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I dare say my retirement would appreciate the buying opportunity a bear market would afford, provided I get to stay employed.

It gives subtle tones of blaming the sick and deceased for their predicament. People get sick all the time from no fault of their own and death comes for us all. But of course diet and exercise are good for your health.

I’ve started embracing my grammar flaws and typos. Emails and chats may get a proof, but only from me or another human, then I send it. I’ve deleted Grammarly because I think the flaws make the comms more authentic in the age of AI.

And of course I’ve dropped my use of the em-dash after being accused of being AI myself.

Reminds me of how Y2K was a "nothing burger," because of the effort that was put into making that so.

Are thoughts illegal?

It’s unwatchable. I’m not being sarcastic. I pulled out some of my old DVDs, they look terrible.

I’ve heard this for the last 20 years.

I love this insight, but mailman might not be the best example if you recall the origins of the phrase, “going postal.”

Get a yearly full body skin check from a dermatologist. It’s a common thing. I’ve been doing it for years because of my skin type. They caught early Basal cell carcinoma the last time I went.

I don’t think it’s possible to build this app on an iPad. But, I taught my kids my phone number by making it their passcode. Before that I used it to teach them how to spell their name.

If he stole it, how does he have the right to sell it?

I didn’t buy the hype of any of those things, but I believe AI is a going to change everything much like the introduction of the internet. People are dismissing AI because its code is not bug free, completely dismissing the fact that it generates PRs in minutes from a poorly written text prompt. As if that’s not impressive. In fact if you put a human engineer on the receiving end of the same prompt with the same context as what we’re sending to the LLM, I doubt they could produce code half as good in 10x the time. It’s science fiction coming true, and it’s only going to continue to improve.

This a legit question before having kids, I don’t mean to belittle it, but after having kids, for me, it’s like asking if I wished the people I loved most never existed. The question no longer makes sense.

> What would you cut?

Nothing. Tax the billionaires.

New leetcode hard question just dropped.

Long live offline apps! I have a copy of Family Tree Maker that is decades old and still works.

I feel this, but also my family needs money and health insurance. So, yeah, live life now, because it’s short. But, also we have to do the things necessary to keep our jobs and keep food on the table.

ChatGPT 4 is amazing! I use it when I’m blocked to get unstuck. I don’t need perfectly functioning code, just something to get my gears turning. I use it to review my own code. It often has pretty good suggestions, or can validate my approach. And I use it to sketch out unit tests for me. I still have fill in pieces, but it’s absolutely improved my output. It’s like having an egoless programming partner. Yeah, it makes mistakes, but I treat the AI like a programming buddy, not a flawless code wizard. It doesn’t solve problems for me, but we come to solutions together.

Because when you use phrases like “just simply” [do something actually hard], your stakeholders read that and say things like, “why did this take a whole sprint to implement? You said you just had to [do something hard].” There’s no reason to downplay the difficulty of your and your team’s work.

Further, we’re adults, as you say, so let’s be adults and take the time to consider our readers position and how our writing might be interpreted. You’re doing no one any favors by refusing to be empathetic.

Would be nice, but the way things are going, fascism and plutocracy seem just as likely.

You’re thinking of a Toast Master.

Do you get 60% salary for 3 days/week? I’m thinking of doing the same thing.

> We are grateful for your contributions to Twitter

Clearly.

Terrible take. We can prevent it from getting worse.

Nice tool! Curious why it doesn’t auto populate Zillows estimated rent value?

Yes, I read the code and also run the code locally. Reading the code is for strategic larger picture thinking and running the code is to find tactical errors in the implementation.

What is the "gut?" Colon, small intestines, stomach, all of the above? If gut microbiome affects mood, what happens if someone has a total colectomy?

> Basically for some random reason, the thought pops into your head just how disastrous it would be if you failed at this thing you're being asked to do. Then your consciousness inevitably becomes obsessed with this thought and it's all you can think about. You start panicking

This happens to me all the time! You’ve described it so succinctly. How do you cope?

With most issues American’s be like, “it is my right to shit in the stream and you can’t stop me with your preference for clean water. Go further up stream if you want clean water.” And pretty soon the whole river is full of shit, or covid, or lead, or CO2, or enormous death vehicles, or whatever, it’s a metaphor.

So yeah, I’d like to force my “preference” of having people cease shitting in the stream. Their actions are not taking place in a vacuum and they’re affecting other people negatively.

If you really have a breakthrough you rewrite that 200 lines of code from last week to 10.