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Re: It is an amazing time for programmers

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Post by bl4ckbe4r » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:42 AM UTC

Ocha wrote: post #38

8-prime wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found great enjoyment from https://late.sh/ . I'm not as active as I would like to be but the small community is still active enought that there is basically always someone around to chat with.

Can’t connect unfortunately. debug1: Sending environment. debug1: channel 2: setting env LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: channel 2: setting env LC_TERMINAL = "iTerm2" debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: channel 2: setting env LC_TERMINAL_VERSION = "3.6.10" debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: channel 2: setting env LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8" debug2: channel 2…

Can you try one more time? And if still failing, are you ok with trying the CLI? CLI is a little more bulletproof, have its own ssh client inside.

Re: It is an amazing time for programmers

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Post by cpfohl » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:46 AM UTC

Along similar lines: many of your favorite authors, musicians, and creators have public email addresses and seem to love getting emails. I’ve started writing notes with my kids to their favorite authors with ideas and always a thank you note.

I’ve gotten replies from authors on NYT best sellers lists, musicians, and more.

People like to be appreciated.

Re: It is an amazing time for programmers

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Post by Ocha » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:46 AM UTC

bl4ckbe4r wrote: post #41

Ocha wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t connect unfortunately. debug1: Sending environment. debug1: channel 2: setting env LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: channel 2: setting env LC_TERMINAL = "iTerm2" debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: channel 2: setting env LC_TERMINAL_VERSION = "3.6.10" debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: channel 2: setting env LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8" debug2: channel 2…

Can you try one more time? And if still failing, are you ok with trying the CLI? CLI is a little more bulletproof, have its own ssh client inside.

Did some debugging. It works after I disabled compression and control master.

I didn’t like CLI, since it didn’t pick up my default ssh key from the agent.

Re: It is an amazing time for programmers

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Post by bl4ckbe4r » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:48 AM UTC

bl4ckbe4r wrote: post #41

Ocha wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t connect unfortunately. debug1: Sending environment. debug1: channel 2: setting env LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: channel 2: setting env LC_TERMINAL = "iTerm2" debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: channel 2: setting env LC_TERMINAL_VERSION = "3.6.10" debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: channel 2: setting env LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8" debug2: channel 2…

Can you try one more time? And if still failing, are you ok with trying the CLI? CLI is a little more bulletproof, have its own ssh client inside.

the CLI also have some args to use, like --key or --ssh-mode :)

Re: It is an amazing time for programmers

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Post by delis-thumbs-7e » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

gobdovan wrote: post #21

rTX5CMRXIfFG wrote: post #11

I constantly wonder what life was like, then, for the earliest inventors, scientists, and curious minds in our history. Surely they didn't have many people to bounce ideas or build things with. How did they find the strength to persist in their interests? These days, it's far easier to quit when you cannot find community since you can distract yourself with many kinds of entertainment instead; and with bleak economic…

They did have immense networks and were constantly communicating with one another. In On the Origin of Species, I was amazed how Darwin basically knew all the top breeders and naturists form South America, Arab Gulf, Oceania, which he mentions by name. He mentions his peers from the first page in the introduction and the correspondence and responses he got from them. There's not many geniuses without an ecosystem aro…

Famously Leibniz was a genious comparable to Newton, but we have only recently started to learn the scope of his thinking and research, since most of it was left unpublished.

Re: It is an amazing time for programmers

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Post by shevy-java » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 11:03 AM UTC

> Take the opportunity to send one of them an email or tweet.

But ... why?

I don't understand why I should write an email to Linus. Or Phil. Or Pete. Or Joe. I can barely keep up with the influx of existing emails as-is. Do I really want to extend to this and have to read through even MORE emails now?!

Re: It is an amazing time for programmers

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 11:05 AM UTC

jdw64 wrote: post #7

I also want to communicate with someone and have programming conversations. There's no one around me to talk about programming with. I'm the only programmer around. Aside from AI and books, I sometimes want to talk with a real person.

I live in an area dominated by finance and commerce people (New York Suburbs).

I’ve learned not to talk about what I do, as I see eyes glaze over, quickly, when I do.

If I were to talk about the commodities exchanges, though, we’d be chatting up a storm.

I miss having people to talk to, about this stuff. The few techhies around, tend to freeze me out. They all like going into Brooklyn, to hang out.

I guess that’s one reason that I’m so busy here.

Re: It is an amazing time for programmers

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Post by delis-thumbs-7e » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 11:06 AM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #13

Why stop at these people. You might as well reach out to Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Jansen Huang. There's more to life than tech companies. Why not reach out to the president. It takes less effort than you might think to reach out to anyone in the world. It is truly a small place.

You don’t want to reach out to them, because you don’t want that kind of peiple in your life. You might as well start hanging with the local biker gang or start selling drugs on the corner.

(Maybe Cook and Huang are not that bad, but Musk and Trump I’d like in my life as much as cancer).

Re: It is an amazing time for programmers

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 11:09 AM UTC

wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #12

jdw64 wrote: post #7

I also want to communicate with someone and have programming conversations. There's no one around me to talk about programming with. I'm the only programmer around. Aside from AI and books, I sometimes want to talk with a real person.

In most places there are software meetups, in my area there are many at meetup.com. I once started one myself, that later got taken over and is still quite big. Actually a lot of fun, and at the time we would even get sponsoring offers quite quickly.

We have them around here.

I stopped going, because the “circle of avoidance” around me makes me self-conscious.

The ageism in New York, is even worse than in Silicon Valley.

Re: It is an amazing time for programmers

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Post by krapp » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 11:09 AM UTC

deadbabe wrote: post #40

Will there ever be any more “legendary” programmers ever again now with the rise of AI basically making any coding accomplishments unimpressive?

Show me the AI generated code that puts the work of these people to shame.

There probably won't be any more "legendary" programmers in the future. Not because AI is qualitatively superior but because the incentives of capitalism will force us all to accept the mediocrity of AI generated software and because the lack of opportunities and loss of knowledge created by mass deskilling will make education and community impossible.