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If you can do economics without revision, that is, find the real number of jobs lost or gained or workplace participation in real time, you could make a lot of money. Probably win …

Incredible observation. Seasons begin and end on different days depending on sea level. I was under the impression that the first two thirds of March was winter at every elevation …

Spring starts the last week of March. lazystar out there in floral print dresses on March first looking like an absolute tool. Enjoy your train set!

AI is another step up the ladder of abstraction, another tool like linters, compilers, IDEs, code completion. Can Claude replace you? Have LLMs altered the software developer produ…

So 5-10 years to amortize the cost. You could get 10 years of Claude Max and your $20k could stay in the bank in case the robots steal your job or you need to take an ambulance rid…

I hope someone tells the Mozilla CEO.

No. My labor is transactional. The rest of my time is leisure. Same reason why I have no interest in working weekends. Is the CEO going to come by my house on Saturday and mow my l…

The new CEO centered AI ("It's Time to Evolve Firefox Into an AI Browser") in his first communication to the community. Spawned at least three new forks and introduced people to Li…

It's OK. Paul Graham is one of the good billionaires.

It is satire. You don't need to know the writer to get it. McSweeney's publishes these type of pieces from time-to-time. Laugh or don't. I found this one amusing. Wikipedia, a gene…

Why are you building projects? Why are you studying Software Engineering? If you want a career in software development, it's better to learn, which means writing code. And maybe st…

I'm old enough to remember Windows CE phones crashing during phone calls.

The best part of MacOS for me is the unix tools. The command line is a real unix command line. And the rest just works. If I need a linux environment I ssh into a VPS.

I truly believe we are in a bubble. I truly believe that AI will exist on the other side of that bubble, just as internet companies and banks existed on the other side of the dotco…

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I use vim. Very little flow. My personal journal is a single latex document, I write about 25k words per year in it. I have a macro that inserts the date and time and I write my en…

It's a good point. Any business can get revenue by selling Twenty dollar bills for $19. But in the history of tech, many winners have been dismissed for lack of an apparent busines…

1. LLM use has made me a more productive programmer, especially when learning new technology. The ability to ask questions about documentation, code, and best practices is nice. It…

There is more than enough homogeneity of labor in this industry. All workers should organize.

Like all other forums, public and private, HN has an ideological filter. I'm as surprised as the next person that the HN ideological filter turned out not to be permissive enough t…

Maybe Paul Graham was simply protecting his station within the oligarchy all along. The turn toward appeasing fascism is nothing more than the path of least resistance. But I'm sur…

The fact that HN is letting political posts stay on the front page after months of suppression shows that we are past the point of denying the authoritarian road we are on.

dizhn is free, for example, to lick as many boots as he desires. No one can take that away.

Lexapro made a huge difference for me. Much more than exercise, meditation, counseling, or journaling. I have tried to come off it a few times and each time it's kind of a disaster…