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So your point went from: they shouldn’t have done what they did because it likely took much longer than necessary by using AI - to: they shouldn’t have done what they did because they didn’t take long enough learning it without AI to do it. I think you moved the goalpost to the opposite side of the field.

In this thread you chastised them for “using it in production” when their use case was simply a lab for teaching. And you suggest that googling for days and reading countless blog posts and forums is impervious to wrong or dated information, which is quite a position to take.

Their use case was a perfect fit for a LLM, and I suspect it saved them weeks of effort in the process, with likely fewer security flaws as a result. But keep up that anti-LLM advocacy, I’m sure you are very close to achieving the goal of society abandoning the technology.

It’s a skill just like any other. Without practice people will absolutely waste time. But knowing which problems are appropriate for an LLM can save days of labor.

As an engineer in the field for 30 years, this tech beats every man page, sdk, google search, stack overflow post or head banging situation by light years.

The rebuke of it is surprisingly antithetical to the progress of the industry. It reminds me of the decade+ of those who refused to use an IDE and favored notepad[++] or vanilla vim instead. I suspect in 5 more years those similarly-minded folks will finally adapt in the same way we’ve all grown accustomed to IDEs today. Or those who adapt will just outpace those who don’t.

Not one of my last five dishwashers (Bosch / Samsung) have had any problem with drying dishes. I have had three in my current house (two kitchens) and they work just fine. One will even auto-open the door to dry faster.

Is this really a problem of energy star?

The treatment part has happened for decades, Las Hieleras is one of many examples. But the deporting citizens part hasn’t happened for about 70 years since Operation Wetback which was nearly an identical playbook of today.

Mass visa revocations happened about 50 years ago since the Iran Hostage Crisis. And a few other events over the 20th century reflect well with today like Japanese internment camps. CECOT out does Gitmo and Angel Island, but damn, we just do a lot of fascist and unjust stuff as a nation.

The 1880’s resulted in us switching our attention from Native Americans to immigrants and we never really let off the gas on that front.

Didn’t you hear from Fox News that all CBP officers were instructed to stand back and stand by while illegals waltzed into our country to commit crime?? They literally played solitaire on their phones for 4 years straight. /s

Back the Blue apparently includes demonizing their daily effort to process asylees, rescue families in danger, and arrest gang-affiliated criminals, all while forgetting that crossing the border illegally is a civil offense akin to a speeding ticket. But now that we are a physical threat to their safety, we supposedly have a secure border.

A dedicated hacker news of politics site is long overdue. Civil discussions, amazing moderation, and the intelligent insight of experts to hash out complex issues. I’d be on it and participating nearly all day long.

I think it’s odd that they instantly refer to the US as a third world nation when they see an influx of homeless on the streets, and yet they apparently don’t want to continue funding the program that keeps 60% of the elderly out of poverty.

They clearly:

1. Do not want us to be poor (or see the effects anyway.)

2. Don’t know the history of shanty towns and almshouses in our nation.

3. Don’t know the difference between the SSI Trust Fund, vs SSI policy.

Otherwise the path forward would be patently obvious, remove the cap and increase payments to match inflation. I’d personally roll up 401ks into voluntary additional contributions that are accessible to anyone regardless of employment status.

I agree that the lack of a latch was dumb, but effectively having two gloveboxes in the center console, that are bigger and closer than the tiny glovebox has left me never actually needing to open it.

Not sure about node (and I don’t recall it ever being a problem), but chrome supports stack traces through setTimeout just fine.

I’m not sure there are many reputable modules on npm that minify without source maps, and if people aren’t using them I’d consider them to be making a poor technical choice, one that I would correct before contributing to the project.

Diffing two lengthy stack traces to find a divergence is perhaps the fastest way to debug a slew of bug types. Let alone just the ability to instantly click into a file/line even from console prints as you follow the execution path.

And my favorite part is being able to ignore / hide external modules and specific files in chrome’s debugger which allows for stepping through only your code, and evaluating much shorter traces. Something java needed decades ago.

When I do use print debugging I always use console.error to include the expandable stack trace as needed, I can’t imagine how slow it would be to not have that always, and have to resort to stepping and breakpoints to get around.

VB6 had it, and iirc you could even edit the code after stepping back to step forward on a different path. While trying to confirm that with a quick google I see that visual studio added stepping back in 2017. Though not sure it supports editing inline.

Collapse and failure are terms that imply an outcome that would not reflect reality if we did nothing to change the system. Reduction of benefits by about 15% is the insolvency we’re expecting. That is an important distinction that could easily be remedied by a couple policy tweaks or an uptick in immigration. And the collapse even has been predicted to occur for decades, with the tipping point as far back as the 80’s.

Do you have a source for free falling wages? I’ve not heard of this problem and feel like this chart supports the opposite claim of steady growth.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/612519/average-annual-re...

I’m not even sure standard of living was remotely comparable to today on most metrics from interest rates to quality of life (especially for minority groups.) Sure cpi is up for specific categories, but cpi has spiked 2 - 3x today’s rates in recent history. So I’m curious what metric and source you have for this claim too.

Not meaning to discredit what you say, I am genuinely curious about any analysis you have!