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What’s implied here is that devs were supposed to optimize for user resources, not for developer convenience.

shitty is a perfectly cromulent name.

Didn't ask, don't care.

It's not the despair, it's the turnabout. Reading proofs containing the language that I mentioned seemed to suggest that the ideas were trivial to the author in a way that implied …

I’m also a human expressing genuine emotion. Why is one more valid than the other?

I can’t help but confess some sense of satisfaction with the upheaval described in the post. Many proofs and textbooks laden with statements like “without loss of generality”, “imm…

There are so many neat use cases like this one that I'm skeptical of the AI-is-a-dot-com-bubble naysayers. Not to mention that, unlike in 2000, technical-adjacent people can now ge…

I've never had a problem with any CDs, even my old Quake CD from about 30 years ago. Probably there's an issue with your drive or the disc wasn't stored well.

Indeed. Things are looking very bleak for software engineering as a specialization. It's been clear for years that Capital has been desperate to crack the software development nut,…

I did the same thing with Ghost of Tsushima because I heard that the PS5 version had performance problems.

The PS5 will be my last Sony console. The PS4 probably should've been my last, but I got caught up in the new generation hype cycle. The PS5 has, practically speaking, no games. It…

Ok

I don’t understand the bipolar nature on hacker news towards LLMs. On the one hand, they’re destroying the art of software development and we shouldn’t use them. But on the other h…

Because HN is little more than a Reddit exclave.

If we’re just another animal that can program computers, then I don’t feel bad about the take over of AI and LLMs as we’re nothing special in the evolutionary climb upwards.

What is the future of software engineering in the age of LLMs?

Apple's acknowledged their anniversary for weeks, especially during the recent product launches like the Neo. It started back in mid March [0]. [0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2…

Are you running Apple Silicon now? I’m still on an intel machine with Sequoia. I doubt that I’ll upgrade it to Tahoe this fall and stick with it until Sequoia stops receiving secur…

Sometime around High Sierra, I changed my habit such that I don't upgrade to the next major release until August. By then, it's been patched a half dozen times or so. Yes, I'm basi…

Nobody cares, unless they’re commenting for an easy win on internet message boards.

Nice name, I suppose it recalls Apple’s Rhapsody project.

> It simply requires putting a stop to the constant brainwashing campaigns for inducing demand. Unfortunately, there are C-suite level roles for this so it will never stop.

> It’s a lot of plastic. A lot of waste. And yet again customer demand and financial gain supercede environmental concerns. There’s no hope for a better, less consumer-oriented cul…

Nearly nobody cares about the load on “national and local government resources, local utility capacity, and roadway infrastructure” for any other day-to-day activity. Why should th…

It's always about cutting the OpEx spend. Companies are nothing more than giant piles of money seeking to grow themselves in any way possible.