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This is an interesting take, although I'm not sure the legacy -> modern evolution is perhaps quite as significant as you make it out to be. Smart pointers and better std library co…

Ruby felt like a better Javascript, but JS ran in the browser, and so had the constraint of the DOM... Aka you have to be (more) disciplined within the constraints of the browser. …

REPL isn't just more ineractive, it's open ended. I.e. you could execute a unit test in a REPL (after e.g. loading the test), but you can't run a REPL in a unit test - you can debu…

> A lot of the durable goods that became very cheap were a huge quality of life improvement that we simply take for granted. Like the previous poster mentioned, I'm not sure that's…

What crack was the YTber on? Income has only raised ~15% (on average), while inflation has been at 30%... meanwhile in the past century, money has lost 96% of its value... Not sure…

Products tend to be someone else's tool. Like you hint at, though, a tool is useful immediately and without end (at a particular task - windows operating systems remain useful desp…

You are correct about growth, but speed is also a resource - kinetic energy is still energy, which comes from somewhere, and unless you have 100% perfect energy usage, there is the…

> Once we've met our basic material needs The concern is not goods produced, those are not "resources", except perhaps in the very limited sense that food is a "produce". Energy, m…

> It's not a zero sum game. Resources are, though. The planet cannot support a race of digital super-people, and us, and an continually growing economy. It's the height of folly to…

The mistake was not claiming features rather browser client versions... JS devs were kinda able to patch around the nonsense because they were able to feature-detect - part of the …

I'd prefer a mode where you fail the word, but can continue to the next word. Perhaps it is intentionally part of the design, but being a bit of a perfectionist, I failed a couple …

"The only solution is to lock every LLM query in the entire stack behind the same deterministic role-based access controls that determine resources available to the current user." …

> The SW industry Partly the issue is, it was never the right model. If you write/wrote code, you were a manager. Probably a better one than your "people manager" ever was, but tha…

> Because arms race. The irony is, they are building their own competitor... Yeah, we get that nobody can trust China/Russia/USA/Shady cabal of too-rich-people, but we stopped the …

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Keyword is conjectured. Infinities of random sequences exist that can be shown not to contain all data, 0-8 (base 10) is one such random sequence that is trivially proven to never …

I don't think you understand the goal of a hackathon. They aren't (or weren't) VC pitch sessions. You don't run marathons to be usane bolt, you don't go to hackathons to land VC de…

Again, infinity is illustrative. Put another way, you do not deny a proof by inference because it "leads to large numbers". We don't need to speculate, we can see many, many exampl…

Infinity is....subtle. They are more characterized by how they grow and when they stop than by their "physical reality". Proof of this is in that different infinities exist - chara…

For all its talk of inoculation, this is a terribly written essay. They do not make a point, nor even arguments, instead, opting to ramble in hopes that you forget whatever it was …

Actually, the only secure default is to deny everything...how do you know that innocent command is actually innocent?

While this is an informative comment, did HN start deleting comments? These comments you mention do not seem to exist...

Yeah, this (the OPs) reads like a confused teenagers post, who has just started to explore the intracacies of logic. The whole post disproves itself... Fuzzy logic is fine, I suspe…

Eh? Not sure what you mean by that...