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Those were the times when programming a computer was an adventure in and of itself, bastardizing BASIC with assembler. Doubtlessly the first Make Your Own Adventure setting!

Exactly, it's about taking this stuff off the open market where anyone can judge it and there's competition, into government contracts where competence to judge the offer is scarce or absent, and they can ask much higher prices. And with this much investment at stake, any lie that sells the narrative will serve.

This wall of slop is just a long, boring ad.

We help companies make sense of technology and build lasting improvements to their operations.

Could it possibly be any more meaningless? I could help make sense of words and build lasting improvements to drivel.

So is it true that JESTERMAXXING at the club is the new meta?

https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-...

The fashion of what is viewed as heresy changes ever so often.

I agree in principle, but that it's this one of all his essays is quite ironic. Other essays of his contain significantly more BS.

The set of things you can't publicly say without facing adverse consequences is never the empty set. Maybe your opinions happen to lie within this week's Overton window.

TIL! The "NDa" is one of the "Prenasalized consonants".

Did they make you sign an NDa for your spelling of mandala?

As long as you don't need some Windows-only software, Linux is a viable alternative now. KDE Plasma is a great desktop environment and even most games run flawlessly on Steam. And if you do need Windows occasionally, you can put it into a VM.

Happy birthday! The Z80 was the first CPU I rode, more luxurious than the subsequent 6502 and 6510. I still have a TI calculator with a low-energy Z80.

Cheers to Rodnay Zaks for "Programming the Z80"!

Insider trading as a service. The corruption knows no bounds.

That's not how I understand the meaning of "trivial".

What do they do all day?

Breeding product ideas? ChatGPT, but for dogs?

And who is left to manage their hundreds of thousands of servers?

They learned from Elon how to get by with a skeleton crew?

It does have some "false positives" but by and large I find it helpful. I never saw a script misbehave where I followed Shellcheck's advice.

Bash is great for orchestrating other Unix tools into an automated workflow. Only when that workflow requires stuff that Bash doesn't have is it time to break out Python. Integrate Shellcheck into your editor, and you get automated help for writing more reliable Bash.

“intelligence explosion”

Well, that didn't happen.

Not only that, but in my cynical eyes the proliferation of LLMs has triggered a stupidity explosion. Either that, or it just made it blatantly obvious by how much stupidity we have been surrounded the whole time without realizing it. No other development demonstrated so clearly that the dark ages where we believed in sorcery and miracles have never really ended.

Wow, another bunch of people who give up engineering to satisfy their addiction to speed.

So the last scam fell through and they're trying it again?

You're ignoring that AI coding attracts a whole new crop of people who would never have touched computers before. We live in interesting times.

So when I clone that repo, am I downloading > 370 GiB, or when and how is that being pulled in?

And can I leave out the web part? I cannot in good conscience run npm on my machine (it's not even installed).

So it nearly didn't cause bankruptcy? That's nearly great.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for open-weight models, but you still need to be careful what you use LLMs for.

And it costs at least twice the amount of tokens, so a full win for LLM providers.

That's just laziness. Analog systems are even messier, but they have procedures and regulations that keep the catastrophes to a minimum.

at a data analytics company

So it wasn't even anything related to the app's purpose, it was a frivolous surveillance SDK that got people killed.

ORMs may be convenient, but only as long as you stay within their limitations. One you surpass those, things get much more complicated and messy. SQL does not have that artificial breaking point.

The "compose" key was a new rabbit hole for me. Very handy.

Seems that HN's auto-headline rewriting in this case has made a critical error :)

Software trying to be smart always runs that risk.

I'm using LLMs as a search engine replacement. The coding is all me. Writing the code was never the bottleneck.

Guess who will be held responsible when your vibe-coded robot maims or kills someone.