require going to some bureaucrat _in person_ and waiting hours, sometimes multiple times).

Under 10 million people in the US (less than 6% of workforce) work multiple jobs.

Live by the sword, die by the sword

I suspect more computer users in total can use the terminal today than then

Yeah in my experience Claude is significantly better at writing go than other languages I’ve tried (Python, typescript)

Fairly regularly an 80-something will end up driving down the wrong carriageway of a motorway or dual carriageway. Fairly regularly this results in deaths.

Revolting AI slop writing style

Why not just use Ok/Error which is an accepted idiom and shorter than Success/Failure?

I see this so often in new languages, making poor choices seemingly only to distinguish themselves from existing languages

Do you mean “bullish”?

GDPR is privacy theater

> I'm jealous of my kids since they are so much better off in every way

Really? It’s interesting how much I see this take online. I never see people saying this IRL.

This is true, and I think a good indicator of its truth is that basically all generations agree about it. Even Gen Z, who weren’t alive at the time.

This should surprise nobody. Do you really think that the intelligence agencies of the US etc would allow mainstream E2E encryption? Please stop being so naive

This didn’t make me care

For what it’s worth, Anthropic very strongly claim that they don’t degrade model performance by time of day [1]. I have no reason to doubt that, imo Anthropic are about as ethical as LLM companies get.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-...

Not convinced, plenty of countries (e.g. UK) don’t have such stringent don’t have strict zoning laws and also don’t have $4 food

guys why do people like this think talking entirely lower case is cool

I would have wholeheartedly agreed with this comment one year ago. Now, not so much.

My take: learning how to do LLM-assisted coding at a basic level gets you 80% of the returns, and takes about 30 minutes. It's a complete no-brainer.

Learning all of the advanced multi-agent worklows etc. etc... Maybe that gets you an extra 20%, but it costs a lot more time, and is more likely to change over time anyway. So maybe not very good ROI.

I want to write less, because quite frankly I get zero satisfaction from having an LLM churn out code for me, in the same way that Vincent van Gogh would likely derive no joy from using Nano Banana to create a painting.

And sure, I could stubbornly refuse to use an LLM and write the code myself. But after getting used to LLM-assisted coding, particularly recent models, writing code by hand feels extremely tedious now.

> These parasites can cause multiple forms of damage to the sharks' eyes, such as ulceration, mineralization, and edema of the cornea, leading to almost complete blindness.

I’m not sure I agree. I expect that an Indian would similarly be more likely to coin the term “Krish Singh Facts” than they would “Sanjay Ghemawat Facts”, in exactly the same way we do.

I’d be interested to hear from someone from a different culture to verify whether this is true or not.

It’s to do with the length of the name. My own name is polysyllabic and also wouldn’t work as a “Fact”, and I’m as white as they come.

> but in retrospect this feels a little racist. :(

It’s not racist. It’s just to do with name length.

I sometimes feel like declaring a fatwa on IPv6 too, to be fair

When I ask Claude to do something, it independently, without me even asking or instructing it to, searches the codebase to understand what the convention is.

I’ve even found it searching node_modules to find the API of non-public libraries.