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Some of my coworkers will complain that management is short-sighted for trying to automate programming work they don't understand then immediately suggest we automate management because nobody knows what they do all day.

Maybe they're right, maybe not, but it is ironic.

I was under the impression electron is chosen less because of broad cross-platform concerns and more because chat apps, specifically, require a level of care in text rendering that nobody really wants to design from first principles when they can just piggy back on web technologies.

But I wouldn't know first-hand.

I think it is underappreciated how you can make almost anything meditative, even things you previously did not like as mentioned in this article.

For me it's loading and unloading the dishwasher. I hated it, still do, but if I'm careful to approach it with a very delicate kind of focus I can lose myself in the deep mysteries of the task.

This is a bewildering article and discussion.

Grades and academic performance are outcomes. They're indirect stressors at best; why would one generation suddenly be unable to cope?

The real story is what has changed to increase the stakes of grades. I suspect freshmen are taking out historic debt to contend with food, housing, and tuition costs meanwhile the entry-level job market is extraordinarily competitive. There is no room for error.

The key question to me is whether AI only undermines the financial incentive to make internet content.

If nobody can expect to make money on the internet, that could be a good thing. But we won't get an indie-web authenticity utopia if people are still incentivized in other ways to filter their intellectual and cultural contributions to the internet through AI.

The US government is undoubtedly aware that renewables are the future.

I assume they're still cooking up a backup plan to the petrodollar system and it will be business as usual until they have one.

Expect the US to double down with weird gestures like this and to find ways to remind the world that oil is relevant for some time.

Tired of these absolutes.

Software should be about the code, but not for every person on every project for all parts of that project.

It's great to "wake up" and realize that code doesn't have the intrinsic value you might have assumed, but you can also take that knowledge and go right back to writing beautiful code where it best serves the bigger mission.

3.5) You decide what evidence you need to see to convince yourself it works

6) You maintain the program with architectural gymnastics as time eats away at the utility and relevance and user base of what you originally built

Both of these activities cause a night-and-day perspective change the next time through the loop

I think you've got the cause and effect backwards.

If X dollars buys 1.2 times more stuff in the future (deflation) you will hoard your dollars and deprive the economy of them.

If X dollars buys 0.8 times more stuff in the future (inflation) you will buy things now and make investments.

The Fed isn't optimizing for people wanting mortgages today, it does controlled burns to try and prevent medium-term calamity. Look up the Volker shock, where rates were hiked beyond 20% to trigger recessions because inflation was above 10%.

This is a great example of a blog post that isn't obviously AI written, but that also doesn't make much sense.

> Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

No payoff, what is the problem they think they have and why is it wrong?

> The junior engineer question rests on a few assumptions, and all of them are flawed.

No payoff, what are the assumptions and why are they flawed?

I do this too, but I use cmake to switch the backend between pandoc and lowdown [0]. Lowdown is not a drop-in replacement for pandoc flavored markdown, but it's between 10-100X faster.

It's very handy to switch when tinkering with template changes because I can convert ~ 1000 markdown files instantaneously on my mid 2010s desktop.

[0]: https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/

Burdensome regulatory compliance is a moat.

These companies have AI and enough money to lobby the Pope. They can afford to reanimate members of congress and push some tactical legislation through.

But all the money in the world cannot move government too quickly.

Other moats exist too. OS or browser can undermine performance and availability of alternatives.

All paradigm shifts and regime changes happen because of a coalition of people that have nothing to gain and everything to lose by the current system.

But I think we should decouple mediocrity from laziness. I haven't seen any team invest in the mentorship required to develop juniors in years, for example.

Can't you just put a real PCIe NIC in an eGPU enclosure with a fan? I bet you can solve this problem for like $150 and two craigslist transactions.

It's far-fetched that the GNU project is authentically concerned about software licensing?

The GCC stance seems reasonable to me, where do we think the rage is coming from in comments like this?

Off the cuff, I would be surprised if the GNU project embraced AI, so I'm confused that people think so strongly otherwise.

> Endless tweaking of your tools that eats all your time can be a sign that you are just trying to avoid that daunting and uninspiring task

I think a lot of this comes from beginners skipping some steps because they want to be accepted and taken seriously.

To be, rather than to seem, takes time, and you gotta earn your meals in the interim.

News is perpetually in decline just like the old perpetually fear the young will bring humanity to ruin.

Kierkegaard in the 1850s:

"The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control."

I have to point out how deeply unserious it is that the following line...

> As the technology matures, advanced robotic devices have growing use cases in monitoring and securing critical infrastructure.

...cites:

'Secret Service uses robot dogs to guard Trump's Mar-a-Lago in FL' as reported in the Palm Beach Daily News

I'm tired of friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors being revealed as soulless time-optimizing automatons.

2026 has been the year "you're not just X, you're Y" creeped into sermons and birthday cards. I want off this roller coaster.

I think too many billionaires convince themselves it was fate and scramble their brains under the weight of figuring out what the greater purpose is for their extraordinary wealth and influence.

The asymptotic equivalent of $20 "burning a hole in your pocket"

Here's to hoping for more batmans and less lex luthors

I have almost the exact opposite problem.

My focus is as strong as ever, maybe stronger, but as time goes on I notice that it is harder and harder for me to gracefully respond to interruptions.

It's pretty damaging to my relationships. Everyone expects you to drop everything and give people attention and empathy and be the perfect active listener. But I need a cooldown or a change of scenery to leave a task behind.

> Learning to check the compliers optimization reports is arguably more valuable

Where do I start?

I want to trust the compiler, but I don't always have time to feed every little piece into compiler explorer and interpret it. Is there a higher-level workflow?

Nobody can tell you what to diversify into without information about what you are concentrated in.

Sure, spread investments across stocks and bonds and treasuries from different markets.

But you can also diversify more broadly beyond economic capital to cultural and social capital. Learn new skills and build networks of generalized reciprocity with others before you (or they) need help.

Genuine questions from the ground floor:

How do you spot the quality candidates in those top roles? It seems like forecasting success is exponentially harder when the skills are so qualitative and contextual.

And I have not yet witnessed an organization that is comfortable with the risk of promoting an internal "nobody" relative to someone with plausible credentials or from outside. If you're stuck with MBA-type CEOs, how do you fix them or mitigate their damage from above?

it has the electrolytes plants need

I find it hard to trust economic narratives when so many metrics cited upon further inspection do not really measure what they are implied to measure.

Or maybe we measure what is easiest to measure, not what is best.

I see this everywhere, though. Jobs data is really job openings not actual hires. Unemployment data is really paperwork filing not people out of work or retiring early. And now home ownership is really "count everyone in the home if the owner resides there".

I thought there was a lot of buzz about AI creativity after the infamous move 37 in that series?

I bet there will be a very interesting generational divide between the kids that were born before or after about 2010; old enough to have some critical thinking facilities at the dawn of ChatGPT when it was still noticeably dumb.