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Note: I apologize and rescind my previous comment about not arguing in good faith. My point isn't that home brewing makes alcohol easier to obtain; clearly it doesn't, as you point…

I find it hard to believe this comment is arguing in good faith.

How much more likely does becoming a home brewer make you to develop alcoholism, especially for someone who sounds a bit predisposed like Jim?

I agree with that — One of Go's biggest strengths is the flip side of an arguable weakness: it's not a very expressive language. The positive of that is that if you ask three peopl…

It's too late to edit, but in retrospect I realize that the first sentence of that comment sounded awfully snarky, and I didn't mean it to. I apologize, and please trust it was ask…

Fully agree with you, and I didn't make my point well — I should have been more clear. While Python and Node have undoubtedly seen a huge spike since the advent of mainstream AI, r…

Are you familiar with the Go standard library? It’s notorious for its comprehensiveness and how often you can write zero dependency applications as a result. And there’s a reason: …

Quick tangent if you’re willing to humor me… I've been noticing that many new projects that would have been written in Python or Node a year ago are starting to be written in Go, R…

I must be misunderstanding something, because I can't imagine that training would-be predators would significantly reduce the rates of abuse. Perhaps I'm mischaracterizing it, and …

I'm not a Catholic (nor religious at all), and do question whether schools truly are worse than churches in terms of how children are treated. But that's not the point. You made up…

Where did you see apologies? I read it basically as “schools are even worse than churches and scouts yet are overlooked,” nothing apologizing for the churches.

I hear you. Coincidentally, I was actually called out just last night for a message with em dashes: “Are you AI-ing me? Em dash giving you away” It’s a pretty load-bearing (lol) ex…

Truly enjoyed this article, but hate to admit one thing: I'm so burned by AI slop that once I noticed this seems to have been "assisted" by an LLM, I got irrationally angry because…

I believe you and OP are in agreement — they were saying that the 2019 book had them, therefore the terms _do_ predate AI. Your point that AI was being trained on material than is …

Interesting! I'd love to hear what type of work you do where you can get away without any of those because frankly I think most of those are pretty garbage too. Postgres is decent …

If you're actively looking for a job, you should have some familiarity with the common dev stack when you're looking. Today you should be comfortable working on a Mac, know Bash / …

First come first served is capitalism in disguise. Someone will automate a tool that watches for these and jumps on them, and the person with the most resources, can get a close ne…

To those who have used it: is it handy for situations where you have multiple repos that want to share a little code, but it's not worth the trouble of extracting a library, refere…

I don't get it. How do you handle 10k people wanting, say, garden.com, without a free market?

As someone who spent over half a decade using MS SQL Server daily, I have to admit it's a very nice database, and better than Postgres for some use cases. This could be interesting…

Anyone notice how they linked to a "Hacker News Discussion" on their homepage? It's empty unfortunately, but hey, they tried! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807210

Interesting point: """ A popular story that made the rounds a few months ago was “an LLM wrote a web browser in one week, completely autonomously! It’s buggy but it works.” I won’t…