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by munksbeer 5mo ago
I don't think HN is libertarian at all. In fact, I can barely tell the difference between reddit and HN now. Anti-capitalism is the dominant sentiment here now.
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
I must be doing something very different from the anti-AI people on here. It is ridiculously empowering. Got an issue in production? Give your agent the knowledge of how to locate the logs, and where the codebase is, and ask it to diagnose,
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
For who?
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
A lot of institutional investors get caught out all the time when they make mistakes about the fundamentals.
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
> What is really going to be that difficult with space-based compute? Stopping some random rogue nation blowing it up.
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
I agree. And that stuff is soul destroying. I have done it, and right now I work in a place a little smaller, but we get so much done without all the cruft. And we get it done better. I spend much more time writing code now (*) than at the
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
There is almost nothing new in computer programming. 99.999% of any code most of us on this forum write will be repeating patterns that have been written thousands of times before. Tell a coding agent what your new thing needs to do, give i
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
Most of my bugs are logic errors. I write Java. Your comment seems to imply that moving to Rust or Haskell would make a correct program if it compiles.
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
Always finance, trading systems. In the last 15 years mostly what they call "front office". At the moment, for the place I work, we deploy on AWS mostly (because that is where our target trading venues often are). DB backends are
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
Disclaimer: I love writing production systems in Java. I was a C++ programmer for 10 years before moving to Java about 15 years ago. Java offers a virtually all in one package when writing large systems. You have a single language where you
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
>My experience is that there's a correlation between powerful type systems and the property that once your program compiles, it's correct. Compiles == correct is rarely true in C or JavaScript. It's often true in Haskell a
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
> If the code were written in Java, I'd have more to read. That is not really the downside people think it is. Java is a remarkably easy language to read and understand.
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Pull Request: Java language implementation of value classes and objects(github.com)
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
> I have done a lot of introspection on this and realized that I'm very much driven by intrinsic rewards moreso than extrinsic. > I got into coding over a decade before it was my career because of the exploration, learning, and p
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
> but making it measurably worse for vastly more people It isn't.
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
Doomerism is insidious. And so, so tiresome.
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
> Even in the best case scenario where the generated wealth will be distributed, and somehow we will be able to keep them in check (unlikely), what would be the point of life in a world where machines can best us at everything? Read some
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
> but we can't make politicians to listen to the reason. You're stopping too early. Politicians exist for one reason only, to get elected. If they don't get elected, they're not a politician, so everything they do is
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by munksbeer 5mo ago
When these things start solving many more long standing problems, and start introducing more novel problems, will people finally admit that the "next token predictor" is not the gotcha they think it is?
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by munksbeer 6mo ago
> For YOU maybe, for fucks sake. And many, many others. Don't project your reality on everyone else.
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by munksbeer 6mo ago
> while the world turns to shit, I want the world to not turn to shit. But a lot of people disagree with you and think it isn't turning to shit, and in fact for most people on the planet, life gets better every year. I understand yo
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by munksbeer 6mo ago
I really think this is extreme doomerism. Things are not that bad. And as I say, wouldn't you be happier if you lived in an environment where you were not impacted by all the stuff you dislike?
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by munksbeer 6mo ago
There are more types of people. I do it because it is lucrative, because it turns out I'm good at being a professional software engineer, but I also enjoy it more than other things I could be doing. However, ultimately, I got into soft
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by munksbeer 6mo ago
The option is still available to you though. Sticking your head in the sand could be a great strategy if it improves your happiness and wellbeing.
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by munksbeer 6mo ago
Living standards for the median person in the world improve every year, and have done for decades.
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by munksbeer 6mo ago
The thing is, the option you want is available today. There are communities all around the world that live much simpler lives. Some just because that is how they are, others because they've formed communities to escape all the things y
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by munksbeer 6mo ago
Yes, recency bias.
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by munksbeer 6mo ago
Everyone wants that. But people on this thread are arguing that technology is reducing our standard of living, which is just factually untrue.
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by munksbeer 6mo ago
I think you're extrapolating on something that hasn't even happened yet. We're still hiring juniors. They're thriving with LLM coding. They're learning rapidly. I actually enjoyed your writing (though it does mimic
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by munksbeer 6mo ago
World GDP and standard of living has never been higher.

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