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What do you do for work if it's not writing code? I'm always fascinated by the non-paid-professional-programmers who frequent HN.

I am sad to say it but I am not sure it is possible in the short term. It seems that there is a taste for conflict in the air and we are cruising towards another world-level spasm of violence before w…

This is partially an on-ramp for young people. No experience? Not sure where to start? Buy this gadget! Hook it up to your machine then take lessons on how to use it. All in the OpenAI ecosystem, of c…

That's the key, a physical object is much more easily made part of a devs identity. Projecting a hacker image has become very fashion based. e.g., some devs love their clickity-clackity keyboards…

Hey, as long as the masses are looking to the left and the right for their enemies, rather than up, that's what's desired.

Reminds me of an observation made when they removed Maus from a library in Tennessee I think it was: "these people want a kinder gentler Holocaust." It's totally idiotic the state we …

Wasn't it Jeff Skilling who once waxed poetical about hypothetical future value?

I think your attitude is pretty lazy. It's a low-effort answer to say "skill issue" and then walk away feeling superior. Much harder to lean in to the other person, understand them, the…

The key is to remove degrees of freedom from the agent. IMHO this is the really hard work of agentic engineering. You need to strongly constrain what the agent can even do in the first place to force …

"I just want a deluge. Just one little deluge. Is that too much to ask?"

> Yes, we all remember the Vasa, and understand how it applies to any untested overengineered idea. We clearly do not given that this story repeats over and over again.

The deeper issue was that no-one had the ability to push back on the king's demands. When the king rules by divine right, pushing back on the stakeholder is pushing back on God. Back in the day t…

Seriously credit to you on that ASCII art. I grew up sailing and you captured it beautifully. Well done.

Agree with the observation others have made. The only true solve if a specific model version is critical to your application or workflow, you need to host the model yourself so you have control over i…

Brother, I took a look at your comment history and I think you're projecting. I also noticed on your profile that you've submitted literally nothing to this site but have made lots of comm…

Fiction or non-fiction?

We were in an age of reading? I gave up about 10 years ago on people as readers. I have recommended so many books and articles to software people over the years and it's honestly depressing how m…

UTM is undefeated for me, especially in combination with Vagrant. What I'm hoping for is a polished turn-key solution version of all this. tart is also an option I like a lot, but it's macOS…

Look forward to seeing it!

Nice! I will be sure to check it out. IMHO it's a good thing if there's a bit of competition.

My current power move in the age of AI: do nothing. I had an idea like this and thought I could vibe code it, but then I figured someone else would care more and do it first. I was right! This looks l…

This makes sense to me, much as I don't like it. IMHO the strategy taken by StrongDM's attractor coding agent seems like a path of least resistance. Directly target the LLM providers APIs an…

What’s a tortoise?

The dive industry, when I got my PADI one of the instructors told me diving is mainly self-regulated.

A perennial insight which has been articulated many times before. This feels like one of those stages all engineers pass through at some point in their growth journey. Chesterton's Fence and all …

Some folks interpret that sentence in a mystical way - the first word was Om, from which all the universe was created.