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by sph 2mo ago
I do care about my enjoyment. Or should my existence, wants and dreams solely be defined by my current employer? Are yours?
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by sph 2mo ago
It's a well-formatted changelog of the most salient features of the release. Linus doesn't provide one apart from a list of added commits and merged branches, which isn't very useful unless you are a kernel developer.
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by sph 2mo ago
Why go on Linkedin? The "don't get left behind" people are all in this comment section.
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by sph 2mo ago
Still waiting to see the scary products of AI. I see cool tech demos, sure. But I'm not scared just yet.
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by sph 2mo ago
A look at the VT100 standard was enough for me to decide building "modern" GUIs on top of that is truly the definition of madness and bloat. Why go through all that effort and leaky abstractions to display GUIs when you can just b
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by sph 2mo ago
But why? I like writing code. Why in the world would I want to become someone that doesn't write code?
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by sph 2mo ago
At this point I literally have no idea what modern coding is supposed to look like. I still open my editor, type stuff in and run make. All these tools are released daily and they just fly over my caveman head.
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by sph 2mo ago
Being cheeky here, but how many terminal emulators and multiplexers do we need? What is driving the Cambrian explosion of CLI tools in the last ~5 years? I’ve been using Linux since 2001 and use standard Konsole on zsh. I have a graphical d
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by sph 2mo ago
Fingers crossed it destroys the SaaS rent extraction model and we’ll go back to purchasing software.
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by sph 2mo ago
> Bending Spoons was aligning with the market pricing Buzzword nonsense. Wasn’t the $130 they were being charged before the market pricing? You’re basically justifying that a 25-strong company can afford to pay more. Yes, that is true, b
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by sph 2mo ago
This comment has convinced me to switch from iOS to GrapheneOS for my next phone. Thank you for all your hard work.
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by sph 2mo ago
A bit of both. If so inclined, it's difficult to read Kaczynski and not go "hell yeah." It's just more accessible, even if the arguments are a bit egregious.
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by sph 2mo ago
> hackerman punk-rock philosophy Not sure I get your point, as I wish we had more punk rock philosophy aimed at the masses and not at academia. If your philosophy isn't targeting your average person with their average existential cr
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by sph 2mo ago
How readable and accessible is this book? I am always attracted to philosophy and culture theory books, but more often than not they are extremely dry and academic, and sadly I require more excitement to hold my squirrel attention. It is no
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by sph 2mo ago
> I wonder if we're headed for a future where it is almost completely impossible to make money off human-made "authentic" art because it simply can't compete with the effort-to-dollar ratio of slop I disagree. It will
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by sph 2mo ago
“An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.” This is my favourite quote of his, which drives my entire world view. Keep it simple, stupid.
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by sph 2mo ago
Yes, I still have love for coding, but I only know how to make a living from it in a corporate environment, and I know deep in my bones I cannot muster the energy to work a normal job any more. I have tried the solo entrepreneur route once,
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by sph 2mo ago
Sounds like an excellent business opportunity for Nestlé.
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by sph 2mo ago
More than the Mason Dixon line, I'm more worried about the people in the Global South having to migrate in unprecedented scale because of climate change, and I am certain to see this happen within my lifetime. It will not be pretty.
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by sph 2mo ago
You can't have direct democracy in a country of 300 million. In fact, I would go so far as to say countries have no business being that large. That's the root of all our problems. Bring back city states.
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by sph 2mo ago
I did this to an industrial piece of software that required a hardware dongle to function, that my father and his colleagues were using. For a few hours, I was a teenage god among men.
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by sph 2mo ago
So he got caught by a keen eye, but could have likely got off scot free, and have his generated report accepted by the court.
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by sph 2mo ago
The lengths a human being goes to remain part of the in-group is mindboggling. I guess it is probably required these days. Your opinions don’t matter, you will adapt to the new AI reality or might as well find another job.
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by sph 2mo ago
I thought I was the only one, so burnt out from software engineering I am glad to be out of a job. I am starting to have physical revulsion at the thought of it, and I have been dealing with the fact that I have even lost my fun time in fro
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by sph 2mo ago
What exactly are you ranting against? You complain about three unrelated points in your comments, all to say your belief is that a conductive environment is what is necessary for ideas to flourish. Yes, well of course, that is the point of
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by sph 2mo ago
It is good PR to have what is largely ceremonial role that oversees an entire system, whose powers are in practice useless or completely defanged. I’m thinking of the role of the King or Queen of England, for example, or any country’s presi
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by sph 2mo ago
That’s exactly the situation they found themselves in, and you are admitting you have no more spine and moral compass than them. Or are you telling us in the hope someone makes you such an offer?
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by sph 2mo ago
A lot of fancy words to say this is slop.
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by sph 2mo ago
Upvote-based systems and their consequences have been a disaster for online discourse
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by sph 2mo ago
Culture is shared experiences. There is no culture if everyone lives in their own little bubble of reality.

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