ramijames

Ya, exactly this.

I migrated from Nuxt to SvelteKit last year and never went back. It's great.

Herzog is such a treasure.

I'm so glad that other people here are interested in what life was like in deep time. I find it so fascinating getting these little glimpses into worlds that lie buried beneath us, and just to tantalizingly out of reach.

I recently took my app off of Mongo Atlas because I was tired of dealing with charges that caught me off guard. I was tired of feeling like I was getting nickel and dimed over every little thing.

I ended up migrating everything to DigitalOcean's managed database for 1/3 the price. Less headache, better performance, and less panic and anger.

I'll never, ever use Mongo Atlas again.

Jfc, no. I'll stick with my rheumatologist. Getting health advice from people online, much less X, is one of the core problems of modern society. People need to get a grip.

It looks.. fine? I don't understand why people have to complain about every little thing.

Psoriasis sufferer checking in. Brutal.

I think that a large part of the priced in "value" of Bitcoin is just lots and lots of Bitcoin that nobody can access anymore.

While in general I do agree with you (it's how I learned Italian, Hebrew, and Thai) being on the ground for a year is cost-prohibitive for me right now, and unreasonable for kids under 16.

What I've been building, with the help of a few language teachers, is our best guess at a really good way of learning new languages from the comfort of your home. It's not ever going to be perfect, but it is pretty good (at least so far in testing within our small group), and very cost-effective.

If you're interested in funding it, I'm happy to go live in Japan for a year :)

We (me and my teens) used Duolingo for a few years and.. didn't really get that far in actually being able to speak. It's kind of mind-blowing that they are the market leaders. In retrospect, I think of it more like an addictive language game and not really a good way to actually learn to speak.

If you're really interested, shoot me an email.

I've been building a language learning app which uses AI voice chat to let people practice. Would that be something interesting for you to try out? It's all still rough, but we've been learning Japanese with it and its pretty cool.

Not "a lot of". "The majority of".

I've been doing development, in one way or another, since the 90s. I've worked with dozens of teams from enterprises to startups. Hundreds of developers. The quality of work has been all over the place, but the majority was not great.

I'm arguing that what people today call "AI slop" is already higher quality than what most developers created historically, and the fact that tests and documentation pretty much come for free now means that the floor has been raised.

The quality of AI generated code is not great. Yes, it will get better. It's already better than 65%+ of what regular devs can do AND it is faster to produce, iterate, and release.

It's weird because it does on Android. I use Firefox on Android to watch YouTube videos without ads.

I recently did and I got dozens of emails asking me to change it back. It was a huge hassle.

I'm going to respect the users and stick with the name.

I'd argue that our biggest vote is in how we bring up our kids, but I get your meaning.

Mmm, I doubt it.

I have a weird background (product, development, writing + devrel). I write a lot of code and a lot of articles.

I think there is a lot of overlap in how people who write code or articles (documentation, books, etc.) use AI. On one side of the spectrum, you have people who just blindly input some prompt, accept the output and move on with their lives. You can likely predict how that is going for them (not great). On the other side of the spectrum, you have people who outright reject all AI and are continuing to plod on with how they have always done things.

In the center is a more reasonable approach that leverages AI to create without blindly accepting the output. This applies very much to writing.

The workflow that I've adopted over the past two years or so has been to leverage AI to help with the research and outline process. Once I'm happy with the structure I go and I write what I need to write.

This maps pretty closely to the code that I write. It's fine.

This should be the new norm. Vote with your wallet.

I can't imagine how potentially bad the codebase for PayPal must be.

I adopted Linux in 1998 (Slackware). It was super rough around the edges as a desktop, but absolutely an upgrade for a server. Especially since the alternative was Windows NT, which for an 18 year old, using shitty hardware, was out of my price range.

Ya, I'm sure the guy had his reasons. We were just kids. It's not like we were going to be buying a $4k computer. We were just a nuisance.

Ya, could be. We didn't get a copy at home for a while. Mostly, I remember when we got a new 486, which did have Windows 95. It was a multimedia machine with a CD-ROM and a fancy new copy of Myst. I remember being totally blown away.

I remember being 15, that August. We were excited for this release. My dorky friends and I went to a local computer store and tried to get the clerk to show us what Windows 95 was like. He had a pre-release version installed on one of their computers. I don't even remember how we knew.

The clerk refused to show us. I'm still irritated about it.

I'm in Boston. I'll never earn enough to buy property here. I'll never have a mortgage.

Sorry, but I don't care what other people think. It's my money and I'm careful with it.

The entire credit card industry is set up to squeeze out as much profit from people as possible. They offer discounts as an incentive, but it is a huge trap that many, many people fall into. I'm not interested in risk. I'm interested in simplicity.

It's participating in the credit card industry that is foolish.

I haven't considered this. I'm just one guy and juggling a bunch of different brands would be a lot of technical and marketing overhead I'm just not set up for right now. Probably worth thinking about though. Thanks for the idea.

I'm 46. I've never had a credit card. I have a bank account and a debit card. If I can't afford something, I don't buy it.

You can just opt out of using credit cards.

It felt like they are targeting EE labs, because that's what they personally are using them for. It felt out of sync with the video of Workbench.. doing web development work. I don't know. I think it's a cool idea and maybe for $500 I'd buy one. For $2000? No thanks.

I really wouldn't know. I haven't had any real exposure to either. I visited Maine once. It seemed nice.

I usually compare the US to Switzerland. I live in Boston, but was born in Lugano (southern tip of Switzerland).

Switzerland has an excellent quality of life, far better education system, remarkable stability, and amazingly good healthcare. The companies pay people well, give them adequate time off, and has 16+ weeks of maternity leave.

There are some pretty significant downsides in Switzerland, too. It's highly conservative, hard to make friends with the Swiss, and fairly expensive, depending on where you live.

We live in Boston because of family. It's a decent enough place to live, and from my perspective, just about the closest that the US gets to Europe.