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I have an RSS opml of about one thousand blogs that I follow. Actually a majority of them are RSS feeds of people who have posted here in hacker news. I also like to try to read re…

Jobs down, threat of increased interest rates down

> why must this result in less joy Well I think you answered it: To become a developer, I disciplined my mind to do impressive and useful things. The resulting feelings were pride …

Grateful for this essay. Made me feel seen. Someone said: > No one is stopping you from doing what you enjoy. But that's wrong. LLMs are creating an environment in which some thing…

Thanks. I missed that.

Name it anything else for god's sake. DocumentDB is already what everybody calls Amazon DocumentDB

The article does not say this.

Interesting. How do chip companies plan such projects? Do they use agile, waterfall, or some other non-software-industry frameworks?

> This is not an argument that prediction is hard, as if a sharper architect escapes it. I disagree with this. The argument _only works_ if prediction is hard.

Correct.

> I [...] fit a hyperbolic model to each one independently ^ That's your problem right there. Assuming a hyperbolic model would definitely result in some exuberant predictions but …

To me that's "what it does" whereas I'm wondering when it would be useful. In other words, I can't think of a use case in industry or academia or daily life or whatever, where some…

That's cool. What's an example of when this would be useful?

No, I'm being cheeky. It's not fun. It's a "15 standards" situation https://xkcd.com/927/

> don't want to have virtual environments and learn what the difference between pip, poetry and uv is Oh come on, it's easy: Does the project have a setup.py? if so, first run seve…

My criticism is about how the dramatic language differs from the banal content of the article. Titling it "The World Happiness Report Is a Sham" and calling it "beset with methodol…

The only problem the author points out is that he doesn't like the Cantril Ladder question. I get it if you feel like that question falls short of representing your own personal co…

> """ I'm strongly in favor of blocking post-install scripts by default. :+1: This is a change that will have a painful adjustment period for our users, but I believe in ~1 year ev…

There is actually a good reason not mentioned, not to name tools by their purpose: - the purpose will change Your "silicon-valley-bank-integrator" tool will eventually need to be u…

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the ULID spec. You seem to be, hence my asking. Are you saying monotonic/sequential ULIDs are just (or just as easily enumerated as) Base32-encoded int…

> If you need a sequential ID, just use an integer Are monotonic/sequential ULIDs as easily enumerated as integers? It's the ease of enumerability that keeps a lot of folks away fr…