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Because it would cost me a small fortune to “own” the music that I listen to.

Bad metaphor. No one is stealing anything from YouTube. Meanwhile a tantrum is a display of socially unacceptable behavior because you don’t like something.

Very much a tantrum.

Idk, lots of folks have been talking about “downturns” but I’ve been in the industry for 8 years now and I’ve never had to look for more than 2-3 weeks to get a job—and that’s while I was already working so I’d imagine I could find one even faster if I dedicated all my time to it.

I’m not trying to be contrarian or suggest that other folks don’t struggle finding a job. I’m just offering an alternate viewpoint. Maybe it’s my skill set that’s in-demand? (Full-stack JavaScript; React, Node, plus a ton of other stuff like Elasticsearch, DevOps-ish skills)

I’ve got a semi-decent resume and my managers typically give me feedback that I’m quite charismatic and easy to work with. Perhaps that comes across in interviews as well?

I love Deno. I’ve been playing with it for a long time now. But the fact that Deno Deploy still doesn’t have a “deploy” button but we’ve got cool crons just seems… backwards?

This. I don’t personally know a single person outside of professional relationships that has this strong of an opinion on him.

I, for one, never gave a flying shit about OpenAI’s “openness”, which always felt like a gimmick anyway. They gave me a tool that has cut my work down 20-40% across the board while making me able to push out more results. I care about that.

Also AGI will never happen IMO. I’m not credentialed. Have no real proof to back it up and won’t argue one way or the other with anyone, but deep down I just don’t believe it’s even physically possible for AGI. I’ll be shocked if it is, but until then I’m going to view any company with that set as its goal as a joke.

I don’t see a single thing wrong with Altman either, primarily because I never bought into the whole “open” story anyway.

And no, this isn’t sarcasm. I just think a lot of HN folks live with rosy-tinted glasses of “open” companies and “AGI that benefits humanity”. It’s all an illusion and if we ever somehow manage to generate AGI it WILL be the end of us as a species. There’s no doubt.

I’m not saying it shouldn’t. I said where is it written? Why does everyone act like it’s a foregone conclusion?

Why?

It would actually be amazing if you could do that—somehow stub dependencies with your own libraries.

Because the number of times I’ve needed a left pad lib is literally 0, but other, more useful libraries always have it as a dependency.

Where is it written that being an OSS contributor should be a sustainable career? Just go write software for a company if that’s what you want to do. But why there’s an expectation that “open” source software should pay anyone is beyond me.

Are you serious? No one is being FORCED to suffer in the United States. Such is the beauty of our freedom.

No thanks, I’ll take the system that allows me to move up or down generally in correlation with my effort and work ethics.

Yeah but ADHD is different for everyone. Most if not all of the strategies mentioned work for me.

> stolen art

It looked AI-generated to me.

Right this moment I’m using it to iterate on a color gradient algorithm. It’s not perfect, but it’s outputting “close enough” stuff that I’m getting useful steps forward.

Otherwise I’d be a couple hours into reading up on what the hell HSL is in color theory.

It streamlines work that would otherwise require me to have extensive knowledge in an alternate domain.

These tools are so much more useful if viewed as “coding buddies” who may get it wrong as much as you do, but they’re also skilled in several domains that you’re not. But bouncing ideas back and forth is crazy valuable.

I keep hearing these comparisons, and maybe on paper it’s “true” but if that’s the case; a significant portion of our actual problems can be exported to English dogs with sufficient memory.

I regularly have hard problems that I can digest into chunks that LLMs routinely help me categorize, solve, and document.

I feel like these comparisons are just not in touch with the actual amount of help that LLMs provide in a day to day context with programming related tasks.

This definitely sounded like nicotine poisoning. I don't smoke cigars specifically because of this singularly unpleasant experience. I think I'd rather have COVID, the flu, and pnuemonia all together than ever get nicotine poisoning again.

It also has to do with the size of the dopamine impact on the brain. Andrew Huberman's metaphor about a "wave" really helped me understand the concept of dopamine addiction in the brain.

Re-reading I could see how this might be interpreted as sarcasm, but I am 100% serious.

Yeah, fuck these guys big time. I'm literally going to sell my garage door opener and buy a new because of this.

This is genius. As someone who is familiar-enough with minor electronics to fuck something up, but not confident enough to look at this photo and go for it—what am I trying to learn here? What are the terms I'm trying to google to figure out how to connect <electronic board> to <electronic board> via <wires>?

These companies are so rare, why wouldn't the younger workers just go find a job with higher pay and less time off? It's not like they're being forced to work at a 4-Day Work Week company... They're kind of unicorns to find in the first place.

I liked the emotional rant. Sometimes data just obscures what you know to be true. I don't need data to tell me that I should try my best to make the best software, and that's what this article reminded me.

I don’t own lunch money so it’s just a user’s opinion. But your cynicism has added real value to this thread. Thanks!

What is this? Besides apparently a hardware compatability... thingy.. for N64?

I used gnucash for a while, but it didn’t quite scratch the itches I needed scratched. Because of that I switched to Lunch Money and have never looked back.

Lunch Money is a beautifully designed finance tracker / planner. And it’s also run by a lovely solopreneur who truly cares about the product!

The purpose of words and language in general is to communicate which includes intent and meaning. If I go ask 100 random people what confabulate means, I doubt even a third know what it means. But regardless of “accuracy” if I tell someone a robot hallucinated, they more or less get what I mean.

Besides both the general public and academics have been calling it “hallucination” for well over a year now. I’m sorry to say this ship has long sailed.

The mobile view on an iPhone using safari is not great, FYI.

I think this is a valid analogy. Albeit, one that makes me all the more excited to buy a Bamboo. I’ve been a software engineer for a while now and personally I adore Apple’s approach to products. It just works. I don’t have to spend time fucking around with things I don’t want to. And most importantly, IT JUST WORKS.

I hate what a pain it is to just get straight lines to print on my 3D printer! It shouldn’t be this hard.

Granted, hopefully a swing towards Bamboo will put pressure on the other players in the market and they’ll up their game so that all the non-enthusiasts who just want to print can select from a variety of products.

This is sad, but good to know! I will certainly be avoiding Phillips products in the future. There’s no reason to need an account to control a light bulb’s settings. Absolutely ridiculous.

This is one of my favorites of all time!

Their API, however, is not. (After a certain usage threshold)