marssaxman

More than ever - it's a whole new ride. I feel like I'm on the new frontier once again, which is where I always want to be.

No, it's not the same work I was doing a year ago, but neither was that the same work I was doing a few years prior, and so forth, all the way back to the beginning of my career.

This is about 5-MeO-DMT, not N,N-DMT (which is what people usually mean by "DMT"). Very different experience.

I used pico or nano as my everyday unix coding editor for something like fifteen years, starting in the late '90s. It was just fine. I couldn't stand vi and didn't see the point of emacs; I type faster than I think, so I never found that text-editing was enough of a bottleneck to make sophisticated automation worth the effort.

I only stopped using pico/nano after writing my own editor, which blatantly stole pico's interface design.

Well, yeah, that would certainly have a noticeable effect.

Never heard it called "mebufotenin" before.

That is my favorite approach for parsing any language which has operator precedence. It is easy to write, easy to maintain, performs well, and doesn't require you to include extra tools in your build process.

I know some people love their parser generator tools, but I just don't find them to be worth the hassle; parsing is not a hard problem.

The spam continued long after that particular election was over. I don't remember how long it took to clean it up, exactly, just that each campaign who got my number did in fact respect the END/STOP request, and I was eventually able to get ahead of the viral spread.

After I once made the mistake of donating money to a political campaign, I actually was able to free myself from the torrent of spam by replying END and STOP over and over. It took months, but the messages did stop.

Someone managed to connect my phone number to my voter registration during my recent move, so the spam is back. This time, I am replying END or STOP and then blocking the number & reporting spam, just in case that creates more friction for them.

I really think I will be working for as many more years as I am able, yes, because a life without work would be intolerably boring. There will always be work that needs doing.

This is only true because compiler authors are interpreting "undefined behavior" as a license for "user-hostile behavior". There are other choices one can make.

> does it mean that more tech hubs pop up elsewhere because in the long haul, people probably prefer to work and invest close to home?

That's why Seattle ended up with a software industry presence, isn't it?

Yes, my job is more like management now than it used to be, but the fact that I'm still not managing people makes all the difference. I do not ever want to be any human being's boss. Coordinating robots is still a basically technical process.

Interesting! I have completely ignored tap-to-pay and all sorts of phone wallets precisely because I am unwilling to let the big tech companies control my life. I had never considered that there might be an acceptable way to use this technology.

That is not so much an assumption as a conclusion, backed up by research:

https://urban.uw.edu/news/crows-hold-grudges-against-individ...

https://crowlingo.org/journal/marzluff-mask-experiments-expl...

I have not given time estimates for years, but that has nothing to do with AI.

I've been waiting for the Clicks Communicator a good while now. If it ever ships, I'll probably buy one. I hadn't heard about the Minimal phone: an interesting concept.

I have never been able to really love a phone without a keyboard; typing on glass frustrates me so much that I tend to just avoid using the device.

I wonder why people downvoted you. My story is much the same: I could give a long list of reasons why I chose not to have children, but the simpler truth is that I never saw anything on the "pro" side of the ledger.

Why is it necessary to own a house before you can have children?

That was not the case for the families I knew growing up; homeownership was the exception, not the rule. My parents had eleven children, and never got around to buying a house.

I gave up on IDEs years ago. The terminal is fine.

Managing humans is hard work. Team dynamics are complicated. Communication is uncertain. Relationships which have power imbalances can be fraught. People's lives get messy and that leaks into their work. Performance is sometimes uneven and you have to deal with it.

Robots are much easier.

My account is seventeen years old, and I've been coding more than forty years; is that enough to meet your standards?

I do love the weird new world we're in. I feel as though I've been a player in an orchestra all my life, doing a little one-man-band act on the side, and suddenly I've been handed the baton and now I get to conduct the whole show.

I've been automating myself out of a job as long as I've been a coder, which has become a considerable span of time; that is my job.

This is a common experience with any unfamiliar genre: it all looks or sounds the same at first, because the point of a genre is to express variation within a specific, familiar structure. As a newcomer, the structure dominates your perception, until you've exposed yourself to enough instances that you can filter out the common features and notice the details, which are where the actual creativity lies.

hockerty.com will make you a shirt to measure, with your choice of materials, for quite a reasonable price. I have a few of them. It feels good to have a shirt which fits you exactly.

I wonder if you are more or less tired of reading LLM-generated writing than I am of reading complaints about LLM-generated writing.

> The other fell from an installation.

I'd like to know more about that incident, if you have any information. So far as I'm aware, it's the first time someone has died after falling off a structure at Burning Man (though plenty of people have been injured, of course).

"SSA is functional programming" changed the course of my career. Memorable indeed.

I just wrote my own, tailored exactly to my preferences, and I've been using it ever since. Editors are not trivial, but the scale is reasonable for a single-developer hobby project.

I have literally never spent a moment worrying about this. How do you even know that this is the case for your phone? If my phone gets security updates, it never tells me about them.

I wonder how effective it really is, over the long term, to generate short-term profit by consuming trust like this.

Consistency with `robots.txt` seems like a reasonable choice.