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Hello. I didn’t consent to any of my HN comments being used in this way. Please kindly remove them.

When did we ever measure the value of code by quantity, not quality? The author is misguided.

Care to elaborate? Your comment is unhelpful and unkind.

> It's much more comfortable to be the person that "could be X" than to be the person that tries to actually do it.

It’s much more impressive to say you have done something than to say you’re going to do it.

A friend of mine has all these failed hobbies he tells everyone he’s going to do, then gives up on. I wait a few months before telling people I’m doing something so I’m fairly confident it’s something I will carry on.

I’ve been writing Go for nearly 4 years and work on a team with senior Go engineers. Concurrency is the language feature people seem to talk about most when talking about Go, and yet we use it so rarely; usually it’s just a second pass optimisation rather than something thought about from the start.

Sadly this post can’t be saved to Readwise because it triggers the captcha check

> Choosing the dividing element at random is a good strategy to avoid bad worst-case runtime.

Please can someone explain what’s meant by “bad worse-case runtime”?

Do you think he'd have felt remorse if he wasn't caught?

That “I’m glad I lived my life as I lived it” line (or something to that effect) you hear criminals like these say is sickening. They acknowledge what they did was bad and express no remorse for the clear destruction they caused to other people’s lives. It’s cowardly and he should serve much longer in prison.

I’m not sure I see from your example why? You’d expect any git client to have branch.

Thanks for the explanation

How does a read-ahead cache work and why is it so effective here?

Why are you so argumentative? _Some_ of what you're saying is relevant, but not this. I asked a sensible question.

Your account is clearly a new one, created so you could so argumentatively reply to this post. Your responses don't make you sound so nearly as clever as you think.

> all HN devs as a homogenous mass

Many of the highly upvoted posts of the last ~month have been about "vibe engineering" and "context engineering". The comments on these posts suggest an air of enthusiasm one doesn't see on posts about programming.

> consider a more nuanced question

As a long-time poster here I simply do not agree.

> I disagree with you on both

Your rationale?

By using AI to automate things you once did manually, you are:

- Helping a model do something better you were once able to do (and get someone to pay you to do). Such a time may arise when your input is no longer required.

- Propagating the idea that such things no longer require the skill they once did.

- Propagating the idea that it doesn't take you as long to do something you once did, begging the question why employers would pay you as much as they once did.

- Failing to continue to learn as you once did (that numerous studies have since confirmed; people who use generative AI don't exhibit the same critical thinking as those who don't).

Who is ever writing 10k lines of code in one day?

I've been writing code professionally for over a decade and love it. Generative AI has rather (un)ironically taken from me much of what I used to love about it.

Edit: With a username like that, I think you're a bot.

I recommend Readwise.

I'm aware there are some naming constraints due to the underlying mobile filesystems not liking certain characters. This might be why it's not syncing fully for you? I haven't had any other major issues yet.

Without history Youtube doesn't know what you like and therefore can't suggest videos to watch on the homepage.

It's a time/cost tradeoff and for me personally $4 has been fine for out-of-the-box syncing between clients for the last ~2 years of using just the one vault. It's now $8 for 10 vaults (I only recently added my second), which is still a relatively insignificant amount considering I spend more than that on toilet paper.

It’s $4 a month to sync Obsidian notes, for anyone wondering.

What did it for me was disabling my history (a setting). Consequently your YT homepage is blank and it doesn’t suggest any shorts. You can maintain a kind of history by liking videos or just via the browser itself.

Scroll down for the content: https://archive.ph/aD9os

A SINGLE roll of Portra 400 120 here in the UK is £15 or about $19. I remember when you could buy 5 rolls for that. It's insane

Talking to myself but... I just don't understand the downvotes on my comment. Saying cheap film is shit offends people? It's still shit. Get over it.

Film photography just became prohibitively costly for me around ~2018. When a roll of 120 was costing £20/25 in the UK. A lot of the good labs over here (Peak Imaging for example) went bust too.

I poke fun at film shooters today who heap praise on e.g. Kodak Gold or the cheap Fuji equivalents because it's all they can really afford/get their hands on. I wouldn't have even considered shooting it 10 years ago

What's RAG?