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I don’t know how apps like this will survive, honestly. Bear is a nice app; I used it back in the day. but what’s the point when you can just build your own custom version of this in about an hour?

To be fair, a significant number of real interactions with humans gives me the exact same no-one-is-there impression.

I’d argue a well-informed plan allows for creative adaptation.

Former professional distance runner here. I’ve not read the study but I can comment on the statement regarding training at low to moderate intensities - I can agree that low intensities have an important role in endurance training but a lot of training is at or near threshold levels which can be on the moderate to high levels of intensity. Easy efforts are critical but there is a lot of effort, in a “normal” training segment, that are at or near high intensity effort.

Finally, someone said it. 20+ years in software and my productivity and velocity is wild right now.

People put a lot of faith in human “guardrails”, standards, etc. But the same argument could be made that trusting human experts without discernment is as dangerous as trusting AI or Google or whatever other non-human source. It’s always been the case.

The mindset must be that if you use AI (which I happen to advocate for) you are also responsible for the output, if you use the output publicly. AI is obviously very powerful if used responsibly - the human is responsible for it once it is used - however it’s used.

But perhaps we should regard it as a major achievement.

God bless you for referencing that film.

Why do you believe it will fail? Because some companies will not be profitable?

How is that different than human reasoning?

They will, but much much much slower.

Many great authors are deeply flawed people. Tolstoy was not a good person, and Steinbeck was a complete a-hole. The list is long. But the classics they create are no less classic.

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/fea...

https://www.rbth.com/history/330411-why-leo-tolstoy-was-terr...

Is this a serious comment? Covid killed over a million people in the United States alone.

Ha! I wouldn’t count on it.

I’m in agreement. Summers are challenging to have the kids (7 and 10) around, but it’s a challenge worth having. They are young once and I’d like to be there for them. even if the office is five miles away, I’m more productive as a programmer and a dad. Seems like a win/win.

Once again they're hoping to push the blame on their own poor choices and struggling investments onto the workers. Solution is taking away work-life balance -- but that's not going to work out well for them.

All my co-workers are online. I consider some to be good friends. It’s the way of the world now.

I guess. But anecdotally, I learned JavaScript, read philosophical text, organize my goals, play games with my children, go for walks outside…while consuming a moderate amount of thc. My creativity goes up. Rarely do I just sit and do nothing but sometimes that’s fine too. Moderation works.

This is hardly ever mentioned. The fact that children easily spread it back to parents, etc. was (and still is) conveniently left out of the discussion - even prior to access to vaccinations it was simply ignored. It’s one of the reasons we kept our children home from school, the first year of the pandemic. There were even “experts” arguing that children just didn’t spread the virus at all - which turned out to be ludicrous.

This person is extraordinarily motivated. Seems like it works for them - but it would be quite a commitment to do it even half as much.

I believe the author is suggesting that it’s more common than one would think.

When first visiting bloggingfordevs site, it looks, to me, like an infomercial. I'm not immediately convinced I need to give you my email address in order to gain some personal value. That's not to say it wouldn't possibly be a great experience if I did so - it's just that, from my initial impressions, it doesn't seem particularly unique and valuable. But hey, if it's working and growing, congrats!

Agreed. I will say, however, I’m a developer on a team that is a good sized (not small) publishing/media company that is built on WordPress multisite. performance is quite good, as well.

Just tell me if I need to buy one?

You’re definitely a developer! It’s good to be curious. Sometimes you have to rein it in but it’s better to be interested in stuff than not to be. I’m a average to below average developer but I make a good living at it, and put food on the table for my 2 kids and so on. It’s also worth remembering that the “ugh” tasks can have potential to be interesting as well - just have to look at them from a different perspective.

I look at this in terms of the sport of distance running. I was a fairly accomplished runner, but I could only see who was a better runner - not those who were not. It's a matter of perspective. The top tier marathoners all faced faster runners in front of them - all of them, at some point. So I guess my point is that what constitutes extraordinary is often subjective.

Americans have always been and will always be a “me first” populace.