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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
While I generally agree with the narrative of the negative arc that stack overflow took, I found (and have as recently as a few months ago) that I could have enjoyable interactions on the math, Ux, written language, and aviation exchanges.
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
I misread the title at first and thought it was hacker news questions [comments] that were being graphed. That’s what I would be interested in seeing
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
This. It’s computation. Computation doesn’t really “get” geopolitical borders. I’m so sick of the ever increasing variances between the different “store” offerings in different regions of the world. Seems like every time I push an update (e
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
I think it was Kent Beck who described Java as “all the elegance of C++ with all the speed of Smalltalk”?
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
> Instead of callbacks, you write code that looks sequential [but isn’t] (bracketed statement added by me to make the implied explicit) This sums up my (personal, I guess) beef with coroutines in general. I have dabbled with them since d
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
Has anyone tried the experiment that is sort of implied here? I was wondering earlier today, what it would be like to pick a simple app, pick on OS, and just tell an LLM to write that app using only machine code and native ADKs, and skip al
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_...
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
> I am AI assisted, very fast! This feels like one of the most surreal things I have read in a while, believing that the blog is authentically written by a real person. I can't put my finger on why. I do feel like it's maybe ti
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
Largely agree. Thoreau said for every 1000 hacking at the leaves of evil, there was 1 hacking at the roots. Web programming is not fun. Years ago, a colleague who had pivoted in the early years said "Web rots your brain" (we had d
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
Phoenix in the Elixir ecosystem is probably one of the less confusing name uses. Under that stack you get such clear library framework names as: bandit, cowboy, thousand island, and ranch. As well as mint and finch. When not riffing off of
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
Is it too much to hope for some fin-syn restoration? And not just for TV, but for all digital content. Make it, or distribute it, but never both.
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
How do I know this fine article wasn’t the result of “Create a web page infographic report that is convincing and boils down the essential truths of how people are feeling about AI in different professions and domains.. Include statistics a
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
I keep wanting to see the "Rainbows End" style experiment. The common reaction to surveillance seems to be similar to how we diet. We allow/validate a little bit of the negative agent, but try to limit it and then discuss e
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
I wonder how much generational impacts there are here. My son is a PhD student at an ivy. The most lucrative tuition source for the university is foreign students (as in, they bring in far more tuition dollars for each foreign student than
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
I’m disappointed there is no docker image for this. How will I test it out?
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
I see this is 2023… the article refs GPT even then. Can’t believe it’s already that much time gone by, still seems like “last years big news” I was gonna comment “this is what I really like to see on HN”. Then I saw the date and was sad tha
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
What if... there's an AI agent/bot someone wrote that has the prompt: > Watch HN threads for sentiments of "AI Can't Do It". When detected, generate short "it's working marvelously for me actually"
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
> A highly social, relatively hairless bipedal ape that was once a nomadic hunter-gatherer, but has adapted to create websites. Definitely worthy the scroll!
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
Huh. I blame it on the influence of money. Money flows easier when hysteria (really any level of un-rationalized fear) and its peers abound. It is hard to have honest rational objective discussions these days without the influences of earni
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
Anyone skilled in the medical arts got a dumbed down synopsis of this? (I just had my first shingles vaccine 2 weeks ago)
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
> The real goal is the complete elimination of anonymity on the web... I'm ok with running this experiment (not sure how it really turns out) BUT only if everyone participates. Governments and businesses get to watch me... I get to
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
Or, more dystopian take... it won't matter. If software reliability continues to degrade in a normalized fashion , it won't matter. First mover advantages and networking effects will make it impossible for an outfit trafficking i
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by travisgriggs 10mo ago
My interest has been piqued of late. I've been a Linux enthusiast since the late 90's. I don't think it's a sense of contrarianism that motivates my interest anew. As I've aged, what I've come to value most in
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by travisgriggs 11mo ago
But ARS is not what it used to be. Sadly. The content is still decent, but not the forum so much. My arrival at HN nearly 8 years ago was about when I wasn’t seeing community there anymore.
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by travisgriggs 11mo ago
Came hear and read “GitHub isn’t a good guy anymore” (not the first time, and seems to be increasing in frequency). It’s like sourceforge all over again. History rhymes with itself, and enshitification has been added to dictionaries for a g
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by travisgriggs 11mo ago
> I love and use rust, it is my favorite language and I use it in several of my OSS projects but I'm tired of this "rewrite it in rust" evangilism and the reputational damage they do to the rust community. Thanks for this.
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by travisgriggs 11mo ago
Like the author, I am saddened by systemd. I'm not rabidly opposed to it. I use it because Debian uses it and I like debian. And in some ways, I like the consistency better than the plethora of init script/run levels I used to hav
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by travisgriggs 11mo ago
For me, the fundamental gestalt was/is binding behavior to data. I found/find it useful for modeling how things work. I was always inspired by one of Alan’s seed inspiration for Smalltalk, how biological cells accomplish computati
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by travisgriggs 11mo ago
I swore off lamb after trying to make a couple lamb stews. It is clearly an acquired taste if that.

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