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I generally don't think highly of people who make this argument. It relies on the simplistic framing of the "end of absolute poverty." In fact, this is the exact same rhetoric used by CCP apologists. While it is true that the
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> Fertility The total fertility rate (TFR) indicates the average number of children born per woman over a lifetime given current age‑specific fertility rates, assuming no female mortality during reproductive years. The population is repl
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Let's consider programming, which represents an entry into a high value-added industry. To monetize programming, you fundamentally need to offer something more valuable than existing open-source software, or target a niche that open-so
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I consider this a typical case of statisticians massaging the data. In fact, I believe the Gini coefficient itself is flawed modeling. Even statisticians don't really use it much these days, right? The Gini index on Wikipedia actually
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I think it's the same issue—wealth inequality. I believe this single issue can explain all of modern society's problems
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Take you and me as an example. When we work, we might start with A, suddenly think of C, briefly jump to D, then B, revise the premise of A, and finally reach a conclusion. Humans think by constantly shifting between association, working me
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Honestly, it's a workflow issue, so there is no single right answer. I agree that an ADR should be concise, for example. However, if your user memory or custom instructions are already set to prefer conciseness, the information density
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Actually, isn't GPT-generated(or Gen AI) text much more information-dense than human writing? The challenge with AI prompts is that they don't produce consistent results due to various factors—from AI memory to Agent.md and other
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I think what people call 'AI slop' is probably just unedited content. I actually like this content quite a bit. Rather than whether it was made with AI, I think what matters is whether it accurately matches the specification
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8/10. It was harder to distinguish than I expected. If they had applied something like a humanizer skill, it probably would have been nearly impossible to tell.
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Sometimes I really respect senior developers. When specs change, you obviously have to update existing work too. Looking at this MCP change, it seems like it's becoming stateless—I'm already wondering how to adapt. Senior programm
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No, it's not an issue with all UTF-8 character input—it's a crash that happens in specific situations. In other words, it's intermittent. For example, there were cases where accidentally typing Korean characters while opening
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In this case, I'd appreciate it if you could understand it as my 'native language.' When you input a language that isn't English into a computer, it often doesn't work well with ASCII—it frequently breaks in many pl
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But the idea that Windows is a "better OS" really seems accurate for people in the Third World. This is because Korean language support on Linux is terrible, and since all the commands are in English, it takes quite a bit of time
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Because the final consumers are ultimately Americans with purchasing power, this structure inherently makes it easy for the US to dominate the standards. As a result, it is extremely difficult for economically lower tier countries to preemp
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fter posting on the HN front page, I got way too many job scam contacts—all through Gmail, not official company emails.
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Then my brain must be full of scars.
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Every workflow is highly personal, so there's no real reason to argue about it. Depending on the work, some tasks become patternized and others don't. Most people overestimate themselves as being near average, and some of them are
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>If you can't, then you shouldn't send PRs around. I think this is exactly why our differences emerge. I rarely collaborate with colleagues. In contract delivery work, that is simply how things operate. Usually, after the archi
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I feel similarly, but at the same time, I think I am the exact opposite. I actually find formulating hypotheses more fun. For hobby projects or things I start casually, I usually do not think about errors and such at all. When it is a tool
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Writing code directly takes longer to warm up. Usually, I'd keep tens of thousands of lines in my head. In the past, I spent a lot of time designing error propagation and execution contexts. (Talented people might figure it out right a
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These days, my work has become: generate code for 20 minutes, then spend an hour reading it.
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I think it's time for people to have their own homepages. Building and customizing a homepage is more fun than you'd think. What's the main reason the internet feels less fun these days? I think it's because there are fe
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My life has been more aligned with computers, and I prefer it that way. Computers don't lie, they don't pressure you. At least they respond honestly to my input, almost all the time. Everything outside of computers was awful. So I
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What is good data and what is bad data?
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Typo3? Are you European? I recall it's a framework mainly used by people in Europe—a DACH-origin framework. I found it quite difficult to work with myself.
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Ah, I see. These days, there's a trend of calling everything AI slop, so I agree with you. That's why I've been hesitant to use Bootstrap templates lately. even though they used to be considered pretty reliable
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Does it look like Claude made it? It was actually made from a template I used 5 years ago. The world never stops surprising me.
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As an indie software maker, I agree. I've been thinking about this a lot too. I'm going to start by polishing my indieweb site first. A site needs to look decent to be trustworthy.
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I've exchanged a few messages with a mathematician before. We did a small project together, but then contact was lost.. probably due to circumstances on their side. I miss them. Other than that, I've contributed a few bug fixes to

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