totallykvothe

Phantom Tollbooth?

That was only 3 myths. Hardly a brazilian

I don't think I've heard a lot of people say "code was never the hard part". I have heard "Code was never the bottleneck", which is a different thing altogether and is objectively true at my company. The bottlenecks were and still are integrations, QA, requirements refinement, coordination, etc.

Bad faith argument. You know this comparison is ridiculous

I highly doubt this specific person has looked down on others for also mourning the death of their craft. You can't rightly call someone a hypocrite and cite "developers" as your source.

I and one or two others are _the_ AI use experts at my org, and I was by far the earliest adopter here. So I don't really have anyone else with significantly different experiences than me that I could ask.

I don't think I'd be a good judge because I don't have the years of familiarity and expertise in his repos that I do at my job. A lot of the value of me specifically vs an LLM at my job is that I have the tribal knowledge and the LLM does not. We have gotten a lot better at documentation, but I don't think we can _ever_ truly eliminate that factor.

I don't understand the stance that AI currently is able to automate away non-trivial coding tasks. I've tried this consistently since GPT 3.5 came out, with every single SOTA model up to GPT 5.1 Codex Max and Opus 4.5. Every single time, I get something that works, yes, but then when I start self-reviewing the code, preparing to submit it to coworkers, I end up rewriting about 70% of the thing. So many important details are subpar about the AI solution, and many times fundamental architectural issues cripple any attempt at prompting my way out of it, even though I've been quite involved step-by-step through the whole prototyping phase.

I just have to conclude 1 of 2 things:

1) I'm not good at prompting, even though I am one of the earliest AI in coding adopters I know, and have been consistent for years. So I find this hard to accept.

2) Other people are just less picky than I am, or they have a less thorough review culture that lets subpar code slide more often.

I'm not sure what else I can take from the situation. For context, I work on a 15 year old Java Spring + React (with some old pages still in Thymeleaf) web application. There are many sub-services, two separate databases,and this application needs to also 2-way interface with customer hardware. So, not a simple project, but still. I can't imagine it's way more complicated than most enterprise/legacy projects...

Mockito allows one to write mocks in tests for code that doesn't use dependency injection and isn't properly testable in any other way.

On the one hand, you should just design things to be testable from the start. On the other... I'm already working in this codebase with 20 years of legacy untestable design...

The original statement wasn't that the sigils are unconventional. They are. It was that they were "subtle". They are not.

That's not super subtle any more than it's super subtle that "*" performs multiplication and "+" performs addition. Sometimes you just need to learn the language.

This is not a general defense of Perl, which is many times absolutely unreadable, but this example is perfectly comprehensible if you actually are trying to write Perl and not superimpose some other language on it.*

I had very similar issues, both as a kid and an adult. I now take 500mg of Magnesium (Malate or Glycinate. NOT Citrate, as that is a laxative) nearly every night, and my headaches are almost completely gone now. I still get one every once in a while, but it's infrequent enough that I no longer worry about my use of Ibuprofen to manage it.

The most popular argument against homeschooling appears to be "the world sucks, so we should make kids worlds suck so they're prepared for it", which is absolutely an abusive way to think and those who use this argument need to sit and think about what it means, then be ashamed.

You can't use the word segregation wrt people and then pretend it's surprising or unreasonable when someone assumes you're talking about racism.

I'll agree on all but one point. The cotton/linen notes feel so much better in the hand than the candy wrapper plastic of Canadian bills. I know it's a dumb reason, but I just hate the feeling.

That's ridiculous. Nobody gets healthcare equivalent to a third world country unless they just don't try. (Think, an addict or mentally ill person, which is still not a good thing, but much smaller of a carve-out than you've represented)

That's not what the article was about though. It wasn't only a complaint about not using built in niceties of the platform. It was an assertion that the reason we aren't is because of some kind of functional bro boogeyman.

Why the snark? It's a valid preference and he wasn't demanding anything.

What are your gripes with Elementary? I personally use KDE now, but I used to use Elementary a while ago, and it was very polished

"The ISO is only 2GB"

0_o

And add to that an unsupportable tax burden to disincentivize large firms buying up hundreds or thousands of homes and then renting them.

I tried it and decided not to switch because there was simply no way to resolve the line endings problem on Windows and sync up jj with our git repo

In what world is this an appropriate thing to say to someone?

I'm having difficulty understanding what it means for an attacker to "send your email to a legitimate service"...

All cows are brown.

Dirt is brown.

Therefore, dirt is a cow.

Aaaaand now it's an ECS lol

That is the coolest website design I've seen in a long time. Absolutely love it. The article was good too.

Duh

I've never agreed with an HN comment so hard as this one.

You're correct, and all the arguments against it simply boil down to "but we can't guarantee a perfect solution so therefore we shouldn't even try".