rglover

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by rglover 11mo ago
The low-agency masses will always choose the incorrect way to use something (especially money). Nothing about what happened re: speculation in crypto should be a surprise. The technology is neutral, but basic human traits like greed will al
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by rglover 11mo ago
Is that so, doctor?
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by rglover 11mo ago
JavaScript is fine, it's what and how people build with it that's the problem. It was never meant to be a systems language but we're desperate to make it one.
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by rglover 11mo ago
They don't want a cure, they want something they can bitch about.
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by rglover 11mo ago
Will do, appreciate your hard work on this.
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by rglover 11mo ago
I had given up hope on ever finding an editor like this. Just did a little bit of browsing in a current project and WOW. Going to use this for the rest of the day and kick the tires. Well done!
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by rglover 11mo ago
Based on the results (not to mention the Green Mile "I'm tired boss" look on most people's faces), I'd imagine most workplaces are malignant environments.
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by rglover 11mo ago
This makes far more sense. "No, no, it isn't a bribe. It's a sure thing !"
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by rglover 11mo ago
Even (especially?) for its stated purpose, this is cursed technology.
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by rglover 11mo ago
No, but faced with either a loss or a modest return, they'll take the modest return (unless it's more beneficial to not come tax season). Unicorns are called unicorns for a reason.
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by rglover 11mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Shl1-ZJI6E
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by rglover 11mo ago
Either for a modest return when it sells or as a tax write off when it fails.
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by rglover 11mo ago
Governments in their current form .
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by rglover 11mo ago
The more I see stuff like this, the more I think "you know, I don't think the world is collapsing, I think the old world is collapsing." Governments in their current form are increasingly becoming irrelevant (h/t to &q
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by rglover 11mo ago
That's a choice. I can fish where the fish are without having to bait the hook with my soul.
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by rglover 11mo ago
Bingo. Moral grandstanding only works during the boom, not the come down. And despite being as big an idealist as they come, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. You can crusade, but you're just making your future self more
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by rglover 11mo ago
Not a big fan of his these days but Gary Vaynerchuk has my favorite take on this: "To run your business with your personal romance of how things should be versus how they are is literally the great vulnerability of business."
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by rglover 11mo ago
Repression is the hammer. The church, institution, or social circle are the carpenter. The only real difference today is that now the hammer comes standard with wi-fi.
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by rglover 11mo ago
It's worth asking: how is funding of other entitlement programs going?
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by rglover 11mo ago
Hahahahahaha okay that was good.
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by rglover 11mo ago
I have an anecdote that sounds like it fits this... The house I used to live in had a ton of blue tailed skinks around it. You could always spot a baby by its size and brightness of the blue in its tail (juveniles have a brighter hue, adult
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by rglover 11mo ago
This is a good sign that it's time to get packages off of NPM and come up with an alternative. For those who haven't heard of or tried Verdaccio [1], it may be an option. Relatively easy to point at your own server via NPM once yo
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by rglover 11mo ago
This is insanely helpful for debugging other people's code or code you've long since forgotten.
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by rglover 11mo ago
> It that the pitch internally? Lock users into a browser or IDE, so they'll be forced to use a certain AI? Shrugs that's the only reason that makes any sense short of they're just being blindly mimetic (which, let'
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by rglover 11mo ago
If you want to feel something with software, leave the industry and never look back, saving programming as something you do for your own joy/reward (I'm not being hyperbolic—I'd argue we're in the early days of the web&#
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by rglover 11mo ago
We have a real, serious problem when even Google (presumably with a large share of the world's engineering might) is just forking VSCode.
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by rglover 11mo ago
Most developers don't care to know how the underlying infrastructure works (or why) and so they take whatever the public consensus is re: infra as a statement of fact (for the better part of the last 15 years or so that was "just
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by rglover 11mo ago
> Even now there’s a movement toward putting documentation in an llms.txt file, so you can just point an agent at it and save your brain cells the effort of deciphering English prose. (Is this even documentation anymore? What is document
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Commander's Guide to Money as a Weapons System [pdf](govinfo.gov)
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by rglover 1y ago
This is the nature of tech now (perhaps the whole time due to being a relatively "new" field). Most people don't have the slightest clue what they're doing beyond their ability to parrot buzzwords. Mean? Sure. Reality? Y

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