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There are some good ideas buried in here but I'm afraid at this point that Steve has tipped over into a bit of AI psychosis. It's really a tremendous problem right now for many smart people …

There was a neat story on the San Diego local news some years ago about a woman artist who was a tetrachromat. Fascinating interview. This woman said that the downside of perceiving additional colors …

Very different vibe but reminds me of The Oatmeal's tribute to the mighty Mantis Shrimp. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp …

Sadly, the war colleges in the US have all been aware that this kind of shift was coming, too. There are many examples from history of an incumbent superpower being dethroned because it failed to mode…

Great advice. On the Mac, make sure to set up Alt/Option as "meta key".

> I’ve worked at a lot of places over 20 years Primarily in Silicon Valley or outside of it? I worked most of my two decades in the Valley but also spent time outside of it. There is in many case…

An unsung hero for me is Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky. That one really shows how to tie it all together in my opinion.

So every person who reads Dan's blog and finds the layout too dense, they should write and maintain a stylesheet for his site? And every person globally should do this as well for any other websi…

Supply my own stylesheet? No thank you, I'm not here to do work for free.

I love Dan's writing. I really do. But I don't understand why he doesn't have some basic styling on his blog so that it's easier to read.

Since it's Friday, I'm going to suggest an activity: this evening, invest 30 minutes in watching "The Brain Center at Whipple" from the old Twilight Zone TV series. This conversati…

Thank you! Beautiful answer.

Will you share some insights on what Prolog is awesome for where a regular imperative language is not a good fit? I find both Prolog and Datalog very interesting in this new age of AI.

You mean Castor and Pollux?

It's not alleged, it's sadly confirmed. There's been comments on HN over the years from people who have worked under him.

I don't believe it is. If we think of AI-maintained software as automated gardening / automated agriculture, the harness is all the machinery that can plow, sow, water, monitor, harvest, etc…

What size project an AI can complete on its own is IMHO not an interesting question. The AIs and harnesses are getting good enough that quite large things can be built, primarily as a function of cost…

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, As home his footsteps he hath turn’d, From wanderi…

Best of luck! I hope in the not too distant future we see a cool demo from you where there's something mind-blowing happening :)

Fearmonger is a little heavy handed but the comparison to Dwarf Fortress is probably too strong. I don't find F* syntax anymore intimidating than Haskell, Scala, Mercury, Prolog, etc. aka the har…

Looks very very interesting and exciting! Key question: is anyone using it anger and has experience to share?

Very interesting idea, I actually wonder if you are not going far enough? See this video from the lovely YouTube channel Interface Studies : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARjisP9enZ…

> the end result is neo-feudalism where familial dynasties call all the shots I'm going to stick my neck out and say that this is mostly where we are already. Agree that before the boomers c…

When I see headlines and stories like this, a male voice with a Mid-Atlantic accent pipes up in my head: "9 out of 10 doctors recommend Pall Mall cigarettes - they help guard against throat scrat…

I must be in a minority of some kind. I still think stacked PRs are the devil and a band-aid for org and process issues.

No, not to that level of detail. There's a higher-level set of states that all other states should be derivable from.