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I did say if I had a $40M payday. Having purely paper shares isn't a payday in this context, only a liquidation event.

In any event, it'd take a number far less than $40M of liquid cash for me to drop out of the workforce forever.

I can assure you that if I had a $40M payday that I'd cash out, never work a day in my life again, and be perfectly content.

Of course that's also part of why I'll never be in a position to achieve a $40M payday, so there's that.

That’s not at all the point they raised?

Let’s start by cutting the military budget (including all the ways they indirectly fund the military) by at least half

I often see people in my area buy organic produce from local small businesses at the farmers market. So I suppose my anecdote balances out yours?

I believe it only applies to resident citizens, which is an easy way to avoid freeloaders

Granted DBZ is not exactly Shakespeare, but I first watched the Buu saga in japanese w/o subs. And I was generally able to follow along, especially as it went along.

E16 was the height of cool when it came out. I would have people see my desktop and wonder what the hell I was running.

You're right that this is going to suck for the engineers who fit the stereotype, didn't like interacting with users, and would express that they just want to stay in the code.

For the rest of us, that's not a problem.

A new one will erupt eventually.

As someone who spends way too much time on reddit, before that I was someone who spent way too much time on twitter. And before that it was usenet.

Each time there may have been a rough patch when I didn't have a ready replacement, but eventually something grew to take its place in my heart.

yeah every single time I hear someone brag about fully automating their job I wonder, "what do they need you for, then?"

One thing I've spotted several times throughout this year: the larger volume of code leads to exactly the sort of problems it always has. It just happens real fast now, with fewer people. Problems that used to take years to erupt now manifest before an MVP ships, but people just sweep it all under the rug in the name of moving fast.

DevOps was a reasonable idea, but it rarely actually manifested. If a company had an actual "DevOps group" separate from the developers, by definition they weren't doing DevOps.

Indeed. Just think about how much people meme here "in mice" when stuff gets posted. There's a very long process between computational screening and getting an actual drug into actual humans.

This made me realize I have an inconsistency I never noticed.

I would never use a case with a phone of any sort. I don't like the extra bulk, and the friction they add is annoying.

Meanwhile I never use a tablet or kindle device without a cover.

There's an obvious gap where the iPhone mini used to be. Please fill that gap Apple!

I've seen asshats at concerts holding their iPads up to record. Bad enough when people hold their phones up, but this was next level.

The main page was such obvious AI slop that I didn't bother looking further

It's not the fault of the researchers that the general media misinterprets studies like this. Maybe we should instead cast blame on the semi-scientifically-literate people who push attention grabbing headlines regarding promising, but yet far from actionable, study results.

I don't think it lasted long. I remember finding it annoying as the whole concept of NFTs was eye rollingly stupid. At least some of the other topics have had merit.

I joined HN around the time category theory was starting to take off so not sure what the topic du jour was before that.

Well, a couple of years before that it was all NFTs all the time. Then before that it was web3. Then before that it was the blockchain in general. And then before that it was Haskell and monads.

That's just how it goes.

From my post: "There are other ways to achieve this same effect without loading the full superpowers suite though."

I do like the brainstorm mode as I find that having a though partner walk me through the phase of speccing things out often shapes and reshapes my understanding of the problem. And that enhances the quality of what comes out the other end.

There are other ways to achieve this same effect without loading the full superpowers suite though.

I said it's a choice. At the end of the day people choose to live in these areas. Yes, it might be because the tradeoffs of not living there or moving away are severe and outweigh the headaches of an HOA, but it's still a choice they make.

> It’s extremely common for local governments to make an HOA a legal requirement for new developments.

This is true, and I'd never choose to live in an area like that.

It's still a choice being made. People choose to live where they live. They could choose to live elsewhere.

I would never buy a house that was part of a HOA. For people that like them, more power to ya. But I don't understand the people who complain, just don't buy into an HOA then?

Yes, I understand that. And yet I keep opening up repos written by other people that have insane tests. And sometimes I even come across people who managed to notice it but thought it was a good thing because "moar tests == moar good"

Just because *you* can avoid it doesn't mean it's not an issue with the tooling.

I do. My experience has been that most people don't. And then the ridiculous tests become blockers for the agent as they believe the tests are enforcing "truth", which may not be correct post-evolution.

Anecdata, but most of the time when something doesn't smell right to me looking at genAI code, the root cause is ridiculous tests that made their way into the repo. And then the agents built up around it.

Yes, it adds tests and makes them pass. But it adds tests for things that no human would ever add. I regularly wind up removing tests where it is guarding dumb crap like "facts" in markdown files, or "drift" across files. Today I came across a file where it was walking ASTs across multiple languages to ensure that there was no drift. I get why it'd do that, but simple changes become absurd.