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Prompt: I would like to try a little test. I will give you a short piece of text, and you render it as though it were written by a tenth-grader. Here's the text:

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

Response:

That's a fun exercise! Here's the headline rewritten in a tenth-grade voice:

Schools Are Making Kids Write Bad on Purpose to Show They're Human, But It's Actually Making Them Use AI More

I use Bitwarden
Re:Why isn't packaging part of Python core development? on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @11:27AM (#44583350)
""" Basically, they’re separate because Guido doesn’t care about packaging. That’s really what it comes down to. When packaging started to become a thing, we just didn’t have any interest in it, and so it never became a core dev concern. It just never came up—it was just not our thing. """

That's the way that junior programmers think. Marketers too.

Notice the article dateline
Re:Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases on Thursday January 02, 2025 @03:44PM (#42578648)
Sean: check out silverthreadinc.com

I am not affiliated, blah, blah, blah.

Re:Sweet James on Sunday December 29, 2024 @08:20PM (#42545402)
GTFO
Oh, yeah. Put a picture of it on the effing internet. Smooth move.
Emacs, etags, elpy.
Re:Free Old Time Radio Shows from "The Golden Age of Radio" on Monday December 16, 2024 @03:04PM (#42434811)
I am glad to see that 'Johnny Dollar' is one of the offerings. I used to listen to that radio drama with my grandfather; it is a fond memory.
Re:Kicking an Open Door: What was the twentieth-century novel? on Saturday December 14, 2024 @11:33PM (#42421471)
_Gravity's Rainbow_. End of discussion.
Re:What features would you like to see added my virtual web OS? on Thursday November 28, 2024 @02:17AM (#42263205)
Is it too early to start thinking about applications? Like Visio, for instance, or Inkscape.
pimpin'
Re:If the Nobel Prizes were designed today, what would change? on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @02:29AM (#41856168)
There would be a Mathematics prize
Re:Coding Boot Camps on Friday October 04, 2024 @04:11PM (#41745136)
> Most coding bootcamps are very profit driven and not really interested in the needs of their students. He will be much better off in the long term.

I have worked with several people who have gone to coding boot camps. None of them have been able to handle the day-to-day responsibilities of a working programmer.

I think these coding boot camps are a waste of money.

So, you responded to a request for a description with an hour-and-a-half-long video? Dude, do you have some kind of TLDR? Or are you a shill for Apple?
I would replace the whole ECMA / Javascript ecosystem with a LISPy model.
Practice this phrase: "Would you like to supersize your meal?"
Re:Best stack to learn today for web apps? on Monday September 02, 2024 @09:07PM (#41430210)
I like Pyramid for a WebApp framework. It is very malleable and it has a large and vibrant user community.
Re:Best stack to learn today for web apps? on Monday September 02, 2024 @09:06PM (#41430200)
MySQL. A lot of sites use it.
Re:The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving on Sunday September 01, 2024 @09:28PM (#41421805)
I always look askance at a blanket statement.
Geeze. Imagine that. Could it have anything to do with their brutally medieval interviewing cycles?
I would say that if plants can respond in a way to touch, for instance, you might wonder wether or no they are _sentient_
Lisp. It is possible to write a tiny Lisp interpreter. With its macro support, Lisp is infinitely malleable and can be extended as required.

I have often wondered why Javascript was so widely used instead of Lisp to begin with.

The entire planet is unstable nowadays. In case you haven't noticed, we are teetering on the edge of a global conflict.
Sounds promising.
Please be a little more specific about "...good software engineer...". Software engineering is a very broad field.
Re:Ask HN: Human vs. Computer in Rock Paper Scizzors on Friday June 07, 2024 @06:48PM (#40613731)
> ...conditions that humans could then exploit through marginal and expected creative digression?

High-level professional poker players know all about this.

I use Joplin and I use Joplin Cloud for synch.
Re:Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool on Monday May 27, 2024 @07:59PM (#40495987)
I like Joplin

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