joshblack1982

Huh neat. Guess I found it in the robots.txt because now it says "Payment Required - Access Denied. See https://shkspr.mobi/llms.txt"

Since my ISP has me behind CGNAT I wonder if anyone else on my same ISP is blocked. Hell I could keep restarting my router, getting assigned new IPs, and going to that URL to make sure everyone using the same provider is blocked. Could do it on my cellphone too to be extra thorough, since cell networks give many users the same IP with CGNAT.

If you actually had links to anything you would have posted them by now.

No, the country shouldn't be held hostage by a small group of agitators. They can vote like the rest of the country, and if they don't convince enough people to join their cause then they should suck it up and try to be more convincing.

I searched his name and didn't find anything. Care to share what you're referring to?

Anyone have a QRD of this guy's behavior and relation to that community? I've never heard of u-boot, and this is a little vague in some places.

The thing that pisses me off about people who complain about PHP is that all these smarty pants people have pointed out the flaws in PHP, but never really understood why it was successful, and because of that they never created a language that could succeed it. The things that made PHP successful were:

1. It just werked. You could write incredibly shitty code and it, like HTML, would work as long as there wasn't a fatal error. And sure you could just say "git gud", but that's not going to happen. People will just use the best language that works for them, and in this case, it was PHP.

2. It required very few resources to run low to medium traffic websites. Because of the Apache mod_php module, PHP sites wouldn't use any resources if they weren't being served, unlike every other language at the time. So it meant places could host thousands of websites on the same server no proble.

The guy who created PHP, Rasmus Leerdorf, never wanted and never expected that PHP would become as popular as it has. He has mentioned that he thought that at any moment, someone was going to come around and create a language that would succeed PHP. But it never happened. People are just better at pointing and complaining instead of solving the issues that people want solved.

1. Naming your movement after a movement that famously made a lot of noise and accopmlished nothing. lol

2. People and companies often just use SAAS for convenience. Of course we could host just about everything ourselves, but that's a shit ton of work with variable payoff.

3. Using Github and Discord. LMAO!

It's a literal shitpost. I think you're being hyperbolic.

I'd push back on the use of the term "good developers" here. Since the beginning of software development, software developers have had to adapt to ever changing technologies. The good ones adapt, and the bad ones fall off. A person could say that they were great at writing assembly back in the 70s or 80s, but almost nobody writes straight assembly nowadays, and if they do it's usually written as inline assembly. The environment has once again changed, and agentic coding is the change. The actual good developers will use coding agents to complement their skills and write better code faster, while the ones who can't use or refuse to use coding agents will fall off.

Also the article mentions "senior engineers", the term "senior" is thrown around so much these days — along with the term "engineer" — that it's beginning to lose all meaning. Everyone is a senior after 2 years of software development it seems. Honestly if a group of "senior" "engineers" and infrastructure consultants couldn't get an application working in a week with agents behind their back, I would doubt their expertise. Maybe that airline application is super complicated, but it looks like they let the agents run hog wild without any oversight, which no shit they didn't get a working application in a week. Anyone who has used agents for coding knows you can't do that and expect good results for anything more than a toy application. Also I didn't see a mention of which agents they used, they are far from equal. They could be using Claude Haiku on low effort for all I know.

I think this experiment would have been more interesting with 3 teams: One team with no agents allowed, one team who do full on vibecoding like it seems in this article, and the last which uses agents to complement developers.

The first world is not a foster home for unwanted people from other nations. We can and should be selective of who we let in. We don't need to bleed ourselves dry because some other countries are shitty.

Also on America being built by immigrants, who cares? Honestly, that really doesn't matter. Just because America was founded by immigrants then doesn't mean we need to let in unlimited immigrants now.

Fully justified after the equivalent of 2,000 palestinians were killed.

I think it's just the blog version of gish gallop. They just say a bunch of stuff that sounds smart to people who don't have much knowledge in certain areas, so much that it'll take too much effort to rebut, in hopes that you stop thinking about it and just accept their arguments. I only just heard of that Eliezer Yudkowsky guy the other day, and when I looked him up I stumbled upon a reddit thread where he makes a fool of himself talking about probabilities. So I wouldn't trust a single thing that guy says. https://www.reddit.com/r/badmathematics/comments/2bazyc/comm...

Also I think the name "Rationalist" is kinda funny. Reminds me of that Antifa meme, "we're the anti bad guy squad, and our opponents are the bad guys! Everything we do is justified because we fight bad guys obviously!" Except these guys are the Rationalists. Everything they do is rational, and if you don't agree with them, then you're irrational obviously.

Did he have a history of violence, or was there some good reason to send armed men to his place? If not, this is just a waste of resources, and also adding many armed men into the situation made it more likely for things to turn deadly.

You can still rack up a bill even if you can't pay for it. That solution just means the card declines when the monthly bill needs to be paid, not that you don't owe money.

Not to be confused with Adolf Hitler's half-nephew Bill Hitler, who fought against Adolf Hitler.

You hear that? You're ignorant and privileged for not wanting your car broken into.

And everyone will have forgotten about this by then anyway. That's like a million years in terms of elections.

Why is it anyway that the so called "fascists" are the people who have to address these real issues? Such as DHH on the Gypsy problem in Denmark, or the other week with Nathan Cofnas addressing Jason Arday's plagarism. Why does the left routinely ignore issues that are inconvenient to them? Pretending they don't exist doesn't make them go away.

This guy honestly sounds obnoxious.

Right off the bat, he's been laid off half a dozen times. Now being laid off while you're away for bereavement sucks, but what about the other five times though? Getting laid off once or twice isn't a big deal, but six times is a pattern. Then getting five rejections a day, there's a pattern there, and the common variable between them all is the person applying.

> Am I on some sort of blacklist invisible to employees for talking too much and causing too much of a ruckus in a workplace?

Maybe? Depends on what you were talking about and how much of a ruckus you made.

> Did my bringing up of a book at a company get one of the executives too upset?

Maybe? Depends on the book. Goodnight Moon? Mein Kampf? I have no idea what book it is.

> Did me having a crisis in public become too embarrassing for another?

Maybe? I have no clue what he's referring to.

> What the fuck is the problem?

It sounds like the author is the problem.

Then further on he talks about needing skills. Which yeah it's important, but it's also very important to get along with the people you're working with.

> It also doesn't help that I'm on public record multiple times for being comfortable with bringing a company to the cloth if they're not respecting their workers

Yeah is it really that surprising that companies don't want to hire people that will cause them problems?

Then I got to this part:

> I also know when I make white people uncomfortable and I'm not capable of being a respectable Negro

Jesus Christ man. I didn't even know the author was black up until this point. It isn't a race issue dude, you just sound awful to work with. You don't have to be a "respectable Negro", just be a respectable person.

> If I have to resort to that behavior in order to get a job, I'll join the police academy.

No stay far the fuck away from being a police officer. You don't sound like you have the right temperament to be one. If this is what the author sounds like while writing his blog, I can only imagine how bad he'd get under the pressure of doing police duties.

After reading this I went and looked the the guy's resume. After at most two years of professional experience he went from software engineer to senior software engineer, which is quite the jump for such little experience. And he was only in that position for a few months. The longest he's been able to hold down a job is two years. His list of technologies that he's familiar with is also pretty bare for seven years of experience. It's a pretty weak resume.

This guy really need to do some introspection and consider how his behavior is affecting his career. It's not just a tech industry thing either, he'll probably have problems wherever he goes just given how difficult he sounds.