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It's the same thing as the "oh no, we need to figure something out for our youth on the verge of obsolescence" narrative. It's all about giving an impression of unfathomable power.…

> I can’t conceive of the leadership of the Python or Rust or any other community I’ve ever worked with doing something like that. I'd be prudent to use a clear faux-pas by a BDFL …

As entertaining as that article was when it came out, I think its apparent wisdom should have been reevaluated for at least the past two decades. Even back when it was written, its…

Short publication intervals. That's the heuristic you're going with? I have dozens of such unpublished long form articles on fundamental topics, just waiting for me to carve some t…

Being dismissive is one way to think yourself "better" than others. But on HN hastier reactions tend to be outright negative or out of context with long articles, as eyeballs actua…

How were you able to pick this up? Not challenging your assertion. Just really curious. Can you point to some clues? I read it (with my own eyes). I can't see actual evidence the t…

Ignorance will always be a better starting point for discovery than wrong assumptions. If you leave comments, they must reflect what the code is actually doing. If during edit it's…

The article had great advice on this actually. When asked how to get into C, or whether it was more advisable to learn Zig instead, Mitchell suggested that It’s more important to l…

> If this is the ideal model, why don't authors skip the middleman themselves and just put the .pdf/.epub on their website directly in exchange for donations? > On the same note, w…

Using an ORM should not exempt you from designing your schema around the domain. If anyone thinks it's the case they're either using the ORM wrong, or using the wrong ORM, or perha…

You stopped right before the best part. When they decide to create their own ill designed, badly tested, and undocumented mapper.

> you give up so much in performance. Not really. ORMs (memory) and databases (disk) are distant by multiple orders of magnitude performance wise. Skipping the ORM to shave off som…

> It’s doing more harm than good. For context Can we PUHLEASE stop this AI Confidence Theater, people? It’s doing more harm than good.

The word "entertain" quickly came to mind in that sentence because attracting the audience as a primary concern is typical of the entertainment industry, regardless of the content …

> what they want to watch What does that even mean? Not everything published has to be with the purpose of entertaining. This is a more recent mindset that came with the advent of …

I expect the documentary to get an uptick in downloads as well.

This isn't a specifically American phenomenon. Humans have fear buttons. If you press the right ones, a sizable portion of any population would trade in significant amount of freed…

It's not really about going back. Evolution happens within a pattern of ebb and flow, back and forth. We never get anything perfectly right. We overdo, then course correct, rinse a…

Just try to take those same friends who drive everywhere on a (walking) trail hike inside the city, then come back to report.

It depends how you store and look things up. There are so many optimization opportunities and strategies to make the lookups fast that this is pretty much a non-issue in practice (…

Every once in a while an article with a sensational title against JWTs pops up in here and I have to wonder if something new was discovered. But nope. It always boils down to the s…

I haven't read the book, but I've thought about similar problems. Sharing my attempt at a solution. First, the organization must have an original steering body made up of "true bel…

It would be true if they bothered hiding it. But as the featured author said, people seem increasingly not shy of simply forwarding you a screenshot of the AI answer.

Your analogy is apt in more ways than one. It comes down to how often the point of a journey is to get to the destination. Most old wisdoms teach that the latter is more often just…

I imagine how you intended your comment to come across and I get it to some level. But I can't help feeling that there's something a bit dystopian in a world where all friction is …