All I want from a phone is to make and receive phone calls from people I know. I don't want texting. I don't want photos. I don't want apps. I have a dumb Consumer Cellular Link II burner phone if I need to receive an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
For me use or mention of AI is a signal the manufacturer either doesn't care about quality or doesn't know or care that it's no longer special. It's plastic.
> So many "best practices" are truly repugnant like ...list of things I have my own love/hate relationship with many of the things you list and I currently share many of your preferences. However I didn't always see…
This was fun. A kind of engineering MBTI¹. I'm +3 Abstract, +2 Human-Friendly - https://pastebin.com/Y7t4ys3J At the end I would have liked to see how each answer contributed to the final score, perhaps plotted on the…
I prefer to believe otherwise. In the words of the Desiderata¹ You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. ¹- https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html
As for me I've seen LLM based AI produce bland summaries¹ for a few years. Occasionally they generate something funny². But they cannot yet write anything I would spend my time or money to read. > I'm still needed here,…
I use SourceHut¹ to serve git for a few private projects. I wanted to use their pages service as well to serve an SPA but their https://srht.site/limitations prevent SPAs from contacting external services I need. I get…
> Many will cheer the likely disappearance of political fundraising texts and robocalls around election season. But not all “unknown sender” messages are created equal. Sorry but I do not pay for cellular service in…
I do not know you, nor did I know your uncle. Nevertheless he was an influence on you and I'm sorry for your loss. May you walk in his light. https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2012...
Kagi makes me want to learn Crystal¹ ¹ https://crystal-lang.org
Yes this shift to React is really annoying. Github also stopped working on older browsers. My leisure laptop is an older macbook with firefox 78.15.0esr and a little over a year ago I stopped being able to view github…
For what it's worth the Tree component¹ of Palantir's blueprint.js React library was useful to me. ¹ https://blueprintjs.com/docs/#core/components/tree
Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls. - Maya Angelou
> I want to like zed. I keep trying it. ... Ultimately though none of the rendering speed improvements or collaboration ideas make a difference to me. I feel this way as well. I've tried to incorporate Zed into my…
> It took a few days to produce this library -- it would almost certainly have taken me weeks to write it myself. As mentioned in another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162965 I think this "few days" is…
Many tools make lesser developers more productive (to a point) but they fail to improve the productivity of talented professionals. Lots of "no/low" code things come to mind. But here's a tool that made kentonv 2x…
> It took me a few days to build the library with AI. ... > I estimate it would have taken a few weeks, maybe months to write by hand. I don't think this is a fair assessment give the summary of the commit history…
If we're going to have laws like these, then people who publish their content should have all the rights and responsibilities big players do. Everyone's content should be protected by laws, DRM and encryption.…
> This post’s title is a little cheeky. Brian Eno does not have an explicit theory of democracy that I know of, although he is visibly and emphatically committed to its practice. But Eno’s arguments about the arts tell…
My "daily driver" is a dumb Consumer Cellular Link II. SMS based services are useful to me when traveling without my laptop.
Did not find any of the alt accounts I've used since 2007. Which is good.
> I guess what you are saying is the problem is the company culture ... sucks. I believe the problem is the way devops is often practiced. I've worked as a developer, a manager and an operator and I've occasionally…
I believe that too is as the author wrote – like a disheartening number of things in the tech industry, there are no real standards around what on-call responsibilities look like. Each organization is free to set things…
This sounds like a healthy arrangement. Compensate fairly for overtime and those who want it will take it.
All I want from a phone is to make and receive phone calls from people I know. I don't want texting. I don't want photos. I don't want apps. I have a dumb Consumer Cellular Link II burner phone if I need to receive an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
For me use or mention of AI is a signal the manufacturer either doesn't care about quality or doesn't know or care that it's no longer special. It's plastic.
> So many "best practices" are truly repugnant like ...list of things I have my own love/hate relationship with many of the things you list and I currently share many of your preferences. However I didn't always see…
This was fun. A kind of engineering MBTI¹. I'm +3 Abstract, +2 Human-Friendly - https://pastebin.com/Y7t4ys3J At the end I would have liked to see how each answer contributed to the final score, perhaps plotted on the…
I prefer to believe otherwise. In the words of the Desiderata¹ You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. ¹- https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html
As for me I've seen LLM based AI produce bland summaries¹ for a few years. Occasionally they generate something funny². But they cannot yet write anything I would spend my time or money to read. > I'm still needed here,…
I use SourceHut¹ to serve git for a few private projects. I wanted to use their pages service as well to serve an SPA but their https://srht.site/limitations prevent SPAs from contacting external services I need. I get…
> Many will cheer the likely disappearance of political fundraising texts and robocalls around election season. But not all “unknown sender” messages are created equal. Sorry but I do not pay for cellular service in…
I do not know you, nor did I know your uncle. Nevertheless he was an influence on you and I'm sorry for your loss. May you walk in his light. https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2012...
Kagi makes me want to learn Crystal¹ ¹ https://crystal-lang.org
Yes this shift to React is really annoying. Github also stopped working on older browsers. My leisure laptop is an older macbook with firefox 78.15.0esr and a little over a year ago I stopped being able to view github…
For what it's worth the Tree component¹ of Palantir's blueprint.js React library was useful to me. ¹ https://blueprintjs.com/docs/#core/components/tree
Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls. - Maya Angelou
> I want to like zed. I keep trying it. ... Ultimately though none of the rendering speed improvements or collaboration ideas make a difference to me. I feel this way as well. I've tried to incorporate Zed into my…
> It took a few days to produce this library -- it would almost certainly have taken me weeks to write it myself. As mentioned in another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162965 I think this "few days" is…
Many tools make lesser developers more productive (to a point) but they fail to improve the productivity of talented professionals. Lots of "no/low" code things come to mind. But here's a tool that made kentonv 2x…
> It took me a few days to build the library with AI. ... > I estimate it would have taken a few weeks, maybe months to write by hand. I don't think this is a fair assessment give the summary of the commit history…
If we're going to have laws like these, then people who publish their content should have all the rights and responsibilities big players do. Everyone's content should be protected by laws, DRM and encryption.…
> This post’s title is a little cheeky. Brian Eno does not have an explicit theory of democracy that I know of, although he is visibly and emphatically committed to its practice. But Eno’s arguments about the arts tell…
My "daily driver" is a dumb Consumer Cellular Link II. SMS based services are useful to me when traveling without my laptop.
Did not find any of the alt accounts I've used since 2007. Which is good.
> I guess what you are saying is the problem is the company culture ... sucks. I believe the problem is the way devops is often practiced. I've worked as a developer, a manager and an operator and I've occasionally…
I believe that too is as the author wrote – like a disheartening number of things in the tech industry, there are no real standards around what on-call responsibilities look like. Each organization is free to set things…
This sounds like a healthy arrangement. Compensate fairly for overtime and those who want it will take it.