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Very well said. Programming has always felt like converting thought-stuff into something that the computer can understand. That's still the same, it's just a different language, an…

You’re layering several hypotheticals on top of each other, which leads to progressively distant possibilities. Good on you for caring about humans though

For what it's worth, Bun is written in Zig ( https://bun.sh/ ). The language isn't exactly in an early stage.

Palantir came to me multiple times over the years asking me to interview as a senior swe. The temptation was very strong back then. Insane pay package as you can imagine... but I h…

Sure, they build innocent dashboards in the same way that your name is an innocent Dutch word. Obvious bad faith arguments coming from a troll.

Location: The Hague Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: The entire stack and more. TypeScript; React; Next.js; Node; Python; Golang; C#; Postgres; MongoDB; AWS; GCP; …

Thanks for sharing. Absolutely right; people need to feel useful and valued—not to mention, jobs can help us get out of the house and connect with people. Just to be clear, are you…

Runaway capitalism! Time for me to log off for another ~2 years

Elites unilaterally claiming and reaping the benefits of automation (i.e. consolidation of wealth) is not a law of nature.

You’re right and validating the point. A specific part of GP’s comment keeps getting overlooked: So the problem isn't robots, it's the structure of how we humans rely on jobs for i…

Equating “business” to “profound human intimacy” might be one of the most HackerNews comments of all time

You’re getting a lot of negative feedback for whatever reason, but you’re absolutely right. I for one remember reading about possible silicon/methane based life, etc. Actually, her…

I've been using https://cascadeur.com/ to animate the models that I hire artists to make

If you have the money for it, you should really consider hiring a contract artist to supplement your gaps. A concept artist and a 3D modeling artist altogether will cost like $3000…

This is awesome, I'll try it out when I get back to the office. Very nice find

WOW that's amazing how different people's experiences can be. I smoked one pack spread out 2 or 3 days, for about 3 years (in college). Rarely would do a full pack in a day. Quitti…

The landing page linked above gives a pretty detailed write-up about the point of their service

There is no hate here nor anything intended to be a personal attack on specific individuals, but clearly my comment struck a nerve. This comes across as a saddeningly extreme armch…

Sharing this in a forum full of "billionaires temporarily down on their luck" is bold and not likely to end well; yet, I agree with you and GP. Hacking should not be synonymous wit…

In the same way that vaporizing vicious dictators--subtracting how many people they personally killed by their own hands--would have no detectable difference to global murder rate.…

Well, I'm glad we're finally on the same page that you are in fact specifically defending top-consuming billionaires. Conversation ends here

Maybe the disconnect here is a misunderstanding of how much wealth billionaires have. We could increase fuel tax by 1000x, increase landing fees by 1000x, and this would not even b…