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by ryandvm 1y ago
I dunno. There's also a good chance that you just end up being left behind like graybeards that only wanted to code in C and assembler. I too am old enough to have seen a lot of unnecessary tech change cycles, and one thing I've n
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Honestly, if you had held all of your BTC until today you would be an idiot. Just because it made it to $120,000 doesn't mean that it was predictable or even an rational. Given that Bitcoin _still_ doesn't have a use case beyond b
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Can we please stop calling it "robotaxi"? There's a fucking person being paid to sit in the car, who honestly has to be even more bored and awkward feeling than an uber driver. It's about as robotic as a carnival ride wi
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The problem here is that at least half the population just lacks the critical thinking skills to even understand why peer review is necessary. If you've ever talked to one of these people about contrails, or whether evolution is real o
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I have a side project Android app. To test Claude Code, I loaded it up in the repo and asked it to add a subscription billing capability to the app. Not rocket science, but it probably would have taken me a day or two to figure out the mech
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That's what a singularity feels like.
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Absolutely agree. In my experience, languages that have multiple forms of syntax for doing the same thing are just laborious to read. Kotlin has some great ideas, but it's kind of frustrating to have half my code yellow-highlighted bec
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Worse, this is achieving levels of cringe our best scientists previously thought impossible.
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Sounds like what happens in my own codebases anyway...
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Life is going to improve dramatically when we start seeing class action lawsuits for "theft of attention". If attention has economic value AND if it is limited in supply, then taking it from a person without their consent is a for
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Why are tech bros so... weird?
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I have used it on a fairly simple Kotlin Android application and was blown away. I have previously been using paid ChatGPT, Github Copilot, and Gemini. In my opinion, it's the complete access to your repo that really makes it powerful,
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I like your thought experiment and I think you're correct, but that's because we never gave it the physical possibility of a feedback loop (a.k.a. evolution). I think if you added a step where the LLMs tweak their own build proces
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I'mma be real, I have _never_ been comfortable with the SWE consensus that we should all put ONE company's product in front of all our services...
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I never understood why Facebook was so invested in React. Why can't a 2 trillion dollar company afford to build mobile apps for two platforms?
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It takes me about 3 years. And it turns out that no job has ever been right for me.
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Of course he doesn't. You don't get ultra wealthy by being fair. I would like to introduce the "Ascensional Triad Theory of Success". In order to be extremely successful, you must have 2 of the following 3 ingredients:
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I don't know - for a trillion dollar company, Google is remarkably inept at just about everything that isn't advertising. They had multiple messaging technologies and never could figure out how to embed one into Chrome to take ove
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Muscle cars used to be about throwing tremendous resources into achieving incredible performance - which I can understand. Yes, you get loudness and rumble and smell and whatnot, but it's all in the pursuit of actual high performance
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Yeah, that's handy, but it's also annoying that React Native has become the norm for mobile development. That's why we have tip calculator apps weighing in at 20 MB for what used to be 200 KB. What TSMC giveth React Native ta
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Bullseye. Best case scenario is that AI is going to Peter Principle itself into bungling world domination. If I've learned anything in this last couple decades it's that things will get weirder and more disappointing than you can
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I doubt there are many TSLA investors that actually believe that the company is well positioned to dominate ANY market at this point. They just believe that there are _other_ people that believe it. Greater fool and all that. Meme stocks ha
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Great comment. I'm disappointed that I had to scroll this far down to see someone pointing out that queues and streams ARE NOT THE SAME.
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Nobody will be going to jail for this. Corporations are people - until accountability comes up.
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Because Hacker News is about as "free speech" as X.
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I've said it before - if you follow many of our biggest problems all the way down, at the bottom you will find the advertising industrial complex to blame.
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I don't know. Google is always building lots of stuff and most of it gets shelved before it ever sees the light of day, and 75% of what does get released gets shuttered within 5 years. The reality is if it isn't ads or ads adjacen
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The comparison isn't unfair, but the flip side of that is that a crappy consultant with the right confidence and good soft skills can make several hundred thousand dollars a year in this industry. I'd say AI is on a pretty good ca
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Well... that's just your cultural perspective, man.
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I kind of wonder this too. Were the despots and magnates of antiquity always such rizzless losers as this crop or do we have the distinct indignity of having our faces smushed into the dirt by absolutely classless goons? Where are the Bond

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