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by gorjusborg 4mo ago
It seems it may be 'animal nature'. We maximize our benefit until the environment limits us, and humans have become 'too good' at it, increasing stakes to a global scale.
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by gorjusborg 4mo ago
This is an important distinction: what is good for ecology is not necessarily good for economy. If we need unbounded growth to jeep our economic system to function, its the economic system that is wrong, not nature.
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by gorjusborg 4mo ago
> Most software engineers in my experience have quite a lot of control, and a large component of growing in your career is learning to perceive the control that you have. I've found that most of that autonomy comes with trust, and t
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by gorjusborg 4mo ago
I'm sorry you have had to experience that. As much as I'd like to judge, I had a little bit of that 'elder avoidance' in my 20s, and I look back and cringe at how stupid I was. I'm old enough now to know that '
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by gorjusborg 4mo ago
Same here. I never taught my children anything but the '(Fast) Ian knot', so they know no other way. They are older now, but when they were younger, they were often the friends of 'first resort' when it came to getting t
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by gorjusborg 4mo ago
What do you mean by circle of avoidance?
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by gorjusborg 4mo ago
> require some runtime to interact with the world This was why I was excited by Bun until recent events. A typescript runtime with a rich standard library, and fast. It looked like it would be a great sweet spot for many use cases.
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by gorjusborg 4mo ago
> Came to bikeshed but the video was more nuanced and fair than this title. Same here. It isn't hard to justify buying something like the Framework 12 in principle. I have bought multiple Framework computers and I continue to be a f
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by gorjusborg 4mo ago
This is what happens to companies who dominate completely; they stop playing the game that they were winning and start playing a different game. While the article speaks about an individual getting fired from a giant corporate behemoth, all
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by gorjusborg 5mo ago
If you see constant economic growth as a requirement of a functioning society (also a bit silly), a shrinking population is concerning because it suggests that demand will shrink with the size of the population. Shrinking demand can lead to
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by gorjusborg 5mo ago
Here's the thing: I was first interested in Bun because it was written in Zig. I was interested in Zig because I respected Andrew Kelley's decision-making, and his taste matched my own. I got really excited about Bun for many reas
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by gorjusborg 5mo ago
Comments like yours are why I come to HN discussions. Thanks for sharing.
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by gorjusborg 5mo ago
> It's not like most people even know what a Steam Deck is. Steam basically is PC gaming at this point, which is still a massive market that is almost as big as the entirety of console gaming. I know there are those out there, but
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by gorjusborg 5mo ago
The real reason TUIs are back is not one reason, but a host of reasons. The biggest current reason is fashion. Tools like Claude Code did it, and while they actually had good reasons to run in the terminal , the tools' popularity and
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by gorjusborg 5mo ago
Came to say similar. We should see the success of Wine/Proton as success hard won despite attempts to lock software in to Microsoft's business, not some triumph of design or something beneficial MSFT did.
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by gorjusborg 5mo ago
I would love it if newer revisions of USB specified standard colors for indicating negotiated mode and cable support. The main issue I have is the lack of visibility.
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by gorjusborg 6mo ago
Counter-counterpoint, why are people wagering on an airport thermometer measurement?
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by gorjusborg 6mo ago
Honestly, there is zero chance you will implement anything close to sqlite. What is more likely, if you are making good decisions, is that you'll reach a point where the simple approach will fail to meet your needs. If you use the same
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by gorjusborg 6mo ago
Only if you get there and need it.
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by gorjusborg 6mo ago
To me, it's the uniformity and limited rules that make lispy languages attractive. Javascript's destructuring syntax can look almost indecipherable, and it is mostly because the language syntax is not uniform in its meaning. c
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by gorjusborg 6mo ago
> what looks easier to read > to me > theres a reason why pseudocode in every textbook looks like that The reason is history, inertia, and limited exposure. Preference is self-reinforcing for those reasons. That doesn't make i
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by gorjusborg 6mo ago
This guy gets it. The syntax argument is such a tired argument. With LISPy language there is almost zero syntax, it's pretty much executable AST. Because of this, formatting matters a lot, but I don't think that's too differe
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by gorjusborg 6mo ago
It's very amusing to me that you bring up IBM in a discussion of the value of Oracle. I came here to say that if you want to understand Oracle's value, think IBM with less history.
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by gorjusborg 6mo ago
I believe we are thinking about different time horizons, and your language and comparison to <modern editor> reveals a lot about unsaid about your reasoning. I don't think comparison to other editors is a good basis for deciding
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by gorjusborg 6mo ago
I agree in principle that absorbing the best from the ecosystem is good. However, anything pulled into core should have a long lifetime and be considered part of the API. This deserves careful consideration, and plugins work really well unt
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by gorjusborg 7mo ago
What is 'over' is the idea that AI assisted coding is only hype that will go away. It is clear that software development is going to be different in ways we've not seen before.
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by gorjusborg 7mo ago
Today I faced an unexpected challenge in a high-pressure environment. I experienced a rapid loss of structural support (my trousers), which led to a complete pivot in my physical trajectory. I didn't just fall; I deep-dived into a new
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by gorjusborg 7mo ago
There are a few things I take away from this post: 1. If you care about the physical manifestation of a product, maybe Amazon.com is not the place to be shopping for it. 2. If the product as it arrives is substantially different from that o
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by gorjusborg 7mo ago
From the article, verbatim: > We're not giving up. Digg isn't going away. Post title is misleading.
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by gorjusborg 7mo ago
The question that comes to mind for me after reading your comment is how can a question about a game require that much context?

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