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> Honestly as a developer if I miss this up until CI, that's on me. The important part is that these issues are still visible during the local development, even if as warnings, and that the developer knows that they can't just be ignored because they will fail down the road.

Yeah I agree. This has got me thinking a bit more actually about how to optimise build configurations much more deliberately. Dev loop builds vs “normal” (local) builds vs production builds.

I got into the habit of turning on TreatWarningsAsErrors in greenfield .NET projects, trying to be a disciplined developer… But often these warnings can be a distraction during fast iterations… I think I may change my policy…

I agree with you on MsBuild being powerful.

I often really hate certain technologies like MsBuild and use them begrudgingly for years, fighting with the tooling, right up until I decide once and for all to give it enough of my attention to properly learn, and then realise how powerful and useful it actually is!

I went through the same thing with webpack too.

MsBuild is far from perfect though. I often think about trying to find some sort of simple universal build system that I can use across all my projects regardless of the tech stack.

I’ve never really dug much into `make`… Maybe something like that is what I’m yearning for.

Plenty of substance in there for me. I’ve been building with dotnet since it existed and still learned a couple of new techniques/ideas from this article.

The article does mention they only turn on “TreatWarningAsErrors” in production builds.

It’s definitely a tough balance to strike. I go back and forth on this myself.

Maybe the happy medium is to have everything strictly enforced in CI, relatively relaxed settings during normal dev loop builds and then perhaps a pre-commit build configuration that forces/reminds you to do one production build before pushing… (which if you miss, just means you may end up with a failed CI build to fix…)

This is very interesting - I like the way you’ve explained this.

The parallel with “intentionally working out to maintain physical strength” is extremely helpful as an analogy to communicate this concept.

That’s exactly what we might be faced with… cognitive atrophy…

It’s arguably already started, and is accelerating!

I would disagree that their previous TellHN has much structurally in common with the pattern they’re describing here.

Your comment history seems peppered with similar low-effort comments about Europe.

As a European, I have some strong opinions about the state of your country at the moment. Opinions shared by quite a large proportion of your own population actually.

But I manage to refrain from regularly and flippantly insulting entire continents and maintain some self awareness that we all have our own problems.

I’d strongly encourage you to do the same.

I wouldn’t classify what you’re doing as “cheating”!

Such corporate speak reminds me of “the values of the Carphone Warehouse”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2firijxQOo

Fwiw I read it the same way as you!

Hacker News at its best.

There has to be a vanishingly small number of places on the internet where someone could post a question like this and immediately receive a flood of thoughtful, earnest and substantive responses.

So for all its faults, the particular version of Hacker News that’s embodied in this post + comment thread is something I care deeply about - and has had an ongoing positive impact on my life.

Great question OP!

As a heavy Claude user, I’ve seen many examples of what it will produce as a README, and they all look exactly like this.

It definitely could use some editing!

Copyright is the thing that allows software companies to sell their products and make money. It’s not just about “knowledge”.

I sometimes wonder if people commenting on this topic on HN really understand how fundamental copyright as a concept is to the entire tech industry. And indeed even to capitalism itself.

> Privacy right is an integral part of the freedom of speech

I completely agree with you, but as a ChatGPT user I have to admit my fault in this too.

I have always been annoyed by what I saw as shameless breaches of copyright of thousands of authors (and other individuals) in the training of these LLMs, and I've been wary of the data security/confidentiality of these tools from the start too - and not for no reason. Yet I find ChatGPT et al so utterly compelling and useful, that I poured my personal data[0] into these tools anyway.

I've always felt conflicted about this, but the utility just about outweighed my privacy and copyright concerns. So as angry as I am about this situation, I also have to accept some of the blame too. I knew this (or other leaks or unsanctioned use of my data) was possible down the line.

But it's a wake up call. I've done nothing with these tools which is even slightly nefarious, but I am today deleting all my historical data (not just from ChatGPT[1] but other hosted AI tools) and will completely reassess my approach of using them - likely with an acceleration of my plans to move to using local models as much as I can.

[0] I do heavily redact my data that goes into hosted LLMs, but there's still more private data in there about me than I'd like.

[1] Which I know is very much a "after the horse has bolted" situation...

I like this approach. I’d get too caught up in the perfectionism trap of trying to capture perfect images and would never actually reach the point of publishing anything!

The website is very nicely done!

Good point about it coming too late. I grew up using Windows pre-powershell and then had switched to Macs by the time Powershell got a lot of improvements and became a lot more worthy of attention!

FWIW My handwriting (and the experience of writing) improved quite a bit when I switched to fountain pens. I always used to find writing a bit uncomfortable physically, and difficult mentally (due to ADHD) but fountain pens improved the experience somewhat.

You don’t need so much force to be applied to the pen compared to other writing instruments and the more comfortable writing experience helped my ADHD brain better tolerate it to.

Reading this comment about the previous quote made me finally realize why the name centigrade exists.

I have a simultaneous respect for the power and capabilities of PowerShell while also for some reason harbouring a very strong loathing of it. I just viscerally dislike it. Maybe it’s the syntax… or perhaps just some latent decades-old Windows admin trauma…

This would be a lot better if they cited their sources. As it stands it’s interesting but a bit too easy to dismiss as SEO fodder.

Very interesting, thanks for elaborating!

This is very interesting. I’m aware of Anki/flash cards for helping with learning specific topics, but this more general usage that you’re describing is extremely intriguing!

I’m inspired to add something like this to my workflow.

I’d be curious to hear more about how/why you got started with this habit?

Can you elaborate more on this? I couldn’t quite understand whether you used these candles to “anchor” yourself to different times of day, or if you were just using them as kind of cumulative timers?

> i assumed wrong that you added the "d"

dang seems to be saying that he did add the “d” though?

FWIW I would have preferred it to be just left as “uses” per the article title.

As a fellow Brit I’ve always been puzzled by this too.

The DVLA website and online processes are very good. Which is rare to say about a government IT system. I don’t think I’ve ever had any problems for a decade (or two?) dealing with everything driving-related fully online.

I expect since we just have one single system, and a smaller number of possible workflows/situations to cover, it’s easier to create a central online system. In the US, with 50 different variations perhaps it’s a harder problem to solve.

China doesn’t (yet) have 7.5 [billion] people.

That number in his quote is referring to the entire rest of the world.

For clarity, I don’t think the UK is involved in this at all.

This seems to be a fine issued in the Republic of Ireland which is not part of the UK (but, unlike the UK, is still part of the EU).

You’re 100% right. That essay is superb and I’m glad I read it!

Thanks for sharing the link.

I love this. They pay attention to everything I normally despise about (many) ebooks (poor layout, lack of metadata, no chapter headings etc).

What’s QRT?