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1. 181.▲
   by tombert 2mo ago

   I suppose. I guess programming to me was always an excuse to do math, not necessarily to build products.
2. 182.▲
   by tombert 2mo ago

   I mostly find programming fun, I’ve been doing it most of my life, but I will admit that engineering can be pretty agonizing. I enjoy the stuff, I enjoy the algorithmic stuff, and I enjoy implementing the math and algorithms, but that’s
3. 183.▲
   by tombert 2mo ago

   I think that they must teach in business school or something that you never, ever, EVER acknowledge or admit that things have ever or will ever go bad in your business. I’ve worked for startups that will show massive customer churn, tell us
4. 184.▲
   by tombert 3mo ago

   I’m not sure I agree with that. I’ve found plenty of interesting things by randomly wandering around on Gutenberg.org, completely undirected.
5. 185.▲
   by tombert 3mo ago

   When Claude Code/Codex first came about I'll admit it depressed me a bit, but I ended up realizing that the "code" part wasn't the part that I actually enjoyed about software engineering. Instead, what I've bee
6. 186.▲
   by tombert 3mo ago

   $10/month is a bit steep, but if you have any friends and/or family members you could split the costs with, I don't think that the family plans are unreasonable. That's what I do now.
7. 187.▲
   by tombert 3mo ago

   Doesn't Apple already have a loose competitor to Figma? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeform_%28Apple%29
8. 188.▲
   by tombert 3mo ago

   ChatGPT tends to support any narrative that it thinks the user supports. I just asked ChatGPT about the Vietnam war and it did not say that it was purely the US's fault: https://imgur.com/a/zmiOyuu It also didn&
9. 189.▲
   by tombert 3mo ago

   I always took it as "make the 'best' decision [1] without regard for whether or not it's going to be popular or make the language more business-friendly". [1] however you choose to define "best"
10. 190.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    As a rule, I only write stuff if I feel like I have an opinion or take on something that isn't very common. I've abandoned half-written posts because I realized that I am not saying anything particularly unique or interesting, an
11. 191.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    YAML then, or something like it. I guess I just like dumb formats for this stuff.
12. 192.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I think having good plugin support is a better way to do it. Keep the most obvious configuration options behind a "dumb" config language like JSON or something, but create a framework to add functionality via a plugin API.
13. 193.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    A long time ago Simon Peyton Jones said Haskell tries to "avoid success at all costs". He was being cheeky, but it honestly is how I try and approach most of what I do that isn't directly related to my employment (as a softwa
14. 194.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    It's rare that I so thoroughly disagree with the thesis of a post here. > Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem. That's the whole definition. Wholeheartedly disagree. Over-engineering already seems pretty well defined
15. 195.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I mean, fair enough I guess. I've accidentally more-or-less reinvented interpreters on two separate occasions (both times using JSON as a quasi-AST), so I understand it. I guess I just feel like if you feel like you need programming c
16. 196.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I did run Awesome for awhile and I liked it, but I never used the Lua config for the most trivial things so it never got in the way of anything. I never found that Sway too annoying to just use the shell commands to grab/modify the cur
17. 197.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I have grown pretty negative opinions of “using a programming language as a config language” after semi-recently having to spend a lot of time screwing around with someone’s Gradle Groovy abomination. Not even to mention how quickly Nix ca
18. 198.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I used to volunteer at a program in my local library that was designed to get kids into tech. They wanted someone to teach programming. I bought like ten Pico-8 licenses for it [1], and used that to teach some simple programming. I figure
19. 199.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I bought the Humble Bundle for this in like 2011, and I played it a bit, but I ended up having a lot more fun with the included Pico-8 that came a bit later. I think primarily I just found it a lot more approachable than anything else.
20. 200.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I suppose we shouldn’t criticize companies for being “too reliable”…
21. 201.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I like my iPhone 13 Pro Max and I don’t want to get rid of it or anything, but I am kind of looking forward to the glorious day that it breaks. Once it breaks, any phone I get (iPhone or Android) will have USB-C, along with my laptop, with
22. 202.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    Yeah, I've noticed that Claude will say stuff like "you've accomplished a lot today. Get some sleep. We'll pick this up tomorrow". It will be like 5pm when it says that.
23. 203.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    So, uh, are they hiring a replacement "Internet Evangelist"? I love the internet, I could evangelize!
24. 204.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I know I'm probably missing a joke, but Jurassic Park came out in 1993. Still, Doom was released after the movie, so unlikely it would be in Jurassic Park.
25. 205.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    When I had appendicitis seven years ago, I went to the emergency room, found out I would need surgery, and was (I think understandably) scared. I texted a friend about that while I was waiting and he, trying to make me feel better, said som
26. 206.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I think it is much simpler than what you’re describing. Executive at BigCo does something bad. Normally people would report this to police and/or regulatory agency. Instead the company investigates itself to pretend they’re doing the
27. 207.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I think that internal investigations are acting as a substitute for actual criminal investigations. By definition if the investigations weren't made public I can't know about them, but you can look at someone like Andy Rubin: htt
28. 208.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I'd rather things like sexual assault get directly reported to the police instead of having people directly paid by the accused LARPing as investigators, yes.
29. 209.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I mean I don't think it's unfair to say that most of the battle-tested encryption is "uncrackable enough" for the consumer. If you're working for the NSA you need to worry about these things being cracked, obviously
30. 210.▲
    by tombert 3mo ago

    I feel like that is exactly what happens for anything but the most serious crimes. Keep in mind, a lot of internal investigations are not reported to the public and we never hear about them. Part of the reason that they're "int