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I hate writing code, but love debugging. LLMs have been a godsend for banging out boilerplate and getting things 95% of the way there. Now I spend most of my time on the hard stuff…

“Warning: Smartmatch is experimental at foobar.pl line 42.” If only I had a dollar for every time I’ve seen this message.

Fair critique, we should never lose the spirit of play, but Franklin’s guidance seems very much in line with a quote from Gustave Flaubert I often see echoed: > Be steady and well-…

Therefore mutations ensure you don't get stuck there.

"You wanna buy a Tower Records, Eduardo?" https://youtu.be/pLgpUEpaUVs?si=WXciPD8BuEgP5nMe

> Be careful what you outsource. Better a creator than a proofreader, IMO. Or as authors put it: "write drunk, edit sober".

I haven’t watched the video yet, but I was instantly reminded of the Alan J. Perlis quote he and Abelson used for SICP’s dedication: > I think that it’s extraordinarily important t…

Thanks, strange. This reproduced for a good 30 mins, but no longer does now.

I butchered the "Ask HN" format by providing a link in this post. Made an updated submission with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40469206

I'm unable to load the ChatGPT web app login page from both my phone and desktop. Not much in the DOM, just a element and 2 sibling elements. Console logs show 2 identical errors: …

I'm unable to load the ChatGPT login page. Not much in the DOM, just a element and 2 sibling elements. Console logs show 2 identical errors: > Refused to execute a script because i…

This is an example of the “tu quoque” fallacy [0], and has no bearing on the claim they’re making about Sam. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Maybe the average technologist, but for anyone who understands Apple's culture and history, your claim is not just inaccurate, but opposite of the truth. Steve Jobs addressed this …

> Also, smokers who get unemployed, will smoke more, out of boredom. Unemployed smokers will have less disposable income, and may not be able to afford to smoke more.

Tangent, but I never realized the original for this great Alan J. Perlis quote: > A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. https://cpsc.yale.edu/ep…

Independent of location on disk: `open -b com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine`

> the introduction of the wolves also introduced wasting disease. Doesn't look like it, from the CDC: > CWD was first identified in captive deer in a Colorado research facility in …

Interesting, I blame Grand Theft Auto for my near perfect driving record. Gave me a great feel for driving physics before I ever got behind the wheel.

I just read a hypothesis from an anthropologist suggesting that the reason California’s indigenous tribes did not practice agriculture like eastern tribes, was due to the abundance…

What’s NeXT?

This resembling that scene from The Social Network in which Zuckerberg rolls in to a meeting (with Sequoia) late, in pajamas, and tells the VCs to get bent is pretty ironic. https:…

You mean an experience which categorically compels individuals to be kinder, more gentle, and less selfish in pursuing genuinely altruistic ends is not useful? Often times as a res…

You’re cherry-picking [0] (using Vice to boot). Not to mention people do that without drugs. How about the thousands who don’t commit violent crimes as a result of taking these dru…

“curl | sudo bash” ;-)