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Of course the law constrains. The speed of light is a law that constrains the speed of the lawnmower.

The lawn mower is operating within the laws that constraints it (laws of physics in this case) and not a greater sense of morality. Lessons: - The only way to constrain what the la…

Why do numerically illiterate people like extrapolating from tiny samples to everyone?

Model routers - send all of your data through a third party who totally swears not to peek at it. If youre doing anything high value (advanced research, classified work, high value…

That should keep the lights on for another month! /jk

Load all of your debt onto another enormous country. Go to war with them, make debt elimination one of the terms of peace

The demo video is a great example of one thing I have been saying for ages - the quality of the LLM output depends heavily on the communication skills of the user. Some people say …

Software development and running simulations. Not totally autonomously, I have 20 years experience as a developer and I review and edit all the code and simulation results, so it's…

Picassos bull is just 10 lines, and is recognizably a bull. I think an important aspect of the AI enabled future is going to be good taste, good aesthetics. With AI its too easy fo…

6-8 running nearly 24/7, any more than that and there's too much for me to review

DJGPP (with rhide) was my first IDE, love!

I would say thats a different thing entirely, an amateur in the original sense of the word Latin amator, French amateur, means lover. In this sense, it means somebody who is doing …

> I haven't once come across one of these mythical perfectionists that everyone is constantly retelling cautionary tales of, who endlessly rewrites perfectly serviceable software a…

Android was acquired, and it was java from the start in the source company.

Hacker news is a community of curious, technical people, the technical parts alone of getting this all working in the browser and maintaining compatibility with the binary formats,…

Typing speed only really matters for juniors and going into intermediate developers, after that point thinking methodology - abstraction design, data structures, system design, com…

After getting a tiny amount of traffic from HN, its now crashed. Beautifully poetic. I think theres still a lot of room for traditional engineering - methods that have been robust …

I find it baffling when people complain about this like AI use is mandatory. You explored agentic coding, didn't like losing control to vibes, so stop doing it. The beauty of pet p…

Strong (but polite) disagree. Domain knowledge is now commoditised more than ever, the only valuable employees are intellectually flexible ones with a can-do mindset, ideally more …

> I've also been in situations where the person claiming it simply refused to become competent in the language, framework, or persistence technology that the system was built on. T…

Pay for enterprise or use one of the guaranteed no data retention models (e.g. Bedrock)

Streets of Rage 2 Ghouls and Ghosts Radical Rex Jurassic Park These megadrive games had great art and music and are still really enjoyable today

When I was a teenager, I lived on a farm and our neighbour's were another adult couple. He was late 40s and she was late 50s, her name was Jane. Jane had an infectious laugh. She w…

I completely disagree with you and it seems like your assumption is that the transition times are years. I've seen a B player on my team turn into an A player in just the last coup…

"Most of us think of espresso as a hot, high-pressure ritual." - No, most of us dont care how the sausage is made, and just want the end product. Sure theres lots of individual cof…