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Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:44AM (#50348829)
Of course they wouldn't, most people who consider themselves engineers aren't engineers. Just look at the job market right now.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:10PM (#48887412)
Golf simulator software. It's doing okay. For a side job I got a gig at a racing engine builders shop tearing down rebuilds and cleaning parts.
Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:17AM (#45061913)
I remember writing obj-c naturally by hand. Before swift was even a twinkle in tim cooks eye. One of my favorite languages to program in I had a lot of fun writing ios apps back in the day it seems like
Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:09AM (#45061865)
What an odd thing to ask it. I installed claude code and ran it from my terminal. Just asked it to simply give me a node based rest API with X endpoints with these jobs, and then I told it to write the unreal engine c++ to consume those endpoints. 2500 lines of code later, it worked.
Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:06AM (#45061839)
I haven't opened up xcode in years (thank god) I suppose this was inevitable. They have to keep up
Re:Lottery Simulator (2023) on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @12:51PM (#41513137)
This is exactly why I don't play the lottery
Where do you think the electricity comes from?
Literally nothing
Re:FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:33PM (#31838207)
People should also stop eating crap food and clogging up our 'public health' but yet mcdonalds isn't banned
ever since I signed up for linkedin I get recruiters emailing me at my previous companies email address. There is no reason they should even have that information.