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by codr7 2y ago
Right, so people who claim to have this experience are lying, for no good reason. While people who have a lot to gain from hiding problems with wind turbines are telling the truth. Isn't that always how it works?
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by codr7 2y ago
Have you ever lived near wind turbines? They take quite a toll on both wild life and people living in the area. And are often abandoned as soon as they don't generate enough profits/are too expensive to maintain, with no one wanti
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by codr7 2y ago
Curious: why?
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What I'm very much missing so far is research into longer term consequences for learning. I get that we could potentially gain something from using AI, I would like to know what we're losing, because it's obvious to me that i
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by codr7 2y ago
They're very good at marketing, I'm beginning to believe that's all they're doing well these days.
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by codr7 2y ago
We use to have a saying for this behavior, embrace and extend something...
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by codr7 2y ago
Sounds more like process problems than strategy problems to me.
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by codr7 2y ago
Alternatively, the rumors were true, and Alexa/Siri were actually real people working very cheap for a while.
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by codr7 2y ago
I mean, it sort of is. Older, more experienced people tend to have more integrity. We're not as easily bullied into fulfilling whatever business goals at whatever cost.
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by codr7 2y ago
Yeah, worrying about getting fired isn't very helpful. But selling out isn't either. Programmers should be left enough space to do their thing well, that's the only way to build great software. Which was the entire point of A
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by codr7 2y ago
That's not my problem at all. I can't work on something I don't see as useful, that's the whole reason I started programming in the first place. But building useful things is not what most software companies are up to th
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by codr7 2y ago
Because the complexity seeps in through the cracks, and with the language comes a mindset; same reasons Linus is wary about C++ in the kernel. Some say it works; I've never succeeded, even on solo projects.
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by codr7 2y ago
The point of defer is to put the cleanup logic in one place for local variables though, so the risk of someone else deleting it isn't a thing.
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by codr7 2y ago
I've been doing properly scoped defers in C since forever, as long as you have access to cleanup attributes and nested functions it's no big deal. https://github.com/codr7/hacktical-c/tree/main/
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by codr7 2y ago
This is how I do proper generic vectors in C, no template tricks needed and no pointer chasing involved: https://github.com/codr7/hacktical-c/tree/main/vector The problem was always pretending C is somet
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How often it works out as intended is very much up for debate though.
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by codr7 2y ago
And people wonder why I believe software dev has fallen off a cliff. This is why; and AI, which I see more as a side effect.
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by codr7 2y ago
I prefer to spend my energy thinking about what I want instead. Even if it would make no difference in the world, it still makes me happier. But it does make a (BIG) difference, thoughts direct energy and energy manifests reality.
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by codr7 2y ago
I would say yes, pretty much, from my experience. I started working at my first startup in 1998.
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Mostly everything. There's no appreciation of skills anymore, of quality; it's all about generating features as effectively as possible. No room for creativity/trial and error. It's like working at a factory, pushing a b
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by codr7 2y ago
I find it very depressing to think that the only traces left from all the creativity will end up to be AI slop, the worst use case ever. I feel like the more people use GenAI, the less intelligent they become. Like the rest of this society,
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by codr7 2y ago
Alternatively, his life was exactly what it had to be for him to do what he was supposed to.
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by codr7 2y ago
I'm curious: more satisfying how exactly? Because from what I can see it's been quite a downhill ride since Y2k. To the extent that many who used to love the work just can't do it anymore.
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by codr7 2y ago
Entitlement is one thing; companies acting like they give a shit about employees was pretty nice though, I for sure miss it.
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by codr7 2y ago
It is what it looks like, I'm not here to prove or sell anything. Which is my main issue with Clojure, as well as Rust any many others these days; too religious for me, too much of an agenda. I like powerful tools for solving problems,
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by codr7 2y ago
Thank you, the more Lisps the merrier :)
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Show HN: eli – Embedded Lisp Interpreter(github.com)
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by codr7 2y ago
Thoughts are very powerful, that's why visualization is such a big deal in elite sports etc. Some stoics teach that you should imagine the worst possible outcomes to shift your perception of the current (not quite as terrible) situatio
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It doesn't take much common sense to realize that someone who's neck deep into grief isn't going to find much comfort in being told something happened for a reason. I happen to believe that everything does happen for a reason
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No, but that tends to gradually happen all by itself from my experience, even in solo projects. Because it feels stupid writing something yourself when you have access to stdlib. Also, I feel rolling your own stuff in C++ is a major pita in

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