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Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Thursday July 23, 2026 @07:54PM (#49029652)
They way the slow down and spend extra effort is by writing notes.
Re:Pre-2022 Books on Saturday June 20, 2026 @09:57PM (#48614958)
How would you prove you wrote something prior to 2022?
I think your second paragraph is too broad. The same could be said for kids doing the bare minimum to play video games, or even go outside to play with their friends all prior to social media. Many people long spent too much time watching tv, and still do, instead of pursuing what you think success is. Also, let people be content, we don't always need to engaging in activities for success
Re:Why I Don't Have Fun With Claude Code on Friday January 23, 2026 @09:42AM (#46733064)
No, I don't think so. But my context is different as is anyone's reply about their LLM usage.

I'm still creating software but with English that's compiled down to some other language.

I'm personally comfortable reading code in many languages. That means I'm able (hopefully!) to spot something that doesn't look quite right. I don't have to be the one pressing keys on the keyboard but I'm still accountable for the code i compile and submit.

Re:App Subscription is now my Weekend Project on Thursday January 22, 2026 @05:13PM (#46725800)
Excellent! I've done the same thing. Five prompts to have a working iOS app that solves my problem.
Re:Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files on Thursday January 15, 2026 @11:09AM (#46634666)
hah, and with everything in the cloud future generations probably won't understand what a .docx is or .md or .exe
Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:22AM (#46589671)
the reality is people will be shipping "prototype code" all the time, outpacing those that don't and winning.
Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:20AM (#46589650)
the author of this post and Steve yegge come to mind
Anecdotally I had Gemini convert a simple react native app to swift in two prompts. If it's that simple then maybe we will see less of the chromium desktop apps
Re:Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare If You Don't Need To on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:38AM (#45966726)
The lesson for me here is the round robin DNS configuration.

I had an issue with the theme of your site probably not being important anyway. If your site probably isn’t important then it’s probably ok that it’s down too.

Anecdotally: No, I had no idea who he was reporting to so it sounds like a natural moving on storyline.
Re:What I Self Host on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:03PM (#45646284)
I’ve also been thinking of the product manual idea. I’ll subscribe to your rss and see if you beat me to it.
Re:Apple M5 chip on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:23AM (#45592110)
What do you mean by properly? What’s the behavior one would observe if they did run an llm?
Re:The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023) on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @10:14AM (#45503303)
I’ve never tried it but the first thing that comes to mind is to use a service worker. The service worker would append a parameter to the initial request to indicate what theme is set in local storage. Then the initial response can use that as the default theme.
I'm a 98% VFR pilot. I've not once said "That's not in the manual!". Is it ridiculous to think that Phil cannot see a small arm hundreds of feet in the air, at night, in an environment so dark a pilot needs the strip lit up? What type of wave does the pilot need to do to indicate "Can I land?" versus "Hi Phil"? Can Phil distinguish the two at night? At day? At night, a pilot that doesn't know Phil's land won't be flying low enough to see an arm due to hidden obstacles (wires, towers, etc).

Your points are all over the place here, and I have to conclude you don't have any experience in this topic, and you've invented some contrived example that won't happen in practice.

How’s Phil going to see someone’s arm at night?

Just to clarify to unfamiliar readers: class deltas exist with ground and tower, and after hours pilot controlled lighting. Untowered class echoes are everywhere, with pilot controlled lighting.

Yes, many untowered airports have pilot controlled lighting via ctaf, as stated in the airport facilities directory. This is very common at class E airports. For example, look at Plattsmouth in Nebraska.

It sounds like your core argument is “some private strips don’t have full infrastructure”. Phil’s private strip does not appear in the AFD, so you as the pilot your flight planning needs to include looking up Phil’s number and calling him to get permission to land and to let him know you’ll need the lights.

If it’s not that then I don’t know what your point is.

As a pilot, your comment sounds like it was from an llm. PAPI is controlled from the radio, not a phone call. Why would you call ground instead of tower if there’s a ground frequency? Order a burger and talk to bob? It sounds like the llm is trying to describe a Unicom frequency and conflating that with contacting an FBO over the radio to arrange transportation, possibly food I suppose too.
I think op was missing the /s. His comment is a typical reply on this subject that makes fun of MAGAs who didn’t realize this.
Re:iPhone Cameras Are Good on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @10:26AM (#44723823)
The differences are subtle to me. I see them but it doesn’t prevent me or my family from printing and hanging iPhone photos. I want to hang fun photos from family vacation for the memories.
Re:Personal aviation is about to get interesting on Sunday July 27, 2025 @02:10AM (#44699233)
Still have issues with people forgetting to enrichen on descent!
Occam's razor?
Why would visa/mc want to decline money? They love making money.
Re:LLMs should not replace therapists on Monday July 07, 2025 @10:10AM (#44490556)
Just fine? Happily?

Surely many wars and deaths would have been prevented with better mental strategies.

Re:JavaScript Trademark Update on Saturday June 28, 2025 @05:29PM (#44408326)
Who is responsible for the java API updates?
Re:Ruby on Rails Audit Complete on Sunday June 15, 2025 @12:28PM (#44283182)
I agree. I think..there's too much freedom. Too many ways to do things, and debugging is hard with monkey patching.
Re:I'd rather read the prompt on Sunday May 04, 2025 @07:45PM (#43890603)
Hah, I've been including the prompts of my patches in pull requests. Glad others like that.
Re:Gumroad is now open source on Friday April 04, 2025 @10:12AM (#43582719)
Wow, I remember their offices next to Thee Parkside on 17th.
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:15PM (#43510910)
What was previously broken? What can they both now do that they could not do before?

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