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Psychosis means inability to distinguish the real from the not real -- delusion. I don't think the article describes that, at least not in a literal or clinical sense. The author l…

Two months ago I would have written the same thing. I have 50 years experience programming. I have adapted to change over time to stay employable. And I have cultivated programming…

I don't think anyone suggested that.

The warp drives in Star Trek seem awesome too, we're just behind schedule. Starship excels at funneling tax money into Musk's various enterprises. Whether it actually reaches orbit…

In The Art Of Computer Programming , one of the most influential and comprehensive series of books on the subject, Knuth uses a fictional assembly language called MIX in the exampl…

I don't either. Come to think of it, few of us know if our jobs will exist in a decade. We adapt or live with our parents.

What's it like? You don't say what kind of work you would look for, where in the large geography called the Bay Area, or what kind of living standard you expect. So no way anyone c…

@dang Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I abandoned all other social media years ago, I stick around on HN largely because of the moderation. You probably know that I did not actual…

@dang I appreciate the tireless and thankless work you do in HN, sincerely, but I don't always agree. > Don't be curmudgeonly. I feel flattered to get identified as a curmudgeon in…

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Interesting, but should mention article serves as an ad for Datalevin.

Grift of the month. How can anyone take this seriously year after year? Didn't we get promised robots building colonies on Mars by now? Or at least Starship carrying a payload and …

Wrong level of abstraction. And not the definition of machine. I might feel awe or amazement at what human-made machines can do -- the reason I got into programming. But I don't at…

I asked ChatGPT to choose one for me.

I don't understand why anyone finds it interesting that a machine, or chatbot, never tires or gets demoralized. You have to anthromorphize the LLM before you can even think of thos…

LLMs do not have grit or tenacity. Tenacity doesn't desribe a machine that doesn't need sleep or experience tiredness, or stress. Grit doesn't describe a chatbot that will tireless…

Painful slow grind? I have always found the learning part what I enjoy most about programming. I don't intend to outsource that a chatbot.

You mangled Jefferson a bit. He wrote about education, not news. He didn't imagine the the non-stop firehose of slop and advertising and propaganda we endure and call news. What pa…

Why not sell dragon rides in Westeros? What a scam. Starship yet to achieve orbit or carry any payload, and it won't have lots of room inside supposing it ever gets to the moon. Th…

What does "chill" even mean? If I saw that on an application... delete.

My biggest roadblocks come from my own certainty that I wrote correct code. That leads me to look in the wrong places for the bug. I have repeatedly looked right at bugs and not se…

> Have you tried vscode-neovim? Yes. I don't see the point, though. If I can run full neovim inside VSCode what does VSCode add? > I guarantee if he spent as much time configuring …

Preach! My thoughts exactly.

Misdirection from previous next big thing failures. Propping up stock prices. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/12/kicking-robots-james-vin...