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could you tell which UI tool is that where you can drag commits visually?

> If you don't have enough grip while doing a sharp turn, it could be literally fatal.

Not only that but while driving you might have to react very fast if something happens and you need to divert to avoid a crash, if you need to grip harder in the middle that are precious milliseconds that you could have saved. At least if you at high speed.

> My goal now is to use fewer words to convey an idea. Everyone's interpretation of words is different, so using more precise language will just muddle your ideas. To use a metaphor from electronic communication—there's so much noise in the channel that modulating your signal doesn't provide any extra information.

This is really interesting. This is the opposite I do when writing for myself and what I would probably do if publishing a blog. I really like adding nuance when taking notes as it helps me when reading them later. But now I'll pay attention to not adding them when publishing.

I also thought about this video. Like VC investiments or book publishers, you dont need all or most to succeed, you need only a few.

First thing I did after opening this thread was ctrl+f r/bitcoin. I was already familiar with large scale social manipulation in politics, but would never imagine such a thing could happen in a bitcoin subreddit, that event was eye opening.

I'm actually trying this right now, but it is becoming much harder than I expected. The fact that I keep needing to recompile kernel and rebooting device doesn't help. I'm trying to make the display and touchscreen work consistently on a qualcomm soc.

And the pmos wiki is severely lacking IMHO.

I tried "show me a seahorse emoji" in 4.5 and it went in a infinite loop that I had to stop after a couple of minutes.

I don't think you will get competitive at games by just playing it a lot. Many pro players watch other players, talk to other players, train with other pro players, are coached by other players, so they don't just play 1k hours, they learn from others that have also played 1k hours. Just like you don't get good at football or tennis just playing games, you train specific skills, get coaches, etc.

As with many other things, each strategy will take you at some point (just playing matches), and to get beyond, you many need very different strategies (learn from other players, get coaching, etc).

So do you think it is completely normal to recognize :̶.̶|̶:̶;̶ as a meme, but then it is completely unreasonable to recognize just :.|:; and it should definitely be AI bots? Really?

To convert the comic to :̶.̶|̶:̶;̶ is a very very distance, to remove the strikethrough is nothing.

On the other hand many people post wrong things, are corrected, and then get defensive telling they were misunderstood and use gymnastics to say they were actually correct and the other is a troll

The question is, what from what you have said is *strictly* only possible by using a blockchain? If you are already going to build something completely new, what is preventing you from creating something that fixes all those problems and do not use any blockchain?

demand is infinite, we will always want new things and things faster, smaller/bigger, lighter, cheaper.

I think a better idea would be to bet in running/adapting linux on smartphones. I have actually looked into this in the past. It could be very awkward in the beginning with most of the things hard to use because they were made for desktops but as popularity rises every linux app would move more and more towards being easier to use on both desktop and smartphones.

I dont agree.

> This may be stored as a boolean column, is_confirmed, in the database. It makes a lot of sense. But, you're throwing away data: when the confirmation happened. You can instead store when the user confirmed their email in a nullable column.

When I'm looking at a database schema and I see a boolean is_confirmed I can be 99% sure what it means. Now if I see a datetime confirmed column, can I be sure that if I want to know if it was confirmed this will not be null? I'm definitely not 99% sure anymore and I would be scared of making this assumption in my code. Obviously I would still think I can use, but going from 99% sure to 80% sure is a recipe to making brittle code.

I learned a lot this in competitive programming. I used to write code that were 3-5x the size of the intended solution. There are many reason why you could write a worse/bigger solution but sometimes when I compared both solutions one thing I could notice is that I could remove a lot of things from my solution until nothing could be removed anymore and the final solution would really seem like it were the essence of the problem.

But even if the intended solution seemed simpler, it could be much harder to discover it.

Very illuminating.

> Over time, patterns emerged, either by others pointing them out to me, or them occurring to myself. The patterns became higher and higher level, and I had more and more power and agency to fill in my gaps, and those in turn made my problems smaller, manageable. Challenges, even.

Could you give some examples of those patterns?

I don't understand, are you saying:

1) you dont need AI to generate code because you dont need any code at all? If you dont need any code then this discussion is useless.

2) AI generates more and worse code. Well, if you start with this assumption of course the conclusion is dont use AI. But then this is a big assumption to make, you dont back it up with anything and you dont even mention this at all.

Lets consider other things:

1) AI will generate less and better code that you would. Shouldnt you use it?

2) AI will generate code the same quality as you would but in 50% less time. Shouldnt you use it too?

Thanks. I was wondering if the benefit was on just writing by itself, randomly rereading it with no purpose, searching for something specific, etc.

I've tried journaling before but I would rarely read it for anything. This is something I want try again.

Could you expand on it? What are the benefits, what have you gained by doing this?

> That said, it's downright impossible to start from scratch, creating high-Quality stuff.

I'm not so sure. It is not common, but it seems that some companies actually start with high quality and only much after offer popular options. Just a random example is uber, at least here it started with only uber black and only after it was very popular it offered uber x.

Another counter example to cheap stuff is luxury clothing/purse/perfume brands. Actually, I'm not so sure if this is about quality or status.

> There's always a race to the bottom to make everything as cheaply as possible

Not true at all. Apple and its expensive devices are the best selling devices in their categories.

> This article makes a fundamental mistake where the author thinks that business values quality. Business has never valued quality. Customers can value quality, but business only values profit margins. If customers will only buy quality, then that's what business will deliver. But customers don't value quality either, most of the time. They value bang-for-buck.

Completely agree.

> They'll buy the cheapest tools on Amazon and happily vibe code their way into a hole, then throw the broke code out and vibe code some more.

Now I completely disagree and it is easy to prove: Apple. I don't need to say anything else.

You can build all the tools yourself, or you can just go to a "tools store", install it and use it. MCP is just the standard everyone can use to build, share and use these tools.

Just like an app store, a chrome extension store, we can have a LLM tools store.

> Not my quote but: "The trillion dollar problem AI is trying to solve is wages. Your wages."

You know that your job as software engineer is automating tasks that other people could be doing manually, right?

I have just opened your link and it does not contain the exact text you quoted anymore, now it is:

> This process removes all PostgreSQL components except the data directory, ensuring existing databases are retained during the reinstall. It provides a clean slate for PostgreSQL while maintaining continuity of stored data. Always backup important data before performing major system changes.

And as the first source it cites exactly your comment, strange

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42586189

I have seen some logins like this, can't you just send a link in the email that sends you to the app home and you're logged in already?

I find it a hassle to copy the code, finding the right tab where I left the login page and pasting the code to login.

With current currencies you don't have an option, you HAVE to give your money to banks and accept its consequences, like losing privacy, risk of have it frozen, etc.

With cryptocurrencies at least you have an option, you can leave it at a custodial wallet that can manage some of the security for you or you can have a non-custodial wallet.