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> Normal people overwhelmingly prefer AI design (and flattering, grandiose AI slop writing as well) Everyone I have talked to universally hates AI design.

I don't have a problem with setting a few relevant flags for any new SQLite database. It's a good encouragement to familiarize yourself with the settings.

> Imagine you're a professional writer and it's your main source of income. There are probably a few thousand of these in the entire United States. The market system heavily under-…

> This is a common perspective on HN, but it's so jarring. Someone violates an open-source license and we grab our pitchforks. Someone pirates books and it's fine - really, the aut…

> But when you hit that wall, it is hard to stop and convince people to use different patterns and systems. I've seen so many tables go from "it will only be a few thousand rows" t…

For any Bay Area folks, we have a permacomputing meetup. Planning on scheduling the next one, you can join the mailing list or RSS for updates https://alexwennerberg.com/permacompu…

See you all there!

Large firms are extremely bureaucratic organizations largely isolated from the market by their monopolistic positions. Internal pressures rule over external ones, and thus, ineffic…

AI can produce elegant software but not on its own. It requires a human with taste to direct and guide it.

Odd. Hyphens used as though they were em-dashes, which I guess looks the same in a fixed-width font

> The only way to truly opt out of big-company organizational politics is to avoid working at big companies altogether. This is perhaps what I find somewhat odd about Sean's writin…

> Why are you sick of AI images, but you're not about stock images ? Both are bad. Just use text.

The text reads suspiciously like AI too. I don't X -- I Y. Short paragraphs, lots of em-dashes.