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> The truth is like the sun. The light from the sun touches everything, it's bright and it's obvious... yet no one can stare directly at it. bad analogy. It can be very painful to …

You're absolutely right! Would you like me to generate that piece of load-bearing now? [Decline]

> purposeless dumb challenges and difficulty While I agree that for some people games with a time limit are not fun, I don't think the challenges and difficulty should be classifie…

it most certainly is NOT available at a reasonable cost in many places.

Yeah, DEC Alpha was the first thing to come to my mind. I guess some might argue it wasn't a "PC" - if you don't include what used to be called "workstations". This is largely beca…

It's been mostly dead all morning.

> I don't think it is overreach since its fairly simple to implement and non obtrusive Those two things have absolutely nothing to do with one another. Something being easy to impl…

> It's weird to see people in tech taking this stance. They've been riding the same wave of exploiting the average person through economies of scale for the last 20+ years, but now…

Yeah, because someone who is trying to sell you something would NEVER try to convince you that you can't possibly hope to compete without buying their product. /s

"old days of PHP and Apache" ... Apache still runs about 23-28% of websites (with some measurements suggesting it is pretty close to equal with nginx). PHP is still in use by 70-80…

> Got an idea that you'd need assembly language for - now you can do it instead of..... never doing it because it would have been impossible for you in any practical way If you are…

> I mourn the death of a human artform. The artform only dies if you let it. Even if your employer is so idiotically myopic as to forbid you to ever write your own code, you can st…

Yeah :-( Here I was hoping that somehow IBM had decided to open source it. That would have been fun. But I don't think that will ever happen.

nothing awkward about it. IMHO, It's a better time than ever to develop a new IDE. Just make one that cares deeply about performance (i.e loads instantly, and always has a snappy r…

I don't think the likelyhood of "electricity and Internet, running water grocery stores" being pulled out from underneath you (either by long term failure or prohibitive cost chang…

I think you are making far too wide-sweeping statements. I think most people here probably agree that if Anthropic drops Claude Code from the Pro plan after people have paid with t…

> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is. absolutely false. > The general public does not care about anything other than the capabilities and lim…

I came here to say something similar. I somehow doubt there's a team at Google dedicated to roleplaying the nightmares of all living people :-D When I saw your user name, I was lik…

Yeah, I've never really been at all offended by the "eating your own dogfood" phrase, because I always saw that as being the point also. I must admit, however, that the title of th…

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the word picture that was used. I'd advise against assuming the worst possible interpretation of someone else's words (especially online). Mos…

> they bother to have a Klingon language consultant on staff I realize there's a fair bit of money to be made, and also that many people are super invested in their favorite scienc…

I think it is worth noting that Richard P. Gabriel wrote the forward to the book in question, and he quotes Guy L. Steele in that forward -- from the paper that you are suggesting …

> - Every day that passes, the gulf between Lisp's tooling and what a typical user expects grows wider. It needs to escape Emacs and SLIME to something that feels complete and poli…

> Who are making these claims? script kiddies? sr devs? Altman? AI agents, perhaps? :-D

sounds similar to rdiff-backup ( https://rdiff-backup.net ). I know some folks that have been using that for a very long time as well.