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Re:I should have loved biology on Thursday August 20, 2026 @07:12PM (#49381551)
You managed to blame feminists and immigrants in one paragraph, impressive. I'm sorry to hear about your experiences tho.
Yeah it really flips things upside down when a journalist has so much access to info that they can essentially pick their own story from the data.

Maybe they can't credibly fudge the numbers, but they can find enough data to agenda-set pretty much anything.

Re:I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it on Saturday January 24, 2026 @07:48PM (#46749426)
I suspect Newton is rolling in his grave at your words. Standing on the shoulders of giants also means respecting the giants. That means dedicating time to learning what they have to teach. Not treating them as a black box with no credit or consent, in the name of your own "glory".
Re:Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms on Saturday January 24, 2026 @07:44PM (#46749388)
Maybe that's because you're not using your time well in the first place
To be fair browsers/CSS have been solving a lot of use cases you'd normally turn to js for, lately. We should continue escalating this effort.
Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong on Saturday August 02, 2025 @07:57PM (#44772823)
I fear this is an analogy for what's happening with LLMs and context engineering.
Re:Vibe code is legacy code on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @08:37PM (#44741167)
I find this a bit like saying that we can't understand East of Eden because Steinbeck is dead.
Re:AI Agent Benchmarks Are Broken on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:39PM (#44537498)
Seems like more of a subtextual/accidental ability than an emergent ability.
Re:Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @06:47AM (#43830854)
Exactly. If I'm going to be solving bugs, I'd rather they be my own.
Re:Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @06:45AM (#43830844)
Building a basic static html landing page is ridiculously easy though. What js is even needed? If it's just an html file and maybe a stylesheet of course it's easy to host. You can apply 20 lines of css and have a decent looking page.

These aren't hard problems.

Re:Engineering "home-cooked" software on Friday January 17, 2025 @05:25PM (#42743927)
There's a balance. Not every team is made up of infallible devs, even at decent companies. Human nature is never full-trust.

I've known talented devs who are great people who still need more oversight than you describe. Usually they are ~5 years off from being full-trust, yet still valuable team members. Yes they benefit from daily standups.

Maybe that other dev has a unique ability you should reward. Sound awesome. Focus on that.
Re:Rewilding the Self on Sunday January 12, 2025 @11:44AM (#42674797)
Try "Way of Being" by James Bridle.
Re:Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @05:28PM (#42628445)
At some points, new improvement and occasionally ingenuity need to find a healthy way back into the workflow. Moreso early on, but consistently over time as well.

If we just create copies of copies forever, products degrade slowly over time. This is a problem in a few different spheres, to put it lightly.

The main rule is a good one, but the article overfocuses on it.

Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB on Monday December 23, 2024 @10:49AM (#42495224)
Yeah, that commenter wildly misunderstands what "progressive" means. Like full on got the definition of the word backwards.

Is this common? People think "progressive" means "complete government control"?

Progressives support regulations to prevent both public and private entities from becoming too powerful. It's not like they want to give the government authoritarian control lol.

Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB on Monday December 23, 2024 @10:41AM (#42495164)
Politicians do come in different flavours. There are some elected officials with good intentions. See again the AOC/Pelosi rift.

The more we regulate to get money out of politics, the more good people will have a shot at being elected.

These are all common progressive values. No true progressive supports wealthy unethical politicians gaining more power. Anyone telling you so is not speaking in good faith, or they are misinformed.

Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB on Monday December 23, 2024 @10:35AM (#42495124)
Trickle down economics isn't something you either "believe in" or "don't believe in". It's a disproven theory that does not work.
Re:Monorepo – Our Experience on Thursday November 07, 2024 @04:29PM (#42081269)
At least you're in control of when to look at the updates in new versions.

A monorepo gives you less control. If you're unable to enforce control through other means, sure use a monorepo. But it's limiting.

Re:Monorepo – Our Experience on Thursday November 07, 2024 @04:26PM (#42081233)
"If the whole world was a monorepo" is a great point made me laugh.