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I had ChatGPT summarize these comments and it was surprisingly good. Less personality and more thematic, coherent insight.

"using AI to perform thinking" versus "using AI to stimulate thinking"

In the early 90s, I would print out usenet posts so I could read them on the commuter train. Seemed a good idea at the time and I probably read them with more attention than my current online practices.

There are more sites related to LLVM IR than I need to see but overall, this is a fresh browsing experience. Reminds me of reading random pages back in 1994.

I bought many a book and saw various authors at Printers Inc., although apparently more than 25 years ago.

Had some meaningful conversations at the Cafe (which I assume finally closed as well). I never liked the Starbucks across the street.

Didn't realize the Rogers Park, Chicago Target had a restroom. Good to know, as an old guy.

Depends. Back in the day, I worked on development tools for a commericial avionics flight management computer. The headcount for embedded hardware/software verification was greater than for development.

That was never true for software development in other domains I worked in i.e. Fortune 500 enterprise tools, compiler/design tools, networking, and semiconductor.

Crossing the Chasm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm#/media/File...

Due to the pace of app changes, people on reddit seem to think Spotify is a constant "green rain"

I preferred the Nuclear War scenario book. Same style of narrative mixed with expert insights. The first several days of the scenario were riveting, after that less so. This one tries to describe the impact of social media and influencers, which I found inconclusive.

She also reports that Bush rode in the back of a laundry truck on the day of 9/11 to avoid detection getting to the Doomsday plane. Single source attribution, though.

I've been using xiffy last.fm feeds for awhile and am satisfied with the combo.

And the recordist, Frank Tiberi, is a jazz saxophonist and has played with the Woody Herman big band (with whom I saw in the 70s). Also teaches at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Alvin Lucier wrote other highly interesting, if unconventional works, although similar to John Cage's 4'33", this is the one that achieved meme status as conceptual art.

I wanted to parenthetically say that I recently saw Job, set in the Bay Area. The show was provocative and contemporary. I don't remember if I saw an ad for it...

"Jane, an employee at a big tech company, has been placed on leave after video of her emotional breakdown at work went viral. Her employers tell Jane she must be evaluated by crisis therapist Loyd before she can be reinstated to the job that gives her life meaning."

https://www.writerstheatre.org/events/job

Is this an EU or Spain issue? I regularly attend at a theatre in Chicago that has socially "sensitive" plays. I often see their ads on Facebook.

For those of us scanning Hacker News by RSS, this additional feed is helpful

https://hnrss.github.io/#reply-feeds

Likewise with my Jeep Gladiator. I traveled, hauled and camped with it more than I ever expected.

The bed is only 5 feet long but I'm thinking of taking out part of the back seat for even more room .

I also used 4x4 in 4H mode more than I thought on bad roads even though I didn't go truly off-road that much so no need for 4L. I did take advantage of the higher wheel clearance and the more rugged suspension and the 8-speed manual shifting is useful going down mountain roads.

My dad put electrical tape over the check engine light in my car...

Hah. I read that as pressing the "Digital Clown."

Hardly any losses except for the violent deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis over a decade.

Which reminds me of being at the SFO baggage claim. A security dog went straight for a person's bag. The security officer opened it up and found an old, stale sandwich. The person said they had forgotten their mother had stashed it there.

I'm retired now but it never occurred to me the vocational languages I enjoyed most were all respectable or false starts (or obscure): FORTRAN, Pascal, Icon, Ada, Tcl.

And in hindsight, I only grudgingly accepted the immortals, although I recognized at the time they would be widely adopted: C, C++, Java, Javascript, and Python.

Is awk still respectable? Is it even a programming language?

This mentions a piece by the guitarist Michael Hedges, dedicated to the minimalist composer Steve Reich. Interesting...

Excessive prompts as ceremony. That's an interesting idea.

It would also be an interesting job, even if off the beaten track.

As a hiring manager, if I saw this on a resume interspersed with various web development work, I would be intrigued.

That's fair.

"Chat is a terrible UX General use needs ‘apps’"

I'm old so my computer career has gone: punch cards => calculators => command-line => GUI => touch screen => voice => chat. Chat seems to be the best blend of expressiveness and utility, with a dose of magic thrown in.