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That is a really edgy and cool opinion.

I tried jujutsu for a while and it’s nice if you’re the kind of person who lives in the commits. But it became a bit of a pain to manually move the branch name around all the time, and I spend a lot more time moving forward on a few branches than I do trying to figure out histories so I went back to git.

To each his own, but it seems like all this could be one moderately-sized AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md, and much of it doesn’t need to be detailed at all.

For example, you could just put “always follow TDD” in there. If you want to be very complete you could add “first write tests and make sure they’re red before continuing to code. Make sure tests are green on completion”.

Skills are useful for calling specific scripts, adding specific data (like branding info) or detailing truly unusual, bespoke workflows (like the use of cutting-edge machine learning algorithms you’ve developed yourself or something). If you’re detailing something like TDD, you’re probably hampering the model by giving it a definition that is less accurate than the one it has learned in training.

I never said anything about medical emergencies, and nobody is forcing you to own one today.

This is backwards. With public transport you have to be near public transport. With a car you can go from any start point to any end point. Banning cars would mean you either work in a local coffee shop or supermarket or something, or you work in the office buildings and large employers at public transit hubs, which are usually downtown. It increases concentration of jobs into zones, increasing the need to be in a residential area that can access them, increasing demand for those locations, increasing wealth inequality by limiting access to jobs based on where you can afford to live.

Seeing as the comparable drive is probably a half hour, if you’ve sat in the car for an hour and a half then you’ve found a great way to spend your time.

Nobody wants to commute either by bus or by car, so the reason that they are doing it to start with is that they must do it. It’s not like people think to themselves “I’d love to find a job an hour away from my house”.

This shows a total lack of empathy for people without the wealth to live wherever they want. “You can sit on a bus for an hour and a half, dummy” is a terrible argument.

I’m glad we all have great work situations, for many of us working from home whenever we want even. Most people are just a job loss away from having to commute to a job far away from the house near their kids’ school or their partner’s work. People don’t get jobs with a commute by choice to begin with, and this just punishes people for that.

Edit: I haven’t had a car since 2018, but before that I had one because I needed it, and I hated that commute. The alternative to a 25- to 35-minute drive was 1:45 on 2 trains. You shouldn’t have to literally experience things in the world yourself to recognize that people are in situations that you are not in yourself.

Novels aren't the only thing with copyright, and aren't really even the main thing that copyright protects. It also covers engineering reports, technical specs, journalism, blog posts, emails, internal memos, marketing copy, academic papers, user manuals, legal briefs, and a lot more.

Even in the particular case of novels, I would prefer to live in a world where some authors are making money than live in one with no novels at all.

“Not to be negative about experts here, but of all industries, isn’t software development one of the most documented and standard procedure focused of them all? I would hope that someone maintaining a web service doesn’t have to remember certain tricks or tips outside of what the manuals say, and when mistakes are found, they’d be noted, investigated and republished to all developers worldwide.”

Just making a point that everyone else’s job always seems simple from the outside.

It appears to be a primitive game where the user tries to guess which of 9 images contains “traffic lights” or “motorcycles” (whatever they are).

Ask the people who have to clean it off.

Having seen some spreadsheets in my time, I can imagine what the training data is like.

I think people underestimate how similar to us people were a few thousand years ago. We build places like Glastonbury and Burning Man all the time and it doesn’t really mean much beyond looking kind of cool. Stonehenge might just be something like that.

IKEA is fine when you’re just starting out, but after years, you realize that it’s got a shelf life. Good furniture really is better. You can get great stuff for very reasonable prices on Craigslist and Facebook marketplace, and it’s much more solid, durable and interesting than the cookiecutter ikea stuff.

I read it as though he’s “working”, like quiet quitting or something.

Whatever about specifically founding tech companies to generate a pipeline for SF VCs, universities should be in the business of preparing people to live their lives with agency.

You don’t need to raise VC money to live your life, but if you become an accountant, a mechanical engineer, or an artist, you should also have the skills you need to go and set up a business to do that work wherever you decide to go.

I admit it’s a while since I’ve used windows, but it’s such a shock to hear that MS Paint isn’t just a point and click pixel coloring app anymore. It seems like they could have left it as a pure “paint” app and added the fancy stuff to some new image editor or something.

I guess they’ve optimized their workforce to just keep making changes so they get promoted rather than just creating really good software.

Apparently (I’m relying on facts from Claude here), aviation uses about 100 billion gallons of oil a year and coconuts yield about 250 gal/acre, so assuming you can approximately replace them 1:1, you would need to plant about 400 million acres under coconut plantation, an area the size of Mexico.

Edit: you don’t have to plant all of Mexico, every percent of fuel you replace is the equivalent of a percentage of a country under a single crop, displacing what would have been there before (presumably some kind of food).

Do coconuts grow particularly efficiently?

Edit: The US created biofuel subsidies a few years ago and it’s led to poor use of land with questionable climate impact. It’s effectively become a wealth transfer to support poor rural American communities, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but there’re probably more effective ways to do that intentionally.

Yep, they’re lighting tokens on fire with that thing.

Was it in a Monty python sketch or something?

I wish Kagi had existed years ago. I just saw someone talking about the Google SEO-laden experience when troubleshooting coding errors and realized it’s a pain I haven’t felt in a long time. It’s telling that Google never made a “remove this site from results” option. Their incentives weren’t set up to provide the best user experience.

Maybe happy smart people know better than to spend all their time taking IQ tests and participating in psychological studies?

That’s about it. You’re paying for roads and education and war with your retirement savings. There’s not really anyone else there to pick up the bill. There’d better be some kind of return on that investment so you can actually retire.

Printing more money devalues the currency your retirement is priced in, so that’s not an escape either.

Not just the wealthy people on top. All the administrators and suppliers, and all the machinery of pharmaceuticals and insurance brokerage, even HR benefits specialists in corporations are all tied to the current system. That’s a massive block of voters to be overcome.

You’ll be cancer-free on average!

And people are paying meta for the privilege of putting these on their own faces?

This is so awesome.

You have no idea who I am or what my history is.

“You’re waiting 3 months between ECGs?”