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You can also remove features with AI faster than before. During the initial development phase, that's the most important part IMO

> they were optimized for rent-seeking from an economy and an empire that others built and worked.

If you go through history, it's hard to find a king that is not like that. The only difference is that some kings (and nowadays: presidents) are better at keeping a clean public image, see The Prince by Machiavelli for details.

0.5.0 is a new feature 0.4.1 is a bugfix

In practice, 0.5 can be assumed to be breaking but then how do you specify non breaking new features? 0.4.1? Moving to 1.0.0 makes things a lot clearer. For breaking, just go to 2.0.0 etc

See also https://0ver.org/#notable-zerover-projects

> Calling it version 1.0 is bullshit though.

There is a case to be made to always start at 1.0, especially libraries with public API’s. The reason is that if you use semantic versioning then below 1.0 you can’t properly declare a new release to be a feature or bugfix release (for example, 0.4 to 0.5. Is this bugfix or feature?). Above 1.0.0 this is easy (for example 1.1.0 vs 1.0.1).

> And even in the religions were it was asked to not kill other fellow humans, well fellow humans have been killed in the name of...

If you mean the Templars and their Jerusalem crusades, it's likely that they were adhering another religion (or no religion) and using Christianity as a guise.

From the Wikipedia page for Baphomet (a famous occult symbol that is a god-like figure depicted as half man half animal; similar to ancient Egyptian gods such as Anubis), "The name first emerged in the 14th century during the Trials of the Knights Templar, when the order was accused of heresy for worshipping Baphomet as a demonic idol." This is just one of the bizarre activities that the Templars appeared to have participated in. Other witchcraft and occult ideas can be found on many of the churches that the Templars have founded including the Notre Dame. When looking through all the works of the Templars, it's just incredibly hard for to make a case that they have read or adhered to any part of the Bible. Maybe some things in letter, but definitely not in spirit. (For example, Matthew 22, "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.")

> you din't do any offerings last harvest.

Even in the Old Testament, offerings were not seen as the end all. Primary aim should be giving heed to the commandments like thou shall not kill etc.

Isaiah 1:11, "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats."

1 Samuel 15:22, "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams."

Ecclesiasticus 35:1, "He that keepeth the law bringeth offerings enough: he that taketh heed to the commandment offereth a peace offering."

King David also requested God to accept his lifting of his hands as a sacrifice, Psalm 141:2, "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice."

Hebrews 10:6 (New Testament), "In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure."

Why?

Well okay you have your anecdotal evidence while I have mine, and they seem to be opposed to each other so I guess the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Some like it and some don't. Some hurt their bodies and some don't. It also matters a lot which trade exactly. Painting ship tanks is not good for the lungs it seems to me.

> You can get jobs and have a career without education, certification and licensing?

Yes.

> Why is there any less?

Smaller company and down to earth attitude.

> I wonder what your experience is?

It's less safe than an office that's for sure. But the biggest accident in the company of 100 people has been due to arc flash and not due to walking across the shipyard. In general, the older colleagues seem physically as healthy if not healthier than average for their age; some having worked there for more than 20 years. I'm also surprised by this. The shipyard looks very dangerous but somehow not much happens to the electricians it seems from what I hear and see in the older colleagues.

Perhaps over time doing complex things yes but for now I’m definitely a rookie I can tell you making many rookie mistakes like loosing tools xD

I always wanted to help people and realized more and more that nobody ever needs a programmer apart from the medium to big corporations. I’d rather help individuals. That plays a big role.

Financially, it doesn’t matter that much. In the Netherlands salaries are much lower than compared to the US while taxation is very high. So I personally don’t care whether I get paid 5200 euro per month or 3200 per month since after correcting for taxes and government benefits the difference is a lot less. I also don’t need much anyway. I don’t mind living in a cheapish house with a cheap car and I also don’t like vacations (I don’t like change). Compared to programmer the salary isn’t that much lower anyway. I could go build my way through management positions in government or so for more bucks but then I would need to spend it on useless things to make me happy again so seems like a net loss too.

I recently switched to being an electrician in ship construction after a MSc in Computer Science and PhD in Data Science with heavy focus on writing software/services.

So far, I like it a lot. The work is physically demanding but the colleagues are nice, down to earth and come up with good jokes (I also see this a lot when I watch trades videos on YouTube). Also nice is the feeling of having made something at the end of the day and the lack of office politics. I didn’t do any extra education, they say I’m picking it up fast so it seems I can go without. I think that would hold for most programmers since it’s a very similar mindset that you use especially when you start troubleshooting.

Alacritty plus Zellij works great for me. Much easier to use than tmux

> Note: I use AI every day and it is entirely possible to create high quality software with it, so long as you are not lazy and incompetent.

What I in general try to teach the other people about AI: It can be a great tool, but check the results! Especially in the case of engineering: Check and then double check.

If you go that way, why not write LLVM Intermediate Representation? And if you know your server CPU anyway, why not write machine code?

I personally like Rust for web applications a lot because you can catch many bugs at compile time instead of during tests or runtime.

> People should stop building UIs, nobody wants to interact with a UI.

If the UI is completely local and the chat is not, then I prefer UI.

> especially when you factor in ChatGPT usage (even 6 Astra Pro) is essentially unmetered on the 20x plan.

I’m currently on the 5x plan and burned through 5% today on a difficult task in 15 minutes so I doubt that. If you got the wrong kind of tasks that you work on, it can go fast.

I agree. Writing manually and thoughtfully and then letting the AI figure out the nitty gritty implementation works very well.

> In a way, RAM becoming more expensive has ushered in a new era of forced optimizations, which I'm really happy for

Isn't this mainly Cloudflare's scale though? That's literally also what's in the introduction written as the reason why they are doing the optimization

> The Americans are no longer our friends

We say as Europeans while interacting daily with USA engineers and other people here on HN - a site ran by Silicon Valley investors - while we usually talk about USA-made software. I personally do not hold every American accountable for the actions of their government.

Good point. I had great success with Rust indeed, which can catch errors early.

I always write my assembly by hand because nobody appreciates the craft anymore. It’s all hidden by those pesky compilers which generate extremely inadequate code that could easily be improved by some thinking on the programmer side /s

I do think a better programmer will be a better prompter just like a better compiler engineer will be a better programmer (when performance matters at least).

Agreed. AI doesn’t level the playing field but turns it more in a winner takes all situation. AI is currently best in Python programming from what I hear and this is because it has seen the most Python code.

If the CIA could figure out how to stabilize a country that would be nice, but seems they know only how to destabilize countries when looking at their track record [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

> They’ve been really good at getting good press coverage

Same holds for most big corps from what I can tell. If you really do a deep dive into the scandals over the years, you’ll probably see most have barely reached the news or if they did then it’s usually a quite bland criticism like “anti-competitive practices” or a poor HVAC at a certain factory. I think a lot more is hidden than we think

Mojo to me seems like a high level language with some additional support for low level control especially around GPUs. A bit like Rust or C but with more streamlined Python integration and more low level GPU (matrices) support.

> Meta was using porn for AI training or …

Seems plausible. The material contains many hours of highly detailed human interaction plus I don’t expect Meta would have moral objections given their track record.

> I am reasonably confident that there's essentially nothing that I am better than Fable at

Most things in the real world probably. I’m not saying AI can’t do it, but currently it’s bad. Try send an image of the inside of a broken toaster and how to fix. It’s laughable. Again, not saying AI will never do it, but am saying there are definitely large holes in knowledge.