It also gives us a change in perspective about things in life. Not only about luck, but also about science and the wonders of the modern world.
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We live in the year AUC 2779, or AUC MMDCCLXXVIII in Roman numerals.
Ab Urbe Condita, often abbreviated as AUC, means "From The Founding Of The City". It refers to the year of the founding of Rome, which was the Epoch used in Ancient Rome.
It also gives us a change in perspective about things in life. Not only about luck, but also about science and the wonders of the modern world.
It also gives us a change in perspective about things in life. Not only about luck, but also about science and the wonders of the modern world.
I enjoyed a lot the small sample of jokes you have on the website.
Kudos to you!
At best they get a fine, and it will not make a dent in their cash reserves.
I am interested in the following use case: convert the PDF to e-pub, then edit it with Calibre to fix some issues that always happen.
Currently using pandoc.
Really. All he wants was very easy to do already.
Really.
It has been spammed all over for the last 15 years.
I just do my part to discourage it.
Anything that matters is in the Linux one.
Nowadays you hire a developer that can use Claude or Cursor out whatever and they will use any language. There are no expensive Rust developers anymore. Or even JavaScript ones.
The first time we both improvise and memorise. But we have no idea of the underlying complexity of the edge cases. This matches what the imitation game does.
Then we practice and practice, and we start to understand, to really understand what's going on. This is in parallel with learning to deal with the edge cases.
Then, many years later, we learn everything again, but based on an internal world model that can predict and explain just everything about what we are learning. And that's when we actually learn. After we already know it :)
Mainly because normal Ruby is an awesome language to write code, and it is also a language that's tried and lost the spotlight because its performance is really, really low, even when compared only with other interpreted languages.
The best results for me have been when I write something 100% in a language and when it is done the AI takes my implementation and ports it to another language.
I have very particular ideas about how everything must work. Very particular ideas about which should be the tech stack. Meaning I don't have anything that uses nodejs or Rust.
The algorithms used, the abstractions that matter to me. Almost everything is different to what the AI would do if left to its own devices.
And many times I try to patch the code myself, and succeed, before giving up to the AI.
Anything else leads to insanity.
I rejected porkbun in favour of hostinger just because porkbun is from the USA and hostinger is from Europe.
If I consider the hacker news audience as "smart people" and/or "people with curiosity about science and technology", a couple of equations are exactly what should appear in every single post.
Please write a proper Blog post.
My newest texts read more human, or at least I hope so.
And I say this while using AI happily and successfully to maintain a legacy system I inherited.
There's no skill required to use AI that is not also a skill required to actually develop software by yourself.
Better and safer than C. Much nicer for the programmer than Rust.
In this day and era such a thing will feel like yet another ad. We react on a very defensive way against ads.
The way it is actually done, it generates genuine interest, and you have the link to the artist at exactly the point where your interest is at the highest.
Maybe Zotero does more than Wallabag, but I am happy with it so far.
So this is a taste of the slop that's going to invade everywhere in a few months.
The actual day to day of the industry, stays unnafected.