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haha, when the weather is really bad, the bathroom with the lights off and headphones is great . Growing up with a single bathroom, a multi-bathroom home is just amazing. I do wond…

I understand your point completely, as I used to feel the same way in the past. Then I realized it's just that being forced to do a commute for work makes it OK to potentially put …

Yeah, I'm more like you. I also agree with "to each their own" and like that we're so different that someone like the author enjoys going to an office and struggles with phone/devi…

We had a similar time service in Uruguay and, whenever we had an important appointment (e.g., a medical one) we’d call the number to make sure our clocks and watches were on time. …

Yeah, I see now my writing was confusing (it happens to me ...), as I meant to say Pirsig probably picked up the term from Stewarts. In any case, great book. Gave it as a gift to m…

Interesting. Well, I'm glad you enjoy working from an office, but just so you know, while I'm sure the set of antisocial people intersects with that of people who like remote work,…

Pirsig mentions this in his first book, and I always related to that part, as I'm the kind of person that "feels" the pain when someone turns a screw more than it can go, etc. Sear…

That's funny. As a remote worker (on and off since around 2003, exclusively since 2009), I guess you'd consider me an antisocial, and yet you're the one who wants to force people t…

I did that with my grandmother after she had a stroke, and I would not have offload that to a robot, had one been available. It wasn't nice, but not everything in life has to be ni…

Why do you think this will happen? I have a different opinion. I agree senior programmers will be in demand again, but not at junior price. Possibly even at a premium senior price.…

There’s a big problem with hype now, that’s for sure, but what you’re describing also reminded me of the companies that were asking for 5 years of Java experience in 1999. I guess …

I think you're on the right track, only that you don't really need large grass fields available. You just need places where kids can play ball without the risk of getting run over.…

It can also be used if you want part of your monorepo to track something open source from the world. Say, to rebase upstream MySQL changes onto a fork in the monorepo (in a random,…

I think it’s very common for parasites to affect their host’s behavior. If you find this topic interesting, I recommend the book “Parasite Rex”

I didn't have this one (I had a TK-90X, and a TK-95 after that; both could be described as improved Spectrum clones) but I briefly used one at a place where I took some programming…

You seem to be arguing as if I'm saying AI can't think or have memory. Now, my opinion is it currently can't think, but it certainly has memory. However, LLMs don't have memory. Th…

I had heard (o rather, read) about the hippocampus before, but I don’t understand how that relates to my claim that the models have no memory.

Not the model though. The model really only takes input text and produces output text. Memory within a conversation is achieved by the harness adding the conversation (or parts of …

You know that thing about the answer to any headline that’s a question being almost always “No”? I’ve been fully remote for 17 years and, before that, did short periods of remote w…

Besides the productivity boost (and I know you already mention a boost to your well-being), this is one of the simplest yet effective things you can do to improve your cardiovascul…

Or Mr Krabs' fear of robot overloads keeping technology at bay in the Krusty Krab!

They will also lie and produce output saying it is based on tool execution, without having actually used the tool. Yes, another layer to cross-check, say, “in kubectl logs I see …”…

Yup! That's what I was thinking about. In fact I did read this right before posting (though I had found it at https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history ) but only to validate t…

And people not even from the states (like me) know about NJ diners because one saw the birth of Unicode :)

My first “electric guitar” as a kid was my acoustic with an earphone taped to the bridge and plugged to the mic in of my boom box. It was also my first “fuzz pedal” because the sou…