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by beej71 3mo ago
I don't get this whole attitude. Moving away from plastics in our kitchen was basically zero extra cost. Something busted, and we replaced it with non-plastic. Even bamboo scrubbers don't cost more than plastic (maybe even a littl
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by beej71 3mo ago
It's true that I'm in a place of privilege in the world. But it's amazing how much time gets freed up of one doesn't watch TV or read social media. Like the numbers show, it's hours per day. I sympathize with people
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by beej71 3mo ago
As a CS instructor, I find this article extremely interesting, FWIW.
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by beej71 3mo ago
I couldn't attach my xteink to my phone because of a standoff around the camera on my phone case. I just now realized that the standoff could be removed and now the magnet works! :) Did you install Crosspoint on it? I absolutely recomm
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by beej71 3mo ago
I know there are a number of us who read encyclopedias over our breakfast cereal as kids. Ours were World Book.
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by beej71 3mo ago
I read The Goldfinch a while back. Not at all my usual fare. The plot progressed at a snail's pace, but I enjoyed every page of it. (The movie treatment was horribly shallow in comparison, but there's no way they could possibly
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by beej71 3mo ago
I just read this! Also recommend.
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by beej71 3mo ago
Can I ask why you hate reading? Is this a general statement or is it about the quality of programming-related reading in particular?
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by beej71 3mo ago
GenX here... I thought this was a great read. I still hope for a young rebellion against the forces the presented in the article. And the author does point out some reasons to hope. Personally, I read and write every day. I usually have 2-3
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by beej71 3mo ago
It won't work for everyone, but I have a bicycle trailer for food shopping. 20 minutes ride each way. I go about once a week.
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by beej71 3mo ago
The penalties for police abusing the power we grant them should be severe.
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by beej71 3mo ago
I'm willing to change the name in order to not have this discussion. :) Luckily now I'm simply a "computer science instructor", though many argue what I teach is "software engineering"... Doh!
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by beej71 3mo ago
I never regretted getting a BS and MS in CS. It was a lot of fun learning, landed me my first industry job with basically no extra effort, and it ultimately allowed me to be an instructor at a university after a couple decades at work. But
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by beej71 3mo ago
Fallacy of composition.
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by beej71 3mo ago
How do you figure? Do you know either of these people?
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by beej71 3mo ago
Usenet is coming back through the cracks. Google finally graveyarded support and all the spammers went with them. It's pretty low traffic except for some select groups, though. comp.lang.c and talk.origins will never die. :)
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by beej71 3mo ago
The thing that freaks me out about "the end of programmers" is that we're going to introduce a knowledge gap. And I'm unaware of any knowledge gaps in anything else we do. For any technology we use, we have humans who ca
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by beej71 4mo ago
Yes. To sledgehammer it home, it's not desire for things that makes consumption happen. You need money. And if bots are doing the work, where's the money coming from? The argument implies that there's some kind of balance poi
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by beej71 4mo ago
Not the GP, but I used to do. And I share the sentiment even though I'm out of the game.
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by beej71 4mo ago
> The question should not be whether the technology replaces people by machines, it should be whether it provides a net benefit overall I like this framing. But I wish more people would acknowledge that genAI offloads thinking in ways
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by beej71 4mo ago
I think they just don't care that the people are mad. The equation doesn't include workers. It actively excludes them. Because no sane person would pitch a product that would put you out of work, it seems surprising to us to hear
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by beej71 4mo ago
When I order from the app and my robot delivers the food and I pay with my QR code, what's the customary tip?
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by beej71 4mo ago
Of course it curbs terrorism. But it's not worth it . Think of everything that improved when the Taliban came into power. Crime went down. Public services improved. It wasn't worth it. The cure you propose is worse than the dis
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by beej71 4mo ago
This might seem silly on the face of it, but I live in a town where native forest is regularly leveled to bare earth, built on, and non-native trees planted in its stead. It's dumb and ugly. But profitable!
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by beej71 4mo ago
It's allowed me to learn things more quickly. For example, I haven't written any C++ professionally for 20 years, and found myself in the position of needing to know it again. The existing material online for learning it is thick;
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by beej71 4mo ago
I left "my" party a long, long time ago. I wish everyone would, but people really, really want to tribe up even if doing so fractures their own nation. (And sometimes especially if it does.) Before I got banned from redstate.com
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by beej71 4mo ago
Maybe they can look at my credit history and see that it's over 18.
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by beej71 4mo ago
> I actually use AI as a ghost writer With all due respect, it shows. You have the ability to write way better than this. I was halfway through and thought to myself, "Why is this so fucking hard to understand the author's p
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by beej71 4mo ago
> Oh no. Comfort. How will we ever suffer it! You jest, but this is the human condition. People in comfort suffer all the time. It's the basis for the expression "familiarity breeds contempt". You might have someone who ha
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by beej71 4mo ago
> Because idea guys seemed to be doing well even in a world where it's super expensive to convert the idea into anything of value. But now we're talking about a world where it's super cheap to do that. > But I'll

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