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Re: Software for One

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Post by smokel »

It's somewhat unfortunate that programming is still pretty hard to start with.

Early home computers would boot up with BASIC. Granted, the user experience was horrible, but at least you could start programming right away.

What is stopping us from creating an operating system that has programming as a first class citizen?

There is JavaScript in the browser, but that still feels as an afterthought, and incurs all kinds of security problems.

Why must we wait for AI to work around this? Is it really true that only very few people are interested in programming? Why not teach it in primary school, along with reading and writing?

Re: Software for One

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Post by ofjcihen »

IanCal wrote: post #165
ofjcihen wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I quite literally, right at this moment, am sitting next to a friend who is a doctor with a focus on nutrition and they are saying that whoever told you that fiber doesn’t matter is going against almost all of the modern understanding of health science and research. His advice is literally “He needs to just Google it.”

They didn’t say fibre didnt matter. They disagreed they should care more about fibre than any other.

> except for fiber, which I don't care enough about to track.

Re: Software for One

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Post by xyzelement »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #99

The article is also obviously written by Claude too. I’m starting to hate the internet.

Who cares?

Is the article interesting/ relevant or not?

If not, doesn't matter if it's ai slop or human slop.

If yes the. It's good that the author could use AI to get it out vs not writing it.

Re: Software for One

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Post by fragmede »

a2800276 wrote: post #89
rrvsh wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to optimise and have the money to spare, I think it's fine. There are going to be people in the world that are better than you at most given tasks, and if working on those tasks is not fun for you and delegation is not a net negative, why not? It's why personal trainers exist (though I don't like them for separate reasons)

Its clearly a net negative, though, because missing a nap is now causing tremendous anxiety to the point where they'd rather spend a week chatting with Claude to build an app which handles the consequences of missed naps than just spending some time with their infant, maybe reading to them so they fall asleep.

You chat with Claude while the infant is asleep in your arms, not instead of holding the infant.

Re: Software for One

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Post by storus »

This is nice, but Apple essentially blocks sideloading (outside test flight environment) and Google is moving there as well. While it has never been easier to produce individualized software, it was never more difficult on the official platforms, unless one wants to create their own OS (at some point that might be possible as well).

Re: Software for One

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Post by s20n »

smokel wrote: post #171

It's somewhat unfortunate that programming is still pretty hard to start with. Early home computers would boot up with BASIC. Granted, the user experience was horrible, but at least you could start programming right away. What is stopping us from creating an operating system that has programming as a first class citizen? There is JavaScript in the browser, but that still feels as an afterthought, and incurs all kinds…

I really want to use a scheme based operating system where all processes are continuations and people boot into a REPL instead of a unix shell. something like a modern version of the symbolics lisp machines. Instead of using fork() and exec, spawning a new process would be a call/cc. can you imagine?

Re: Software for One

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Post by recursive-call »

camgunz wrote: post #169
LtWorf wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps just say "here in northern jutland" next time?

No one knows where that is. I've also heard this is very common in the northern Scandinavian countries, there are even little "houses" you can buy.

my friends in Boston do this where their baby. They call it “Nordic baby training” or something like that. They aren’t Scandinavian so the practice has at least some reach

Re: Software for One

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Post by ben_w »

smokel wrote: post #171

It's somewhat unfortunate that programming is still pretty hard to start with. Early home computers would boot up with BASIC. Granted, the user experience was horrible, but at least you could start programming right away. What is stopping us from creating an operating system that has programming as a first class citizen? There is JavaScript in the browser, but that still feels as an afterthought, and incurs all kinds…

> What is stopping us from creating an operating system that has programming as a first class citizen?

Isn't that just any computer booting into a terminal?

Re: Software for One

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Post by YesBox »

tptacek wrote: post #152
spot5010 wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a new father, just using so many apps sounds exhausting, let alone building and maintaining them. I would have been very excited about these maybe 10-15 years ago. Now I just want the ability to do things with my phone when my hands are tied up holding the baby.

That's an odd response, because fundamentally all I'm doing is making my computer work the way I want it to. It's the opposite of exhausting to me.

Most people want the convenience of things just working at the tap or click of a button. LLMs are not going to change that.

Re: Software for One

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Post by tptacek »

ofjcihen wrote: post #172
IanCal wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn’t say fibre didnt matter. They disagreed they should care more about fibre than any other.

> except for fiber, which I don't care enough about to track.

I can't recommend enough that you go build your own tracker that graphs your fiber intake, shows trends, and alerts if you're under threshold. It's not hard! I do that for protein, and it's been very valuable.
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