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by sph 28d ago
That sounds hellish
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by sph 28d ago
There is more to software engineering than solving code puzzles. What about debugging, writing clean code, writing effective tests, architecture, optimization, profiling etc.? None of these are exercised by doing leetcode. Use it or lose it
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by sph 28d ago
> It's cliche because every generation has said the exact same thing about the previous generation. So this means that we have decided a priori that life can only improve in all aspects? That’s evidently absurd. This is called a tho
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Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?
71 points by sph 28d ago|93 comments
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by sph 28d ago
Ageism is a problem that has been getting increasingly worse as I got older…
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by sph 28d ago
I was about to downvote you because I read your username as reply to OP’s comment. To add: at what point we stop dismissing the culture of our ancestors that we have lost as mere nostalgia? I hate how we cannot have a serious discussion abo
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by sph 28d ago
Thank you for being the only one to include the opening line of a book to pique my interest. And piqued it is. I have enjoyed The Wasp Factory (haven't read his scifi yet), and this sounds as exciting. I should really give Consider Phl
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by sph 28d ago
I've done use-package, straight, quelpa, tried elpaca a few years back when the hype grew and it was a buggy mess, back to use-package when it was merged into core. I'm tired boss. There's a little too much churn I feel these
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by sph 28d ago
How many are trying desperately to leave it?
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by sph 28d ago
It's a delicate balance like the Ballmer Peak. Too much or too little problems in childhood and you don't get the incredible drive of these types. With my own 'difficult' childhood all I got was, according to Gabor Maté,
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by sph 29d ago
AI boosters: we have reached AGI! we have reached super-intelligence! You better adapt, things are moving fast, you are going to be left behind AI boosters also: wait, you can’t ban it, we don’t even know what intelligence is yet.
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by sph 29d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618229 It was here yesterday I heard
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by sph 29d ago
Those don’t count. Looking forward to the future where Americans wake up to learn why they are the most hated country in the world. They’ll still think it’s only because of Trump.
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by sph 29d ago
People in niche subs participate in popular ones and thus are participant or influenced by astroturfing campaigns. It’s just much harder to tell at small scale, but it’s naive to continue perpetuating the meme that small Reddit subs are fin
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by sph 29d ago
Louder for the marxists in the back.
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by sph 29d ago
OP’s point is that world domination is possible only in collusion with the State. You can’t have trillion dollar companies without going to dinner with the President of the banana republic to kiss his ass and line his pockets.
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by sph 29d ago
I really hate how people who have always thought AI research to be an existential risk for humanity, now are apparently bundled to be on the same side of the Sam Altmans and Dario Amodeis that are using the existential risk as a sneaky form
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by sph 29d ago
I’m having a time parsing your comment: you’d consider suicide because you are far away from the people you love? (i.e. you have something to look forward to) The times I have felt suicidal were when I had nothing to look forward to. Havi
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by sph 29d ago
Thing hasn’t happened yet so it’s proof it will never happen. Thank you for your deep insight.
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by sph 29d ago
Replace “novels” with music and go check YouTube for slop playlists and people happily eating it up. The problem of AI “art” has never been that it cannot pass for the real thing. There are plenty of people buying slop ebooks on Amazon toda
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by sph 29d ago
I would bet $100 against your prediction. There are multiple game studios with their official wikis on weirdgloop's infra. Runescape players basically live off its wiki, it's that mandatory, and Jagex is well aware and OK with tha
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by sph 29d ago
Fun fact: Fandom was co-founded by Jimmy Wales "On February 4, 2026, Jay Sullivan was named the new CEO. In a public statement following the arrival of Fandom's new CEO, the company's president, Jimmy Wales, mentioned that t
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by sph 29d ago
> it's literally just named after a random item in RuneScape I discovered Well, at least you didn't go with fossilised dung. https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Fossilised_dung
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by sph 29d ago
It’s not every company having the effective monopoly on what can be found (i.e. what exists ) on the web.
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by sph 1mo ago
Says the foreigner who lives in Berlin. Quite the hypocrite aren’t we?
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by sph 1mo ago
Clearly far-right European politics is “interesting to nerds because it has been upvoted”, as dang would say; nevermind the hypocrisy.
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by sph 1mo ago
“I'm not German and knew [sic] little of this subject, and here are my opinions for why you’re wrong.” Participation is not mandatory, you know. What is the agenda you’re trying to push at all cost through your misinformation?
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by sph 1mo ago
You liked it more, that’s fine, but the other literally spawned a new genre (soulslikes) Also masochism simulator is what people that have only heard about the game from social media call it.
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by sph 1mo ago
I'll eat my hat if we still talk about Clair Obscur in the next decade, like we might still be talking about Dark Souls (2011), for example, to this day. It is a good game in an era where big name studios only care to invest in live-se
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by sph 1mo ago
In my man-purse? Not enough space, what with the Swiss Army knife and travel can of WD-40 I'm already carrying.

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